Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
it doesn’t matter if you want it back / you’ve given it away
he’s already on the outskirts
i’m still pulling at his sweatshirt
he is says ‘fate is not a factor’
i’m in love with a reactor
i just can’t get enough of her lately (which is probably a sign that this winter has been way too long already.)
I went to see some jazz the night of my mother’s birthday & realized I didn’t put up any music for her, so mom, this one’s for you.
This track’s pretty great, too, and was recorded the same year my mom was born.
(What an amazing little song about that profound feeling of having met someone before that you know you haven’t, but with whom, for whatever reason, you resonate in ways that don’t even make sense.)
For real? Godawful sugary pop to start 2013?! Yep. It’s over produced and kind of awful, much as Hansen was, but it’s still sweet and fun.
& That’s one hell of a backing band he’s assembled – the drummer especially.
A friend posted this on Facebook and it was one of those things that hit me square between the eyes: maybe punk rock thoughts on death and aging are overdue, but either way, I was glad to see it. Such a simple statement made so much sense of my past few years.
This one made me cry like an idiot. Enjoy, and may we all find some peace in this upcoming year.
Sorry I didn’t post this past week: I went to NYC for a few days to see my mom in the hospital & to go see this guy:
It’s been 20 years since the last time I saw him live, and it was amazing.
I’m going to see them tonight in Madison, the coolest band that ever was. I saw their first gig in NYC a hundred years ago (or so) and am thrilled to see them again. I’ve only become a bigger fan over the years.
A reader sent this along:
Didn’t Wendy Carlos (Switched on Bach, The Well Tempered Synthesizer, A Clockwork Orange, etc.) sing / preform the National Anthem at a DNC? I think it was one of the Jimmy Carter Conventions which would be 1980 or 84. There was a bit of an uproar since the Convention Program listed . . . her former first name . . . but out came Wendy.
Can anyone confirm this?
The movie Kinky Boots is being made into a musical: music by Cyndi Lauper, book by Harvey Fierstein, direction & choreography by Jerry Mitchell.
It opens in Chicago in October, then in New York, on Broadway, in April 2013.