Saturday, August 11, 2012

Green Rocky Road

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I took a hiatus from blogging and have just revived my other blog, so I thought it time to revive this one. Today I have been listen to a...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Back Again

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Just  brief note to let you know I will be resuming blogging on this site shortly.  And I have a new camera to make it interesting with pho...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Freewheelin' Suze Rotolo

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March, 2011. Suze Rotolo dead at age 69, famous as one half the shot on an album cover, but oh, such more. Suze was Dylan's girlfriend a...
Monday, January 17, 2011

Graham Greene Lecture Thursday Night

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I've gotten a notice from the Seattle Chesterton Society I wanted to share with you.  If you are living in the Seattle area I recommend ...
Sunday, January 9, 2011

Formation Films "Rainy Day Reels" Preview

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I took a hiatus from blogging on any of my blogs for various reasons, but now with the film nights in my parish beginning  again, I am going...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

Under my umbrella flash mob

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Umbrella Flash Mob Official Video Seattle - Glee

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Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Hounds at Bay About to Play 2

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Ding Dong Ding Dong Hounds@Bay are ringing at Egan's  on Thursday December 9th And it's a no-cover kinda night. Please do come!  We ...
Wednesday, December 1, 2010

New Issue of Victory Review

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The December issue of Victory Review is in the stands!.  When not the stands exactly.  When it was an in print magazine it was given away at...
Sunday, November 28, 2010

Nuevo Tango Performance by Scott Vigil and Bridgette Maria Rivera

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Greetings to New Readers

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Greetings to new readers I am getting from St. Blog's Parish and Catholic Blogs.  This is a blog about the arts, primarily the ones I am...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Catholicism and Poetry #7 Dante

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"Midway on our life's journey, I found myself In dark woods, the right road lost." Thus, simply,  begins Robert Pinsky...

The Mystery of Man

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Bruggeman On The Poets

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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Folk Hymns vs Folk Hymns

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It's been a matter of some controversy in the Catholic church, post the "Folk Mass Era" of the 70's and early 80's to ...
Tuesday, November 23, 2010

A Visual Arts Blog

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I can recommend highly to any readers I actually have, my friend Christen Mattix's blog, Traveling Light.  Besides a comment here and th...
Friday, November 19, 2010

Irish Theater, Music and Dance

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For those, who like me, love Irish folk music and dance, the local Irish Seattle new, which John Keane so faithful emails to me, had a great...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Catholicism and Poetry #6: Samuel Menashe: A Jewish Poet a Catholic Should Love

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Can a Jewish Poet write poetry a Catholic should love?  Did not St. Paul say we were spiritual Jews?  Our Bible begins with the Hebrew story...

Hounds at Bay About to Play

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Acoustic Music fans there is a special treat coming up--Hounds at Bay is playing and there is an ad for it.   Go if you can.   I have also p...

Houndsatbay -- Parchman Farm James Nason Hounds At Bay

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Social Justice Film Picks

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I have started a new blog on my unemployment and on the problems of all those marginalized in America.  I put some social justice film picks...
Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Dark Arts of Halloween VII

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Film has it's magic and in the early days it was a silent magic. Alister Crowley, the famous black magician of England claimed film for ...

The Dark Arts of Halloween VI

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Now we get to the dark art of puppetry.  These inoffensive little pieces of cloth and string here conjure up Halloween for us:

The Dark Arts of Halloween V

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Poetry, an angelic art, may also be a dark art, leading use to experience the emotions of fear, horror and disgust. After all isn't poet...

The Dark Arts of Halloween IV

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Continuing with our rather haunting theme for this week we are exploring the dark art of the devil's music, the blues. I first heard thi...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Process of a Poem

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A few days ago I wrote a blog entry on the process of a painting, but I am not a painter. So I directed you to someone else's blog, whe...

The Dark Arts of Halloween III

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Okay kiddies --now it's time for another "dark art" --the art of the mask. We'll keep this one simple. Hold on tight.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010

The Dark Arts of Halloween ll

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Another dark art that can be practices this time of year is making mobiles. Not the pretty kind that tinkle in the wind, but the kind that ...
Monday, October 25, 2010

Musical Saw? #2

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As I promised more on the musical saw. In fact I will be providing much more later. Years ago in Santa Cruz I knew Tom Scribner who, among ...

The Dark Arts of Halloween

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Well it's an arts blog and it's Halloween so it's time for a little of the spooky arts --like pumpkin carving. The winner of ou...
Sunday, October 24, 2010

Catholicism and Poetry #5 Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1899) was a English poet and Jesuit priest. He converted from the Anglican church to Catholicism while studying...

Catholicism and Poetry #4 Dylan Thomas

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Dylan Thomas is not in any was a Catholic poet, and yet because of time in Welsh churches as a youth, the reading of the Bible, and an unful...

Sing Out Magazine: The Sing Out Radio Magazine

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Sing Out Magazine, for those not in the folkie know, is a magazine founded in 1950 by folk musicians and folk types including Pete Seeger. ...
Saturday, October 23, 2010

Process of a Painting

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Ah, dear reader, the few of you that there are. I can't pretend to know much about the visual arts besides film, but I loved the visual...

Maybe it isn't T.S. Elliot--So?

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Poetry is many things to many people, and often, just like kids who don't like vegetables because they have tasted raw broccoli, the yo...