tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35852102024-03-13T21:17:42.831-04:00The Living RockumentarySchool for the Dead: Music to Listen to Albums ByHenninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.comBlogger5017125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-41796173425758946552014-06-30T14:49:00.001-04:002014-06-30T14:49:08.923-04:00School for the Dead is no longer School for the Dead<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well friends, it's official. We've changed our name to Gentle Hen. The old name was just no good. Forget it.<br />
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What does this mean about the Living Rockumentary? I'm not sure. It's clearly not been much of thing as of late. Twitter and Facebook and Microwave Ovens have kind of rendered it a bit useless.<br />
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I don't know.<br />
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I don't know. Really, I don't.<br />
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We're making a new album and it'll be under the name Gentle Hen. We've already played a few shows as Gentle Hen. It's who we are now.<br />
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Nothing about us has changed besides the name. We're still us. You're still you.<br />
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Visit us over at <a href="http://www.gentlehen.com/">www.gentlehen.com</a>.<br />
Join us at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/gentlehen">www.facebook.com/gentlehen</a><br />
Follow us at <a href="http://www.twitter.com/gentlehen">www.twitter.com/gentlehen</a><br />
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We'll be there. This Rockumentary? I don't know.Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-73336413798943129632014-04-29T11:24:00.000-04:002014-04-29T11:26:46.233-04:00New recordingsRecently a colleague of mine and I recorded a few songs (Henning engineering) we worked out in duet form for performances at assorted school events. He sings lead and I contribute harmonies plus guitar (or ukulele) on our covers of Beach Boys, Beatles and Ritchie Valens songs. The last track in the group is a song I wrote last summer and sing lead on called "The Other Side."<br />
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<a href="https://soundcloud.com/leyva-westcott">https://soundcloud.com/leyva-westcott</a>antweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11586874412134418538noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-65496343142059555522014-04-02T11:43:00.001-04:002014-04-02T11:46:35.046-04:00THE SCENARIO<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rusty
Waters (nee Brooks): lead vocals, rhythm guitar, harmonica</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Dexter
Prescott (Alfonse Dumfries): lead guitar, vocals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Henry
Harold LaBouche: electric bass guitar, harpsichord, vocals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Brian
Free (nee Todd): drums, vocals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The
Scenario was a 1960s American rock ‘n’ roll group that recorded four albums and
several singles between 1965 and 1968, after which a few of the members
floundered with ill-conceived solo enterprises before fading into obscurity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Like
most bands of the day, their early singles were raw affairs, touching on garage
rock and r&b. Rusty Waters came on as a slightly lustier Mick Jagger on
these 45s, the best of which include “Pleadin’ Heart” and their mod anthem,
complete with harp feedback, “I’m Not Sure.” An early B-side worth seeking out,
“Shakespearespeak” finds the band incorporating harpsichord and hammered
dulcimer, both played by classically-trained LaBouche, into their otherwise
primitive wail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Their
debut album, “Hear It Is: The Scenario” collects early singles, token r&b
covers (“Mercy Mercy,” “Hitch Hike,” etc.) and the first indications of sharpening
compositional skills. While Waters sang most leads and was the de facto front man,
the band took a democratic approach to songwriting, despite some members being
more accomplished in this area than others. Nonetheless, the group could
deliver the goods, filling their second album, “Intercontinental Breakfast” with
gems like “Sidecar Sally” featuring Waters at his strutting best, the pensive
“Glum-Go-Round,” the nursery-rhyme-like “Mermaids ‘n’ Marmalade” as well as
LaBouche’s deft updating of Beethoven on the pretty-yet-peppy “Fur Lease.” Even
the minor writers in the group, Prescott and Free, held up their end on the
sophomore effort, sweetening “Breakfast” with standout tracks like “The Evil
Me” and “Smile, Smile, Smile,” respectively.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When
the Summer of Love hit, The Scenario were riding high with their psychedelic
trophy, “Dr. Tangle.” That #1 single (in Luxembourg) was the centerpiece of
their ’67 release, the double album, “Candcane Junglegym,” which featured the
group on the cover decked out in candy-striped suits frolicking on a similarly
striped jungle gym flanked by a gaggle of go-go girls in red and white
swimsuits. Nonetheless, the music contained within marked the band in their
prime, ambitious and confident and just teetering on self-indulgence. “Dr.
Tangle” was catchy singalong psychedelia, “Gatilaja” a successful attempt at
Eastern-flavored raga-rock, “Besideways” a blueprint for some San Francisco-esque
experimentation and “Mary Magpie” would’ve made McCartney proud. The album is
not without its faults: “Brian Vs. The Banjo” parts 1, 2, and 3 along with
“Banjo For Sale, Name Your Price” (one installment per side of the ongoing
saga) is inessential piffle at best. In addition, the production throughout the
album can be dated and/or heavy-handed, especially when the songs aren’t up to
snuff. Cases in point: the heavily-phased vocals on “Picorocos Locos” (aka
“Crazy Fish”) or the lengthy flanged wah-wah guitar freakout jam coda of “Sula
Hama Manestra (Exodus).”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">However,
as Waters tumbled into heavy drug use and Prescott busied himself with outside
projects related to his newfound spiritual endeavors, the band wound up with a
dearth of good material for what would be their final LP. “Guards of the
Ancients,” released in the spring of 1968, is not entirely without merits: drummer
Free turns in a solid vocal on the melodic “Let It Love,” for instance, but the
good vibes are resoundingly destroyed by Side Two’s one-two punch of Waters’ interminable,
flat lust-funk jam “Midsummer Night’s Cream” followed by Prescott’s long-winded
eleven-minute spoken-word opus, “So Saith The Lord.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Soon
after their breakup, Waters released a hapless solo album, “Israel Royale,” an
unappetizing mélange of Yiddish melodies and Tom Jones-like crooning, then
delved into a junkie nightmare existence that lasted until the early 80s.
