tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45305041238229207262024-03-19T13:03:07.408-07:00le rapport du jourUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-86919909182990281542020-11-18T02:37:00.001-08:002020-11-30T02:42:50.455-08:00The Magic Man<p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Walking up Rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud in Paris’s 10th arrondissement</span><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"> </i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">in mid-October, I saw a man who was working in the doorframe of <i>Ô</i> </span><i style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">Lieu de</i><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;">, a tapas, pizza and beer joint I’ve passed many a night. The restaurant’s front windows are tall and wide, and the man was trim and spry in black, wide-wale corduroy overalls with spots of white or grey paint.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdkpAyQTGzCBj8YDmrKkvq0AZy4RMr2VQiWcbXY7WOl_VCK_DXm6Ik1n1JR2YJRk_SXF1xf1_S2Ta3l7bese-D_0mD4j2A6zBXy_yS_dJc93AtCS_54XtB24-NsrA2K074JFjwbsl5-M8/s2048/GS1.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdkpAyQTGzCBj8YDmrKkvq0AZy4RMr2VQiWcbXY7WOl_VCK_DXm6Ik1n1JR2YJRk_SXF1xf1_S2Ta3l7bese-D_0mD4j2A6zBXy_yS_dJc93AtCS_54XtB24-NsrA2K074JFjwbsl5-M8/s320/GS1.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><p>Gregory Sévin, the man in the door, looked like a magic-worker, an elastic figure-eight, standing on a stepladder and leaning into his work. </p></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbNl-ZW09y7m-vg13Ctvv7dgcJr30w6SCGNymyyXnNI9Ve5QA0ishps_8mnURyxgYxHlcCZP695EDKp3ZnO9ZktY0WA0rCK_vR3YF1O4HiybLi90ssT-C41aPVnuA8Kiyx4Rak-5vtZdA/s2048/GS11.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbNl-ZW09y7m-vg13Ctvv7dgcJr30w6SCGNymyyXnNI9Ve5QA0ishps_8mnURyxgYxHlcCZP695EDKp3ZnO9ZktY0WA0rCK_vR3YF1O4HiybLi90ssT-C41aPVnuA8Kiyx4Rak-5vtZdA/s320/GS11.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0DKUnsy53PYd_ehYvooGJzGnQ7VfDP-ig4TCqseX-_K6FeK4LUidwGTjhgefS9ChaS68c8fow5mu2dByg33Wfq427q_ibjm6oJRx7d39L7o_YVpPieIlYkOhpMbnR3uxY5yD-1HSkiY/s2048/GS13.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU0DKUnsy53PYd_ehYvooGJzGnQ7VfDP-ig4TCqseX-_K6FeK4LUidwGTjhgefS9ChaS68c8fow5mu2dByg33Wfq427q_ibjm6oJRx7d39L7o_YVpPieIlYkOhpMbnR3uxY5yD-1HSkiY/s320/GS13.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px;"><p>Sévin designs and decorates the interiors of restaurants across France. 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I first saw some of these beauties to the right of a trail we took up a hill. They looked imposing and quite high above us. They did not look approachable, or I guess the word is, surmountable to me. </div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">But they were. Victor changed our late-morning plans for a rendezvous with family, and we walked through the woods and then toward these two cavities (hey, if it’s the right word, it’s the right word) in the rock.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">It seemed like basic self-help material, but I wanted to say it anyway: We humans can do amazing things just by continuing to move toward our goals. Victor agreed, and said that a lot of people don’t. I like to write, and it occurred to me that working on a manuscript, or even a good blog post, is a lot harder, or at least more mysterious, than walking up a steep but defined path. What they have in common is you have to keep going. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: large;">The three that caught my eye were about Paula Hawkins’s novel, <i>The Girl on the Train</i>;<i> </i>Kristin Roupenian’s short-story collection, <i>You Know You Want This</i>; and Robert Brockaway’s novel, <i>The Unnoticeables</i>. In the last one, check out the way Pittman’s hyphenated and modified adjectives build authority and sass.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In high school, I wasn’t a fan of Blur. But I was excited when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leisure</i>, their
debut album, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bandwagonesque</i>,
an early Teenage Fanclub record, were promoted as signs that young U.K. pop
bands were ready for the consideration of stateside listeners. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leisure</i>’s cover
portrayed a cute, smiling swimmer in a bathing cap and lipstick, an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amélie</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">à la piscine</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bandwagonesque</i>’s
depicted a bright yellow money sack over a reddish pink background. I had heard
the shoegaze/baggy pair of singles, “She’s So High” and “There’s No Other Way,”
from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leisure</i>,
and the tunes, the art, and the ads moved me to bring both CDs to my friend
Elliot’s birthday party. But our friend Doug, way hipper than us, said
something disparaging about the albums (or maybe the publicity), and that
dampened things for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">In college, Doug was listening to Blur’s second record, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Modern Life Is
Rubbish</i>, and the clean, spiky sound of that and the band’s next two LPs
filled my dorm rooms for years. On <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Parklife</i>, I liked
the pogo-friendly story of “Tracy Jacks,” a bureaucrat who loses it in the face
of his particular kind of no future, and I loved <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Escape</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Parklife’s</i> more
robust follow-up. Songs like the supercharged “Bank Holiday” and the sensual
“Girls and Boys” made it seem like Blur were participating in the culture they
were critiquing, but calling their record <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Great Escape</i> showed
the band understood that culture perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Blur’s next, eponymous album was full of buzzy guitars and less
British-oriented themes, and the cover art wasn’t cute at all: it was an
appropriately blurry photo of a nurse wheeling a stretcher. One rock critic who
saw them live mentioned the vigor of “Song 2,” a distorted burst of sound that
might have been Blur’s answer to the Ramones. When I saw the band play the
Orpheum Theater in Boston, I noticed the crowd’s joy when they played their
early singles, “She’s So High” especially, which filled the room like a wave.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">About 15 years after that show, I had the unbelievable luck of
living across the street from Academy Records in Brooklyn. Sometimes the staff
would prop open the doors, and the album on the store’s stereo would be audible
in the street. One day, I heard a boyish voice and some thick electric guitar,
and saw a copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Leisure</i> sitting
on the now-playing shelf behind the register. I wondered how much they were
asking for it.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I wanted the record for “She’s So High,” a song I had come to
appreciate more with time. It’s just a massive, radiant mount of gazey rock
with a message that everyone can understand: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">She’s so unattainable</i>. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I want her</i>. And
that’s it, or so I thought until I remembered some lines by the English poet
William Blake that the American poet Robert Bly included in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Iron John</i>, his
book about masculinity in literature and ritual. Blake’s verse depicts a male
infant’s surrender to parental dominance, which ends with the baby clinging
unhappily to his mother. <o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Struggling in my father’s hands,<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Striving against my swaddling bands,<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Bound and weary I thought best<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">To sulk upon my mother’s breast.<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">And here are the lyrics to “She’s So High,” which Blur’s lead
singer Damon Albarn alternately intones, sings, and semi-wails:<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I see her face<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Everyday<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I see her face<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It doesn’t help me<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She’s so high<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I want to crawl all over her<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I think of her<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Everyday<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I think of her<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">It doesn’t help me<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She’s so high<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I want to crawl all over her<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She doesn’t help me<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">She’s so high<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">I want to crawl all over her<o:p></o:p></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">As a teenager, it was easy to imagine that the song was about a
beautiful schoolmate in the hall. But Blake’s image of the unhappy baby, and
what I’ve read about the unmet needs of children in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Getting the Love You
Want,</i> a self-help book by the psychologist Harville Hendrix, has
lately made me wonder. Because the first person we wanted to “crawl all over”
was mum, someone whose face we saw, and who we thought about in infancy, all
the time.</span><br />
<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif;">Albarn repeats “She
doesn’t help me” as “She’s So High” nears its final chorus, and he could easily
have had a cute, pop-loving peer in mind. But you never know. The song works as
a longing for and protest against a mother or a crush. Either way, it’s a powerful
expression of immaturity that’s stood the test of time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I did not know
Central Park was so beautiful. Especially on a 90-plus-degree day, when the
heat and brightness seem to overexpose patches of the world like 35-millimeter
film. The large rocks are like the backs of dinosaurs buried in the earth. The
foliage is ample, and the waterway that I saw, still and green, looks primeval.
