It appears that my letter (posted here on 4/6/08) has stirred up some unexpected controversy. The band’s manager found my letter not in his email box, but through a Google search. This could mean a few different things. First, that the manager has made a hobby out of searching the web for posts about his [...]
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Letter follow-up
April 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Open letter to Rodrigo y Gabriela
April 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Dear Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero,
On May 25, 2007, I attended your concert at Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, England. During the show, Gabriela announced that you had recently experienced trouble in obtaining work visas to tour in the United States. She explained that Mr. Sanchez had been mistaken for a terrorist, and this delayed [...]
Of Dylan and Dreams
February 8th, 2008 · No Comments
I just watched I’m Not There, the 2007 film where six different actors play variations or segments of Bob Dylan’s life. It made me more interested in Dylan than his music alone ever did…but then again, I’ve never put much effort into listening to it. Ironically, Cate Blanchett not only had more speaking lines than [...]
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