Currently, a clean Waters runs a nightclub in Houston, Texas called “Karaoke Kafe” and
his jukebox is said to contain one of the few hard-to-find original copies of
the first Scenario single, “Cryin’ Shame” b/w “All Day Long.” Labouche turned mainly
to production, overseeing the careers of chanteuse Maudie Lynne and the family
vocal group, The Shermans. He released one solo album in 1975, “Axe of God,”
full of fussy art rock pomp and circumstance but short on substance. Prescott
drifted into obscurity, forsaking popular music for religion but a bootleg
album of his home demos of folksy spiritual material still floats around among
collectors. A handful of the songs are occasionally catchy in their own right
but time has most definitely not been kind to Prescott’s leathery voice.
Meanwhile, Free eventually settled in Los Angeles, becoming a popular
late-night deejay spinning cult favorites from the early days of rock and roll
to the present. He is superstitious about his former band and will only play one
track by The Scenario per show, upon request, on Tuesdays only, and insists
that interns physically handle the actual records. Reportedly, Free will also
leave the room during broadcast. In addition, the final album in its entirety
is strictly forbidden, and Free steadfastly refuses to sign copies of anything
Scenario-related.</span></div>
antweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11586874412134418538noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-38534552630282197862014-03-25T09:00:00.000-04:002014-03-25T09:03:11.923-04:00A new songI feel like I'm whispering in an empty room but I am twitterless, sans facebook, etc. However, in case a reader still lurks within these dusty passageways, I would like to share the result of an experience yesterday.<br />
I don't write songs just to write songs anymore but occasionally there will be a reason for doing so in one of my classes, or at least the opportunity will be there to write along with students and it is a joy to reconnect with the muse.<br />
One of my classes is currently reading the Alison Bechdel graphic memoir "Fun Home" (and lest you get the wrong idea: while that is quite an eye-raising selection for a high school curriculum, know that the previous text read was the deathless "Wuthering Heights." My bio does not lie: everything from Tchaikovsky to Fugazi, Cervantes to Cisneros, etc.) Anyway, one of the assignments is a vocab project where students are asked to choose from a list of 30 vocab words found in the text and to create a project that incorporates those ten words in a way that conveys understanding. The objective is to crawl inside the words so that they can fit into the scope of whatever your narrative or artwork communicates. The project has to be presented as well. So you don't just write a song lyric; you also would have to write music and perform it for the class. Other options include creating a comic strip that tells a story, making a short film, etc. For instance, one kid who has completed his project wrote a comedy sketch between a father and son where the dad is helping the son study. Meanwhile, one student, who is incredibly talented when it comes to singing and playing guitar, has had difficulty getting started, rejecting the notion that a song she would compose should ever contain words like "assiduous." Of course this only inspires me more to continue encouraging her to open her mind to the possibilities. So this found me taking her objection and writing a song that ironically expresses disdain for the assignment while also fully embraces it. Ten minutes to plow through the lyrics and another five to fashion some jazzy chords to complement the words. Sometimes the muse just jumps in the driver's seat and whisks one away. Here it is:<br />
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When I write songs, it has to come from the heart</div>
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I must truly feel every word I incorporate</div>
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I don’t just blithely drop big words in the lyrics</div>
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That is an idea I completely repudiate</div>
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Such a thing offends my sense of aesthetics</div>
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I am indignant that this be forced upon me</div>
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I demur at the idea that these big words</div>
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Be sprinkled throughout my song so pervasively</div>
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It’s implausible that this could ever help me learn</div>
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What a trite idea to teach vocab this way</div>
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No matter how meticulous or assiduous am I in this task</div>
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The meaning's ambiguous no matter what I say</div>
antweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11586874412134418538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-79669374965842080492014-01-08T15:54:00.001-05:002014-01-08T15:54:07.842-05:00A Tribute and also Another Tribute<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Look at this. We're playing in a Lou Reed tribute show this week. Next week, we're playing in an XTC tribute show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We like both those bands lots so it works out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Thursday - January 9, 2013</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lou Reed Tribute Show</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Iron Horse Music Hall - Northampton, MA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with: Lo Fine, Goldwater the Second, Rusty Belle, Daniel Hales and the Frost Heaves, Rocky Roberts and Friends, Skeg, Lucas, and Dana Kendall, Mark Mulcahy, Fancy Trash, Lonesome Brothers, Luke Cavagnac, Winterpills, The Fawns, and School for the Dead.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7:00 - <a href="http://www.iheg.com/">Get Tickets</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Saturday - January 18, 2013</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">XTC Tribute Show</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Elevens - Northampton, MA</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">with: Ken Maiuri, School for the Dead, Brian T Marchese, Steve Koziol, ALOTTLE, Rick Murnane , Colorway, John Crand , The Dire Honeys, Luke Cavagnac, Jack Simons, Philip Price, Jeff Steblea, Mark Alan Miller, Alyssa Marchese , Matt Silberstein and maybe a surprise guest or two!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9:00 - Tickets at door</span><br />
