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our love is inexperienced

A strong marriage bond connects Jack Gladney and his current wife Babette in Don DeLillo’s White Noise. Gladney muses: “Sometimes I think our love is inexperienced. The question of dying becomes a wise reminder. It cures us of our innocence of the future. Simple things are doomed, or is that a superstition?” He continues: “Babette and I tell each other everything… turned our lives for each other’s thoughtful regard, turned them in the moonlight in our pale hands, spoken deep into the night… In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now.” DeLillo’s handwritten notes for the novel are featured in the exhibition.
In the Galleries: “Love and Relationships”

One perk of living in Austin that I have not taken advantage of is going to The University of Texas at Austin's Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center to check out the Archive of Don DeLillo. Back when I was really interested in being a Novelist, I got really pissed off at his book "Underworld" because every other page had a paragraph so amazing that it made me give up writing. I can't think of the root cause of why I gave up writing. I think I had an ex that fucked all the talent out of me. She was the PJ Harvey to my Nick Cave. Except Nick at least got "The Boatman's Call" out of that relationship.

October 22, 2012 in Austin, Books, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

'Cause I'm already gone, Felt that way all along

Goodbye Austin.

May 15, 2010 in About, Austin, autobio, U2 | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

karaoke the 13th

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November 13, 2009 in Art, Austin | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

"Some times you just gotta ask yourself: WWRD, What Would Riggins Do?"

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December 1, 2008 in Austin | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

ACL Fest /no wow nineteen and other stories

tegan and sara, ACL 08, nineteen

+ ACL, The Kills, Hook and Line
+ The Kills - No Wow Live @ Austin City Limits ACL 2008
+ Tegan and Sara - Austin City Limits - Banter
+ Tegan and Sara - Austin City Limits - When I Get Up/Umbrella
+ Tegan and Sara - Rolling Stone Interview @ ACL 2008
+ Foo Fighters- My Hero live at ACL 2008

October 3, 2008 in ACL, Austin, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

ACL Fest /Miscellany

tegan and sara, ACL 08, Walking with a ghost
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+ Beck - Hell Yes / Black Tambourine - ACL Fest
+ When Your Mind's Made Up - The Swell Season @ ACL 2008
+ Plant and Krauss - The Battle of Evermore at ACL
+ erykah badu acl intro

September 29, 2008 in ACL, Austin, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

ACL Fest 08 /day3

Lady sitting next to me: "ACL is too much of an endurance test".

And the prize for whiniest band goes to.......THE KILLS. The heat was killing them, and apparently they've never done a daytime show, so "Hotel" wanted to give out the number to their agent so we would call between the hours of 2am and 4am and ask him why the fuck they were playing during the daytime. Last words of their set: "Stay Out Of The Sun". One twitter message from the local paper said something along the lines of "I wonder what it would take for the Kills not to wear black. maybe 94 degrees would do it." At one point Alison said "My feet are on fire".

+ Austin City Limits report: FNL's Adrianne Palicki on John Fogerty
+ Austin City Limits report: FNL's Scott Porter on N.E.R.D and the Swell Season

Tegan and Sara ACL 2008

the Kills, ACL, Last Day of Magic

September 28, 2008 in ACL, Austin, Music, Videos | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

ACL Fest 08 /day1

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+ Austin City Limits, guest-starring 'Friday Night Lights'

Early in the day, one of the more enthusiastic songs I heard was Asleep at the Wheel's "Boogie Back To Texas".
+ Barack Obama Boogie Back To Texas with Asleep at the Wheel

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