Moises Kaufman, 33 Variations – Available Light

The day is full of noise and I am grateful, it’s full of grace and light that takes me up and out.  I am serious again, forsythia bloom early this year, I am going to New York, goodby.  Intense experience of pleasure has never moved me as much as expectation of an end to it.  Seems real, is real.  Hello. -Tim Dlugos, untitled Before I get into minute details of plot and incident and technicality – go see Available Light’s production of Moises Kaufman’s 33 Variations. ...

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Records of the Year, 2011

There are always great records getting made, no matter how bad it gets.   This year I felt a little disconnected, got a little caught up in trend chasing and my motto for 2012 is fuck that noise.  I still found stuff that knocked me sideways and this is only a sampling. 1.  Blueprint, Adventures in Counter Culture – Long Columbus’s best producer, maybe Columbus’s best rapper for the last handful of years, but as big a fan as I am?  This record is a full-on motherfucker, breaking through to new clarity and new truth and...

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