June 2008
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One hundred years ago today. Didn’t The X-files make an effort to account for this? If not, it should have. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Cries and Whispers This DVD had been sitting around the house for a couple of weeks or so before we finally watched it tonight. I had been putting it off, waiting for the right time, because I expected it to be a somewhat intense, maybe painful, experience and I wanted a little time before and…
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Those who read this column (or whatever you want to call it) regularly may remember that Mark Heard’s name came up in comments recently, very strongly recommended by a couple of people. I admitted with a little embarrassment that I owned this cd, a selection of material from his last few albums, and had never…
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I decided to try the blog search bar that you see at the top of the page; it's a Blogger feature that I can turn on or off. I don't much like the way it looks but I wondered if it might be useful to people. Let me know if it is. Or if you…
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I like rain and I like to drive. And I like driving in the rain a lot. I drove through a couple of nice thunderstorms on the way to Nashville a few weeks ago and have several souvenirs like these. (Click to enlarge) It wasn’t actually raining in the second one. Pre-TypePad http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js
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Speaking of Coltrane (see comments on Guilty Non-Pleasures post below): the pictures below are the only ones on the wall of my office. They’re the actual LP jackets—did you know you can buy frames designed specifically for this purpose? In light of the fact that I’m not a really serious jazz fan, and listen to…
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Guilty Non-Pleasures It’s been an extremely busy weekend, and I’m pretty short on time and energy, so here’s something light: I’ve mentioned guilty pleasures here before, meaning pleasures that are not actually wrong, but which one is embarrassed to admit that one enjoys: action movies, for instance, or soap operas, or junk food. (In that…
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(Continuing my tour of the Beethoven symphonies) Now, suddenly, we’re in the realm of the master. There’s something unformed and hesitant about the first two symphonies, but it’s gone in this one. Now he speaks with authority, clearly established in the first few seconds. Perhaps a trained musician would have seen something like this coming,…
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It’s funny the way images from a movie can haunt the real world and give it the ambience of the movie, almost making you feel that the line between them is blurred. For instance, you can be at a wedding reception in a public performance room having a stage at one end, its curtain drawn.…
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This is that rainbow that I mentioned the last time I posted pictures, the one that I missed getting a really good shot of because I didn’t have the camera with me. At this point it’s barely visible; five minutes before it had been very bright. I suppose there’s a lesson there about trying to…
Light On Dark Water 