And of course there are people: so many people enjoying themselves. I remember
how well cars and CDs went together; let me tell you, colored t-shirts on humans
amidst huge rocks, green hills, paved paths, and occasional kiosks, comfort
stations, and playgrounds are just as good a fit. </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">I’ve lived in New York for
most of the past 13 years, but I’ve rarely just come and spent time here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">I realize that the
park’s splendor is not a news item. But for me, it was a revelation. If you
pack a lunch and a book, or visit the Strand’s open-air store near 60th Street
and 5th Avenue if you forget one, you’ll have everything you need. There’s
plenty of shade, and the hills are comfortable to lie on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Browsing at the
Strand three days ago, I found a copy of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sex
at Dawn</i>, which a fellow temp recommended three summers ago. I opened it, read
a little about the sexual customs of the Mosuo, a people in China, and thought this
is the book for me. The preface is extraordinary: it describes how one of the
authors confronted a charging monkey in Malaysia by baring his teeth, extending
his arms, crouching his legs, and screaming. The monkey backed off, and the
author learned that he was a primate, too. I felt human while reading about it on
a hillside in the park. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">At some point, I
thought about how for so many years I could not get past the allure of McCarren
Park when I lived in Greenpoint. Discovering Central Park now is probably due
to the fact that I’m fully employed as a teacher and on summer break. I’m more
confident now than I was then, when I thought a lot about dreams and desires,
didn’t act on them enough, and couldn’t bring myself to make the crushing and
regenerative compromises that come with adulthood. I’ve also signed up for a daily French class at the Alliance Française, also on 60th Street, that finishes at 1
every day. Monday was the first class, and it felt so right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Oh yeah: I even heard
the chorus of Lou Reed’s <a href="https://youtu.be/uCpkwAkNJj0" target="_blank">“Perfect Day,”</a> a song that always makes me picture a scene
in Central Park, in my head when I walked down the steps into the subway at
Columbus Circle. Sure, I then remembered that the next line is “you’re going to
reap just what you sow,” but so far, summer is a good harvest.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-8428259109601156392018-07-01T08:19:00.002-07:002018-11-08T16:49:03.709-08:00Immigration Song<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday morning,
I left my apartment uptown to attend the protest to end the separation of
families at the U.S.-Mexico border. Trump, in his finite wisdom, signed an
executive order to end these separations, but they still happened, and news
reports tell us that it’s unclear how the administration is going to reunite
all of the families it tore apart. If you haven’t yet heard </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy" target="_blank">the audio of kids crying and moaning for their parents in a detention facility</a> in Texas</span></span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">, you need
to. There’s no excusing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">After I packed my
sunscreen and new baseball hat (Oakland A’s) to deal with the rays, I thought I
would work on an unfinished piece to focus my attention. (And, yup, stimulate a
b.m. before getting onto the Brooklyn Bridge, the main stretch of the protest route.)
I had started this piece in 2017, near the beginning of my first year as a
middle school writing teacher in Harlem. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Here goes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Sometime in autumn,
something interesting occurred to me while waiting for the A train at 145<span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">th</span> Street after work. I was with my colleague, Priya, who also lived uptown, and
we were probably there within the latter half of the evening rush. We both felt
that the train was taking a while to arrive, and it felt particularly wrong to
me that it was the A train that was late. I figured that any line with <a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100731586" target="_blank">a Duke Ellington Orchestra song</a> about it should live up to its legacy, and get me
home. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">We were standing
there, and it was hot, and we were both new teachers. I was wearing wool slacks
and a tucked-in shirt and carrying a backpack with a laptop and lesson plans,
plus a canvas tote with leftover food. My knees hurt from standing up in the
classroom. There were a good number of people on the platform, and I think Priya
commented that the number proved the train was late. “Look at all the people,” she
said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">Then, a new wave
of people came up the stairs onto the platform, where, like gas molecules intermingling
with other gas molecules, they floated into positions along the track. I
remember noticing a woman who may have been of East Asian descent among this
new group. She was quiet, and looked self-possessed. Some of the new arrivals kept
walking toward a second flight of stairs to another platform, but plenty of them
integrated into the initial—initial to me—group that had been waiting for the
A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">I probably
wondered if those who were just arriving would cede the way to those who were
already on the platform when the train did come. I may have thought that it didn’t
matter so much, maybe because we were pretty far uptown and there would
probably be space once passengers disembarked. I probably also hoped that they
would make way, would notice that I was there first, that some kind of tiered
grouping of commuters, based on wait time, would persist despite the intermingling.
And this is when it occurred to me that what I was also thinking about, or
looking at, was the situation of immigrants from the perspective of someone who
considers himself native-born. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">You’re tired, your
knees hurt, you’ve been working all day, and you haven’t done anything to make
the train late, but it is. You’ve been waiting for a while, and then another
group of people comes to wait as well. You feel like you have a claim on any
spots that are available on the train when it does come, but there’s no system
in place to insure you do. And you don’t even know if the train is coming, or
if there will be any spots; you just know that you were on the platform,
waiting, before this second wave of folks arrived.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif;">How you think
about this second wave could be an indication of how you think of immigrants
who arrived in your community after you or your family. You might feel like you
should have first crack at getting a job or finding a home, but there’s no way you
can guarantee either. All you can control is how hard you work and how well you
treat yourself and others. And treating other people well, whatever your
opinion on immigration policy, requires understanding one of the messages I saw
at the march: “IMMIGRANTS are <u>not</u> dangerous. They ARE just PEOPLE
looking for a better life.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s also important to remember that unless
you’re descended from an indigenous people, someone was here before your
forebears arrived. One thing I don’t remember from that evening on the platform,
when I was wondering how the newcomers would accommodate my presence, is who had
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">When I went back to my old neighborhood of Greenpoint
in August 2017, I visited </span><span style="font-family: "cambria" , serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">The Thing</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11pt;">, the local second-hand store whose industrious staff makes an
arrangement of furniture, luggage, old machines, books, records, and clothing outside the front door every day. Earlier that year, those arrangements started to include new bikes from a cycling shop that had closed.