<br />Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-38540010114605054502013-12-19T09:32:00.000-05:002013-12-19T09:32:03.311-05:00mo' vineOmmm- mmmm- mmmm!<br />
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(It might be hard to tell if you haven't been to our school's fitness center but those are anti-bacterial wipes on the wall).antweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11586874412134418538noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-14618445213604705932013-12-11T17:14:00.001-05:002013-12-11T17:14:51.104-05:00Hashtag hashtagI've been enjoying creating Vines with some of my students. The 7-second limitation reminds me of haiku. No profound statement with this first one, just a pun of sorts.<br />
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Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-34706055038203119592013-09-26T15:01:00.000-04:002013-09-26T15:01:03.490-04:00The Living Rockumentary and School for the DeadTonight we are playing a show with Fountains of Wayne at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA. Starts at 7:00.<br />
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All five members of School for the Dead will be playing, which is rare. I'm really looking forward to our brief set. It seems like forever since we played an SFTD gig. It has been. I just checked. It's been actually forever. We've just all been so busy doing other projects.<br />
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Hey, but guess what? Not only are we playing tonight (and we're about to announce our annual Halloween Show - this time at a different venue) but I am heading up to hopefully finish the first round of mixes on our upcoming album "The Bells on the Boats on the Bay"on Saturday. It's taking forever, we know. But, there you have it. That's just the way it is.<br />
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Look, the Living Rockumentary started over eleven years ago. We started it before you might have even heard the word blog, before Twitter and Facebook and iPhones. We've written more than 5,000 posts here. It's time for a change.<br />
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And we have a big change in store. The biggest yet for this band. Stay tuned, friends. And, by the way, thank you for staying tuned.<br />
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Every year in June, I like to compile and publish my list of
books read and music that defined that last academic year (including the
previous summer). I do this really for myself, kind of like a journal entry,
but also just as one would with a blog, I share it with others as well. I’ll
begin with the books read- and this is limited to only those that I read in
their entirety, and excludes texts such as those multiple readings to the boys
of Dr. Seuss or the “Parts” series, which are wonderful, by the way: </div>
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Crime & Punishment- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866) (translated
from Russian by Jesse Coulson): A deliberately incongruous choice to bring on
our family’s trip to Disney World last summer. Still, it certainly kept me
riveted through the plane ride.</div>
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The Sun Also Rises- Ernest Hemingway (1926) (RR)</div>
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The Giver- Lois Lowry (1993) (RR)</div>
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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian- Sherman Alexie
(2007): I read this with a class of boys, 6<sup>th</sup> and 7<sup>th</sup>
graders, last summer and they loved it. One kid laughed so hard at a certain
section that he upchucked a little in the middle of class. Another kid read a
section aloud in class, which wouldn’t seem to be such a big deal except that
he was in the 4<sup>th</sup> percentile for reading ability at the time and his
educational consultant told me after observing our class that it was the first
time he had <u>ever</u> volunteered to read aloud in school. </div>
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Strangers on a Train- Patricia Highsmith (1950): In my
opinion, the movie version is generally inferior to the book. However, with
Hitchcock films, the inverse can often be true. For instance, “Rear Window,”
with the addition of the romantic storyline and the parallels with neighbors
was more interesting than the short story it’s based on (“It Had To Be
Murder”). And while the novel of “Strangers” still contains the brilliant
premise, the characters are not as compelling as in the film plus the things
that Hitchcock and his screenwriters added, subtracted or altered make for a
much better film than book. For example, changing Guy from an architect to a
tennis player allows for some nice visuals in the film, plus the symbolic
aspect of the ‘opponent,’ first embodied by his faithless wife, then by the
terrifying Bruno character.</div>
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Great Expectations- Charles Dickens (1861)</div>
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Gathering Blue- Lois Lowry (2000)</div>
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams (1980)</div>
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Demian- Herman Hesse (1925)</div>
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The Thirty-Nine Steps- John Buchan (1915)</div>
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As I Lay Dying- William Faulkner (1930): “The Sound and the
Fury,” which I finally got around to reading (see below) is the more famous
classic and I can see why but this one gets the edge for me. It’s easier to
follow, certainly more fun (although it contains quite a few genuinely humorous
moments, it also has some graphically tragic ones as well). In other words,
unless I had to do it for a class or something, I don’t know that I would
choose to ever re-read “Sound and Fury” but I look forward to pulling this one
out ten years or so from now and enjoying it all over again.</div>
