October 2011
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“What interests me in storytelling, whether it’s fiction or filmmaking, is the...”
– John Sayles (via woundedgalaxy)
September 2011
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-9-25) →
The Jayhawks (12)
Laura Marling (10)
Fiona Apple (10)
Isobel Campbell (6)
Flamin’ Groovies (1)
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WatchIf Wilco isn’t the best live band on the planet, they’ll do ‘til the other one knocks on my door.
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“Intuition plays an important role in everything aesthetic and beautiful. As well...”
– Daniel van der Velden (via unequal-design)
"Talking with Jeff Tweedy" (Montreal Gazette)
Gazette: I wanted to ask you about the way the album was recorded, because I know that at one point you were talking about a double record or two records released simultaneously. When it looked like that was going to be happening, did they each have their own identity, like when Springsteen did that not-very-good pair of albums in the early 1990s?
Tweedy: I don’t know if I’m that familiar with those records, but yeah, I think ours had very, very distinct personalities. It was maybe even schizophrenic – I don’t know if they sounded like they were from the same band. And I guess the irony of that is that most of the songs ended up on the same record. Really, it is a double record, if you think in terms of LPs – it’s going to be on two LPs. But yeah, one record was much more languid, sort of atmospheric country-folk songs and one record was a lot more exuberant – I call it obnoxious pop music, but when I say “obnoxious,” people think of Ke$ha or something. I mean obnoxious in the sense of the Seeds or the Sonics – a garage-band kind of obnoxiousness.
Gazette: Is that why you sampled the Stooges’ T.V. Eye for I Might?
Tweedy: (Laughs) No, that wasn’t an effort to tie it into that obnoxiousness – it was more that that lyric, every time I tried to sing it, that’s what I heard in my head. I wanted to be able to sing “brother” exactly the way Iggy Pop sang “brother” on T.V. Eye. And since I couldn’t do it, we called in the cavalry. (Laughs)
Gazette: On that song in particular, and Art of Almost and maybe a few others, it sounds like you were going for word association with the lyrics. Was that the case?
Tweedy: No, those songs and maybe a few others, the process is more like translation than any other process I could make an analogy for. I grunt and make noises and sounds that I think sound like what lyrics would sound like if I had any, and then I go and listen to them over and over and over and over again until it sounds like words, and then I write them down.
Gazette: So you’re basically transcribing grunts?
Tweedy: Yeah, basically. I try not to stand in the way too much – if I start thinking about meaning, it really derails the process.
Read the rest: http://www.montrealgazette.com/Talking+with+Wilco+Jeff+Tweedy+full/5394463/story.html#ixzz1XseJzmIr
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My life is not an apology, but a life. →
My life is not an apology, but a life. It is for itself and not for a spectacle. I much prefer that it should be of a lower strain, so it be genuine and equal, than that it should be glittering and unsteady. […] My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.
[…] What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous...
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“I suppose I love this place. I feel very odd saying it. In a way, it’s the...”
– Benjamin Black (John Banville), on Dublin
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“You have to live, you know, in order to understand the Gospel. You have to live....”
– Garrison Keillor, Prairie Home Companion (September 3, 2011 - show #1305)
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Jeff Tweedy - “Open Your Mind”
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A Portis Reader
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JULIE CLINE checks a great writer’s walking papers. Phan Loc Bayou Lucerne © Cay Sehnert 2005 All Rights Reserved Charles Portis Norwood (1966) Overlook, August 1999. 272 pp. Charles Portis True Grit (1968) True Grit: Young Readers Edition Overlook Juvenile, September 2011. 240 pp. Charles Portis The Dog of the South (1979) Overlook, June 2007. 272 pp. Charles Portis...