I had just moved up near Inwood to be closer to my new school in Harlem, and a high-end Fuji, marked down from $2060 to $480, had recently caught my eye as a
potential commuter. Seeing my interest, two in the crew had already offered to
take $30 off the new price.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">As I neared the store, I saw a former neighbor walk
out. Tall and stout with wispy blond hair, Bruce was wearing a blue
Obama/Biden t-shirt with the sunrise logo flecking off. I
had once seen him at the post office wearing a Ramones jacket with the band's self-referential song title, "Cretin Hop," printed on the back, and in true Ramones
style, his campaign tee just reached the bottom of his belly. It was neat to
see such a rocker show love for Obama, who seemed, in that first summer of
Trump, like a phenomenon that emerged from the ocean, hovered in the sunlight,
and fell back into the waves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Bruce was at The Thing to drop off copies of his
band’s new album. Well, not so new: 14 tracks off Ring 13’s <a href="https://youtu.be/RNorvE4-QUk" target="_blank"><i>Nothing New, Nothing Learned </i></a>were recorded in 1984, when he and his bandmates
lived in the Midwest. The record included five more songs from a 2013 EP, and
it came out on 180-gram vinyl, Spotify, and iTunes. Bruce wanted the shop to
charge $12 a copy, and in a testament to his belief in The Thing's peculiar pull, he didn’t plan to leave any at Record Grouch, the
trove of new and used wax across Manhattan Avenue, because he didn’t think they
would sell there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">I told Bruce I had moved to Inwood, a statement that
felt like it whooshed out of my mouth. It was like all of a sudden I lived in
Iowa, or I had become a ghost. But then I explained that I'm a teacher, and the
morning commute to Harlem is better from there. Like everyone else in
Greenpoint, Bruce had my back. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“Makes sense,” he said. “Can’t be late for the kids.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">We kept chatting. An employee with long black
hair who usually wears a blue Mets cap and a customer who looked like Sammy
Hagar were outside, too, rappin’ about Bruce’s record and the detritus the shop
had for sale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“I had a teacher named Angela Dust,” Bruce said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“That’s like a punk rock girl’s name!” I replied.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">“The kids called her Angel,” he said.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">I wonder where Ms. Dust is today. Bruce also told me that <a href="https://store.beercity.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=BCOS&Product_Code=BCR2241&Category_Code=music" target="_blank">Beer City</a>, Ring 13’s label, pressed 1,000 copies of the album, and you had
to buy the vinyl to hear the band’s cover of Billy Joel’s “You May Be Right,”
which the label feared would cause legal trouble if released online.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "cambria" , serif; font-size: 11.0pt;"><br />
But if the album sold well, he said, the label might change its mind. As of today,
you still can't hear a Midwestern garage-rock take on one of Joel's peppier songs
unless you visit Beer City's website, or, depending on inventory, bring 12
bucks to The Thing. If you wear a Mets cap, you'll fit right in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Through dozens of cursory listens, I always thought ‘Til
Tuesday’s “Everything’s Different Now,” the title track from the Boston band’s
last album, was a bummer trip. Maybe that’s because Aimee Mann, who once had
the best pop star hair this side of Robert Smith, consistently sings about failed
relationships on the band’s three LPs, so I assumed that everything that was
different had to be worse. But lo and behold, the song’s lyrics are actually
about discovering that things are different because two people are in love.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>A-ha. But Mann doesn’t sound happy, or
free from apprehension, at least. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Which, I have learned, makes sense. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Two people in love: that’s wicked special, as we from Beantown
might say, and wicked hard, too. To get a grip (two Aerosmith points, please), I’ve
been reading Dr. Harville Hendrix’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Getting
the Love You Want</i>, a book about what we look for when we look for life
partners, and how we can make living with them work. The thing that rocked my
world is Hendrix’s claim that we’re looking for partners who will help us meet
childhood needs that our caregivers did not. For that to occur, we need
partners who possess our caregivers’ (most often our parents’) positive and
negative traits, which makes for a fackin’ (c’mon, try it: faaackin)
challenging situation, or, simulation of some of our early life experiences.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Back to the song. In “Everything’s Different Now,” Mann
conveys the disorientation that comes with love:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Well, soon I’ll say your name<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">and then I’ll go insane<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I won’t understand what I’m thinking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then the fear of love’s exit:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll look down at my shoes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ll wonder what I’ll lose <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If I feel this consciousness sinking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And we both know what that means<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Those last two lines are important. In chapter four of his
book, Hendrix mentions Plato’s idea that we’re half-beings searching for our
other halves. He writes about the feeling of wholeness that results from finding
a complementary person, a feeling he calls the “phenomenon of reunification” that’s
expressed in the sentiment “I love you so much, I can’t live without you.” And
he writes about what happens when we contemplate the loss of our complements, our
other halves: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On a deeper level, this sentence [I
love you so much, I can’t live without you] reveals the fear that, if the lovers
were to part, they would....once again be fractured, half-whole creatures,
separated from the fullness of existence. Loneliness and anxiety would well up
inside them, and they would no longer feel connected to the world around them. Ultimately,
to lose each other would be to lose their new sense of self. (53)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The loneliness and anxiety I always got, but the fear of
regression was something I never understood. Hendrix prefaces the above with this
sentence: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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childhood needs, their partners...become allies in their struggle for survival.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And he also explains that it can feel like you’re going to
lose that struggle after a break-up. Which is why no one ever really wants to go
through one. Mann, it turns out, didn’t write “Everything’s Different Now”: Jules
Shear, her boyfriend at the time, and Matthew Sweet wrote the music, and Shear
wrote the lyrics. But like Cyndi Lauper’s cri de coeur, “Girls Just Wanna Have
Fun,” the tonal opposite of Mann’s almost lavishly disappointed sound, you’d
never know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Let's start with a simple question, in the category of sights from your kitchen window: </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">can you get more perfect than a man standing in a pear tree,
holding up a painter’s pole with a tin can tied to the end, enclosing and pulling pears off the branches like a fisherman pulling catch out of a stream?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not when it’s sunny, and the tree stands within a verdant
Greenpoint backyard, surrounded by more backyards, weathered wooden fences,
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the fruit fisher plucked away, the tree’s burden was
incrementally relieved. Lots of pears hung out of his reach near my fire escape, where I watched the operation. My neighbor, Joe, passed me the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I’m just so happy for the tree,” he said. “It can relax.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The harvesting was a revelation, because we in the
neighborhood are wary of the soil. In 1979, an oil spill along the nearby Newtown
Creek contaminated the ground, and toxic ash from a waste treatment facility also poisoned locally grown fruits and vegetables.</span></div>
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the tree, and Marty fished from the ground—spent part of the following weekend in
their own backyard on Java Street, grinding and pressing the brown and green fruit
with some friends to make cider. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the morning of the People’s Climate March, Chris invited me
into his basement and showed me three glass bottles, or carboys, filled with yellow-green
liquid. Tiny bubbles floated to the tops of each, the carbon dioxide excretions of cider
yeast eating the sugar in the juice,</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> he explained</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And then he showed me a fruit grinder with a screw-studded wheel,
powered by a washing machine motor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“It’s medieval, isn’t it?” he asked.</span></div>
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partially disassembled, but Chris shared the funky name of its intended object,
a stack of rectangular, cloth parcels of ground fruit pulp called a </span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">“</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: black;">cheese.</span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">”</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The hybrid brew--Concord grapes from Chris and Marty's backyard also tasted the screws--will be ready in spring, “when the first
cuckoo sings,” Chris told me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A bottle for a blogger and cuckoo, please.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-58538626032277949302014-04-05T10:20:00.002-07:002014-10-01T02:41:40.370-07:00Gallery-going at the Terminal Market<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Greenpoint Terminal Market, that is. Just around the corner from where I live, the building at 67 West Street houses a warren of smoothed wood floors and various spaces where artists and makers of all kinds do their work. Even <a href="http://phinandphebes.com/">Phin and Phebes</a>, ice-cream makers whose pints are available at The Meat Hook, have a room there. I wonder how many artists knock on their door for free samples.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I walked to 67 West last night to attend an opening at <a href="http://calicobrooklyn.tumblr.com/">Calico</a>, a small gallery that just moved into a larger space on the second floor. Owner, artist, and woodworker <a href="http://www.scottchasse.com/">Scott Chasse</a>, an ex-Boston guy, stood behind a backroom bar and served tall boys of Narragansett beer. In the gallery, pieces of sculpture in play-doh-like colors resembled miniature kegs, which dispensed pink ooze. (That's the word artist <a href="http://adamspuryear.net/">Adams Puryear</a> used to describe the stuff, and it's accurate.) </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://www.vincentstracquadanio.com/n9avgnuqu9y52kwzq2jn6xte6bbyog">Vincent Stracquadanio's</a> paintings of organic, funny forms hung on opposite walls,</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span>and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><a href="http://clairetypaldos.com/">Claire Typaldos'</a></span> array of small gray and watery dark blue slabs of gypsum cement stood atop a platform in a corner. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After leaving Calico, I walked to another opening at <a href="http://doseprojects.com/exhibitions/">Dose Projects Space</a>, a tiny gallery-within-a-studio just up the hall and around a few corners. <a href="http://clairefalkenberg.com/">Claire Falkenberg's</a> work consisted of pieces of thin, crinkled glassine--almost like flattened plastic bags--that covered cardboard backings. One piece roughly evoked the shape of a large country on a pull-down schoolroom map. It had a sky blue tint, and a similar-sized piece across the room had a pink one. This pairing was effective: sunset, childhood, and nascent impressions came to mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One floor up, <a href="http://www.brianwillmont.com/">Brian Willmont's</a> show met the challenge of his boldly named space, <a href="http://www.greenpointterminalgallery.com/Index.html">Greenpoint Terminal Gallery</a>. Groups of pieces in different styles worked as individual blocs and as good neighbors. I was drawn to a rectangular wood canvas with a--surprise--pink and blue border surrounding what looked like a blown-up image of a cell, or perhaps brain tissue. It seemed characteristic of art-making in North Brooklyn: the effort to express the interior amidst vivid pop ephemera. