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PJ20
Saturday I had a few hours to myself in the car, so I hooked up my iPod and worked my way backward through Pearl Jam’s catalog of albums and bootlegs. (Rocking out to PJ on the open road is one of my...
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Rhapsody on a theme of Chipper
If I hadn’t been to the Braves game on Saturday and weren’t going again tomorrow, I’d be there tonight: it’s the first-ever Music Appreciation Night at Turner Field. The kids of the Atlanta Symphony...
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off and away!
As you read this, I’m winging my way westward across the country. Our long-awaited vacation to visit Jon’s family is finally here! In a happy coincidence of scheduling, I’ve got a guest post going up...
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Old-Timey Tuesday: Opera (wo)man!
Berlin, Germany, May 2008 So, this one’s a little out of season, but it’s topical. This Thursday I’m dusting off the ol’ recital dress and taking part in a concert of opera arias with the other staff...
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my (acoustic) rock-tastic weekend
My weekend before Thanksgiving was full of music, as every good weekend should be. Friday night Josh Ritter returned to Atlanta’s Variety Playhouse on his “mostly solo, mostly acoustic” tour, and it...
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vintage vinyl
Jon has recently picked up a habit of going thrifting on his lunch breaks. There are apparently quite a few stores in the vicinity of his office in a fairly well-to-do suburb north of town, so he’s...
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Old-Timey Tuesday: Donald the dreamboat
Berlin Philharmonie, Berlin, Germany, May 2008 Maybe he looks like an eccentric old dude; maybe he’s oddly tan for a Scot; maybe he kind of has a mullet… I honestly can’t be objective about this man,...
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status update
Oof. Y’all, I am just about musicked out. I am in the thick of my own personal March Madness, which entails rehearsals and performances for a solid four weeks with only a handful of days off from...
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(non) nerd alert!
As anybody who kills time on the internet surely knows, the trailer for the movie version of “Les Miserables” hit the web today. If I had a dollar for every giddy post I saw about it in my Facebook...
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It will be mine…
An email arrived in my inbox this afternoon alerting me to the fact that there will be an auction of the Waffle House jukeboxes of my youth this coming weekend: I mean, ARE YOU KIDDING ME. I have...
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