Comments on: Live music roundup

By: Trixie Honeycups

Trixie Honeycups — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:40:08 +0000

rachel,
this was a great post. i have been saving it to read when i could pay attention. i am downloading the dean and britta as we speak.
glad you are settling into that new city so energetically.
trixie

By: AW

AW — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:35:23 +0000

“It’s a good feeling, though–kind of like when you’re in bed deciding whether to have sex or go to sleep.”

One of the best lines I’ve read in a long time.

By: Ruben Mancillas

Ruben Mancillas — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 02:44:18 +0000

Sorry to take this discussion down to my level but the “small and furry, like a really tuneful Ewok” thing got me thinking of other nominations for such musicians.

If someone had asked me cold I would probably have come back with Paul Williams.

And let’s keep our standards high with these nominations people, we’re talking about really tuneful Ewoks here.

By: Bryan Waterman

Bryan Waterman — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 19:09:53 +0000

I liked your opening narrative in particular b/c I lectured today on all the kids who came to NY at the turn of the century looking for a bohemian utopia in the Village.

Consider this exchange between a mother and an art-student daughter from Howells’s The Coast of Bohemia (1893):

Even [in her studio] Charmian had to submit to compromise. She might and did keep things strewn all about in her studio, but every morning the housemaid was sent in to sweep it and dust it. She was a housemaid of great intelligence, and an imperfect sense of humor, and she obeyed with unsmiling scrupulosity the instructions she had to leave everything in Miss Charmian’s studio exactly as she found it, but to leave it clean. In consequence, this home of art had an effect of indescribable coldness and bareness, and there were at first some tempestuous scenes … between Charmian and her mother, when the girl vainly protested:

“But don’t you see, mamma, that if you have it regularly dusted, it never can have any sentiment, any atmosphere?”

“I don’t see how you can call dust atmosphere, my dear,” said her step-mother. “If I left your studio looking as you want it, and there should be a fire, what would people think?”

“Well, if there should happen to be anybody from Wilbraham, Mass.,” Charmian retorted, “they might criticise, but I don’t think the New York Fire Department would notice whether the place had been dusted or not.”

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I could somehow imagine young Rachel, with that Jodi Foster poster in the closet and KH on the stereo, arguing similarly about the dust on her album covers …

When I saw the Shins (granted, it was back for O Inverted World) they weren’t capable of playing anything but their radio edits. Have they ever learned to loosen up as a band and have fun?

By: Missy

Missy — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 17:52:16 +0000

Yay! It’s been a while since TGW had a music post. The shows sound great–so jealous about the small KH gig. I’ve been hoping for some musical direction as the days grow warm and it’s time to run outside again, and no one’s a better guide than RB. Thanks!