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[jazzfish]

Best brain-breaky limerick I have ever seen. [via prog]

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy, well, you know.

Bear explains Where the Wild Things Are. "We don't want to want to be scared and lonely, and when we are scared and lonely, it makes us feral and mean. Such a simple thing, and so hard, so very hard, to show, to accept, to explain." Yes. This.

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Much music lately. Caught a small Girlyman show in Bellingham two weekends ago (about which trip there's more to say but I don't know that I have words), at a venue with the least comfortable seats ever. Good times. Not as much from the new album as I'd hoped or feared. (I love the new album and think it's the best thing they've done; songs like "Trees Still Bend" and "The House Song" are likely to make me more than a little sniffly.)

Then Wednesday was Richard Shindell at Jammin' Java, which has now been downgraded to having only the second least comfortable seats ever. Richard didn't play "Happy Now" but he did do the mule song, and several others that I recognised, and several that I didn't. He got progressively less grumpy as the night went on, which helped. Antje Duvekot, his opening act, has a lovely voice and a good way with lyrics, and may be the best opener I've ever seen, next to Girlyman opening for Indigo Girls a few years ago. I picked up one of her CDs after the show and regret not getting the other as well.

And finally Dar on Friday at the Birchmere, where the seats are reasonably comfortable. She played about half stuff off the latest album, which I'm pretty underwhelmed by, and half older stuff. I think this is a better ratio that last time. She also introduced "Spring Street" in a way that had jude and me worried that it was going to be "February," and gave a stunning performance of "Mercy of the Fallen." Nothing at all from her first two albums. Oh well. Perhaps someday I'll get to hear "Mark Rothko Song" or "Alleluia" or "The Great Unknown" live.

Antje and Natalia Zukerman (who opened for Richard the first time I saw him, two years ago) and two other people I've never heard of have put together a winter album, and will be at Jammin' Java in mid-December. Seems worth catching.

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[rockynomad.livejournal.com]

There once was a woman from Shrew
Whose limerick stopped at line two.

There once was a man from Verdun.

[jazzfish]

*snrk* Ah, yes. I'd forgotten those. Quite excellent (ab)uses of form, both of them.