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Monthly Archives: June 2011
American Girl In Italy, 1951
I saw this photo by Ruth Orkin at a bar in Florence for the first time this weekend and immediately fell in love with it.
Click to enlarge and notice the girl’s face, the guy on the Vespa, and the old man on the left. So classic I can imagine exactly how this would happen, even today.
Doe Bay Fest
The Doe Bay Festival is folk/acoustic music festival held on a lake somewhere in Washington. It looks like about the most awesome experience that could ever exist.
The Head & The Heart, John Vanderslice, Damien Jurado, Champagne Champagne and many more will be playing. This year the festival takes place on August 11-14, which happens to be just the right time to prevent many of us from going.
Perfectly edited video featuring The Head and The Heart’s ‘Rivers and Roads.’
Thank you Joey Kelly.
Faulkner vs. Hemingway
Take heed, my friends–even Nobel prize winning literary artists embrace trash talking as part of their competitive spirits. Behold below this exchange between William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway.
Faulkner: “He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
Hemingway: “Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
Would you like to know who won this debate?
Read The Old Man And The Sea.
Killers’ Drummer Ronnie Vanucci Starts Band
“Big Talk” is the name of the new project by Ronnie Vanucci, drummer for The Killers. Vanucci wrote all the songs and plays every instrument except lead guitar.
The album is expected to be released on July 12.
You can stream the band’s first two releases, “Getaways” and “No Whiskey” below.