You know when you travel half way around the world and then borrow a car and drive 3.5 hours to see a Natalie Merchant concert - and find out she’s sick and the show gets cancelled? Yeah, that.
Reading the comments on Jonathan Katz's superb substack, The Racket (a clear-eyed, liberal, Jewish journalist writing - at the moment - about Israel/Gaza - hollee f*k, there is no hope), somehow got me back to an old comment of yours about Marathon Man... . You've got it but you've never read it? Do yourself a big favour these holidays. The most thrilling thriller ever written, imho.
She is a brilliant singer and I too would of gone out of my way to see her. Hopefully she makes it down south of this tour. One can but hope as I especially love Tigerlily
Talk about tangential... but that was like reading one of Babe's stream-of-conscious raves in Marathon Man - which Marc Maron talked about the other day (the film, not the book, unfortunately).
And tangential-er, I saw Van Morrison and his band in a tiny bar in San Anselmo in 1974 - same neck 'o the woods, better outcome.
Ah what a shame you missed her... beautiful writing, and super playlist this week. Thanks for reminding me how much I love Gillian Welch. And apologies for once also accusing you of sexism in one of your playlists 🫠
Reading the comments on Jonathan Katz's superb substack, The Racket (a clear-eyed, liberal, Jewish journalist writing - at the moment - about Israel/Gaza - hollee f*k, there is no hope), somehow got me back to an old comment of yours about Marathon Man... . You've got it but you've never read it? Do yourself a big favour these holidays. The most thrilling thriller ever written, imho.
She is a brilliant singer and I too would of gone out of my way to see her. Hopefully she makes it down south of this tour. One can but hope as I especially love Tigerlily
I can’t see her ever making it to nz but we now live in hope
Talk about tangential... but that was like reading one of Babe's stream-of-conscious raves in Marathon Man - which Marc Maron talked about the other day (the film, not the book, unfortunately).
And tangential-er, I saw Van Morrison and his band in a tiny bar in San Anselmo in 1974 - same neck 'o the woods, better outcome.
Oh wow - I have the book but have never read it...
Ah what a shame you missed her... beautiful writing, and super playlist this week. Thanks for reminding me how much I love Gillian Welch. And apologies for once also accusing you of sexism in one of your playlists 🫠
I don’t believe you accused me of anything, I think you correctly pointed out an imbalance- and I’ve been sure to
Include a better distribution every since