Here in Shanti Shanti Shanti Town, uh oh seven at oceands eleven played a ring around the poesy party at the Bowery, the Bowery, the lay Bowery Poetry Club...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 5, 2006 1:08 am
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Little Steven is back this week on the "last" (yeah, right) Sopranos shoot de chute, essaying the role of the (made)man you love to hate after icing Arianna...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 10, 2006 6:27 pm
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Here now in London again--called away abruptly from NYC where I was preparing for my show with Jozef Van Wissem scheduled for this Saturday night at the Bowery...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 16, 2006 11:01 pm
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Here now in London again--called away abruptly from NYC where I was preparing for my show with Jozef Van Wissem scheduled for this Saturday night at the Bowery...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 16, 2006 11:01 pm
670
I'm writing this from a computer terminal in the library of the Virginia Fine Arts Museum in Richmond. I'm down here to play my solo guitar scores live to...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 24, 2006 9:50 pm
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Left Richmond on Monday in a state of euphoric elation...the Saturday night gig went so well, a big crowd in a large old fashioned rock club (not a typical...
Gary Lucas
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Mar 30, 2006 6:29 am
681
Just back from my pal Mark Gasper's 50th birthday party at the ever-so excellent Cafe Loup, (formerly the Bells of Hell, a kind of rockcrit heaven in the 70's...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 10, 2006 3:26 am
687
Ach du himmel, here I am nursing the remnants of Russian germ-warfare, resulting in a nasty head cold and bronchial flareup, the result of too little sleep and...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 20, 2006 1:31 am
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So where wuz I, oh yes, holed up in the Youngster's Hotel, a probable youth hostel once upon a mattress, but plenty of grizzled elders were observed being...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 22, 2006 3:35 am
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Went to the Austrian Cultural Forum last night, just down the road apiece from MOMA on 52nd Street (legendary, officially designated "Swing Street", boulevard...
Gary Lucas
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Apr 29, 2006 9:22 pm
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Huzzah! The Village Green Preservation Society (member in good standing I am haha courtesy civic-minded Danny Fields) has successfully rolled back the...
Gary Lucas
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May 9, 2006 2:16 am
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...was the title of Bob "I Love a Man in Uniform" Hope's 1965 laff riot, and it might well serve as a credo for my recent tour there with the Magic Band,...
Gary Lucas
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May 24, 2006 10:28 pm
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Played the Bacardi B-Live promotion this week at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London with my old pal Cosmo (Colleen Murphy)--an absolute pleasure, a...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 4, 2006 11:26 pm
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"Mr. Leopold Bloom ate with relish, ketchup, and Jamaican Pickapeppa sauce the inner organs of beasts and fowls..." and so do I partaketh also (namely, chopped...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 16, 2006 9:05 pm
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The Times last Sunday ran a front page story about employers snooping on potential employees by scanning their blogs for tell-tale signs of (supposed) abberant...
Gary Lucas
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Jun 24, 2006 8:52 pm
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Hey Gary, Are you guys planning on a tour of Canada, specifically Toronto when you get through with Europe? BTW, is there much demand on this side of the pond?...
...was the name of Ken Russell's classic 1968 BBC Monitor film about the great English composer Frederick Delius, based on Eric Fenby's memoirs (Fenby the...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 3, 2006 3:36 pm
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There was a Bantam paperback anthology called "Black Humor" that came out around 1965 that functioned as one of the key incendiary devices of my youth,...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 9, 2006 2:53 pm
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I write this from Goa now, where we've arrived to start a serious holiday by the sea after a very fraught week to put it mildly...arrived in Mumbai on Tuesday...
Gary Lucas
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Jul 17, 2006 2:32 pm
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India, mmmmmm... ...let me count the ways, thoroughly enchanting country, friendliest people I've ever met in I dont know, 25 or so countries I've performed in...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 4, 2006 1:17 pm
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Summer bloody summer--fresh on the heels of Syd Barrett's untimely demise (one shudders to think this, but as a notorious recluse for years, one wonders if Syd...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 10, 2006 6:45 pm
735
Semi-recovered now from a little Bacardi-fueled weekend jaunt to lovely Romania, a country I was fascinated by as a lad due to its deep Dracula...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 16, 2006 4:53 pm
737
I was wondering if you will be making any stops in Minneapolis in the not too distant future? I was also wondering if you have any plans to record for Tzadik...
Caroline and I had the most delightful dinner the other night at Indochine here with my old friend, the legendary Andrew Loog Oldham, who was in town on a...
Gary Lucas
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Aug 27, 2006 1:25 pm
741
Labor Day today, and I actually got a whole 6-7 hours of sleep, for a change-- and thankfully without the aid of Ambien, introduced to me by my friend the Emmy...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 4, 2006 8:27 pm
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Hey, I just signed (inked, in Variety-speak) with Mighty Quinn Records here for release of my new Gods and Monsters album in the US, Canada and Japan! Deal was...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 14, 2006 2:01 pm
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... unless it's pastis, which Jason Candler and I were sip sip sipping after our incandescent new Gods and Monsters record release thingy at Bob Holman's house...
Gary Lucas
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Sep 25, 2006 6:22 pm
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Yesterday was a dream, a seeming seminal culmination of 16 years obsessively plowing the furrowed lowlands of Holland on tour (must have played at least, oh,...
Gary Lucas
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Oct 2, 2006 8:51 am
765
"Canadian Sunset" was one of my favorite tunes growing up a wee sprout in Syracuse, the number two track side one of UA's double gatefold sleeved LP "Ferrante...