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1917 – 1967
Lula Carson Smith (Carson McCullers) was born in Columbus, Georgia. From the age of five McCullers took piano lessons and at the age of 17 she moved to New York to study piano at Juilliard School of Music. However, she never attended the school – she managed […]
¤ John Steinbeck [1902 – 1968]
A leading writer of novels about the working class and a major spokesman for the victims of the Great Depression, John Steinbeck worked as a laboratory assistant and farm laborer to support himself through six years of study at Stanford University, where he took only those […]
O Henry + Ambrose Bierce + Mark Twain ¤ O Henry [1862 – 1910]
William Sydney Porter, a.k.a. O. Henry, wrote mostly about ordinary people going about the daily adventure of living. Not infrequently, his stories involve coincidences or unexpected twists that result in surprise endings like that in “The Gift of the […]
1924 – 1984 Capote’s first short story is a haunting account of a widow’s descent into madness courtesy of a precocious child named Miriam.
Truman Capote was just eighteen-years old when Mademoiselle magazine published his first short story, «Miriam,» in 1945. Looking back on his career, Capote claimed to have enjoyed his earlier […]
[1883 – 1963]
← The Use of Force
A physician is summoned to make a house call on a family with whom he has had no prior contact. He quickly sizes up the situation: the household is poor but clean; the patient is a female child whose parents are nervously concerned, […]
Washington Irving [1783 – 1859] ¤ Rip van Winkle
This Washington Irving short-story, published in 1819, is about a man (Rip Van Winkle) who escapes from his wife’s complaining and nagging by going off into the mountains. While wandering about he meets a strange man carrying a cask of liquor who leads him to […]
A few extracts from Laurie Anderson‘s Stories form the Nerve Bible.
•→ On The Way To Jerusalem ⇐
There was a devout nun in the XVth century who decided to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem; and she belonged to an order that wore bags over their heads. And the mother superior […]
«I had just learned to smoke (cigarettes and grass), and I was excited about it. I had always had asthma and couldn’t smoke. One day I was walking down the street and someone blew a puff in my face from a passing cigarette on a fall day, which is always the worst season. […]
The first track from the album City Of Light, by Bill Laswell. It was released Jun 17, 1997 on the Sub Rosa label. In conjunction with the spiritually-infused spoken lines of Lori Carson, Laswell and his crew unearth rhythms seared from volcanic chasms, old tongues, and primitive civilizations.
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¤ Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra ⇐
♦ ‘Want It Back’ ↓
Hearts on a stringLike an older fashioned phone canBang, ringy-ring and you think you’re gonna get someThing you can bring to a party at your wake notThinking of the thing that you pay back when […]
¤ Alison Krauss ◊ ‘Lay My Burden Down’ ↓
Gonna lay my burden down – lay my body in the groundCold clay against my skin but I don’t care at all
Can’t seem to find my piece of mind so with the earth I’ll lay entwinedSix feet underground – my feet are warm and […]
Award-winning musician, songwriter, and poet DiFranco ⇑ chronicles her rise to fame with engaging candor. Fending for herself by age 15, she survived each unusual day with ingenuity and perseverance while pursuing her education and musical passion. She performed whenever possible in coffee houses, clubs, and other venues, developing an eclectic sound […]
¤ TOM WAITS ⇐ •→Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame⇐ / •→http://genius.com⇐
•→ ‘BETTER OFF WITHOUT A WIFE’ ⇐
♥→‘Heart Attack & Wine’ ⇓ ♠ ‘Xmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis’ ⇓
hey charlie i’m pregnant and living on the 9th street right above a dirty bookstore off euclid avenue and i stopped takin’ dope […]
¤ Tony Joe White [1943-2018] a.k.a. the Swamp Fox
Some people talk just to hear their lips rattle Got to high positions – Same old ship but with a different paddler Told me that I had to get commercialized if I was gonna fit in with the […]
•→http://genius.com/search?q=bob+dylan⇐ «I’ve always been a fan of Dylan’s paintings and drawings. I love his hockey player painting, used by the Band on their LP cover for Music from Big Pink. I also love Dylan’s painting for his own album Self Portrait. Before we parted, I asked Bob if he could do a charcoal drawing for […]
Originally a troubled youngster who served time in San Quentin prison (from 1957 through 1960), California native Merle Haggard [1937-2016] grew to become a country music legend. With 38 number one hits and 250 original songs, he remains one of the best-known and most covered artists in country music.
♦ ‘Branded Man’ […]
¤ The Flaming Lips
The Flaming Lips are Wayne Coyne, Steven Drozd, Michael Ivins, Kliph Scurlock, and Derek Brown with Phantogram and Liz Allen.
The band is best known for its associations with 1960s and 1970s psychedelic subculture, with elements of this culture permeating the group’s instrumentation, effects, […]
•→«Oh Baby Doll» ⇐(1957)⇒[lyrics]
♦ ‘Little Queenie’ ↓ (1959)
I got lumps in my throat when I saw her comin’ down the aisle I got the wiggles in my knees when she looked at me and sweetly smiled There she is again standin’ over by the […]
♦→ ‘The severed garden‘ ⇓ Jim Morrison ⇐[1943 – 71]
wow, i’m sick of doubt live in the life of certain, south, cruel bindings the servants have the power dog men and they’re mean women pulling poor blankets over our sailors
i’m sick of dour faces staring at […]
♦ Tim Buckley ↓ ‘Song to the Siren‘ (1968)
Long afloat on shipless oceans I did all my best to smile ‘Til your singing eyes and fingers Drew me loving to your isle And you sang Sail to me, sail to me Let me enfold you Here I am, here […]
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