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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2020-01-28 11:56 pm

I don't get beamed down this way usually, but it's time for a change of scenery

I was not designed by nature for appointments at eight in the morning, especially not on less than two hours' sleep, but I feel smug that I used the remainder of the morning to meet up with [personal profile] a_reasonable_man at his office, visit a used book store in Harvard Square, and make a grocery run through Stop & Shop. I came home with copies of ZZ Packer's Drinking Coffee Elsewhere (2003), Dennis Lehane's Gone Baby Gone (1998), Boston Noir ed. Dennis Lehane (2009), and Gail Scott's Heroine (1987), plus a pile of groceries, and then I tried to work and instead fell asleep for three hours. I spent the rest of my evening proofreading. Have some links.

1. Courtesy of Marc Abrahams: "An ode to the view of Boston from a Red Line train crossing the Longfellow Bridge."

2. Courtesy of [personal profile] spatch: "Patriotic Lobsters: An American Mystery."

3. Everyone who has never heard Robert Black performing Tom Johnson's "Failing: A Very Difficult Piece for String Bass," please take nine minutes out of your life right now. "Or, putting it another way, I will probably succeed in failing to succeed . . ."
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2020-01-29 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
That's an admirably efficient use of a morning!
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[personal profile] asakiyume 2020-01-29 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
That's when the Acme Extensible Hand (TM) comes in handy ...
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[personal profile] gwynnega 2020-01-29 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Patriotic lobsters! Who knew?

That is a very respectable bookstore haul!
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[personal profile] legionseagle 2020-01-29 07:47 am (UTC)(link)
Were the French in the cartoon complaining about Lobster A L’Armoricaine being rendered "à l'Americaine" on menus and such? Because I have seen that one.

Otherwise, wow.
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[personal profile] coraline 2020-01-29 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I finally got to see "Failing" performed in person a couple years ago and it was wonderful :)
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[personal profile] coraline 2020-01-29 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I first heard about it in a music class with Evan Ziporyn in undergrad (we heard some WEIRD music in that class) but last year was the first time I saw it performed in person! It was at Jordan hall. I highly recommend seeing it if you ever notice it being performed, the audience anticipation definitely adds to the experience :)
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[personal profile] coraline 2020-01-29 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
well I'm pretty sure it's the first place I encountered Gamelan and Phillip Glass... I should go dig up my notes from that class and see whatever gems sleep-deprived undergrad me has forgotten :)
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[personal profile] oracne 2020-01-29 01:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you for the "Falling" link!
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[personal profile] moon_custafer 2020-01-29 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
‘Alien With a Sleep Mask On’ – I’m not familiar with this song, so in my head I keep hearing the title to the tune of ‘Devil In a Blue Dress:’ Alien with a sleep mask, sleep mask, sleep mask, alien with a sleep mask on! Yeah yeah yeah…
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[personal profile] vass 2020-01-30 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
That reminds me of how many Morrissey song titles can be sung to good effect to each other's tunes. "Girlfriend in a coma, this position she's held / It pays her way and it corrodes her soul / It's really serious..."
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[personal profile] drwex 2020-01-29 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a ridiculously meta performance.
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[personal profile] alexxkay 2020-01-30 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
I shall have to play at least some of that for [personal profile] kestrell (superhero identity: Metagirl!)
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[personal profile] rushthatspeaks 2020-01-30 02:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Failing" is amazing, especially since I'm pretty sure from the audio that they were projecting the score onto a screen so that people could see it clearly if/when he cheated. Thank you, I had no idea that existed.