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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
If you don’t recognize the name, Brian Eno was one of the original members of Roxy Music. They were pioneers in what I call Art School Rock. Eno drifted away from Roxy Music after a couple of records, and set up shop as a deep thinker about shallow
We’re renting a house in Mérida, Mexico. The clothes dryer was busted. I pretty much knew what was wrong with it, and probably could have fixed it, but I’m not allowed to fix anything. I’m supposed to call the property manager and tell her what’s wrong, and she
I remember Columbus Day because I used to play music in a hundred and one bands anyone that would have me and try to make money to eat and get cigarettes and I don’t smoke and there still was never enough money and I played at a tee-totaling
Canteloupe Island is a Herbie Hancock composition, if memory serves. As a piece of music, it’s little more than an excuse to solo. A groove. These fellows in the video take full advantage of its possibilities. I’ve never heard of any of those guys, but that’s OK. They
The Parque Zoológico del Centenario, that is. The zoo is only a ten minute walk from our house, so we wander through from time to time to commiserate with the animals about the ambient temperature. The “centenario” sobriquet is because the park was founded in 1910, the 100-year
If you know only a little Spanish, you might be excused for thinking Grito de Dolores means that raw oyster you ate had some sand in it, and you have a stomachache. After remedial classes, you might mistake it for I yelled until I had a headache. But
(2006:) My father asks me for nothing, really. Every three months or so, I take him to his doctor, who pokes about him wondering what
Whoo boy, that’s Maine. I live in Maine, if you call that living, and I’m here to testify that Maine is just like you see
My wife loves me and looks after me. Many and many a time I have noticed, when I wake up in the middle of the
