First off, everybody, I've started blogging at Screen of Distance, http://sanfordspeaks.blogspot.com/ which currently has only my favorite concerts of last year. Comments are welcome as always. When work calms down a little, I'll figure out a way if there's one to automatically ( Read more... )

Hey kids ( Read more... )

Real entry coming soon, there's a half-formed thing about the Whitney Biennial festering on my hard drive, along with thoughts on the Pogues reunion show I saw in NYC, the Poussin retrospective at the Met, the Fleshtones here in town last weekend, etc ( Read more... )

If this posts twice, I apologize and I'll go back and delete one. My client decided to start sputtering and complaining. Enclosed find thoughts on the touring production of Sweeney Todd, the Beatdowns Holiday extravaganza, Margot at the Wedding and the remake of Sleuth ( Read more... )

It's good times to be had when we're living
See the beauty being where you are
Appreciate the fireflies, baby,
Just in case you never see the stars
--The Drams, "Fireflies"

First off, thanks to hayama_sb for the, um, virtual 12-pack of Pepsi ( Read more... )

Calls when he's drunk and drinks
Like nobody knows where he's going
And nobody cares what he's saying
Singing like he could be crying
Leaping or lying, looking for love
To keep him from dying...
--Eleni Mandell, "Make-Out King"

We set controls for the heart of the sun ( Read more... )

A predicate warning to the sun:
This night advances on.

The sketchy crowd shows me drawings
They're all right, an ultimately dim and frightful waste
Now come on, honey, let's go outside
You disrupt the world's disorder just by virtue of your grace
You know, I didn't want to go
But I believe I must
As gratifying as this dust was...-Destroyer, " ( Read more... )

The guys are feeling good about their liquor run ( Read more... )

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and all the ships at sea. Your intrepid reporter, sequestered in an unassuming residence in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, with missives describing what he's thus far seen and done on vacation while my host with the most remains asleep ( Read more... )

...all the poets of ( Read more... )