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I am heading into the home stretch with NaNoWriMo. I hope to finish later this week. I also have a brief essay about my grandfather that I want to edit and submit to the “Readers Write” section of my favorite literary magazine. Then it is time to dig in and finish the longer essay that [...]

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I know, I know. It’s been far too long since my last update. Not sure what’s going on. Maybe I didn’t really have anything worth saying? Maybe I didn’t have anything I could safely say here?
It’s almost August and it feels like the summer is racing to an end. [...]

MandoMama tagged me.
It took me a while to come up with this list. As I told Ipsissimus, when you are searching for an identity, music gives you a place to start.
I am tagging Rana, Lisa B-K, la peregrina, Riana, Dawn, Richard, and Doug.
Here are the rules:
1. Post your list of the seven best [...]

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Glen Hansard, Once

Ipsissimus was right. She knows I am a huge fan of Damien Rice and told me that I’d like this new artist she found. Glen Hansard. I guess it looks like I have a thing for Irish folk singers, doesn’t it?
Glen Hansard is with the band The Frames. He also released [...]

I have listened to the song I remember by Damien Rice hundreds of times. It’s on a new live recording of it available on “Live at Fingerprints – Warts and All.” In this recording, mid-way through when Damien takes over, there is a chord progression (starts at 3:11 in the video) that just [...]

Although my mind has been going a million miles an hour lately, the words haven’t been falling out onto my blog.
Part of the reason is because I removed the password protection so I feel the need to choose my words more carefully. I also don’t want to do or say anything that might [...]

The concert was fantastic! Damien is not afraid to experiment with new ways to play his own music, stringing together songs in such a seamless way that you can’t imagine they are two separate tracks. His live performances rarely sound like they do on his albums.
He really is all emotion with [...]

From a preview of Damien Rice’s current tour in North America:
Some singers seem to bring their voices from a place deeper than the throat and the lungs. They seem to be singing from the unconscious, a place primordial and pure.
Damien Rice has that mystic quality. On his two albums, the Irish singer snakes his voice [...]

wake up in toronto, my favourite city. a crisp, clear day.
first stop is the hockey hall of fame. photo with the stanley cup. search the displays for anything sidney crosby. sadly, there is little, as he is only two years in the league. oh well.
next stop is the [...]

Damien RiceI finally found a decent live version. Not work safe.
This song has gotten me through some tough times this year. Or should I say this song is keeping me sane?

I can’t wait to see him perform in Toronto.

When I got the call last week, I was in the middle of writing a post for MandoMama about a song. You see, she’d been haunted by echoes from a recently-ended relationship. Since I don’t live close enough to her to stop by and deliver some white sage, I thought I would introduce [...]