Saturday, May 8, 2010
New Stuff: Khmer Rouge
This month will be seeing Phil Shoenfelt perform live in Prague, so I thought it was about time to get the Khmer Rouge cd, which documents his earlier work within that band.
First Lines: George Eliot - The Mill on the Floss
A wide plain, where the broadening Floss hurries on between its green banks to the sea, and the loving tide, rushing to meet it, checks its passage with an impetuous embrace.
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
First Lines: David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest
I am seated in an office, surrounded by heads and bodies.
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
First Lines: Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip.
New Stuff: Roky Erickson
Quite a sensation that after all these decades there actually is a new album by this legend!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
First Lines: Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure
The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.