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Hatchet- Gary Paulsen (1987)</div>
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Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte (1847)</div>
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The Catcher in the Rye- J.D. Salinger (1951) (RR)</div>
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The Age of Innocence- Edith Wharton (1920): Edith at her best
never fails to capture me. But rather than blather on about why, I’ll just note
one cool detail to illustrate. I’m sure you are familiar with that phenomenon
in which you are speaking with someone and you can’t come up with a quip to
reply on the spot, but then it comes to you a minute later after the
appropriate time has passed? In one of her magnificent turns of phrase, Edith
describes that, through her Newland Archer character, as the “belated eloquence
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera (1984)
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The Sound and the Fury- William Faulkner (1929)</div>
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Flowers for Algernon- Daniel Keyes (1966)</div>
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In Cold Blood- Truman Capote (1966)</div>
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The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini (2003) There really is
something to be said for plot. I plowed through this 300+ page novel in just a
few days, so utterly did its story pull me in, whereas Virginia Woolf’s
brilliant but essentially plot-less “To The Lighthouse” took about three weeks
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Old School- Tobias Wolff (2003)</div>
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To The Lighthouse- Virginia Woolf (1927)</div>
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Elijah of Buxton- Christopher Paul Curtis (2007): In
everything I’ve read this year, nothing made me laugh so hard as Chapter Two of
this book. I won’t give it away but it has to do with famous abolitionist
Frederick Douglass and an infant. Maybe parents would find it funnier than the
average person. This is another instance of a book that’s written for
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This Is Where I Leave You- Jonathan Tropper (2009): Recommended
highly by a handful of colleagues. Some parts of it I found rather contrived,
especially towards the beginning, like the painfully perfect dialogue of the
meet-cute scene at college between the main character and his wife, or the
nephew flinging feces from his potty onto the dinner table. At the same time,
there were scenes that really nailed me like the protagonist’s solitary
wandering through the parking lot of a strip mall late at night, by the
“Cheesecake Factory, Applebee’s, Rock & Bowl, the Szechaun Garden… all
flashing and blinking, burning pink and red streaks into my eyelids when I
close them. Generations of broken glass twinkle like glitter in the pavement…
every few stoplights, traffic slows to a crawl, cars ejaculated out of the
bottlenecks one by one, burning rubber just to make a point, since there’s
really nowhere here worth rushing to.”</div>
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The Invention of Morel- Adolfo Bioy Casares (1964)
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The Pearl- John Steinbeck (1947) (RR)</div>
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The Call of the Wild- Jack London (1903)</div>
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Seize the Day- Saul Bellow (1956)</div>
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The Eye- Vladimir Nabokov (1930, English translation by
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The Lilies of the Field- William Barrett (1962)</div>
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The Crossing- Gary Paulsen (1987): This narrative about a
young Mexican boy trying to cross the border into Texas and his intersection with an alcoholic
U.S. Army sergeant is written for young adults but is deceptive in its
simplicity, almost achieving a Hemingway-like brilliance.</div>
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Nightjohn- Gary Paulsen (1993)</div>
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The Red Pony- John Steinbeck (1933)</div>
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Ethan Frome (RR) & Selected Stories (1908-1916): I read
“Ethan” aloud to my daughter Hannah, now eleven, over the course of a few
weeks, in preparation for a visit to Wharton’s summer home, The Mount, out in
Lenox. This collection also features “Xingu,”
which is as sharp as Wharton can be and the funniest of her stories that I’ve
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Tales of Men and Ghosts- Edith Wharton (1910): This
collection is uneven to say the least, containing some meandering, forgettable
stories alongside gems like “Afterward” and “The Eyes.” But even when she’s got
a weak plot or premise, Wharton still delights with her turns of phrase. For
instance, when describing a character living in a cheap hotel having to share
soap and other bathing supplies with other residents, these objects are
referred to as “promiscuous implements of ablution.” At another point, Wharton
is describing a writer who is so successful and self-absorbed that he’s utterly
bored by his situation in life, especially interactions with his adoring
audience, so she begins a sentence/idea with, “When the thick broth of praise
was strained through the author’s vanity…” Mmmm-mmm, I love that Edith.</div>
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Nine Stories- J.D. Salinger (1953) (RR)</div>
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Poirot Investigates- Agatha Christie (1925)</div>
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The Golden Ball & Other Stories- Agatha Christie
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Alfred Hitchcock’s Noose Report (1966)</div>
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Alfred Hitchcock’s More Stories My Mother Never Told Me (1963)</div>
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I taught two drama classes this year: Reading Modern Drama
and a Shakespeare course so I bulked up on reading plays more than usual.
Interestingly, I ended up relying on plays I’ve read and taught before since a
lot of these that were new to me didn’t do much for me. For instance, “The
Children’s Hour” is well-written but its shock value has decreased with age.
