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Category Archives: The Arts
Animal Smell
This is the story of not knowing but knowing, and of having the best song I wrote be like my own Fleetwood Mac’ing of our good and earnest little band. It did not really inflict endless damage, but it informed me, and so I suppose this is a bit like a confession and an apology and an admission, because good songs come from nothing less. – Jana Martin Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged 1989, east village, punk rock
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DWTS 21: Projections and Predictions for Season 21 of Dancing with the Stars
Greg Olear’s projections for the new season of Dancing with the Stars. Continue reading
John Sebastian and the Younger Generation, 2015
Amanda Nazario takes us along as she gets to see and meet one of her musical idols, the legendary John Sebastian. Despite the show being in a tiny Boston club with a noisy kitchen, iPhone wielders, and an irritating waitress, Nazario’s superfan heart illuminates the under-appreciated genius in his well-deserved glory. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, The Arts, Uncategorized
Tagged John B Sebastian, John Sebastian, kotter, lovin spoonful, welcome back
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The Job of a Lifetime
Former Christmas tree salesman/child wrangler/fire escape painter Robert Burke Warren realizes the day jobs are a significant part of the story. Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Rock and Roll Coffee, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged 80s, 90s, athens, day job, ga., go van go, labor day, luis fernandez de la reguera, rbw, robert burke warren, vic varney
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Hasten Down the Wind: Adventures in Babysitting, 1977
What to do when you’re 12 and a mysterious, beautiful, troubled woman moves in next door with her four-year-old? You babysit, of course! RBW offers some more summertime musical memoir. Continue reading
Posted in Appreciations, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Saturday Music, Sex, Soul Seduction, The Arts
Tagged 1977, adventures in babysitting, babysitting, bildungsroman, butyl nitrate, coming-of-age, Disco, joys of fantasy: a book for couples, linda ronstadt, your erroneous zones
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Stop Me if You’ve Heard This One Before
Question: What’s a writer to do in an era where memoirs are assumed to be fictional and novels are, increasingly, considered thinly-veiled cris de coeur? Answer: Deny Everything. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, The Arts
Tagged Anthony Burgess, david foster wallace, fiction, james frey, Jonathan Yardley, Kurt Vonnegut, Literary Theory, memoir, Milan Kundera, Not To Mention a Nice Life, Please Talk about Me When I'm Gone, Sean Murphy, The Things They Carried, The Weeklings, Tim O'Brien
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Love & Mercy and the Saving of Brian Wilson
Beach Boy Brian Wilson, musical genius and cultural icon, should have died, but did not. Someone saved him. Who, exactly, did the saving is up for debate. In any case, hot new biopic Love & Mercy, fleshes out the less-familiar trope of “saving the artist,” and our own Robert Burke Warren digs that. Continue reading
