After buying some overpriced, imported soap on the ped mall and joining an anti-war march I’d happened across, I sit in a coffee shop, read Colson Whitehead’s The Intuitionist (an old recommendation from JC), satisfy my ever-growing need for caffeine and await E’s arrival.
I call B, my last Iowa City contact who hasn’t moved to […]
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The Existential Buzz: Stuart Davis in Iowa City
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: 2008 · AP Issues · June · Music Reviews
The One-Man Choir: Elliott Smith’s New Moon
October 14th, 2007 · No Comments
The first posthumous collection of Elliott Smith’s songs, 2004’s From a Basement on a Hill (ANTI-Records), showcased the music he had been recording in the months immediately preceding his death. There he can be heard leaning more heavily on electric guitars, experimenting with trippy ambient noises and sounding at times like a self-conscious one-man Beatles. […]
Tags: 2007 · AP Issues · Music Reviews · September
