On The Highly-Authentic Ghost of Townes Van Zandt
Yikes. Highway Kind is one of the only songs I have a keen, reliable emotional response to every time i hear it. Tears, every single time. Lyle Lovett's cover on Step Inside the House is pretty devastating too.
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On Ten Days in Haiti: A Photo Diary
I wouldn't sat that the photos on the ground aren't pretty. The one of the marketplace in Petionville is fairly gorgeous (to me); all swirling blues and the shattered little bit of yellow in the lower right. The prettiness there is even more potent maybe because it is one and the same with the suffering of the subjects. These are smart photos.
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On Ten Days in Haiti: A Photo Diary
I wouldn't sat that the photos on the ground aren't pretty. The one of the marketplace in Petionville is fairly gorgous (to me); all swirling blues and the shattered little bit of yellow in the lower right. The prettyness there is even more potent maybe because it is one and the same with the suffering of the subjects. These are smart photos.
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On PJ Harvey, "Written On The Forehead"
Seems like she's gotten back to the allegorical lyrical stuff, a la Is This Desire. Dreamy.
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On The Protests in France Are Excellent
Oui. France hasn't balanced a budget in 30 years and it's public debt is 3X the allowed EU level. But, you know, ANGER
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On The Protests in France Are Excellent
Pretty sure you're not. Rertirement at 60, plus the 35 hour work week is going to hit them hard in a few years. Then there will be residual bitterness at Sarkozy for not taking care of the problem when he had the chance, and more demonstrations. Same protests, different day.
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On Each Reader is an Author, A Maker of Meaning
"The value of individual creativity in itself, authorship in itself, is not affected a bit by how we share the proceeds afterward."
The value to whom, though? Tolstoy? A kid in a lit class? The Universe? Those dividends seem necessarily different to me, and the pay-out is important. To the ego, soul and pocketbook. So I'm not sure that it's right to equate these wiki experts with artists. When some random wiki page unfurels into a Yeats poem or something...then maybe the sun will go black. I don't believe it will happen.
P.S., do you write under a pseudonym?