Yearly Archives: 2009

Moments in Song: Burlington

Posted on 11/17/2009 by Andrew

Carla and I are lean­ing against a rock on Church Street in Burling­ton, VT, enjoy­ing the unsea­son­ably warm Novem­ber day. The scene sur­round­ing us is a per­fect cross sec­tion of hip­pie and hip­ster, col­lege kids and dropouts. Peo­ple rush in … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Knife Show Redux: The Dark Underbelly

Posted on 9/14/2009 by Andrew

By now in the his­tory of this lit­tle blog, can I assume any­one read­ing is famil­iar with Tom O’Dell and his won­der­fully bizarre late-night cutlery-hawking enter­prise? If not, click the links. I’ll be here when you get back. Caught up? Good. One … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Hey, Wha’appen?

Posted on 8/28/2009 by Andrew

Screw the con­ven­tional blog­ging wis­dom (ie. “don’t apol­o­gize or oth­er­wise even acknowl­edge that you haven’t been post­ing”). This is not an apol­ogy, just an update of sorts. If noth­ing else, it’s for me, so I can keep tabs on just … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Critcize me, civilize me.

Posted on 6/16/2009 by Andrew

I dis­cov­ered a few weeks ago that my inner critic sounds a lot like Jay Sher­man. And not Jay Sher­man as nor­mally seen in any episode of The Critic, but Jay Sher­man locked up in a men­tal hos­pi­tal in a … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Out Of My Head

Posted on 6/11/2009 by Andrew

Tues­day night I sat in on a songwriter’s group in Brunswick, orga­nized by Jud Caswell. We did quite a bit of “object writ­ing,” ie. tak­ing an object, per­son, or sit­u­a­tion, and describ­ing it in as much sen­sory detail as pos­si­ble, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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