“Equus” and “Gamma Rays” also seem dated while “Angels In America” is not only
much longer than it needs to be but is a jumbled mess at times, although the
Roy Cohn character is fantastic, especially when interacting with his nurse. I
just found myself not caring too much about some of the other principal
characters. And I cannot see why “Our Town” has ever become a classic. Is it
just because it’s so obviously (albeit uninterestingly) universally
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Alison’s House- Susan Glaspell (1930)</div>
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Trifles- Susan Glaspell (1916)</div>
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A Raisin in the Sun- Lorraine Hansberry (1959) (RR)</div>
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Angels in America- Tony Kushner (1993)</div>
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Are You My Mother?- Alison Bechdel (2012)</div>
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Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo & Me- Ellen
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Heartache and Hope in Haiti:
The Britney Gengel Story- Len & Cherylann Gengel (2013): Britney was a
local college student who died in the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Both of
her younger brothers were former students of mine and their parents are known
for being very gregarious and generous folks. They’ve just opened an orphanage
in Haiti
after years of fund-raising and construction. Len Gengel is a particularly
inspiring guy who grew up in a relatively poor family, began a successful
construction business from scratch and has now devoted himself to this
orphanage project, following his simple but understandable three-stage
progression through life, what he calls, “Learn, Earn, and Return.”</div>
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When I Grow Up- Juliana Hatfield (2008): She’s kind of a
whiner (although she herself would be the first to admit it) but I really
enjoyed how easily I could relate to her descriptions of all these nightclubs
and soundmen and dressing rooms and awfulness.</div>
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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop
Talking- Susan Cain (2012): This is one of those instances where you learn
something about yourself that you always kind of knew already but it sharpens
your perspective to the point where you feel like you can make an actual improvement
in your own life. Reading about introversion (according to personality tests
I’ve taken, I’m not only deep on the introvert side but of the sixteen Jung
personality archetypes, mine is the smallest (2% of the population), tinier
even for males, so that when you figure in my sex, only .5 % of the population
shares my personality characteristics. Anyway, I urge you to check out Susan
Cain’s TedTalk if you’re interested in the introvert/extrovert dynamic here:</div>
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And while reading the book last summer, I arrived at a
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Teaching With Your Mouth Shut- Donald Finkel (2000)</div>
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A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers Will Rule the Future-
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What Teachers Make- Taylor Mali (2012)</div>
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Mindset- Carol Dweck (2003)</div>
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The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest Book- The New Yorker/
Robert Mankoff (2008): One of my student’s mothers got me into this contest,
but I’m sporadic in my submissions, to say the least. She, however, has won
three times and has been nominated six. In fact, as I write this, she is yet
again a finalist this month.</div>
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The Go-Betweens-David Nichols (2006)</div>
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Junk English- Ken Smith (2001)</div>
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Catch a Wave: the Rise, Fall, and Redemption of The Beach
Boys’ Brian Wilson- Peter Ames Carlin (2006)</div>
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The Gospel According to Matthew- King James Holy Bible
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The Gospel According to Mark – King James Holy Bible (1952)</div>
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In A Bamboo Grove- Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1921) (translated from
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Rashomon- Ryunosuke Akutagawa (1915) (translated from
Japanese by Jay Rubin)</div>
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The Kugelmass Episode- Woody Allen (1977)</div>
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Sophistication- Sherwood Anderson (1919)</div>
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Beach- Roberto Bolano (2011) (translated from Spanish by
Natasha Wimmer)</div>
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The Clodhopper’s Halloween Ball- Rick Book (1999)</div>
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A Christmas Memory- Truman Capote (1956) (RR)</div>
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Peter’s Buddies- Michael Carson (1990)</div>
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Neighbor Rosicky- Willa Cather (1930): It took me just about
an hour to read this while monitoring a dorm floor one afternoon. Sometimes I
wonder about all the hours I spend engrossed in reading and whether it is worth
it. This was worth it.</div>
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The Bet- Anton Chekhov (RR)</div>
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The Lottery Ticket- Anton Chekhov</div>
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The Story of an Hour- Kate Chopin (1894)</div>
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Wasps’ Nest- Agatha Christie (1925)</div>
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The Double Clue- Agatha Christie (1925)</div>
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The Case of the Distressed Lady- Agatha Christie (1932)</div>
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White Balloons- Judith Ortiz Cofer (1996)</div>
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The Secret Woman- Colette</div>
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The Most Dangerous Game- Richard Connell (1924)</div>
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Lamb to the Slaughter- Roald Dahl (1953)</div>
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The Magic Finger- Roald Dahl (1966)</div>
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Man from the South- Roald Dahl (1948) (RR)</div>
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Sex and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll” Part II- Jenny Diski</div>
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The Speckled Band- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1892)</div>
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On Being Crazy- WEB Du Bois (1907)</div>
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A Poetics for Bullies- Stanley Elkin</div>
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Bernice Bobs Her Hair- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)</div>
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The Offshore Pirate- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1920)</div>
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Hills Like White Elephants- Ernest Hemingway (1927) (RR)</div>
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Selway- Pam Houston (1993)</div>
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Thank You Ma’am- Langston Hughes (1958)</div>
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The Scarlet Ibis- James Hurst (1960)</div>
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Sure Thing- David Ives (1988)</div>
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The Lottery- Shirley Jackson (1948) (RR)</div>
