David Michael Newstead's Blog, page 13
October 18, 2023
Speak Low
Kurt Weill
Speak low when you speak, love,
Our summer day withers away
Too soon, too soon.
Speak low when you speak, love,
Our moment is swift, like ships adrift,
We’re swept apart too soon.
Speak low, darling speak low,
Love is a spark lost in the dark,
Too soon, too soon,
I feel wherever I go
That tomorrow is near, tomorrow is here
And always too soon.
Time is so old and love so brief,
Love is pure gold and time a thief.
We’re late darling, we’re late,
The curtain descends, everything ends
Too soon, too soon,
I wait darling, I wait
Will you speak low to me,
Speak love to me and soon.
October 11, 2023
Official Typewriter Inheritance Watchlist
David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving
Enjoy the new (and evolving) companion watchlist to the Typewriter Inheritance, including a wide variety of films and documentaries for your Fall and Winter viewing. These range from movies like Wreck-It Ralph and Minamata to TV miniseries like Station Eleven and the documentary California Typewriter.
October 4, 2023
September 28, 2023
Things I’ve Found in Used Books
David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving
A gas bill from 1985 for $28.Notes about the French Revolution.An index card of detailed citations.Subscription information for a publication that no longer exists.Pamphlets about the popular 1990s CD-ROM game Myst.A $5.00 Amtrak ticket for Monica from September 2009 from Washington DC to a town near Laurel, Maryland named Savage, Maryland. This was used as a bookmark in a textbook about Urban Transportation.A handwritten cursive letter gifting a book about barbershop stories.September 20, 2023
September 13, 2023
September 6, 2023
Synonyms for Unprecedented
David Michael Newstead | The Philosophy of Shaving
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