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Now Streaming: Meyer / Gourlay
I’m not actively updating this little blog — but I’m still an active fella’! Meyer / Gourlay Cabaret All the latest from the Meyer / Gourlay Cabaret can be found here. Stream the latest tracks, download albums and more from our Bandcamp site. Coming 10/25: Stream us on Spotify, etc. Desire Paths Season 2 of…
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Vinyl, Man
Insanity manifests culturally. In Descartes’ day, people believed they were made of glass. Those people were objectively nuts to anyone but themselves. Similarly, I really got into vinyl after I got Covid for the first time in Sept. ’24. The friendly fellow who owns the Ifinder Antique store in Mineral Point, WI had a mysterious,…
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A Spell of Remembering, Woven in Eight Leaves
Note: The essay below is reprinted from my e-book, Nowhere Slow. Though I might word it differently now, I haven’t changed it. A Spell of Remembering, Written in Eight Leaves The first leaf makes everything smooth The flower of the likehdou blends from sunset purple at the edges to a deep bruised color in…
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Japanese Influence on American Poetry: Adelaide Crapsey
Adelaide Crapsey (1878 – 1914) invented a form called American cinquain based on Japanese tanka. Instead of a syllabic form (5-7-5-7-7 in the tanka) the cinquain is based on stress patterns with a 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 1 stress pattern. The pattern is often iambic (two syllables, with the second syllable…
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Best Old Music of 2023
Time has marched on from year-end review season. I did think, briefly, to write a top-ten post but soon realized that I no longer really know what’s new, old, re-issued, re-hashed, re-recorded. Spotify says my top two artists are Alejandro Escovedo and Jean Sibelius. Only one is alive and neither had new music in 2023.…
