September 2007
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Emmylou Harris: Wrecking Ball; Red Dirt Girl; Stumble Into Grace As everybody knows, Emmylou Harris came to prominence in the 1970s as a vocalist and band leader who primarily interpreted other people’s work in a country-rock style. Her work in that vein is extremely good, and I’ve always loved her voice, but as a style…
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The goddess of cosmic American song was most gracious to her devoted subjects. Note to women who are getting up in years: grey can be beautiful. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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It takes a lot to get me to go to a non-classical concert these days. Prices have gotten so high that I can't convince myself that an hour or two of music is worth it, and my wife has very little interest in pop music, and I'm generally a creature of habit, and I'm always…
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My employer is implementing an elaborate emergency notification system which can send a canned message by phone and email to everybody associated with the place. It was tested today. Naturally I thought of this. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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…with her book tour and all, but still, this headline is startling: Dawn to explore asteroid belt. By the way, Dawn will be on EWTN's "This Rock" program tomorrow (Thursday the 27th). Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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The always-perceptive Theodore Dalyrymple has some interesting things to say about the question of what causes people to be good. More recently, perhaps on account of my advancing age, the problem of good has begun to preoccupy me. How is extraordinary goodness possible? Where does it come from? Is it innate? And if it is…
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Yes, it is really good. But I'm not sure I can watch two hours of anything for seven (!) nights in a row. That means pretty much doing nothing else in the evenings for a week. And they should have put in some kind of break between the two hours. (I know, record it, but…
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I guess this only applies to people in the U.S. We watched the first segment of Ken Burns's new documentary on World War II last night. It's really good. If you didn't see it last night, it's not too late to jump in with tonight's episode. One small complaint: the narrator does not pronounce "Mobile,"…
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Nature’s Indifference? I think every person has a sense that he is at the center of a world which exists mainly in relation to him, that he is the main character in a novel or play. And that’s because he is. We understand that a human author imbues, as far as possible, everything in his…
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Joanna Newsom: Ys It appears that hippies still walk the earth. Not just the survivors of that long-ago age, the often rather dazed-seeming geezers and grannies who show up at rock concerts and political demonstrations, but young people who seem to have adopted the sensibility and the style of a certain element of the ‘60s…
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