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vacation : the return trip
The sunrise on our last morning in Acadia.
Since we were already getting up insanely early for our thirteen-hour drive home from Maine, we thought we’d get up even earlier and watch the last sunrise from the top of Cadillac Mountain. However, it became apparent that we weren’t going to make it, due to my [...]
posted: September 17th, 2009 under music, nature, travel.
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Sonic Youth at the 9:30 Club
So, we saw Sonic Youth last night at the 9:30 Club. They were good; we were at the second of two sold-out shows and I’d guess a lot of the audience was repeaters. Except for the times when we were all focused on the woman in the opposite balcony who was first leaning [...]
posted: July 8th, 2009 under local, music, reviews.
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MJ, you were our Elvis
Like most people my age, Thriller was my first album. My dad got it for me for Christmas that year and claimed it came from Santa. Before then, I only knew Michael as one of the voices of Motown on the holiday album we played every year on Christmas morning, whom I was [...]
posted: June 25th, 2009 under art, music.
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A December sampling of arts in DC
December is always busy for us, and this year is no exception. If anything, our choice to celebrate the season by attending performances of various kinds has heightened the schedule-juggling.
Our first event of the month was The Trumpet of the Swan, a reading of the book set to music that debuted at the Kennedy [...]
posted: December 16th, 2008 under art, food, local, music, reviews.
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major REO Speedwagon jones
I woke up this morning with an REO Speedwagon song in my head. Not just any REO Speedwagon song, but the absolute best one, the one I always attribute to Chicago, since Chicago was my favorite band at age 9 and I therefore think that all great 80s rock ballads are by them. [...]
posted: July 14th, 2008 under music.
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