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First Sorrow- Franz Kafka (1922)</div>
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Pickman’s Model- H.P. Lovecraft (1927)</div>
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A Dill Pickle- Katherine Mansfield (1917)</div>
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Button, Button- Richard Matheson (1970) (RR)</div>
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Was it a Dream?- Guy de Maupassant</div>
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Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?- Tim O’Brien (1975)</div>
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A Good Man is Hard to Find- Flannery O’Connor (1953) (RR)</div>
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The Life You Save May Be Your Own- Flannery O’Connor (1955)</div>
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The Sniper- Liam O’Flaherty (1923)</div>
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The Black Cat- Edgar Allan Poe (1843) (RR)</div>
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue- Edgar Allan Poe (1841)</div>
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The Open Window- Saki (H.H. Munro) (1930) (RR)</div>
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The Girls in Their Summer Dresses- Irwin Shaw (1939)</div>
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The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner- Alan Sillitoe
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Mr. Raynor, the School-teacher- Alan Sillitoe (1959)</div>
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The Chrysanthemums- John Steinbeck (1938)</div>
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Something Old, Something New- Joyce Sweeney (2003)</div>
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A&P- John Updike (1961) (RR)</div>
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Who Am I This Time?- Kurt Vonnegut (1961)</div>
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Carl’s Outside- Brad Watson (2010)</div>
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Water Dog God- Brad Watson (2010)</div>
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Miss Mary Pask- Edith Wharton (1926) (RR)</div>
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Fetch!- Robb White (RR)</div>
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It Had To Be Murder- Cornell Woolrich (1942)</div>
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<![endif]-->antweshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11586874412134418538noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-80224608014473029962013-04-24T15:49:00.002-04:002013-04-24T15:52:32.511-04:00Hello, Friends.<div style="text-align: justify;">
Hey, it sure has been a long time since I wrote anything here. The internet has changed since we started the Living Rockumentary. Communication capsules keep getting wispier. They're briefer and more fleeting.</div>
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SFTD has been still at it though when it comes to music. We've finally begun mixing our upcoming album, "The Bells on the Boats on the Bay." I won't estimate a completion date, don't want to jinx anything. I don't believe in jinxes but I probably am jinking myself by just saying that.</div>
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We've been busy in extra-curricular activities as well. </div>
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Brian has been playing and organizing a bunch of tribute shows; Jerry Garcia, Mike Nesmith, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, and coming up next week the Band. He's also been drumming with the Claudia Malibu, the Heir of Mystery, and Mystics Anonymous. He's also in the studio with the Figments as I write this. That's all on top of his usual positions in the Fawns and SFTD. Oh, did I mention he's also written the songs for a new album and is just about to start recording that?</div>
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Max has been playing with Spanish for Hitchhiking of course. They've done a few shows backing up Frank Black or Black Francis, however you take your Pixies tea. He's also been designing like crazy. Shirts and posters for the aforementioned Black, and album covers for the Scud Mountain Boys and Mark Mulcahy. Max and I went on a photoshoot the other day just for the fun of it. He took pictures of me throwing a guitar as far as I could into the blue sky.</div>
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Tony..well, who knows about Tony. He's a mystery. He shows up for our gigs and somehow knows how to play our new songs. I imagine he spends most of his time walking around and laughing to himself about funny words.</div>
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Ken has been all over the place as a key member of the Heather Maloney Band. He's also often on the road with the Young at Heart Chorus, playing shows all over the world. He also heads a group-sing at a local community center and has his weekly radio show on WMUA. </div>
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Ken and Henning have also been playing a bunch in the Mark Mulcahy Band, a new trio. They were in the U.K. in December for a week and have shows coming up in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Iowa and another jaunt over to England. They'll be doing a number of radio appearance and festival shows during that time</div>
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Of course, a lot of us are playing as the Fawns, too. Henning has done some solo shows and some duo shows with Lesa Bezo as well.</div>
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It seems like we are doing everything but playing School for the Dead shows. Hmmm. Well, that'll change, with the completion of this new record. Oh and look out, we already have enough material for another record after that and another one as well. </div>
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What should we do with these recordings do you think? Vinyl? CD? Download only? Help!</div>
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We've also created a new web presence for Rub Wrongways Records that you should check out and bookmark. All of our events are listed the very clearly and you can easily listen to all of the music. Go there now: <a href="http://www.rubwrongways.com/">www.rubwrongways.com</a></div>
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Thanks.</div>
Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-1723010637318608292013-03-13T18:16:00.003-04:002013-03-13T18:16:46.963-04:00First Flower 2013<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">First Opened March 13, 2013</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />Well, well, well. Look at this! The Little Yellow One is back, baby! Last year, The Little Purple One took first place in a major upset. Yellow must have been training all winter because it burst through the finish line today with gusto.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">First opened on March 11, 2012</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />There's been an upset in the flower world! Our usual first flower, The Little Yellow One, has been beaten this year by a strong contender, The Little Purple One. This guy came up yesterday while there's still no sign at all of the past champion.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td><br /><a class="hoverZoomLink" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/henningo/5544055962/" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;"><img alt="photo.JPG" class="hoverZoomLink" height="300" src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5544055962_8e08e7f424.jpg" style="-webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">First opened on March 20, 2011:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />Well our annual first-flower came up later than usual this year To tell you the truth, I'm surprised it came up at all. It just didn't seem possible. But, sure, enough, there it is and it's on the first day of spring at that. Well done, little yellow flower.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">First opened on March 8, 2010:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />Each year this flower comes up a little bit earlier. Climate change? Impatience? Maturity? Coincidence? I don't know. All I know is, there's a light at the end of the tunnel. Spring doesn't even seem possible, but this flower says, not only is it possible, it's unstoppable.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">First opened on March 14, 2009: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br />This one flower wins the race two years in a row. This year spring is starting sooner. Unless it sees its shadow and turns into Bill Murray.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">First opened on March 24, 2008:</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">That's it. The first sign of Spring 2008. It's right here in our front lawn. We planted it there last fall.</span></td></tr>
