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Sunday, July 20th, 2008(Updated 2 PM 2008 Jul 20)
The latest Joss Whedon effort, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a short musical made available on the Web and starring Neal Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion (better known as Doogie Howser and Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, respectively). The plot revolves around the titular villian — more like, villian wannabe — [...]
Contata (2)
Thursday, June 26th, 2008So, on to Contata proper. (See this earlier article for context.) A filk con is different from a regular con (assuming that my limited experience at Lunacon allows me to generalize about a “regular” con) in that the filk con is explicitly organized around the music. In a lot of ways, it [...]
Contata (1)
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008I spent this weekend at the hotel Hilton Parsippany, attending a sci fi con called “Contata 5“. In a somewhat strange co-branding fashion this was also NEFilk 18 — apparently, NEFilk is sort of an umbrella designation. Filk is an odd branch of music deriving from (originally, literally via type) folk music — [...]
Review: Marc Cohn at the Highline Ballroom
Saturday, November 17th, 2007As is my wont whenever Marc Cohn wanders into the New York-Philadelphia corridor, I went to see him perform — this time, at the Highline Ballroom in lower Manhattan. True to form, it was a fantastic show with Marc the consummate showman. The opening act was Amy Correia and this time, Marc played [...]
“Miles Away” — Marc Cohn
Saturday, November 17th, 2007I know there’s always something
We have to go through
That has some deeper meaning
Right now I just can’t say
I know there’s a lesson in here somewhere
I’m gonna think a lot about it later
Right now I’m miles away
“After the Fire” — Roger Daltrey
Thursday, August 16th, 2007After the fire, the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
But after the fire, the fire still burns
“We Can’t Make It Here” — James McMurtry
Tuesday, July 17th, 2007Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin?
Or the shape of their eyes? Or the shape I’m in?
Should I hate them for having our jobs today?
No, I hate the men who sent the jobs away.
“Brothers in Arms” — Dire Straits
Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007There are so many different worlds
So many different suns
And we have just one world
But we live in different ones…
Nothing But a Dream
Tuesday, April 24th, 2007One of the things that goes along with advising Student Council at my school is orchestrating the annual Talent Show. For the past four years, that’s included performing as the first act — largely because I badger my fellow faculty into performing, and I feel I should ask them to do something I’m not [...]
Marc Cohn in Carnegie Hall
Friday, March 9th, 2007I am not really much of a “joiner” and I don’t have many entertainment things about which I get passionate. Long ago, however, I decided that I would pick an artist and follow them closely. I chose Marc Cohn, whom you might remember from a 1991 hit “Walking in Memphis”, which still gets [...]
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