Rodney Koeneke's Blog, page 24

Music or Fashion?

Though I missed the chance to track her down and say so, Laura Moriarty rocked some seriously fashionable threads at the Verdi Club this weekend. The whole event was fashion-forward, if by "forward" you mean accessorized with white autoharps. That room hasn't held so many hat brims since the Great War.

Thanks to Brandon Downing, I felt "with it" for a full five seconds, buying the new WAVVES record just after news of Nathan Williams's Barcelona meltdown hit Pitchfork. So everyone I was talking it

Post-Avant

Avant

Dryden's Coach (Restoration Snap)

"And so much for Mr. Dryden; whose burial was the same as his life, variety and not of a piece: the quality and mob, farce and heroics: the sublime and ridiculous mixed in a piece; great Cleopatra in a hackney coach."

—George Farquhar

Dept. of Monday: The Saunter

"A man commonly saunters a little in turning his hand from one sort of employment to another."

Finance from the Oracle at Delphi

Economy is Yahweh.

Mosses to a New Manse (Peter Culley in Portland TONIGHT)

Poet Peter Culley's in Portland tonight, appearing in conversation with local "Eco-Baroque" artists Bruce Conkle and Marne Lucas. The event is hosted by the back room; if you haven't been to one of their unique shindigs before, this is a good one to explore, with a special "pay for whatever you eat and drink" rate.

the back room hosts a conversation with
PETER CULLEY, BRUCE CONKLE & MARNE LUCAS
*TONIGHT* JULY 21, 7 PM
Mandarin House, 120 SW Ankeny, 2nd floor (the atrium space across from the Skidm

12 or 20 questions

"But good and bad are terms I pretty much grew out of once I moved to San Francisco, the birthplace of the provisional and the contingent." "I think it was 1991 when I realized that the writer has no role in the larger culture. Succeeding developments have only hardened this condition, but it is still something of a surprise, rather like the man who can't remember he has now only one hand." "I lack discipline and yet, I don't believe in it much."

Status Update

Sort of like this.

Seasonal Metempsycosis

"And therefore though this soule could not move when it was a Melon, yet it may remember, and now tell mee, at what lascivious banquet it was serv'd."