The Gypsy Lore Society: “Ludar The Ludar, or ‘Rumanian Gypsies,’ also emigrated to North America during the great immigration from southern and eastern Europe between 1880 and 1914. Most of the Ludar came from northwestern Bosnia. Upon their arrival in North America they specialized as animal trainers and show people, and indeed passenger manifests show …
Monthly Archives: November 2005
Happy Birthday To Me!
After various Thanksgiving festivities, the birthday cake came out, and I blessed it with a breath of hot air. While my parents and sister were unable to be in attendance, they received a “radio broadcast” over the phone of the opening of presents. Ted, Nancy, and Sherry then obliged me by somehow letting me win …
OTR in Belleville, OH
I first saw Over the Rhine perform in August of ought-four at the Glen Workshop in Santa Fe. They were promoting their double album OHIO, and I was moved in a way that I hadn’t been by music in quite some time. (Actually, something must have been going on that summer as I had the …
MusicTAP – The Evils of Muzak
MusicTAP – Music Flows Here :: Updated 11/07/05 12:01a ET ::: “Another offender comes from the band MercyMe, a Christian band that does a power ballad about “surrender to your love”, ostensibly about surrendering to the love of Christ. However, they went all cagey about it, writing the song in a way so that it …
Fall has, er, sprung
After a warm October and some absolutely miserable days of dreary clouds and rain, the trees finally decided it was time to pack in the canopies, show their true colors, and shed. For a few days, the view outside our upstairs windows was wild with red and orange and even some stubborn green. A couple …
