September 2010
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Damn Sam
long time no blog…. i know. i have been preoccupied with dismantling the iphone with the goal to build an app… or three, or five.
it’s come to my attention that pre-packaged easy listening middle of the road cover albums are rearing their ugly heads again in a big way. that great story about lou reed forbidding susan boyle to sing ‘perfect day’ is the stuff that...
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jonathan richman, everyday clothes
July 2010
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the sidewinders….. andy...
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all roads lead back to lenny kaye……...
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June 2010
8 posts
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I Think I’m GoGo…. Squeeze...
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A Message To You Rudy...
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Little Conversations Are We
Me: Jodi, what are the chords in that song? Jodi; I IV I III Me: No, what key are you playing in? Jodi: G! Me: So what are the chords? Jodi: (demonstrating with much annoyance) G D G C!!!!! Me: Right. Of course…
jodi is my 8 year old niece. the song in question is an original composition that she wrote before my eyes in about 10 minutes called “Cinderella and Me” which...
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The Art of The Cover Album
it takes a very very brave person to record an album of cover songs. it is not for the shy or the faint of heart. it’s quite possibly the most revealing sort of album one can send out into the world. more revealing than a record full of original compositions even. an artist will live or die on an album full of cover songs. it’s glaring, it’s naked, it’s unforgiving....
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May 2010
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Don’t Worry Baby
keith moon’s solo...
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“I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set, I was a mental drummer”
– Keith Moon
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Philip Shelley, The End of The World
The Singer,...
“beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is...”
– Charles Bukowski
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To Love And To Be Loved, Conor...
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Princess Cards She Sends Me
Mother’s Day. it’s very important to me. in direct proportion to how important my mother is to me. every year i try to gather as many trinkets and precious things to amass and present to my mother, like a child. except now i can buy them. i no longer pick dandelions and collect stones and things that look pretty and precious to a child, put them all in a box and proudly present them...
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music by the eels, artwork daisies of the...
“We weren’t dressing like fags, we were dressing like rockstars!”
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Lance Loud
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April 2010
19 posts
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everyday i write the book says me, diane...
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The Grammar and Syntax of My Most Precious Secrets
Writing a Book. Is hard. I’ve learned something about myself: I’ve never done anything that’s been really hard. I’m that sort of person that you hate, who doesn’t have to try hard, who just kind of glides through things. Writing my book is hard. In fact, it’s so hard sometimes it seems impossible. Everyday I change the title, everyday this book changes me. A few...
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Heart and Soul
is the only song i can play on the piano…. but that’s not what i’m writing about today. yesterday, i wrote about gram parsons and i kept returning to the post to listen to it and read it about a hundred times. the more time i spent with it, the more humble and vulnerable it made me.
needless to say i was hard pressed to find someone to follow up gram with. i racked my brain,...
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‘girls keith’ by tarka cordell is 3...
“One like you should surely be, miles and miles away from me, then you’d...”
– Gram Parsons
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when the world falls apart some things stay in...
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Levi Stubbs' Tears... And Mine
once upon a time when i was the fairest princess in the land…. OK wait start over but don’t stop reading because this is a magical tale. when i was about 20 some years old which was quite a few years ago i took my BFF pati to what was billed as a Rock ‘N Roll Revival at madison square garden. this was before there even were BFF’s. pati was a rock ‘n roll photographer...
she & him ‘thieves’ no explanation...
“I practiced all my sainthood
I gave to one and all
But the rumours of my...”
– Leonard Cohen
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The Cardboard Chair
i bought a cardboard chair today. it was delivered by ups in a cardboard box which i think is kind of ironic. i had one a long time ago, but it was an armchair. i didn’t like it. this one is nice and small and i will keep it forever. i have plans for it.
a couple of light years ago, my family moved into “the new house.” the day we arrived, i was super anxious and completely...
if there was a soundtrack to this, my first summer...
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The Wall of Vinyl
fact: i have a very large record collection. so huge it is that it’s actually embarrassing. well, it was embarrassingly large by the time i was 16. now, it’s way past embarrassing. it’s a full wall of vinyl. when someone walks into my living room for the first time, instead of sitting down they just stand there and try not to look at it, they glance sideways, awestruck. i usually...
“It Was Just Another Sunday and Everything Was in The Key of …. A”
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Mystifyingly Glad
welcome to mylittlesistersays… dot com of course. one day i will build an entire empire on this domain. presently it’s a blog. we are the design team known as mystifyingly glad design, the co-op of diane dipiazza, jez rourke, and shawn alexander. at any given time, any one of us will blabber and post on and on about anything and everything, but mostly it will be me. your friend, diane...