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<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;" />Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-46799371233159955292013-03-11T11:41:00.001-04:002013-03-11T11:41:21.362-04:00The Great Mix-CD Mix-Up (disc 5)<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/henningo/8468455487/" title="mix cd mix up MAR 16 2013 by henningo, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8518/8468455487_448eb14ea2.jpg" width="386" height="500" alt="mix cd mix up MAR 16 2013"></a>Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-37493544091652988732013-03-05T15:02:00.001-05:002013-03-05T15:02:01.517-05:00Henning's Imaginary Robyn Hitchcock Song<iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JS6Zvqsi3K0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-71805895797730494232013-01-07T12:38:00.001-05:002013-01-07T12:39:24.698-05:00A Message from R.W. Wrongway<iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/c6vpuK4jxi4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-1043883501237161322012-12-20T12:09:00.001-05:002012-12-20T12:28:44.251-05:00Reconstruction of the Fables: A Tribute to R.E.M<br />
On January 17th, there is a tribute to R.E.M. charity concert at the Iron Horse in Northampton, MA<br />
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<b>Reconstruction of the Fables: A Tribute to R.E.M</b></div>
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Featuring: </div>
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Mark Mulcahy</div>
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Rusty Belle</div>
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Winterpills</div>
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Heather Maloney</div>
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Goldwater The Second</div>
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Golden Bloom</div>
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The Fawns</div>
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Rocky Roberts and Friends</div>
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Spanish For Hitchhiking</div>
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The Lonesome Brothers </div>
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School for the Dead</div>
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Orange Crush</div>
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Now, R.E.M. were a huge influence on my life as a musician. A lot of those songs were the first that I ever learned to play. I can remember struggling through (Don't Go Back To) Rockville before I could properly play a B Major chord. So, I'm pretty excited to take part in this and also to listen to everybody else's take on the songs.<br />
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The problem is that I want to play just about every song from the first five albums. When we first learned of this event Brian and I went through a bunchy of songs off the top of our heads. Max, Ken, and Tony pretty much just said they'd be happy to do whatever, which is good because we already had too many songs to narrow it down from. We could only chose two.<br />
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Here are our initial thoughts:<br />
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<b>Henning:</b><br />
Gardening at Night<br />
A Carnival of Sorts (Box cars)<br />
Radio Free Europe<br />
7 Chinese Brothers<br />
Pretty Persuasion<br />
I Believe<br />
Harbortown<br />
Moral Kiosk</blockquote>
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<b>Brian:</b><br />
Pretty Persuasion<br />
Life and How to Live It<br />
World Leader Pretend<br />
Cuyahoga</blockquote>
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Then to make our lives more difficult, we put out a call on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/schoolforthedead">Facebook</a>, asking which songs the followers of the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/schoolforthedead">SFTD page</a> thought we should do. Here's what they said:<br />
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(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - Mylène Ouellet<br />
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - Nina Nowak<br />
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - Andy Churchill<br />
(Don't Go Back To) Rockville - Kihm Randall Sanders<br />
A Perfect Circle - Mylène Ouellet<br />
Band Wagon - Andy Churchill<br />
Belong - Nina Nowak<br />
Carnival of Sorts (Box cars) - Steve Willard<br />
Cuyahoga - Kihm Randall Sanders<br />
End of the World as We Know It - Art Carey<br />
Everybody Hurts - Steve Willard<br />
Fall on Me - Jeanne Chisamore<br />
Fall on Me - Nina Nowak<br />
Fall on Me - Veronica Jessico Reed<br />
Harborcoat - Aimee Richardson<br />
I Believe - Han Wang<br />
Laughing - Matthew Novak<br />
Little America - Han Wang<br />
Man on the Moon - Jeanne Chisamore<br />
Moral Kiosk - Leslieanne Garziano<br />
Moral Kisok - Matthew Novak<br />
Near Wild Heaven - Miriam Lee<br />
Nightswimming - M Freddy Stockwell<br />
Nightswimming - Veronica Jessico Reed<br />
Perfect Circle - Paul Gardikis<br />
Pretty Persuasion - Art Carey<br />
Sitting Still - Dan Haag<br />
Superman - Nina Nowak<br />
Texarcana - Nina Nowak<br />
Wendell Gee - Leslieanne Garziano</blockquote>
Phew, that's a lot of awesome songs to select from! Well, we have since narrowed it down and chosen our two songs. Do you want to know them now or should it be a surprise? I think it might be best if we just do them at the show and not say it here. But I will if you want. Even if just one person says I should.<br />
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Anyway, thanks everyone for your help. I think it's going to be a real fun night.<br />
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<a href="http://www.facebook.com/schoolforthedead">Join us on Facebook</a>Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-57280857221283753842012-11-24T16:40:00.000-05:002012-11-24T16:40:19.934-05:00SFTD Group Sing<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">We had a nice recording session on Tuesday. The album is coming along slowly but surely. Here's Brian, Tony, and Ken along with special guests Lesa Bezo and Beth Savage Marchese doing a group sing for the song "Turn It Down".</span></td></tr>
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<br />Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-31053629879836349262012-11-06T11:08:00.000-05:002012-11-06T11:14:46.253-05:00I Voted. A Tale of Two Women.<br />
I walk everywhere. There are two reasons for that. One is that I don't have a car. The other is that I live within walking distance of most of what I need. Today, I walked to the voting booth. It was about 9:00 in the morning when I strolled up the bike path in Northampton, Massachusetts. The temperature was in the low thirties and the yellow leaves fell slowly off the trees lining the way. To my right was the Barrett Street Swamp. It is very visible now through the bare November trees. The water below the reeds was not frozen but it wasn't far off. It was silent and still and seemed thicker than summer water. <br />
