Saturday Night Desire Comes in All Shades – Larkin Grimm at Cafe Bourbon Street, 02/07/09

“Pouring on the garbage and it’s filling up my car My suffering is meaningless and sticking like the tar That smothers all grass and lets me drive it to the bar" And if you want to handle me, just tell me who you are” -Larkin Grimm, “Dominican Rum” The weather finally broke and broke so hard it felt like I was some kind of desperate explorer staggering over the cracking ice-skin of the world and just trying to keep my footing Saturday night.  But I might have been staggered in other ways, when I think about it. First to Ruby Tuesday...

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The Cry of Dreams – Antony and the Johnsons, The Southern Theater, 02/04/09

“I wonder, in all of science fiction, if there have been two universes this discordant, or what it means that there can be a suffering so intense its balance only exists somewhere in the next life.” -Albert Goldbarth, “The Elements” No, I didn’t go to the Antony show in 2002.  At the time I’d heard that record but thought it was a novelty, it didn’t click for me until the second album but that, and the new one The Crying Light, are both wonders.  So even though he’s playing in NY at Town Hall while we’re there, I wanted...

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