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Sunday, January 30, 2011

Music: itsnotyouitsme at The Stone on December 2, 2010

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itsnotyouitsme comprises Caleb Burhans and Grey McMurray on violin and guitar with lots of wires and electronic doo-dads. This night, they ...

Books: Molly, Malone Dies, and The Unnamable, by Samuel Beckett

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Wary of another series, but hungering for something direct and raw after eight months of Proust’s ornate, insubstantial machinations, I soug...

Movies: The Social Network

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Not being particularly interested in Facebook (though I have a profile on it), or any form of living life online (despite the blogging—reall...

Movies: Black Swan

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I worry about Darren Aronofsky. It seems that each of his movies culminates with the protagonist cutting him or herself apart to relieve wha...
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Sunday, January 16, 2011

Books: How It Is, by Samuel Beckett

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As an additional antidote to eight months of Proust, I chose Samuel Beckett. There is enough that I want to read that I don't usually r...
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Books: Airships, by Barry Hannah

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After finishing Proust, I thought that this book of short stories by Southern "writer's writer" Hannah would be a good antidot...
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Movies: The Mission

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My Jesuit high school must have done a far better job of indoctrinating me than I thought at the time, because I found this film incredibly ...

Dance: Alvin Ailey at City Center

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Alvin Ailey has long been my favorite dance company. I like to say that when God created man, he created Ailey dancers; certainly, this is ...

Books: In Search of Lost Time Volume Seven: Time Regained, by Marcel Proust

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It took me eight months, but I have read all of it. Time Regained is a volume very different from Proust's others. First, the narrator...

Books: In Search of Lost Time Volume Six: The Fugitive

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After finishing Cities of the Plain , alternately titled Sodom and Gomorrah, and finding that Proust had yet to acknowledge his homosexualit...
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