magician's assistant, grad student, folk dance caller, environmental organizer, trombonist, bodhran player, cat herder, wheel reinventor
(Saint Jude's Infirmary)
magician's assistant, grad student, folk dance caller, environmental organizer, trombonist, bodhran player, cat herder, wheel reinventor
reclaiming the ampersand
dancing, saying goodbye to everyone in the room, telling complicated stories
people i've already met in real life (or maybe their friends)
well, it's not to be anti-social—it's just that i think of this as a supplement to face-to-face interaction, not a replacement for it.
heavenly, the orchids, q and not u, orange juice, strawberry switchblade, camera obscura, belle & sebastian, saint etienne, radio 4, franz ferdinand, felt, the dismemberment plan, black eyes, !!!, johnny cash, dr. teeth and the electric mayhem, john hartford, calexico, iron and wine, the brian jonestown massacre, the evens, ladytron, gang of four, trachtenburg family slideshow players, mogwai, stereo total, le tigre, neko case, the delgados, black box recorder, neutral milk hotel, dressy bessy, of montreal, dark meat, the casual dots, beauty pill, slant 6...so you can see why i'm an anomaly among traditional celtic musicians: someone asks me about scottish music and i'll get talking about the postcard label
Milking the Moon, Eugene Walter; most e. e. cummings; Montaigne's Essais; Underworld, Don DeLillo; Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paolo Freire
Eugene Walter, Quincy Jones