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Artists and their studios – Auditory Memory

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Writing about music and words. Artists and their studios. This post crossed my path this morning — Bored Panda’s collection of photos of artists and their muses in the artists’ studios. The timing is perfect, as I just cleaned up my home office, but then I really need to punch it up, because it’s pretty drab. I think Edvard Munch is the closest to my personal style:. 8230; which explains why, somehow, my Scandinavian Designs office furniture just isn’t right for me. Doppelgängers, please apply below.

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Reading/Reviewing: Autobiography of a Face – Auditory Memory

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Writing about music and words. Reading/Reviewing: Autobiography of a Face. Autobiography of a Face. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. 8211; “At a time when everything in my family was unpredictable and dysfunctional … here [as a sick child] I had been supplied with a formula of behavior for gaining acceptance and, I believed, love. All I had to do was perform heroically and I could personally save my whole family.”. 8211; I told myself what fools those boys at school were, what stupid, unaware lives they led....

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The Songs That Made Me - Linda Roy

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Read me on the web. The Songs That Made Me. Well, I guess you could have guessed that music is my life. Every part of my life is marked with songs that instantly take me back to those moments. I’ve always got a soundtrack in my head. So when my friend Nancy of Midlife Mixtape. Asked me to be a part of a blog hop to share the songs that made me, I was all in. The current issue of. 1 Tom Petty – The Waiting. 2 You’re No Good – Linda Ronstadt. 3 Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan. I played it at every school ta...

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Author Advice: Save your Elle Magazines for 30 years for when you end up in Elle

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Listen to your mother show. Author Advice: Save your Elle Magazines for 30 years for when you end up in Elle. Now that I’m almost an author, I have some pretty sage advice to pass along. All that nostalgia you’ve been hoarding in your brain and in boxes over the years? Time to drag it out and parade it across the internet! Wondering how much of your kids’ artwork to save? What you should really upset yourself about, Author, is how much of. Artwork did you save? On April 8th, I’ll return to Brooklyn...

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Take Us to the Snow - The Cat Lady Sings

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The Cat Lady Sings. Not Really About Cats. Mostly. Off to See the World. Depression is a Bitch. Venetian Light →. Take Us to the Snow. When I was five years old, my dad promised to take me and my sister to the snow. We lived in a suburb of Los Angeles, and the idea of snow was as foreign to me as the idea that people lived anywhere but California; I knew it in the abstract, but when I tried to solidify it in my imagination, it dissolved like so much mist. He often met us with misdirection. For the first ...

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“Man-Size,” the Rolling Stone Scandal and Oh Yeah! Why I Write – Auditory Memory

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Writing about music and words. Man-Size, the Rolling Stone Scandal and Oh Yeah! Song of the week: PJ Harvey’s Man-Size, from her 1993 album. Rid of Me,. Replayed on the radio. As I was working through a touch of simmering rage about being a woman. Last week, news broke about a 2014 story in. Magazine that reported a purported gang rape that allegedly took place in a frat house at the University of Virginia. You probably know the details. In the fall,. Detailed the many ways Columbia has disproven the.

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Music that made me :: Elizabeth McGuire

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Music that made me. Inspired by a recent piece in Rolling Stone magazine. My good friend Nancy from Midlife Mixtape. Gathered up a group of friends and asked us to share a mixtape of the songs that made me. A dozen of us have chimed in. Bless her for giving us a 10-song maximum or we could go on forever. Here goes mine…. Put Another Log on the Fire. By Tomball Glaser and the Outlaws. If you grew up in Texas in the ’70s, your family probably owned a vinyl copy of. My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys. The s...

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Spring shower haiku – Auditory Memory

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Writing about music and words. Spring creeps up my legs. Now I shave only ankles. Soon, the cherry blossoms. On being safe from men. TBT: Nuff of the Ruff Stuff. Two-fer Tuesday: Lady singer-songwriters of the ’90s. Q&A: Everything I Need to Know About Love, I Learned From Pop Songs. FOUR QUESTIONS for Susanna Donato Okey-Panky. On On being safe from men. On On being safe from men. On On being safe from men. On On being safe from men. On On being safe from men. Reading/Reviewing: Autobiography of a Face.

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Nathaniel Rateliff’s dirty, rocking Denver sound hits the Tonight Show – Auditory Memory

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Writing about music and words. Nathaniel Rateliff’s dirty, rocking Denver sound hits the Tonight Show. It’s happy hour everywhere east of Mountain Time Zone, so if you missed this performance on Jimmy Fallon by Denver’s Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats, check it out to start your weekend! Such a reinvention and reinvigoration of what I still think of as “the Denver sound,” gritty rhythmic dirty-country, hard-driving acoustic-based stuff. And then Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. Oh, and that Denver sound?

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The Music That Made Me: Laywoman’s Edition – Auditory Memory

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Writing about music and words. The Music That Made Me: Laywoman’s Edition. The recent issue of. Includes a “playlist” feature with 15 artists discussing the music that made them. Posted her version and invited blogger friends to do the same — who can resist that challenge? Herewith, a few travels through my musical genetics. The songs that made me. 8220;Sixteen Tons,” Tennessee Ernie Ford. I was fascinated with this record when I was about six years old. We had a 45 of it, like this:. The Head on the Door.