a song comes on that reminds you
of everything you used to feel
and when it’s over, you play it again
funny how memories are debossed on music
like grooves in a record
and we swear we’ll never replay old mistakes
until we do
Day: August 18, 2019
davidbrucehaiku: DONALD TRUMP
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DONALD TRUMP
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It’s really true! A
puckered orange sphincter muscle
doubles as Trump’s mouth
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NOTE: Guardian columnist Lucy Mangan wrote this: “The 12,000th provable untruth out of the puckered orange sphincter muscle that doubles as Donald Trump’s mouth is recorded this day.”
Lucy Mangan: Friends is social history – when young people bought coffee without guilt
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davidbrucehaiku: BERNIE SANDERS
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BERNIE SANDERS
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For or against him?
Me? I vote for Democrats
I am against him
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NOTE: Bernie is an Independent who seeks a D after his names for elections.
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David Bruce: 250 Music Anecdotes — Critics
Critics
• Nickelback has its fans; Nickelback also has its non-fans, including Josh Gross, who writes for the Boise Weeklyin Idaho. When Nickelback came to the Idaho Center to play a concert, this is what Mr. Gross wrote: “You can spend $45 to go see Nickelback this week. Or you could buy 45 hammers from the dollar store, hang them from the ceiling at eye level and spend an evening banging the demons out of your dome. That $45 would also buy you a lot of pickles, which have more fans on Facebook than the band. It would also buy you an introduction to rock guitar video course that would allow you to surpass the band’s skill level in five hours or less. $45 is also enough to see Men in Black IIIfive times, buy a dozen Big Macs, do 10 loads of laundry or so many other experiences as banal and meaningless as seeing Nickelback but that come without having to actually hear Nickelback. But if you must, the band is playing the Idaho Center on Wednesday, June 13, [2012,] at 6 p.m. Tickets start at $45.” (For what it’s worth, the author of this book likes Nickelback.)
• David L. Ulin is a critic for the Los Angeles Times(California). When he was in high school, he was a fan of Neil Young — he still is. One day, he was playing one of Mr. Young’s albums — loudly — in his bedroom. His mother came to his bedroom and told him to turn down the volume. Mr. Ulin wrote much later, “When I protested that Young was a genius, my mother looked at me as if I were speaking a language she didn’t understand.‘If he was a genius,’ she told me, ‘he wouldn’t be playing electric guitar.’” By the way, Mr. Young undertakes what seems to be constant renovation, and he seemingly always eventually breaks up with whatever band he’s playing in. In the middle of a tour with Stephen Stills in 1976, he sent Mr. Stills this telegram: “Funny how some things that start spontaneously end that way. Eat a peach. Neil.”
• Lotte Lehmann once sang the role of Elsa in Lohengrinand later learned that conductor Bruno Walter had been in the audience to listen to a new singer. She saw him the following day and waited for a few words about her performance, but he said nothing. Finally, she asked him if her performance had been so bad that he could say nothing about it. He replied, “Yes! Yesterday I saw something which I don’t want to ever see in you, which doesn’t go with you at all — routine.” She listened to him. Later, she said, “Never again did I sing Elsa with routine.” Like Mr. Walter, Ms. Lehmann believed, “Whatever we do or however often we do it, it must be each time reborn — each time a new creation. It is only when we are able to do this that we deserve the title Artist.”
• Men used to be shaved by barbers, who used a straight-edged razor to do the job because today’s safety razors had not been invented back then. Of course, an accident with a straight-edged razor could be painful and bloody. Gioachino Rossini’s barber once played first clarinet in one of Mr. Rossini’s early operas. Mr. Rossini could be very severe with musicians who made mistakes during rehearsals, but even though his barber made many mistakes during rehearsals, Mr. Rossini never criticized him. By the way, Mr. Rossini used crosses to mark errors in his students’ compositions. One pupil was happy that few crosses were marked in his composition, but Mr. Rossini explained, “If I had marked all the errors in the music with crosses, your score would be a cemetery.”
• A critic once criticized the German diction of operatic soprano Marilyn Horne. She telephoned the critic and started talking to him in German. The critic protested, “I don’t speak German.” She said, “This is Marilyn Horne, and I do!” Another kind of undeserved criticism occurred when Ms. Horne gave many recitals in places such as high school auditoriums. At one school, the only place she could go in between sections of the recital was the girls’ bathroom, so she would go there to drink some water or wipe her brow. Her accompanist, Gwen Koldolsky, overheard a girl say to her mother, “I like that lady’s singing, but why does she always have to go to the bathroom?”
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