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READIN
READIN started out as a place for me
to keep track of what I am reading, and to learn (slowly, slowly)
how to design a web site.
There has been some mission drift
here and there, but in general that's still what it is. Some of
the main things I write about here are
reading books,
listening to (and playing) music, and
watching the movies. Also I write about the
work I do with my hands and with my head; and of course about bringing up Sylvia.
The site is a bit of a work in progress. New features will come on-line now and then; and you will occasionally get error messages in place of the blog, for the forseeable future. Cut me some slack, I'm just doing it for fun! And if you see an error message you think I should know about, please drop me a line. READIN source code is PHP and CSS, and available on request, in case you want to see how it works.
See my reading list for what I'm interested in this year.
READIN has been visited approximately 236,737 times since October, 2007.
🦋 Let's Listen to
Raphael Saadiq.
(Just found out about Saadiq today via his fantasic contribution to the new Amnesty International record, Chimes of Freedom. Saadiq covers "Leopardskin Pillbox Hat" in a way that has given me a whole new way of understanding the song, more blues than honky-tonk.)
Allow me to direct your attention as well to Saadiq's rhythm guitarist here, the extraordinary Rob Bacon, and to the instrumental duet about 9 minutes in.
posted afternoon of Sunday, December 11th, 2011 ➳ More posts about Music ➳ More posts about Bob Dylan
gadaya of The Old, Weird America has an informative post up today on Gus Cannon's "MingleÂwood Blues"; he embeds Cannon's entire 1963 LP, Walk Right In, plus a bunch of older sides. (Also lots of 60's covers of "Minglewood Blues" -- this post leaves hardly anything to be desired.)
Juan Gabriel Várgas writes up Pamuk's Naïve and Sentimental Novelist for El espectador; he says, "Although I have done it all these thirty years or more, although I live my life surrounded by other people who are always doing it, still I think that there are few activities so worthy of inspection as the reading of novels."
an informative post
