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~ Journal 9 ~
In the 1970's and 80's a kind of decoration existed called a "rain lamp" which featured a small sculpture surrounded by a lattice of wires. A pump sent mineral oil to the top where it fell as beads down the wires, giving a water-droplet effect that was both cheesy and mesmerizing. If you were a litt...
A much longer book is distilled into Parallel Play, which of course I mean as high praise, and while it is written with a deft and almost musical touch, that only serves to intensify how it feels when the author touches a nerve directly - either his own or one of mine.
My sister sent me this b...
This frustrating release is emblematic of everything that's wrong with the classical music scene today. First question: why record this again? Granted, it's great music, but there have been so many recordings of it already, some quite recently. What's more, this same Chandos label...
My planned "summer of constant camping" amounted in the end to one trip, taken with good friends to the second of three lakes called "Lake Ann" that I know of in Washington. This one is east, in the Snoqualmie region (the previous one we visited in 2015 is up north of Seattle near Mount Baker / Moun...
On this day I saw Summer 1993, a 2017 film from Spain, and now over a month later it's still circling in my head. Good movies about children are rare, and this is the rarest of them all: a film in which the entire story revolves around a child's inner life. And it does so in a real way. Much lik...
