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Recommending: Calder Quartet

Calder Quartet with Andrew WK (from Facebook) We saw Calder Quartet play two really great pieces of music this weekend at the Portland Central Library at a free event put...

Watching People Watching Music

I took these photos of the dvd "Horowitz in Moscow" while I was watching it on our television. This was Vladimir Horowitz's 1986 return to his native country after over...

The Greatest Movie Ever Made?

Well, maybe. To be honest I haven't seen it yet, but that's what a good friend of my proposed after going to the Paula Cooper Gallery and watching "The Clock"...

Recommending: I Am Waiting

I Am Waiting is a 1957 Japanese noir movie directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara.

Recommending: Jim O'Rourke

Halfway to a Threeway EP by Jim O'Rourke (Drag City) Insignificance LP by Jim O'Rourke (Drag City) These two records (yes, I still say records) are really excellent artifacts from...

This Poe House

Daguerreotype taken in Richmond, VA Sept. 1849 (3 weeks before he died in Baltimore) If you know me (and well really, you probably don't), you know that I'm a big fan...