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September was listening to . . .

Well, I'm a little late on this one. September was listening to much of the same stuff as July and August and also

Band of Horses

and U2, U2, U2!!

Going to a U2 concert was on my list of things I had to do in my lifetime, and on Tuesday, September 29, I checked it off the list! It was an amazing show -- even from the upper deck of FedEx Field (just outside DC). Here's me, looking like a rock star:

(photo by the lovely Mel Weaver who  accompanied me on my U2 adventure)

fridge poetry

 

no frantic running
 
       to & fro

                           only be

   as water is

after a storm

 
 

August is (and has been) listening to . . .

Next week is September. Unbelievable. Here's a taste of my August:

Tarkio (why did no one tell me about these guys before?)
Wilco
Explosions in the Sky
Jem
Winterpills

and, for whatever reason, a whole lot of 104.5
 
 

football at 91

For evidence that my Grandpa Wenger still plays FOOTBALL in the OCEAN at 91, go here. 

(That's my brother's smugmug site. He's pretty good with a camera.)

 
 

July is listening to . . .

Music lists. That's a good idea for a blog, right? I'm going to try to make this at least a monthly habit. So here's some of what I'm listening to these days -- old favorites and a few new discoveries:

Blind Pilot

Mason Jennings

M.I.A.

Yael Naim

Elliot Smith

Alexi Murdoch

MGMT

M. Ward

Federico Aubele

a compilation called Dark Was the Night

. . . and some old mix tapes that I uncovered in my packing--everything from Bone Thugs to Chumbawamba.

 

What are you listening to?

hello

I'd love to make this blog thing happen again in a more regular way now that life is (very gradually) slowing down from the pace of the last two years.  So stay tuned.

on war

"Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration or war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out among themselves. Whoever survives, his country wins. That would be much simpler and more just than this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting."

--German soldier in All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
 
 

ALL ARE INVITED . . .

 

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