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  • Lotus and Lion Dances

    Lotus and Lion Dances

    Lotus Flower Dance, Atlanta History Center, Chinese New Year Celebration January 2008 View On White

  • Monteverdi's Orfeo

    How I came across Marilia Vargas was looking up Monteverdi’s “Orfeo” at Youtube. “Mom, look up some opera for me,” H.o.p. said. He meant something like Mozart’s “Requiem” but he’s never seen Ponnelle’s 1978 staging of “Orfeo”. Instead I found clips from the Jordi Savall/Brian Large 2002 production. The opening is promising… Marilia Vargas as…

  • Just Became Aware of Marilia Vargas This Morning…

    Marilia Vargas singing Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasilerias No. 5. To listen is to breathe more deeply, it is that affecting. Vargas’ voice strikes me as alternative, faithful yet modern, and I’m not even sure yet how so. Something in her expressiveness that is as open to the concert hall as the corner food mart, as…

  • We Went to Ali’s Kabab Cafe

    We Went to Ali’s Kabab Cafe

    Ali’s Kabab Cafe, Astoria, New York, 2007 December Light box enlargement We ate at Ali’s Kabab Cafe in Astoria on our last night in New York, a tiny place that consists of a kitchen squashed in with a few tables. Marty’s brother, Rob, a frequent patron, has raved about it to us for years. And…

  • Watch "The Story of Stuff"

    Head over to Youtube and watch every chapter of “The Story of Stuff”–the Intro, Extraction, Production, Distribution, Consumption, Disposal and Another Way. Or view the film at The Story of Stuff website.

  • The Joffrey Ballet performs "The Rite of Spring"

    Spent a long while Sunday evening watching and then watching again (and again) the Joffrey Ballet’s recreation of Nijinsky and Stravinsky’s 1913 “The Rite of Spring”. The Rite of Spring, video 1 The Rite of Spring, video 2 The Rite of Spring, video 3 You owe it to yourself to watch this ballet. Really, you…

  • An awful mess

    Good griefinicious, there lies my brain, on the floor, all drippy puddled and entreating me to try to mold it so it has some measure of coherence again. But it ain’t happening. When I nudge it, all I’m getting are little burps of H.o.p.’s computer game music. Oops, now it spits out anxious images of…

  • Of Morris Dancing and Green Men

    Of Morris Dancing and Green Men

    Some lively Morris Dancing here. Got there by discussions with H.o.p. Thursday on the Green Man. For which he seems to have an affinity, which is why we were discussing it, as for some reason he came upon it again Wednesday night and said he wanted to know more about it. So Wednesday night I…

  • Don't know why I'm reminded of Alice's puzzling over which side of the mushroom to eat

    I don’t know why, when trying to think of how to describe Sondra Prill, Alice puzzling over which side of the mushroom to eat comes to mind. Maybe it’s the uncertainty of whether fate will take you to the home for which you long or drop you in disaster’s lap. Came upon the below at…

  • Bob Dylan "With God on Our Side" 1964

    This one always has me near tears. My 4th of July post. And yes, this year we’re going to watch fireworks with family. Because kids love fireworks.

  • Domo-kun vs. Karen. Domo wins.

    Japanese national public television gave the Japanese Domo-kun in gratitude for their contributions. I can’t locate a pic of her right now, but Georgia Public Broadcasting most frequently gives us someone named Karen thanking us during the telethons and cheering us on to give and give more. Karen is fuzzy in a Southern drawl, hairspray…

  • I so needed this touch of clarity today

    Ok, so the David Hasselhoff Hooked on a feeling video has been around a while. But this. I just saw this today. Why are there no comments? Why has no one rated this? I so get this. The Hasselhoff “Hooked on a Feeling” video suddenly makes perfect sense. And not just perfect sense but perfectly…