Showing posts with label pop/rock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pop/rock. Show all posts
Monday, November 23, 2015

#Oceansongs

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For this year's San Francisco Olympians Festival , whose sub-theme was mythology and deities related to The Wine-Dark Sea , I thought ab...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Pop-Culture Obsessions, February 2014

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 When I was a teenager, I hated bluegrass music and I hated Nirvana. But for some reason, I'm absolutely obsessed with Patti Smith...
Monday, November 25, 2013

We Will Never Be Royals @ SF Theater Pub Blog

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I'm taking the week off from my San Francisco Theater Pub column, due to the Thanksgiving holiday, but in the meantime, here's a col...
Wednesday, June 5, 2013

East Coast Girl (at least for a week)

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Tomorrow, I'm traveling to New York for a week to attend my 5-year Vassar reunion (where did the time go?!), catch up with East Coast f...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

"Blackbird Fly" Music Video Shoot: Mad Tea Parties and Three-Piece Suits

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Last November, I got an urgent email from my friend Meg O'Connor. She was producing a music video for a local singer-songwriter, and one...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

The Bicoastal Playwright-Producer-Translator

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I think I mentioned a few weeks ago that my play Pleiades was selected by the Atlantic Stage Co . in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for thei...
Friday, March 22, 2013

She Fills Her Head With Culture, She Gives Herself an Ulcer (New SF Theater Pub Column)

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My latest column (part 1 of 2) is up at the Theater Pub website . Recently, I've been feeling overwhelmed by the Internet and the mental...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

New Favorite Song: "Needle in a Haystack" by the Velvelettes

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Maybe I've got girl groups on the brain because it's the 10th anniversary of my singing girl-group pastiche songs in Little Shop of ...
Tuesday, February 12, 2013

"The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco" - there's more to the story!

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On Saturday night, I was at a small party hosted by a friend of a friend, in an apartment north of the Panhandle. A framed book cover, hangi...
Monday, February 11, 2013

Sylvia, You Deserve Better

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My recent obsession with Jarvis Cocker led to my discovering the show he hosts on BBC Radio 6 Music, which then led to my discovering 6 Mus...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Now with extra Pulp

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Since this blog is intended as a chronicle of the art I'm making and experiencing, I've been meaning to tell you about how, a few m...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

La vie est ailleurs

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Having one of those insanely busy weeks where I am being hit with about a dozen deadlines at once, so even though there's a lot of stuff...
Thursday, April 5, 2012

New Favorite Song: "The Chapter In Your Life Entitled San Francisco" by the Lucksmiths

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"Is it April yet? A valid question (to which the answer is "yes") -- but I'm not asking you that. Rather, I felt like q...
Wednesday, April 4, 2012

"Bernadette" and False Endings

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Oddly enough, I'm reading two novels in a row that mention/discuss the song "Bernadette," by the Four Tops. From A Visit fro...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

The Magnetic Fields at the Fox Theater, Oakland: Love and the Lack Thereof

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I was at Oakland's gorgeous/kitschy Fox Theater on Saturday night to see the Magnetic Fields' tour in support of their new album Lov...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

"Love at the Bottom of the Sea" by the Magnetic Fields: Sad Gavottes

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Love at the Bottom of the Sea is the Magnetic Fields' first album in over a decade to feature synthesizers, their first album in fiftee...
Monday, March 12, 2012

Thinking Creatively, Thinking Practically

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NPR once did a video feature where they asked Stephin Merritt (the brilliant songwriter of the Magnetic Fields et al) to compose and record...
Friday, December 9, 2011

Bonjour "Adieu"

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A while back I posted a music video from French-Canadian singer-songwriter Coeur de Pirate , whose album of piano-driven chansons quickly be...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

And Now the Final Frame

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Tributes to Amy Winehouse are tending to center around two things: The Voice (raspy, smoky, sexy, old-school, a big bluesy voice in a tiny l...
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Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Midwinter Music Mania

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Coming to an iPod near me in the very near future: The King is Dead , by the Decemberists (downloading it as I type this). As I wrote at th...
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