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Author Archives: Eve Sturges
The Paladium in LA in the 40′s, hosted all the big bands (“I was there on many weekends: Glen MillerW, Tommy DorseyW, Benny GoodmanW, Artie ShawW“) Songs: “I’ll Never Smile Again;” ”Begin the Beguine;” (“I’m still trying to play my clarinet like A. Shaw! ha!”) I was president of UCLA’s Men’s Glee Club in ’47 [...]
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The Death of Bunny Munro: A Novel, Nick Cave Strangeland, Tracey Emin The King’s Speech (“I was a sceptic, but it’s brilliant”) Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Jessie J’s cover of the Naked and the Famous’ ”Young Blood” August SanderW ‘s photography Miranda (TV series on BBC) Arsenic & Old Lace Victor Hugo’s Delicatessen in Edinburgh [...]
“Bob Dylan’s 49th Beard,” WilcoW The Dark Is Rising, Susan Cooper German Danish Butter Cookies BockW Devotion to the Cross, Pedro Calderon de la BarcaW Scotland Yard Family Game Contact Mics Mille Bornes Card Game “Madame George” Van MorrisonW
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What’s Eating Gilbert Grape Blood In The Ashes, William Johnstone The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx The Devil Makes Three The Rugrats Movie Toast Machine Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer Electric Apricot Lord of the Flies, William Golding Sunday jams at the Phoenix Theater “I’m just a normal young musician with a lot more to learn in music and [...]
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“Somewhere Over the Rainbow ” Israel Kamakawiwo’oleW Tommy Boy V for Vendetta The Confession(?) Disney Movies
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French films, especially Amélie & La Femme Nikita This House of Sky, Ivan Doig ”Brown Eyed Girl” * Van MorrisonW English Premier League Football, Arsenal (see Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby) Best in Show Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke or pretty much any poem he ever wrote ”The Sweetest Thing” [...]
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My daughter A Love Supreme, by John Coltrane Travels with My Aunt, by Graham Greene Mondovino Good Mexican food The smell of the sea on a hot and stormy day Amadeus Five Leaves Left, Nick Drake The White Ribbon BaliW
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Citizen Kane Romeo and Juliet, William ShakespeareW Ulysses, James Joyce piano concerto no. 1, Tchaikovsky* Kind of Blue, Miles Davis My Parents The courage to be mild Mac Computer German Board Games Richard BurtonW *follow the link to listen to Tchaikovsky’s piano concerto no. 1 on youtube!
Already Dead, Denis Johnson Enter Wu-Tang (36 Chambers), Wu-Tang Clan Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein Canticle V (The Death of St. Narcissus), T.S. EliotW The Celebration Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Wilco Oblivion: Stories, David Foster Wallace Lonesome Crowded West, Modest Mouse Marcel Duchamp* Hocus Pocus, Kurt Vonnegut *follow the link to a cool website about Marcel Duchamp!