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Willmont wore a black Carharrt vest and a pair of throwback, white-soled work boots to his opening. (I probably would have noticed anyway, but reading <a href="http://bedfordandbowery.com/2014/02/what-the-artists-and-gallerists-wore-to-greenpoint-gallery-night/">this Bedford + Bowery piece about Greenpoint Gallery Night</a> may have helped.) Two women sold beer outside the gallery, as well as booklets of black-and-white reproductions of past shows. On the first page of one called "Tip Top," a Charles Bukowski quote reads as follows: </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if it doesn't come bursting out of you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in spite of everything,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">unless it comes unasked out of your</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">heart and your mind and your mouth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">and your gut,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you have to sit for hours</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">staring at your computer screen</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">or hunched over your</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">typewriter searching for words,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you're doing it for money or fame,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you're doing it because you want</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">women in your bed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you have to sit there and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">rewrite it again and again,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if it's hard work just thinking about doing it,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">don't do it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">if you're trying to write like somebody else,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">forget about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I don't know if I agree with Bukowski's advice about rewriting. Maybe it depends on the spirit with which we rewrite. But his ending, with the formal version of the classic NYC colloquialism, sounds great. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-16354064853508670002013-01-21T19:36:00.000-08:002014-04-05T10:14:41.667-07:00John Cale: rocker, classicist, smoothie<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the words of Neil Young, John Cale walks like a giant on the land. For me, Saturday night's show at BAM, during which Cale played his classic 1972 album <i>Paris 1919</i> in its entirety with a small but impressive orchestra--plus a bitchin' rock band--established him as an art rock colossus. Who can marry the classical and rock worlds as well as Cale? And who can overlay both with sensitive, literate lyrics? Plus, more than 40 years after <i>Paris 1919</i> came out, Cale's voice is undiminished. Same thing with Patti Smith, whom I heard opening for Neil late last year: "Gloria" was glorious in 1976 and in 2012. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: small;">It struck me during the show that Cale is an artist who's willing to put forth ideas that may be distasteful and outré. That vocoder he sang through during one song? It sounded too buzzy. His hair? In recent press photos, it's partially pink. And how about the title of his new album, <i>Shifty Adventures in Nookie Wood</i>? "<i>Nookie</i>"? Who, other than rap-metal historians, uses this word in 2013? Fashionable or not though, Cale is often sublime. <i>Paris 1919</i>, if you haven't heard it, is a quiet masterpiece, and 1970's <i>Vintage Violence</i> and 75's <i>Slow Dazzle</i> are great and good records, respectively. When the artist strapped on a red and white Fender to play the new album's title track, the song took about 90 seconds to shift from a dull rumble into a varicolored, metal mosaic. Who uses "nookie" in 2013? The mighty John Cale does. I wouldn't laugh at him. </span></span>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-54140461074008010282012-11-06T19:40:00.000-08:002013-11-06T19:55:23.826-08:00Wake-up call<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As I wait for the election results--the last thing I saw onscreen was Sarah Silverman's act of labial genius on Conan O'Brien--I am thinking about a few things. Here's what I want to say:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The first thing, just to get it out of the way, is that I did not lift a finger in this election. But for the preceding blog post, which commented on going door-to-door for votes as though I was at the head of an army, and a few donations to the Dems and Obama, I didn't do a goddamn thing. So feel free to take anything I write with a chunk of salt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The second thing, if you can handle all that sodium, is that I think this election, for those of us who support President Barack Obama, is about winning the right to go to sleep, get a few winks, and wake up in the morning and go right back to work. BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO STOP FIGHTING US. By THEY, I mean people who think that laissez-faire economics works, and who oppose equal rights for gays and the right to choose for women. But I'm not going to lie to you here: I'm really thinking about economics tonight, or, how we view making money in this country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Rick Perry, when he was running for president, said that Americans should want to get rich. John McCain, when he was getting buddy-buddy with Joe the Plumber in the 2008 election, looked into the camera during the second or third debate and said, setting up a hypothetical situation, "Joe, you're rich. Congratulations," while smiling. I'm going to guess that any conservatives reading this post will check out at this citation, but so be it: about 10 years ago, a French teacher of mine said that there isn't an equivalent of the phrase "making money" in his language. But making money, we know, is supposed to be a praiseworthy activity in the U.S.A. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There's nothing necessarily wrong with making a profit from your work. And I don't think that a political system that pretends that making money is an unacceptable human activity has a chance of being humane. But, as we embark, maybe, on the second term of a beleaguered president, as we continue in a present in which we are in great debt, and in which our everyday practices, our lifestyles, insure that we will accrue debt, and in which natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy may become more frequent, we need to band together so badly; we need to work together so well; we need to value building and sustaining community more than making money.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm not saying we frown on private wealth creation. I'm just saying that we can't pretend, as Barack Obama and Elizabeth Warren (haven't lifted a finger; just asked my parents back in Boston if they think she'll beat Scott Brown) have articulated, that private wealth creation exists in a vacuum in which our very lives, our very futures, aren't at stake. And I'm also not saying we shoot for some kind of utopia in which every factory is carbon neutral, in which every product is recyclable or biodegradable, although wouldn't that be something. I'm saying that we do the best we can, and that we evaluate our actions in light of our supreme value: building and sustaining community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Because shit, the shit going on in the Rockaways and Staten Island and Red Hook and all down the Jersey Shore is horrible. People are freezing, they need homes, they need jobs. I know that some Republicans, pro-choice and pro-gay rights, really do believe that their economic policies are better for job creation, and, in an imperfect world, getting people jobs is worth more than all of the progressive goals of responsible Democrats put together. But their party's policies ignore the deterioration of the environment. They ignore the need to educate young people so that they are inclined to engage the peoples of other nations, not clash with them. They ignore the fact that without an active federal government, African-Americans may never have gained civil rights.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">And they're wrong about economics, too. An underregulated free market isn't just bad for our planet and our minds, but it's ultimately bad for job creation. From what I'm learning, laissez-faire economics tends to lead to financial collapse. And with the planet acting the way it is, and with natural resources dwindling the way they are, WE CAN'T AFFORD TO COLLAPSE ANYMORE. Although we probably will, because we don't learn very quickly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Eduardo Porter, who writes for the New York Times, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/business/the-great-american-tax-debate.html">authored an excellent piece on what a sustainable economic policy might look like</a>. Wanna know what it looks like? Higher taxes for everyone. Middle class, upper class, and perhaps even the working class. Yes, it's more European, and yes, it's hard to swallow if you like spending disposable income--if you like disposable income, period. But whether you sympathize with Porter or not, his articles are worth reading for the notion that we've got to do some paradigm-shifting if we're going to create a livable future for all of us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Republicans? Tea-Party fans? We're losing our planet here. We're losing our union. What we want does look different from what you want, but what we want is people working together for a better common future. And for people--all people--to work together, they need good educations, a good shot at entering the middle class, good health care, and full respect of their freedom and dignity by their government. So that's why we vote for Obama. That's why we fight for marriage equality, which I can't say I recognized as important as recently as 10 years ago but I sure do now, reproductive rights and equal pay for women, investments in education, and higher taxes on the wealthy, who will still have a lot even if they're paying more. Hey, if you listen to Porter, we're all going to need to be paying more in the future. I sure hope it doesn't take any more disasters for us to get there.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-57321236827174890262012-08-13T11:25:00.000-07:002013-10-28T17:46:40.712-07:00Game plan<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the aftermath of Mitt Romney's choice of Paul Ryan as his running mate, I feel like a member of a good football team that has just been handed the ball at midfield. My team is down, and the opposing defense is ferocious, but we know what we're doing, we've been here before. Although I doubt that the other team will hold itself to the same standard, I don't want to win by playing dirty; instead, I want to win with superior play-calling and superior execution (yes, I follow the New England Patriots, and yes, congratulations to the New York Giants). When all is said and done, I want everyone watching to know which is the sounder team. </span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">And I think the game is now ours to win or lose.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">I feel this way because I think that Ryan's ideas, which include reshaping Medicare and privatizing Social Security, are rigid and unrealistic, not to mention destructive. Once examined, I don't think they'll appeal to enough of the undecided voters whom Romney needs to win. But that's only if we do a good job of talking about those ideas, as well as talking about the presidential candidate who brought them back into the spotlight, in the next 85 days. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">To do so, we need to educate ourselves. What were the broad outlines and fine points of Congressman Ryan's proposed budget? Why isn't a budget that features cuts of astounding severity a good response to our country's fiscal problems? If a voter protests that Democrats seek to spend at a time when the country is in greater debt than ever, how can we respond? Effective door-to-door canvassing requires knowledge, energy, and empathy. If we bring these qualities to our work, I think we can make headway with voters who think that Romney and Ryan's endorsed policies might improve the economy and empower our pursuit of happiness, but still aren't sure, and who </span><span style="font-size: small;">have heard that Obama and the Democrats want to create a socialist state. