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Friday, 11/11/11

Who needs a stage when you’ve got the subway?

“Diamonds And Pearls,” Washington, D.C.

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“Thin Line Between Love And Hate,” New York

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“Stand By Me,” Chicago

Thursday, 11/10/11

serendipity

These tracks brightened a recent Saturday afternoon, thanks to
WFMU-FM (Terre T’s Cherry Blossom ClinicSat., 3-6 p.m. [EST]).

The Equals, “I Can See But You Don’t Know” (1970)

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The Eyes, “I’m Rowed Out” (1965)

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The Shades of Night, “Fluctuation” (1967)

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The Kinks, “She’s Got Everything” (1968)

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lagniappe

reading table

[S]itting on the stone wall of the pump house overlooking the reservoir eating my old tuna, jalapeno and “hot” hummus sandwich I had a peaceful sense of NOTHINGNESS and that was what I was going to come to. DEATH is NOTHING. It’s not death that’s sad, it’s life. There is nothing sad about nothing. I had a very strong feeling that I am nothing visiting something. Yes, I am nothing visiting something and returning to nothing.

—Spalding Gray, The Journals of Spalding Gray (2011)