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Knock on Wood
Something in me occasionally aches for the look & the sound of a worn suit and a horn:
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Out of the Country
fiddle: toy: manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination.
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I have just started reading In the Country of Country: People and Places in American Music, a series of travelogues and biographies about the people and places that originate and sustain "authentic" country music ( Read more... ) -
Would as Want, Would as Will
For whatever reasons, this past week has been, impressively, about Scandinavian film.
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The Art of Meaning Something, The Mean Something of an Art
Last night, I was blown away by Todd Solondz's Palindromes. I won't say much about the plot or devices of the movie, but there's a certain devilish and intelligent fingering of -- playing with -- the stuff of moralities here. Solondz seems to be taking the risk of showing that ethical arguments, made simply of words, are subject -- like poetry ( Read more... ) -
Pajamas & Pages
After reading Proulx's "Brokeback Mountain", a sad Edith Wharton story last night, and the sharply drawn story of a friend this past week, I have found myself recently curious about the short story.
I wonder if it has a natural propensity to build both the lyric intensity of poetry and the narrative trajectory of the novel simultaneously. I am ( Read more... )