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">First, the big S. In the coming months, the nitty-gritty of policy debate may replace a lot of the name-calling we have heard almost since the inauguration, but if not, we can push back against the idea that progressivism is socialism in a number of ways. We can cite unusually persuasive sources who know better: Milos Forman, the Czech-American filmmaker, who wrote in the New York Times about episodes of censorship and brutality in his native country; Ruben Navarette, a syndicated columnist WNYC host Brian Lehrer introduced as "conservative-leaning," who said that his conservative friends "hate" it when he tells them that the President has governed as if he is "one of them." We can create metaphors and analogies that show the error in inflating Obama's social orientation (a crappy first draft: enjoying a drink a few nights a week doesn't make me an alcoholic, and instituting particular social programs doesn't make our government a malfunctioning ATM). And we can be forthright about and proud of that orientation, and of our own: we think that progressive social investment befits a democracy that seeks to equip its citizens with the tools they need to succeed.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">Some people are not going to agree with us. (Remember Anthony Rapp's character in <i>Adventures in Babysitting</i>, the kinda rad Elisabeth Shue movie from 1987? <i>"Ya think?"</i>) If, however, they're still willing to listen to you, then go for it: talk about the Republican weaknesses and Democratic strengths that appeal to you most. It's really important to me that President Obama has worked to end the war in Iraq, and I think there's a reason that his term has coincided with the Arab Spring, a movement that is resulting in a world in which more people are living in democracies that they have risked their lives to establish. Some voters may fear the ascendancy of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, or what might transpire in a post-Assad Syria, but they might also feel that people who have more opportunities to pursue happiness are less threatening than people who must live with less. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In terms of the economy, well, stay tuned--that's what I've got to learn more about. I do know, as I think the majority of Americans do, that trickle-down policies (especially in combination with deregulation and a lack of oversight of the financial industry) don't work, and that they most recently haven't worked under the, ahem, watch of a Republican administration. Let's talk about how many gears Pres. Obama has shifted to help us emerge from the Great Recession, even if it feels like we're stuck in the mud sometimes. Let's talk about how his policies will give more Americans a chance to stay afloat. </span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">During a recent WNYC segment on New Yorkers' experiences hosting visitors from abroad, Lehrer responded to a caller's story by commenting that "people are people on planet Earth." Horrible acts of violence notwithstanding, I agree. I think that all of us want better lives for ourselves and our families, and in this era, with this President, we've got a better chance of persuading unconvinced Americans that they stand to do and feel better if more of their fellow citizens stand the same. We have reason and compassion and energy on our side. And we've been here before. So let's go.</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: small;">That football metaphor? It's simple: We're the Patriots, and we're about to run the two-minute drill. Romney and Ryan? They're the Jets. Sorry, New York, you can't have it all.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-67425560487081034002012-07-21T12:54:00.000-07:002015-08-27T13:14:55.307-07:00Becoming a New Yorker, one moment at a time<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Last night, I had dinner at my friends Steve and Naama's apartment off Park Avenue in Manhattan. I arrived when they were still getting ready, and asked to use the bathroom just after Steve had gotten out of the shower. "It's pretty hot in there," Naama said. "That's okay, I'm from Brooklyn," I responded. This after a week that saw temperatures in the upper 90s, with the mysterious RealFeel hitting 100 on the day I cleaned my apartment, mostly sans A/C.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Right after dismissing Naama's concern, I paused. I'm from Boston, and I have consistently wavered in my mental migration to Gotham since moving here in 2005. I'm a Celtics fan who loves Lou Reed's "NYC Man," and I think it's Reed's literary, Jewish sensibility, both as a solo artist and with the Velvets, that has drawn me here, like an antique phonogram that sucks up its listeners. I'd like to think that coming here made me part of the ever-evolving soundtrack of New York, but being here, I know that it takes constant work to get into the groove, as Madonna sang, and I agree with this quote from Jane Jacobs' book, <i>The Death and Life of Great American Cities</i>, that appeared at the top of the April/May 2011 issue of the Williamsburg Greenpoint News and Arts: "Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody." I feel like New York gives when it gets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The last time I made a transformative step towards a New York identity was, ironically, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">in Penn Station, </span>before boarding a train to visit family in Boston. This was last winter, when Linsanity had infected the city. My friend Larry, who went to high school in the Bronx, told me that New York was crazy for the Knicks during the Patrick Ewing / John Starks era, and his history lesson helped me feel the excitement when Lin's subtle, persistent style was confounding opponents in the Garden. For some of my friends and me, Lin's Harvard education validated the tweedy, Woody Allenish side of our fandom, and that didn't hurt, either.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the station, near the escalators underneath the information board, a heavyish, middle-aged guy wearing a blue No. 17 jersey walked towards me. "Nice jersey!" I said. "Thanks," he replied, not pausing as he passed. I texted my friends in triumph. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">While brightening at the sight of Lin's jersey was an initiation into the big, whooshy spirit of the city--think the montage before each episode of SNL--claiming Brooklyn as my home while walking into my friends' steamy bathroom was an identification with the Sweathogs of <i>Welcome Back Kotter</i>, a dip into the second city blues, a reference to a mundanity that, as a recent transplant to a gentrifying part of a culturally burgeoning borough, I haven't often experienced. I guess sweeping and mopping in the RealFelt heat will inspire all sorts of delusions. But the city's best point guard is now a G train ride away. Anything can happen. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-30962272865973866192012-07-02T20:19:00.004-07:002012-07-20T06:56:26.342-07:00Not so pretty in the Citi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">While walking to the E train underneath Court Square last
Wednesday morning, I saw three people spreading the word about an Occupy
protest at the enormous Citigroup building in Long Island City. One man handed
out handbills claiming that the bank made 4 billion dollars and paid no taxes
(presumably in 2011), and someone else held up a sign advertising free bagels.
I was impressed by the confidence and carriage of the organizers: they spoke up
into the teeth of the commute, and they dressed as if they were headed for
office jobs. I later found out that one of the three, Jolie Terrazas, is a
doctoral student in Industrial Organizational Psychology at CUNY, as well as a
part-time researcher in its office of Institutional Research and Assessment. I
didn’t see it, but she told me that she brandished another sign asserting that
the Occupiers had jobs.</span><br />
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8am-8pm, and took place near the birch trees where Thompson Avenue meets
Jackson—I saw about 20 attendees. A saxophonist played “I Wish I Were a Rich
Man,” two people wore cardboard houses that may have been in states of
foreclosure, and others spoke with journalists and each other. Ken Gale, a
solar power advocate and co-host of Eco-Logic, an environmental show on WBAI
that airs every other Tuesday at 8pm, noticed my notebook and soon started
telling me about the fight to implement commercial net-metering in New York.
Approved by then-Governor David Patterson in 2008, commercial net-metering
allows businesses that install solar panels on their buildings to profit from
the excess energy those panels generate, energy that goes back into the grid
for everyone’s use. According to Gale, “old school” employees at ConEd and
other utility companies opposed the policy, and there remains an anti-solar
bias at ConEd. But he also reports that young employees are changing the
culture of the company. </span></div>
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like a human library. Within the context of protesting—or even just
questioning—the latitude and largesse afforded the financial industry and the
ways it exploits the less powerful, anyone can learn about a host of important
issues.</span><br />
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said that the 10 or so people who came out of the Citigroup building to speak with protesters were "generally receptive," and that interactions with police, of whom I counted nine, were "friendly." She
also told me that Alexis Goldstein, a former employee of Morgan Stanley who
gave a speech earlier in the evening, noted that she heard her colleagues in
finance encourage one another to “rip your client’s face off,” i.e., tell them
that a particular investment is great when it is actually “crap.” For her part,
Terrazas thinks it’s wrong that banks receive zero interest loans and then lend
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and focuses on outreach and education. According to member Nick Levis, the
organization has about 100 members and includes several working groups. “Look,
we’re not monsters, we’re employed,” Levis said. “This is what people want to
hear. I wish we didn’t have jobs, [because] we could do this each day.” Levis
went on to compare the Savings and Loan scandal of the 1980s, which he claims
resulted in prison time for 1,000 executives, with the financial collapse that
began in 2008. Instead of “sweetheart settlements,” he proposes “law
enforcement.” Doesn’t sound so monstrous to me.</span></div>
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Tuesday night documentary series at the Church of the Redeemer on Crescent St, with </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Food, Inc.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;"> scheduled on the 10th, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">Wikirebels—The Story of WikiLeaks </span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">on
the 17th, and <i>The American Ruling Class</i> on the 24th. Visit </span><a href="http://www.occupyastorialic.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">www.OccupyAstoriaLIC.org</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“Tearing paper makes it sculptural,” says Sasha Ascher, the
curator and one of two artists-in-residence at the Oak Street Gallery in
Greenpoint. This phenomenon, along with a formative perception of the edge between
tree and sky, informs the way Ascher eschews straight-bordered work in favor of
the irregularity of tears, and her interest in the excavation of self manifests
in a partially eviscerated notebook, its exposed pages painted light taupe,
light brown, and robin’s egg blue. In Oak Street’s first show, which opened
last Sunday as part of the Northside Art festival, Ascher is displaying an
unfurled scroll, darkened with charcoal, that resembles the body of a Chinese
dragon, and strips of paper that evoke vistas of a forest, an ocean, and a
lake. Another small piece depicts two vase-like shapes, perhaps wrapped in
shawls, with disembodied faces floating on top.</span><br />
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Street owner Stephen George Balamut’s three mostly smooth, abstract sculptures
of Italian marble, which both allude to and resist identification as fleshy,
human shapes. Balamut, who cites Constantin Brancusi as an influence and
sculpts without an object in mind, said the contrast in the artists’ media is
counterbalanced by their creation of three-dimensional forms. The rock and
paper “may have different personalities, but they look good together,” Balamut
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fabric, dyed two shades of indigo near the ends, from scaffolding that
surrounds a neighboring building; they swayed invitingly in the breeze. Oak
Street Gallery, at number 84 west of Franklin, is now open by appointment.
