The American Gonzos setting up for their song ‘39 Steps’ at the Kava Bar. #avlent
Month: June 2011
Asher & Nick at the Kava Bar open mic. #avlent
River Rats setting up for a bluesy set called ‘Riverside’ at the Kava Bar.
Caleb reads a Lorca translation at the Kava Bar open mic.
“Blogs look to me illiterate”
I loathe blogs when I look at them. Blogs look to me illiterate, they look hasty, like someone babbling. To me writing is a considered act. It’s something which is a great labor of thought and consideration. A blog doesn’t seem to have any literary merit at all. It’s a chatty account of things that have happened to that particular person.
Paul Theroux discusses blogging, travel writing, “Three Cups of Tea,” and his new book “The Tao of Travel.” Read the whole interview at The Atlantic. (via theatlantic)
“The poet should speak to all men”
The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell (via nathanielstuart1)
NOTES:
1) nathanielstuart, June 7, 2011, (page no longer available, web site is still active, accessed April 27, 2024, https://www.tumblr.com/nathanielstuart)
The trap of ‘writing about yourself’
Rarely do I read anything published on Gawker, but this is a good read for writers using social media.
Writing about yourself as a character is a process that feeds on itself. If you set out with the intent of making yourself a “brand” with a certain image and persona, you are locking yourself in a prison of your own creation. (via gawker)1
NOTES:
1) Hamilton Nolan, “The Writing about yourself Trap,” May 24, 2011, Gawker, accessed June 6, 2011, https://gawker.com/5804980/the-writing-about-yourself-trap (page no longer available, web site deactivated in 2023)
Scratching the earth – otherwise known as a mountain urban garden
It’s hard to tell from this image, but there is more than a four foot difference between the top of the garden and the lower portion. It’s still a garden in development using found materials. Most the garden is hand tilled and bordered with limbs and branches and creek stone.
Field notes
Manhattanhenge
Last night at roughly 8:17pm New Yorkers got a chance to experience “Manhattanhenge”, the semiannual occurrence where the setting sun aligns perfectly with east-west streets. If you missed it don’t worry though, a second date this year is expected to take place on Monday, July 11 at 8:25 p.m.
Photo Credit: Anthony Behar/Sipa Press via AP Images
Music criticism
A while back I did a panel on music criticism as part of The Wheeler Centre’s Critical Failure series, with Lawrie Zion, Chris Johnston and Mikey Cahill.
(And yes, I am wearing a Darth Vader hoodie.)
Fluffynotes was there!
How do you use ‘cineast’ in a sentence?
Yesterday I tweeted a few words I had to read and record for an audio podcast. I gave away the spelling of one word, ‘cineast.’ But how would you pronounce it? Here’s another challenge. Try to spell the words I read in this podcast without clicking the link to see how they are spelled.
Our favourite quotations
Maybe our favourite quotations say more…
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