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AB

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My Interests

Movies:

Ballad of a Soldier, The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Television:

Ubuweb , The Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society

Books:

A Handbook of Knots, Three Lives, Jacob's Room

Heroes:

null pointers

My Blog

Why I never had a GNR phase

Or, a musical history from 1977 to 1995:My mother, as a teenager, loved the Beatles so much she 1) made an enormous, exquisitely-detailed scrapbook of magazine clippings, and 2) at a concert, bought a...
Posted by AB on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:36:00 PST

What gives my kitties the fantods

1. sonic booms2. shadows on the wall3. dogs in the alley4. car alarms in the alley5. can-clinkers in the the alley6. Tubeway Army recordsmore later....
Posted by AB on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 07:36:00 PST

Barthelme's Reading List for the Rest of My Life

Flann OBrien, At Swim Two-BirdsFlann OBrien, The Third PolicemanIsaac Babel, Collected Short StoriesBorges, LabyrinthsBorges, Other InquisitionsGarcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of SolitudeThomas Bern...
Posted by AB on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:50:00 PST

tinsel show

"Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine,-- A man's a man, for a' that. For a' that, an' a' that, Their tinsel show an' a' that..."Robert Burns...
Posted by AB on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:46:00 PST

What I made Rachel watch when I took the remote

1. Moesha 2. Earth, Wind, and Fire: A Tribute on Ice - 2 HOURS LONG 3. Talking Tractors 4. Top 40 Fabulous Spenders 5. Bingo Channel is no longer available 6. Duncan Sheik's new music video
Posted by AB on Sat, 24 Dec 2005 11:51:00 PST

Wallace Stevens' granddaughter

asked me if I had a baby.  I said no.  She told me to try having one first, and then to talk to her about music.  Gradually, it dawned upon me that she had been using "street"...
Posted by AB on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:59:00 PST