Email </span><a href="mailto:oakst.g@gmail.com"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">oakst.g@gmail.com</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to schedule a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I loved <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/blogs/pop-life/pulp-make-triumphant-u-s-return-at-radio-city-music-hall-20120411">Rob Sheffield’s excellent review</a> (excellent in terms
of the writing, excellent in terms of the rating—in fact, Sheffield’s very
first line is “Well, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was
excellent”) of Pulp’s show at Radio City Music Hall on April 10th. Timely as
always, I’d like to share some impressions from the concert, which differ from
Sheffield’s but also arrive at what I think is his premise and conclusion: Pulp
are wonderful.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For me, the show wasn’t outstanding. Although my views are
changing, I’ve spent the last 16 years as a skeptic of the quality of </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Different Class</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, which has made me
something of a willful outcast in the Pulp fan universe, like a guy selling
Marxist newspapers on a Saturday in Soho. (Although I’ve found a sympathizer in
Owen Hatherley, a British journalist whose book </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Uncommon</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, a self-described “Essay on Pulp,” is paperback manna from
heaven.) The set list was heavy on material from </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">DC</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, and I know that being irritated at “I Spy” and bored by “Pencil
Skirt” says more about me than the music. I feel less biased in claiming that
some songs sounded patchy. But one definition of “patchy” is “of inconsistent
or irregular quality, texture, etc; not uniform.” That’s pretty much how Pulp
have described their métier for most of their career: the sleevenotes to 1985’s
</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Freaks</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, the opening line of 1995’s
“Misshapes,” and Jarvis’s apologetic request at Radio City that Sheffield
quotes in his review: “Please forgive our slightly shabby, secondhand kind of
glamour.” Like anyone wasn’t going to do </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">that</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">.
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Furthermore, while watching this group of arty,
self-proclaimed misfits disarm a roomful of New Yorkers, it occurred to me that
one of the things people love about Pulp is that they </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">are</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> patchy. Their body of work, which includes moments that are
lovely, ghastly, stunning, underwhelming, and overwrought, shows us that we can make art,
music, and love while still being our messy, unfinished selves. How many pop bands
have done the same? Other than Belle and Sebastian, I can’t think of any.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Pulp: Truth and
Beauty</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, a biography by Mark Sturdy, the author quotes Jarvis speaking to
the crowd at the Glastonbury Festival in 1995, saying something similar to what
he told us in New York almost 17 years later: “If you want something to happen
enough, then it actually will happen, OK? And I believe that. In fact, that’s
why we’re stood on this stage after 15 years. So, if a lanky get like me can do
it, and us lot, than you can do it too.” Gotta hand it to Mr. Sturdy: the truth
of those words, along with the beauty of Pulp’s music, produce a happiness that
is rare and an example that is everlasting. Now if they would only play “My
Legendary Girlfriend” next time around…</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-88388233995180330822012-05-08T11:26:00.003-07:002014-04-09T14:17:43.091-07:00Looking for the spirit of MCA<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I’ve never listened to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paul’s
Boutique</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> (for shame, je sais), but when my friend Kristen summoned a posse
to head down to the eponymous storefront on the LES after MCA passed away on
Friday, I knew that’s where I needed to be. Voyaging by bike, I rode down Kent
Avenue and up South 4th</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> to the entrance to the bridge. With the
Beasties’ Gotham-grown contribution to global culture on my mind, the clatter
of a passing train was the sweetest cacophony, the loveliest hop. I felt so
happy to be a New Yorker in the memorial night.</span><br />
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first place, I couldn’t find Paul’s Boutique itself. Walked up and down
Rivington, then up and down Stanton, but no luck. I did find an old synagogue
with a stone, six-paneled Star of David that looked like the eye of a sleeping Transformer, but that was about it. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">When I met Kristen at Iggy’s on Ludlow, we marveled that the
bar’s speakers weren’t blaring Beastie music: shouldn’t this have been the
neighborhood’s own Michael Jackson moment? Out on the streets, I heard nary a
mention (nor beat, sample, or verse) of the Beasties or MCA. Where was the
sense of history? The calling to mourn? It just seemed like pleasure as usual,
although K did tell me that two candles were burning outside the elusive
landmark. </span></div>
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and well? You got it—Hello, Brooklyn. At the Smorgasburg on the East River on the following afternoon, I heard some wacky vocals and party beats coming
from the Brooklyn Salsa Company booth. I couldn’t make a positive ID at first,
but like a post-jalapeno burn, there was soon no denying that these were the
legends. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Turns out salsa slinger Nick had been representin’ from his
rugged red boombox all day long. “It’s pretty funky stuff to play at 11 in the
morning,” he said. “I’ll be dreaming it tonight,” averred Cassandra, who was working
next door at quinoa/falafel mash-up artists Saucy by Nature; “Can’t stop won’t
stop,” chipped in Kem, her partner and a fellow fan. Cassandra also reported
that </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Paul’s Boutique</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> was “her
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Youtube for the one song he didn’t have on his playlist. When he found it, across
the river from that curiously quiet former capital of Beastiania, “No Sleep
Till Brooklyn” boomed in the ‘Burg. Couldn't think of a better way to say
goodbye.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-15475117420093903312012-04-19T17:13:00.007-07:002012-06-22T20:25:26.552-07:00Chocolate Alchemy<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Yo! Been a while, as I’ve written before. I feel compelled to mention yet another vocation in which I possess a lack of skill: chocolate alchemy. That’s right: when I want chocolate, but convince myself that it’s the wrong time of day or find none in the house, I put on my alchemist’s robe and try to make magic happen. My not-so-magical ingredients are oatmeal, soymilk, honey, peanut butter, and bananas or apples. Mixed together, I figure they have a whirlpudlian chance of evoking chocolate on the palette…which they sometimes sort of do. When they don’t, it’s like they’re working anyway, because sooner or later some cocoa verité will take place in my kitchen. Regarde la preuve: </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-68837392028205927402012-01-12T20:11:00.000-08:002013-11-06T19:58:25.708-08:00Happy Birthday Ziggy Stardust<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This past year, I’ve been listening to David Bowie’s </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> (which is a hell of a long album title for 1972) about 18 years after I first got into it, and I mean </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">got into it:</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> a friend of mine said that reading Hemingway in high school opened doors to art for him, whereas for me, it was listening to Five Years, Soul Love, Moonage Daydream, and the rest: songs that, as Allen Ginsberg described the effect of Beatles tunes, went right through my skull. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As I’ve listened, I’ve heard three things. The first is Bowie’s confidence. Already on Five Years, he sounds like he knows he’s good, a star who’s arrived. He must be confident because he drops some of the shittiest lyrics in his catalogue. After creating a tableau of urban confusion, Bowie focuses in on a love interest with the line, “I think I saw you in an ice cream parlor / drinking milkshakes </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">cold and long</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.” I didn’t mind those adjectives as a kid, but I wouldn’t criticize anyone who chortles at them today. In the next cut, Soul Love, Bowie explains that “All I have is my love of love / but love is not loving”; again, not necessarily so bad, but certainly open to mockery. The great Lester Bangs despised the opening line of the last track, Rock and Roll Suicide, rightfully asking what in the hell “Time takes a cigarette / puts it in your mouth” means, and the rest of the image doesn’t get any better: “You pull on a fing-a, then anotha fing-a, then your cigarette…”?!? But I don’t think Bowie-as-Ziggy minds, because, as Rob Sheffield might write, he knows he’s got the kids on his side. After all, “cold and long” milkshakes are appealing to sweets-loving nine-year-olds and coiffed teenage lovers alike, audiences that Bowie would later address in songs like Drive-in Saturday and Panic in Detroit on </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Aladdin Sane</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. So the throwaway lyrics serve to endear him to a young listenership that would grow up with him throughout the seventies.