BWare : X of the year, 2011

Song: Bloodbuzz Ohio, The National, High Violet. Driving deserted freeways across Ohio at 4 AM in a big American sports car, on cold dark wet shining October roads, after 10 days of climbing at the RRG, with the drum beat from this song going over and over…
Concert: The National, Hollywood Bowl, Sunday, September 11. I didn’t go to a lot of concerts, but this was one of the best I’ve been to in years. I went for Neko Case and walked away a National fan.
Album: Foo Fighters, Wasting Light. On shuffle all year. Close second: Jason & The Scorchers, Halcyon Times.
Book(s): Tie: The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton, and The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason. And I’m on my Nth trip through Moby Dick. Seriously. I have read this book more times than I can count. And for that matter, on another journey through Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Exhibit: Tie: Venice Biennale, and William Eggleston: Democratic Camera—Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, Broad Contemporary Art Museum, LACMA, October 31, 2010–January 16, 2011. Where it dawned on me, 25 years later, that I very likely met Mr. Eggleston in a former life in Dallas, Texas. tl;dr involving an actress ex, David Byrne, True Stories, and an early Spalding Gray spoken word performance in Deep Ellum. Ain’t life strange. Cool story, bro.

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