Tag: music
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Grand gesture of solid carbs
I got doughnuts the other night before what seemed like a musical love child of the E.T. soundtrack and songs of Oompa-Loompas. T was interested in the musician who was not only performing but put the whole thing together at a place called Ham and Eggs downtown. It came after checking out Chisme y Queso put on […]
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Funky Swag at Mrs. Fish
Echo Park Rising was my first taste of the expressive charm of Soul Scratch when the band performed at The Lost Room to a packed audience. That was two months ago but luckily they were playing again in the basement of downtown’s historic Pershing Square Building in October. Although nights had gotten cooler, the heat […]
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fool who shouldn’t walk the line
[This is meant to be hummed/sung as an exploration of the blues through an omniscient narrator. Think Pink Anderson, J.D. Short, Otis Rush, Sonny Terry] Through the screen of a window, the sun shines brightly illuminating leaves small and still dangling from branches reaching far above the lazy streets. Suddenly, a sweet female voice shouts […]
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finding a voice
“The way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the memory of all that, no, they can’t take that away from me.” As this song drifts in my mind, I can’t help but think about how to show an interest in the Charlotte culture when I have so many memories of the […]
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oh, Gates
What is the feeling one gets when one feels pressure to do something in order to achieve a goal or task, which may have been acquired after meeting an individual capable of enhancing stimulation of the conscious state? And what is the expression one uses when one needs to accomplish something of a strange sort […]
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southern something
The couple behind me, eating in the Atlanta airport, were discussing enthusiastically their strong distaste for current occupations and the mother expresses rather fervently a situation in which a manager approached her about something that she (the mother) needed to address. Before this conversation took place, the mother scolded the young child in attendance for […]
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