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When I reached the Jackson Street overpass, I left the bike path and took to the sidewalk that lead to the Jackson Street School which has been my voting place for the last six years. Inside, I passed the little bake sale table and entered the gymnasium. When I used to go into gyms it was because I was about to run around. Now it's to vote. Everything in elementary schools is very small and makes me feel like a giant in my big, dumb leather jacket.<br />
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I entered the gym and saw a small line of people at a table that said Voter Sign-In. I stood in the line for a moment and then the women in front of me said to nobody in particular, "I don't have time for this!". No one responded. She turned to look up at me. I sized her up to be probably 35 or so, maybe younger. She said to me, "My vote won't even count anyway."<br />
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I said, "There are only five people in front of you. It won't take long. You came all this way."<br />
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She replied, "I'm voting for Mitt Romney. Wouldn't you rather I left anyway? "<br />
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I said, "Of course not!"<br />
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The woman in front of her turned around and said, "You're voting for Romney?!". She was gray but I would say only in her fifties or so. She looked nice, I was waiting for her to say something in a kidding humorous way similar to how one would normally talk to another human. Instead, she rolled her eyes and shook her head in disgust and turned back around.<br />
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The first woman looked up at me again, "I'm voting for Romney and republican straight down the line. I'm not racist, I just like the other guy. I don't hate woman, I just like the other guy."<br />
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"OK", I said. Then I noticed I was in the wrong line and I walked off to the correct table for my precinct. I gave my name and address and was handed my ballot sheets, I went to the booth, filled out the ballot, handed it in, checked out, and got my sticker. Easy.<br />
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Back outside, I strolled again through the chilly autumn morning and mulled over the strange encounter with the two disrespectful woman. Eventually, I formulated what I wished I said. I wished I said, so they both could hear me, "If you truly believe in a representative democracy and a popular vote, which everyone seems to claim they do, then you would never hope that another citizen doesn't vote. Instead you would have faith that the majority would pick the best candidate in the election, regardless of who you preferred. That's the whole point of having an election, faith that the majority knows best. So, of course, I want you to vote, you silly Romney supporter, just like I want you to vote, you snotty Obama supporter. By the way, thanks to both of you for so accurately displaying the common narratives about the personalities of the parties. I thought it was all just made up on TV but you two stepped right in and confirmed everything in a thirty-second candid encounter. Now, both of you sign in, vote, and instantly nullify each others voice. It's almost as though you don't exist."<br />
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<br />Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-55976805438545367412012-11-05T14:38:00.000-05:002012-11-05T14:38:03.208-05:00Rag Shag Parade 2012We had a great time as always at our fourth annual Florence, MA Rag Shag Parade Concert. Here's a photo I took from my perspective. Terrifying.<br />
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<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/henningo/8143014792/" title="The view from the band at the Florence Rag Shag. #ragshagflorence #ragshag by henningo, on Flickr"><img alt="The view from the band at the Florence Rag Shag. #ragshagflorence #ragshag" height="400" src="http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8053/8143014792_39d34a7a86.jpg" width="400" /></a>Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-89547621215334454542012-10-31T11:40:00.000-04:002012-10-31T11:40:11.083-04:00Florence, MA Rag Shag Parade - School for the Dead Returns Again!Today, Halloween, School for the Dead returns to the Rag Shag Parade in Florence, MA. We'll be playing music starting at around 5:00 in Trinity Row Park in Florence, MA What usually happens is we set up in an empty park, we start playing as people in all kinds of crazy costumes start to filter in, by the time we are finishing up an hour later, the park is FULL. Then everyone leaves to go on a parade through town. IT's very fun and surreal and I recommend stopping by.<br /><br />Here's a shot from last year.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Announcing a new Henning concert. This one is happening at </span><a href="http://bingartscenter.org/" style="color: #717171; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;">the Bing Arts Center</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"> in Springfield, MA. Friday October 12, 2012. It starts at 8:00 and ends at about 10:00.<br /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">What has he got planned? Lots of songs for sure, maybe some new ones, probably some old ones, likely some from Henning Goes To The Movies, indubitably some School for the Dead songs but what about a classic famous crowd-fueled Madlib? Why not?! Little colored lights? I wouldn't say no. Banter. Yeah, I imagine they'll be banter.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: justify;">Come on down, it's not often that Henning gets to take a whole show and make it his own. But it usually works out real well when he does.</span>Henninghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01162945480901266045noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3585210.post-30373196391889989182012-09-05T12:08:00.002-04:002012-09-05T12:11:14.853-04:00The Adventures of Henning and Polaris<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Last week, I played a show at the Orpheum in Los Angeles, California. I was a member of the band Polaris and we were a feature at a Pete and Pete Reunion Show. I explained it all in my last post.<br />
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I had a real nice time at the Orpheum, it's a beautiful old theater and it was full of an incredibly enthusiastic crowd. They cheered at the beginning of each song. <br />
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We kicked off the night with the theme song to Pete and Pete "Hey Sandy". That was followed by a panel with the actors, writers, and staff of the show. We then played a full set of the rest of the Polaris album. The stage was decorated with astro turf and lawn accouterments.<br />
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We were joined for one song by Rain Phoenix who sang along with Mark on "Ashamed of the Story I Told". Syd Straw also came up and did a song of her own. I played guitar along with her in an unrehearsed impromptu kind of way. <br />
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There are a number of videos up on YouTube. The best ones are those that were filmed by audience members. They catch the spirit and the sound of the night. There is also a long video of the whole concert but it is a board mix and it sounds sad and dead and flat. Don't watch it. Board mixes are the worst. You can't hear the room so you can't feel the vibe. Here's a good one that I came across:<br />
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There are also a number of write-ups about the event out there on the web. I recommend this one, it's touching and it contains a large selection of photos. <a href="http://consequenceofsound.net/2012/08/saving-nostalgia-at-the-adventures-of-pete-and-pete-reunion">Consequence of Sound</a>.<br />
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