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And, as Rob Sheffield </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">has </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">written—see the excellent penultimate paragraph in his chapter on Bowie in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Talking to Girls about Duran Duran</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">—in the case of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ziggy Stardust</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, it’s the lyrics, towards the end of Rock and Roll Suicide, that ennoble the entire album. Lou Reed once said he hoped that listening to the Velvet Underground’s catalogue would “make you feel less alone.” It’s hard to remain isolated in the face of Bowie’s screamed insistence that “You’re not alone! You’re wonderful!” with the Spiders chanting “One-da-full” in the background. The artist is at his best here, because rather than setting himself up as someone for his fans to worship, he’s speaking, genuinely, to the common humanity of each and every one. Taken in the context of an outlandish decade, it’s a rare moment when the Starman is on terra cognita. (I have to give Mr. Sheffield full credit for that line—his sentence, “Even at his most out-there space-trippy, he’s making the case for earth,” has been in my brain for at least half a year.)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Speaking of earthiness, the second thing I noticed while listening to </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ziggy</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, which other writers have also mentioned in one way or another, is that Bowie bolsters his self-creation as a crossdressing, alien star by identifying with the working class. The gritty little Star, nestled between the handsome balladry of Lady Stardust and the fast lane junket of Hang on to Yourself, depicts the lives of a group of regular, maybe hard knock young men. “Tony went to fight in Belfast / Rudi stayed at home to starve / (Ooh Wah Ooh) I could make it all worthwhile as a rock and roll star.” The kids in Starman, a kind of fantasy update of the Reed-penned Rock and Roll, could come from all walks of life, but by addressing them collectively, Bowie makes it seem like he is singing for everyone. And for all the lyrical references to stardom, the album cover portrays Bowie standing alone outside a nondescript London building. T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">he sign reading “K.West,”</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> with its epic resonance, may be above his head, but the cardboard boxes and garbage bag by his feet are just as constitutive. Ziggy may look scrawny and sound shrill, but the character’s origin in the street makes him built to last.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The third thing about the album is that its fixation on stardom, its glam and alien imagery, and its slighter kind of rock—sure, the Spiders could rip, but they don’t rip as heavy on </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Ziggy</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> as they do on </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Man Who Sold the World</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, two albums earlier—accommodated my fear of romantic and personal failure in high school. (Yep, it’s a blog.) Identifying with someone like Bowie first, and Morrissey later, helped me deny the fact that I wasn’t the academic superstar I thought I was; that girls, who liked me in middle school, had turned their attention to more athletic peers and upperclassmen; and that, for the most part, I was just an insecure little kid. At the time, bands like the Stones and Zeppelin didn’t jibe with my psyche—I needed remote, self-absorbed frontmen, not lusty dudes who sang and played about getting it on. But obviously I missed something (Exhibit A: All the Young Dudes, the 1972 chestnut that Bowie gave to Ian Hunter), ‘cause Bowie and the Spiders were probably getting it on every night. Mozza, not so much. </span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">C'est la vie. On the occasion of the dude’s recent 65</span></span><sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">th</span></span></sup><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> birthday, I would just like to say once and for all that I love David Bowie. <a href="http://flavorwire.com/247387/pictures-of-david-bowie-doing-normal-stuff">Seeing photograph #22 of him in this flavorpill piece</a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">, which depicts him walking</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> down the aisle of a grocery store in Chinatown, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">wearing a straw-colored cowboy hat, a thin t-shirt, grey jeans, and a backpack, makes me think of the song Move On off of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Lodger</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Sings Bowie, in a gallant tone:</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The lyrics go on to mention Africa, Russia, Japan, and Cyprus, as Bowie admits, “I’m just a travelling man.” In the diversity of his seventies catalogue (’69 to ’80 to be precise, and </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Let’s Dance</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, commercial though it may be, is both good and relevant enough to merit inclusion here), he does something that the Stones and Zeppelin, at least in their work that I know, don’t, and that’s aggressively travel. Go places. Experience, describe, and embody different parts of the world, different influences. That’s why Bowie slakes a thirst for global, sophisticated pop like no other superstar can. Growing up outside Boston with Paris on the brain, this quality of his oeuvre, which is both contrapuntal to and inclusive of the Ziggy period, was also—well hello there Ric Ocasek, thanks for giving me my first autograph back in 1980something—just what I needed. It feels good to experience the fact that I still do.</span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-30144910821311790062011-05-09T09:33:00.000-07:002019-08-08T18:19:05.174-07:00Rajon to Derek for a pair<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Yesterday, I watched clips of Rajon Rondo's incredibly tough, and thus rarefied performance against the Miami Heat on Saturday night, which featured the dislocated elbow, the matter-of-fact return to the Celtic bench, the left-handed steal off a Jeff Green deflection and ensuing baby dunk, and the post-game, just-as-matter-of-fact deflection of an interviewer's implication that Rondo’s elbow should keep him out of game four. (Friends, are we watching at Turkey’s Nest, The Gibson, or Lulu’s?) After watching the clips, I also read an article that placed Derek Jeter’s decline in context with the production of some of the other great shortstops when they reached the age of 37.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">Cycling at the gym this morning—who sells their Swiss-designed road bike at the beginning of May? Yeah Ma, I can’t explain that one either—I caught part of the replay of yesterday’s Rangers-Yankees game, including Derek Jeter’s first home run of the season, an opposite field punch into the Rangers bullpen that the row of sitting relievers leaned away from as if it was a gob of plague. With Rondo’s game and the article on my mind, I recalled Jeter's return to the field in a game against the Red Sox six or seven seasons ago, when he fell like an upended toy soldier into the left-field stands after trying to catch a foul ball. This was the game that Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra famously sat out for what some in the media identified as a minor issue. Jeter has long been known throughout sports for his consistency, clutch playing, and his lack of drama (in the colloquial sense). Off the field, he was known, to the degree that an American Express commercial riffed on it, for his dating life, but a paparazzi video of he and Anna Kournikova in the back of a limo in South Florida did not affect his professional reputation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "georgia";">I don’t know anything about Rajon Rondo’s romantic life—I saw in a basketball magazine that he has a young child—so I can’t compare him to Jeter as a swashbuckler, to use a stinking old term. But in other, professional respects, I think that the point guard of the Boston Celtics is becoming the Derek Jeter of the NBA. I can't support this comparison with a fanatic's knowledge of statistics, just a casual fan's observations. I did read that Jeter’s best season, by the numbers, came at age 25, and Rondo’s best season to date is probably last year, when he was 23 going on 24, or this one, when he turned 25. It doesn't hurt that Jeter's balletic, fully-extended toss to the plate against the A's in the 2001 playoffs looks a little like Rondo's signature fake-pass, back-handed scoop layup, or that a shortstop is a little bit like the point guard of the diamond.</span><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-74503701264553358122011-04-06T10:20:00.001-07:002012-01-15T12:12:27.536-08:00Extra! Extra! Old News on Arcade Fire<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It feels a little strange to be turning to the "G-d forsaken computer" just a few seconds before the end of the first Arcade Fire album, seeing as how the phrase appears at the end of the list of recording devices they used to make <i>Funeral</i>. It should also feel strange to be sharing my thoughts about this pretty durn good record seven years after it came out, but so what. Airs find ears in different ways and at different times. This afternoon, stirring a new jar of peanut butter, eating lunch, and then reading along with the lyrics while I listened, I finally gave <i>Funeral</i> some the attention it deserves. And what did I hear? Yep--a pretty durn good album, just as legions of peeps have said.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No surprises here: Une année sans lumiere, Haiti, the beginning of Rebellion (Lies), and In the Backseat are my favorite songs. I think the first two lines of Rebellion, plus the chorus, are my lyrical takeaways from the album. The ones that are usable to me, and the ones that help me understand younger people's love for this fiercely-loved band. And they are:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is. Sleeping is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Every time you close your eyes Lies, Lies!