The gloomy mists of Walpurgisnacht melt into May Day, the mental terrain transfigured (verklarte walpurgisnacht) after much brooding on past tensions and...
Gary Lucas
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May 9, 2005 11:43 pm
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Hi Gary: Hope you don't mind me asking, but do you know of a good place to stay in London for my 12 year old son and I? We are planing to visit there for a...
NormanS
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May 16, 2005 6:10 pm
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yes, check out the swiss cottage hotel at 4 adamson road--011 207 722 2281 it is a very nice, inexpensive hotel in a quiet neighborhood hope this helps xxgary...
Gary Lucas
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May 16, 2005 6:23 pm
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gosh! didn't know I was broadcasting! ooops!! haven't made THAT mistake in a while. best to Gary fans, everywhere.......
NormanS
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May 16, 2005 6:26 pm
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... It is killing me to be constantly reminded (via email through this group) that they will NOT be playing in my town. I asked Gary why that was and he told...
Yes, after a 6 week hiatus where I took time off from writing these serial epistles to go on a splendid UK tour with The Magic Band I'm back on the aether,...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 20, 2005 1:18 pm
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... the Magic Band gigs ! I was wondering when you were gonna blog again... Hope the Magic Band video gets an American release ! Happy Birthday ! k duvall...
... Oh trust me, it could be much worse. You could live in the midwest, in the middle of absolutely nowhere, where the local record stores carry nothing but ...
Yes, you guessed it, I've been strummin' on the old banjo I mean Duolian (my 1928 National steel--a steal at a thousand bucks in 1980--to be heard on good...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 6, 2005 11:05 pm
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Here I am in hot humid Moscow ensconced in a lovely airconditioned suite (yeah!!) overlooking the multicoloured onion domes of Saint Peter Basilica and the...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 22, 2005 7:06 am
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Taking the Golem out for a walk in Saint Petersburg proved as thrilling and exhilarating an experience as in Moscow. In both cities I was given dream venues to...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 25, 2005 7:49 am
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Just back from Russia, and I must say, in retrospect of a couple of very jetlagged days back home it was probably the most satisfying series of gigs in a...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 31, 2005 4:46 pm
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Just checked out "The Devil's Rejects" (so what are they then...angels?) at the AMC 42nd Street principally to catch the lead performance by my old pal and...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 11, 2005 2:58 pm
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We're back from a sybaritic 10 days of v-a-c-a-T- I -O- N in luscious Lisbon, my new favorite watering hole, ironic as Portugal is beset with severe drought...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 30, 2005 1:26 pm
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Was Bob Dylan a Weldon Kees fan? An oh-so- germane question in these days of the ongoing canonization of Bob and general voracious media scrutiny of all things...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 5, 2005 11:32 pm
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Yes we've had several winners for my last contest; in fact 2 folks emailed me within 10 minutes of me posting my last blog on Sunday, with 2 different correct...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 8, 2005 5:23 pm
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Stravinsky, of course, Gary. But I got the DVD of course too. Love, Henry PS: I got about 400 boot concerts by the D by now!...
Received an email from James Riedel, who wrote a recent biography of Weldon Kees (please refer to 2 blogs back; you might also scroll through all of them again...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 13, 2005 12:00 pm
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I realize there is a lengthy hiatus again from my last epistolary whistle down the wind but honestly I've been busy...back home in nyc now and will attempt to...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 3, 2005 9:58 pm
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fine fermata nazo nascent nasal dylan titular craig...
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Oct 4, 2005 12:59 pm
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How appropriate to revisit my recent European sojourns on Columbus Day! As I wrote in the program notes to a tribute concert to saxophonist/composer Steve Lacy...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 10, 2005 5:38 pm
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Today is the first anniversary of John Peel's death, and it's officially John Peel Day in the UK where he was deservedly regarded as a national treasure (think...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 13, 2005 4:43 pm
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Been hitting a spate of current and not/so current films here whilst recharging for my next trip abroad (rehearsals with Future Sound of London next week in...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Oct 21, 2005 8:57 pm
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What is this thing called jazz? Originally a synonym for the old in-and-out (as in Armstrong's "Jazz Me Blues"), it is, in a word, perhaps the most universally...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 6, 2005 3:06 pm
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Well, guys and gals, the results of my last contest came in fast and thick and furious and the mighty Chris Dee was the first to correctly identify Traffic's...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 8, 2005 11:45 pm
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Saw "Abigail's Party" last night, in previews on Theater Row here, Mike Leigh's savage/banal/ whiplash-across-the-face-o'-bourgeois-London-life circa 1977,...
Gary Lucas
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Nov 17, 2005 2:53 am
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This is gonna be a quickie as I am out here in Riverside California visiting my folks for Thanksgiving, just polished off a phenomenal meal courtesy of world's...
Gary Lucas
gary@...
Nov 25, 2005 12:47 am
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Just back from Down Under, wotta cool country, my first time evah, great trip, several smoking shows with the Amorphous Androgynous crewe (the brainchild of...
Gary Lucas
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Dec 6, 2005 4:53 pm
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The great science fiction writer Robert Sheckley has died, so sayeth the New York Times today (lit crit James Shattuck also; his tome on Parisian...
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