August 2011
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Let's Make This Official
So let’s call an end to Abraham Trying to Engage in Social Media 9.0.
It has been a long year here in New Orleans. For those of you back home, the news of professional opportunity, creative space, abundant social life, impending studio builds, sex parties, baby dances, and the like has been absolutely true. However, the assertion, real or implied, that I am doing fine and adjusting well or...
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Explained Absence
Apologies for the lack of posts. Life has been particularly difficult to navigate as of late. Heading away on a meditation retreat in Alabama for the weekend. Should be interesting. I think I’m going to have to wear a white robe. I will post pictures if this happens.
Check out this Moombah Mix by The Zen Lunatic, and...
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One Year in New Orleans - Music
I arrived in New Orleans one year ago yesterday, with a girlfriend, a van full of stuff, and dreams of conquest and carpetbaggery. A year later, I still have the van, and if I choose to do so, I could fill it back up with the stuff. But all else is long since gone. A progress report, in multiple parts:
Part 1: Music. Since this is what most of us are here for.
I spent a fair amount of time in...
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“When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via carlykitty)
Thank you. I was thinking about this pretty much all morning. And I was going to post about it too, but I think this pretty much sums it up.
(via unconnectedincidents)
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Things are getting weird over at the Fountainbleau...
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Collar-time USA
Petco Employee: Welcome to Petco! How may I help you today!
Me: This is unrealistic already. Since when has anyone ever been welcomed to Petco?
Petco Employee:
Me: Well, help me out here.
Petco Employee: I am wearing a blue polo shirt with “Petco” written on it!
Me: Getting there.
Petco Employee: You might have noticed that we have reconfigured out store in order to better suit...
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Spongebob vs. Fox, Or, What I Think About a Thing...
Let’s just get it out of the way that these people who are talking about Spongebob are awful, awful, awful human beings (h/t politicsusa). Or, if we want to be generous in regard to their eternal souls, we might call them terrifically and spectacularly stupid, in the sense that we should congratulate them for having jobs and being able to get most of their food in their mouths when they...
Listening to Keith Jarrett, Solo Concerts:...
I cannot get past Side 3 of this record. I bought it at the Hi Ho/Siberia record raid a few weekends back, and it has dominated my life since then. There is nothing in the way of a real review here - it’s just played and (especially) recorded so beautifully that it gives me shivers. The guy I bought it from said to be on the lookout for more ECM recordings. I’m totally sold.
Also, I...
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How's That Whole Hopey Changey Thing Going
Or something like that.
I’m a pretty faithful salon.com reader - mainly for the Glenn Greenwald, but also for the just-slightly-edgier-than-NPR liberal bent, which we are now calling a progressive bent, because we’re afraid to say “liberal,” because Rush Limbaugh makes fun of that, which is a whole other story.
But here is something that really annoys me. The day after...
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REwind: Bad Motherfucker
The summer is getting to me.
Hard to get out of bed. Hard to get work done. Hard to concentrate.
Before things got impossibly thick down here I tried to convince myself that the New Orleans summer would be something like the Boston winter, in that I would spend the bulk of the 5 months inside, shielded from the weather by gloriously efficient-if-expensive climate control technology. But hot is...