</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A friend from grad school married a 25-year old woman in Tennessee who loves Arcade Fire, I think, like 11-year olds love fantasy series, or like artsy kids in my generation loved Cure t-shirts. I imagine that their songs are like illuminated texts for her, the lyrics appearing in a fiery scrawl in her mind. These lines make me feel closer to her, like I can meet her in the burn.</span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-72972330800872263922011-02-07T12:40:00.000-08:002012-01-15T12:17:08.474-08:00Night-Shining, 'nuff said<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ek8mxtJaS3BWRRwNOvNEbIqj4YvuaILZifIB4xBPmKx0mk7ysgm-kRUXa2fDG830l203Z9ldOccrRrEsQSH99tGmUJWPWd4JSrIS15Sk4JLXI4S8gHZ06-UQLvbM2xPWAA43cfQ0sz8/s1600/DarkAges_cvr_final.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ek8mxtJaS3BWRRwNOvNEbIqj4YvuaILZifIB4xBPmKx0mk7ysgm-kRUXa2fDG830l203Z9ldOccrRrEsQSH99tGmUJWPWd4JSrIS15Sk4JLXI4S8gHZ06-UQLvbM2xPWAA43cfQ0sz8/s320/DarkAges_cvr_final.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5571050482464278626" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hey folks,</span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If ya needed something more pleasantly atmospheric to counter the remaining gloom of February--and you fancy an occasional saber in your soundscape--try </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dark Age</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, an older album by Mike Romeo, who records as Night-Shining. Night-Shining, by the way, is an adjective that describes a type of cloud. Who Nuage.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here's le review:</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Night-Shining is the nom de tune of Williamsburg’s Mike Romeo, and it amply describes the wandering, hazy dreampop that leaves vapor trails all over last summer’s full-length digital release, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Dark Age</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. Opener “Ghost” also features the kind of mid-tempo, stylish electronica that could easily reside on Bibio’s </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ambivalence Avenue</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, and the stately, minimalist beginning of “Believe.Never” could likewise grace Beach House’s </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Teen Dream</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">. Skittering piano notes and dainty Wurlitzer runs ornament these promising songs, and while the lyrics are hard to make out, Romeo and a female singer lay soothing, gauzy vocals over the instruments. With acoustic guitar and shaker, “Vultures” emerges from such lush reverie into a parched, articulate menace: “After all we are just animals / Picking up the scraps,” Romeo sings. Dissolving into a threatening shimmer, the chorus continues to evoke a sense of dread.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Then, the album drifts a little. “We Wait” is a derivative example of West Coast songwriting, and “December,” “White Rose,” and “Woods” resume the starlit walks of the album’s two openers, but don’t seem to get anywhere. Like glimpses of illuminated animals in the underbrush, ghostly synths appear and disappear on the margins of the soundscapes, but they aren’t enough to offset the aimlessness here.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dark Age</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> turns again on another desert dirge: the splendid, penultimate “White House.” Over a simple acoustic melody, Romeo sings about a reunion in the shadow of a place that is “lonely and dead.” Backing chants, tambourine and snare, and the quiet, steadfast guitar line complement each other perfectly. Closer “This Silence” is a piano meditation on emptiness that recalls elements of The Verve’s “Sonnet.” “Why does it always have to feel this way?” Romeo asks. Preceded by the stellar accomplishment of “White House,” the singer’s sentiment gains legitimacy, and sets the stage for future work.</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4530504123822920726.post-68737919977529998992010-10-30T14:22:00.000-07:002012-10-17T17:10:56.694-07:00Talkin' bodega drink bottled water Middle East blues<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">When I walked into the bodega a few Wednesdays ago for a flavored water drink, I looked for a moment at the assortment of bottles in the cooler. Earlier in the day, I had been reading an article by Jeffrey Greenberg in The Week (the article had originally appeared in The Atlantic Monthly) about a series of conversations and hang-outs the writer enjoyed with Fidel Castro earlier in the year. It was a beautiful article, especially when Castro took Greenberg to an aquarium in Havana to see the dolphins. “‘Do you like dolphins?’” the Cuban leader asked the writer. “‘I do,’” Greenberg replied. Castro claimed that they were watching the world’s only underwater dolphin show, and picturing the dictator and the journalist in front of a large, blue-tinged glass window in Cuba was marvelous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Before describing this episode, Greenberg writes about Castro’s complex, reasonable thinking about Israel. Castro believes that Israel has an unqualified right to exist, despite calling the nation the “gendarme” of the United States in the Middle East. He thinks that Israel needs to relinquish its nuclear weapons for regional peace to occur, and calls for every nuclear-armed nation on earth to do the same. Castro also chastises illegitimate Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for calling for the destruction of Israel, and even says that Ahmadinejad should “recognize the special character of anti-Semitism” (Greenberg’s words). For me, Castro’s remarks reflect an unusual level of sensitivity, education, and candor. I wish more people were as thoughtful as he is, at least in regard to these subjects.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Probably because I had read the piece, Israel was somewhere in my mind when I walked into the bodega to buy the drink. When I saw the rows of brightly lit bottles in the cooler, including various flavors of Vitamin Water, Honest Ade, and some new aloe vera drink, it occurred to me that some criticism of Israel is kind of like criticism of bottled water. Here’s the parallel: While some writers and activists focus attention on Israel’s mistreatment of the Palestinians—of which there is plenty to pay attention to—there seems to be far less discussion of the harmful acts and/or cold shoulders of neighboring countries such as Syria, whose leaders may prefer that the democratically inclined Palestinians remain stateless and oppressed. Similarly, while everyone seems to discuss the environmental cost of bottled water, I’ve never heard anyone question the cost of the myriad other drinks that are also bottled in plastic. But it may be that sourcing the various ingredients in these drinks and manufacturing them is more harmful to the environment than tapping a spring.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Focusing on the beverage side of the analogy, the obvious response is that cold water flows freely from home taps, so it’s inexcusable to purchase water in plastic containers that require shipping to get to market—we should purchase metal thermoses instead. It’s a great point, even though tap water in some places (I love you, but hello, Greenpoint) tastes much worse and probably contains more harmful chemicals than spring water. For substandard water, there are Pür filters, there are Britas, and there is our planet to think about. With all of these available resources and ameliorants, it’s an affront to our environmental health to purchase bottled water.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">But not everyone has access to tapwater. In most cases, a prerequisite for tapwater is a sophisticated, functioning state. During the European Holocaust of 1939—1945, most of the Jews of Europe were dispossessed of their states. After the war, many remained dispossessed, and were also traumatized. Literally and metaphorically, they didn’t have dependable access to tapwater. Neither, I would guess, do many of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank today, along with numerous other staples that middle class people in even moderately prosperous countries enjoy. We know that Israel sets the policies that forbid delivery of certain staples into Palestine, and we also know that some policy makers claim that it is the violent attacks of a minority of Palestinians that make these policies necessary. I’m not equipped to comment on the specifics of these policies or make an informed evaluation of their justness, but I do think that the larger point is that both peoples, Israeli and Palestinian, need tapwater. And it also might be fair to draw a particular, limited comparison, with regard to the issue of statelessness and statelessness only, between the Palestinians of today and the Jews of Europe during and after World War Two.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Returning again to the physical bottle of water, the counterpoint to the environmental criticism of bottled water is that not everyone has enough access to tapwater to survive. If we affirm the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s principle that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, then we should all advocate for people who do not have tapwater, or, by extension, a functioning state that provides them with it. Clearly, the conditions in Gaza and the West Bank must concern all the peoples of the world, as should the suffering of anyone.</span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">But I guess seeing the many-colored drinks in the bodega made me think that the problem in the Middle East is not a problem between Israel and Palestine alone, or even the surrounding countries in the region—it involves all of us, and the decisions that we make every day. Why should buying a bottle of Vitamin Water be any different from buying a bottle of Poland Spring? Both bottles may end up in landfills, and we can certainly make fruit juice at home. Perhaps the point is to keep the manufacture and purchase of all drinks that come in plastic bottles to a minimum, just as the point is to keep injustice to a minimum, everywhere and at all times. </span></span></o:p></span></div>
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