Local five-piece Alert New London opens the show.

It'll be fun. A free beer for every moon farmer that shows up and spots me. Good luck.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 13, 2002 05:43 PM

I jaywalk into another court and shoot another reading woman, who is holding a can of Sprite oddly in front of her. Reviewing the photo shortly after, she's looking straight at me.

Proof positive the photographer is not invisible and every picture they take has been influenced by their existence. If I see Geetee pointing a camera at me, I promise to give her a big smile and couple of peace signs.

Posted by Shad Muegge at August 10, 2002 09:12 AM

I am reading Beautiful Losers and reminded of why I like Leonard Cohen so much: whenever he seems about to become ridiculously pretentious, he'll interject something lowbrow and funny just to remind, uh, he's got bowels and a cock to boot. I also liked The Favorite Game, though it has a more conventional narrative structure.

Posted by GeeTee at August 10, 2002 04:33 AM

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Posted by GeeTee at July 05, 2002 03:50 AM

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Posted by Shad Muegge at May 06, 2002 10:44 AM

Two New Discs Worth the Waits

"Adult songs for children, or children's songs for adults," is how Tom Waits describes Alice. "A maelstrom or fever-dream; a tone poem with torch songs and waltzes... an odyssey in dream logic and nonsense."

Buy Alice and/or Blood Money
through Moon Farmer's Amazon.com store.

Posted by GeeTee at May 04, 2002 08:17 AM

Tom Waits (buy his stuff at amazon.com) has a voice like a sidewalk and a face to match. Self-deprecating, witty, stoic but hopeful, suitable for all occasions. Most anything by him is good, although his early work is a little weedy. Big Time (listen to samples, buy) is the live album to kick all other live albums. Most of all, no music collection is complete without Nighthawks at the Diner (listen to samples, buy). Nighthawks is funny, clever, wry and hip stuff -- could easily have come out today, not in 1975.

Posted by GeeTee at April 29, 2002 01:41 PM

"If a thing's not worth doing well, it's not worth doing..." is an observation from Mister Evelyn Waugh's most famous work, Brideshead Revisited. Waugh's dry humour and subtle characterizations make his books (available at Amazon.com) a fully realized experience that one feels one has lived through by the end -- even at their most bizarre. Picks: Scoop (read excerpt); Decline and Fall (read excerpt); The Loved One (read excerpt).

Posted by GeeTee at April 26, 2002 04:41 AM

Graham Greene (buy his work at Amazon.com) writes lovely little spy and military fairy tales. His style is terrifically simple, his plots complex but lucid, and his characters fully formed. He gratifies as a literary author and a page-turner. Picks: Loser Takes All (read excerpt); Doctor Fischer of Geneva, or The Bomb Party; The Comedians (read excerpt), and The Third Man.

Posted by GeeTee at April 25, 2002 09:50 AM