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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] 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 :)