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Couple of new media links. I've changed them from "of the week" to "of the moment." I'll update them when I get something new worth updating.
CD of the Moment: Robert Earl Keen, "What I Really Mean"
This CD is his best studio album since "Walking Distance" One of the best tracks, "Mr. Wolf and Mama Bear" is a crime story fable. Think of Aesop collaborating with Elmore Leonard. Other tracks of interest are "For Love," another tale set in the Old West like his previous songs "Sonora's Death Row" and "Jesse With the Long Hair," and "The Great Hank," a surreal dream of REK waking up in a bar to find "the late great Hank Williams and he was all dressed up in drag." "A Border Tragedy" finds the protagonist and his Mexican friends Jaime and Umberto laughing at a college kid during spring break. It doesn't rhyme. It doesn't have to.
Non-Fiction Book of the Moment: John Keegan, "The Face of Battle."
See the previous entry. It's so good, I kept it for this iteration.
Fiction Book of the Moment: Ian Falconer, "Olivia"
Olivia is a pig. Olivia gets in trouble. Olivia is a very funny book to read to your kids. We bought this book for our friends' daughter Sonny when her brother Johnny was born. The illustrations are quite delightful. I sort of discounted children's literature for many years until we had Caroline. The trick is finding a book, such as "Olivia," that is just as entertaining to the parent as it is the child. Thanks to her, I rediscovered Shel Silverstein. Beth has a copy of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and I've read some of the poems to Caroline. When we were visiting Joe and Sarah, they have a copy of "Light in the Attic" and I read some to Caroline then too, for about 30 minutes. Very funny. Yep, find something you can both enjoy, preferably without purple dinosaurs.
Good night, mush.
CD of the Moment: Robert Earl Keen, "What I Really Mean"
This CD is his best studio album since "Walking Distance" One of the best tracks, "Mr. Wolf and Mama Bear" is a crime story fable. Think of Aesop collaborating with Elmore Leonard. Other tracks of interest are "For Love," another tale set in the Old West like his previous songs "Sonora's Death Row" and "Jesse With the Long Hair," and "The Great Hank," a surreal dream of REK waking up in a bar to find "the late great Hank Williams and he was all dressed up in drag." "A Border Tragedy" finds the protagonist and his Mexican friends Jaime and Umberto laughing at a college kid during spring break. It doesn't rhyme. It doesn't have to.
Non-Fiction Book of the Moment: John Keegan, "The Face of Battle."
See the previous entry. It's so good, I kept it for this iteration.
Fiction Book of the Moment: Ian Falconer, "Olivia"
Olivia is a pig. Olivia gets in trouble. Olivia is a very funny book to read to your kids. We bought this book for our friends' daughter Sonny when her brother Johnny was born. The illustrations are quite delightful. I sort of discounted children's literature for many years until we had Caroline. The trick is finding a book, such as "Olivia," that is just as entertaining to the parent as it is the child. Thanks to her, I rediscovered Shel Silverstein. Beth has a copy of "Where the Sidewalk Ends" and I've read some of the poems to Caroline. When we were visiting Joe and Sarah, they have a copy of "Light in the Attic" and I read some to Caroline then too, for about 30 minutes. Very funny. Yep, find something you can both enjoy, preferably without purple dinosaurs.
Good night, mush.
posted by Jay Arnold at 9:02 AM
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