People who know me well know that the amount I'm seen here wearing a warm hat represents a complete fraud.
S EE THE PEOPLE DANCING at the end of this video of the guy playing "Guantanamera" at Park Street, that I didn't notice until later because I wasn't looking at the screen when I shot the video? That's the sort of thing that interests me.
Also:
Surprise me.
I T'S REALLY KIND OF HARD TO give a shit about music these days unless someone's playing it right in front of me. Otherwise, whatever's on is fine. Gathering music is just too much of a pain in the ass.
My favorite song in 2006, though, was a sad song, but a beautiful one. If Jenkins ever gets me to write that blog, I'll talk about the sunny May afternoon I discovered the Three Corners as it played, and decided I want a truck.
Now sing along with me: He almost walked into a wall.
The year was filled with a good lot of other songs, though, some still bleeding on into 2007. Shoot me if I ever stop feeling melancholic bliss when I hear the line, "It's been evening all day long. "
And then there's the the closing credits music to a great day in Somerville, played by the same band that wrote the music that plays over the opening credits of my drives down Somerville Ave.
See the "friends" section for more on music.
T HE RIGHT STUFF, SUPERMAN II, The Blues Brothers, Dog Day Afternoon, Gandhi, Serpico, pretty much anything with cops in NY in 1974, Hardware Wars , The Conversation, Singles... I don't watch a lot of movies, really.
How completely stupid and arbitrary are these categories? Favorite Foods: goes here instead. Peaches, raspberries, limes, fresh pineapple, cilantro, eggplant, pinjur/ajvar/whatever, vinegar, brine, pickles, capers, artichoke hearts, olives, fishes, rosemary, avocado, corn, eggs, squashes, radishes, tomatoes in the peak of August when they're so red inside you didn't think they could get that red because the ones in the store are pink and white inside, dill, basil, thyme, cheeses, and interesting potato chips.
T ROW, GEORGE W. S., Within the Context of No Context; Steinbeck, John, Travels with Charley; Vergara, Camilo Jose, The New American Ghetto; McGee, Harold, On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen; Stern, Robert A. M., et al., New York 1960; Cronon, William, Changes in the Land; Reisner, Mark, Cadillac Desert; Becker, Ethan, et al., The Joy of Cooking; Radde, Bruce, The Merritt Parkway
More of you than you realize.