Archives : January-2010

…is just amazing to me, and I’m still trying to figure out why I love her so much, but I think it’s mostly because she takes such obvious pleasure in what she does and throws herself into everything full-on – so…out I go at 11:30am on a weekday to get my Meryl-fix at the local ..

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…is still on my mind, and I’m now finding older material, like this video for “If” with Etienne Daho, from which I have been memorizing the French lyrics, another symptom of my recent Franco-file tendencies, accompanied by fantasies of creating some sort of contemporary/non-new-agey incarnation of an intentional community in a farmhouse in a small ..

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…has a song on the IRM (MRI en Francais), her just released collaboration with Beck, called Voyage that I have been listening to all afternoon, and this morning it was The Operation and it’s video (below) by Jean-Batiste Mondino which features the mysterious arrival of a male model, but I really like Charlotte (daughter of ..

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…has an entry in her blog for the Poetry Foundation called “Yoga for Losers,” including this – “I mean if you’re using something everybody already knows (Language, Conceptual) and putting things in it that everybody already does then I think it’s a store, not a school. Maybe even a chain. It contributes to the history ..

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…are filling bags from the farmer’s market today, and seem to be all I crave lately, which is remarkable since they are the very few things that I despised, refused to eat, would dramatically gag on (especially beets) at the dinner table growing up, and in fact only recently have I developed a taste for ..

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…performed (in Anna and Giles’ living room during their New Years Day potluck brunch) a collection of songs from baroque meditations on arts patronage to theatrical re-enactments of interviews with the staff of a troubled museum; and after watching them (Alex, Malik, and Jade) this afternoon, I was reminded that they are Los Angeles people ..

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