Tags
americana Bacchus billy joel boys cars city of angels college dance dance dance date night dollars and sense dream life end of days fighting fire freak out getting old girls grad school green H house I wish jobs LAX magic pebbles memory Nashville new jersey new york occupy Paris Hilton piano poetry pop life promos public transit real estate roses Shakespeare shit Simone de Beauvoir Temperance/Prohibition The Rules uniforms vacations weddings
Tag Archives: girls
So You Think You Can Dance Redux
[this.blue notes: Sarah originally posted this in comments, but it deserved its own post.] On the sisters: I try to imagine someone in an editing room, considering the story. What’s the story? What production assistant said–keep her, keep the big one. … Continue reading
So You Think You Can Dance
Two sisters audition together. They are black. They’re built with thick hips and strong hands. They dance together, the only couple on the show. They incorporate African dance into their routine. They are easy with each other, best friends, they … Continue reading
This is Mickey Mouse stuff!
Shirley Jackson. She was my debate teacher. Debate, for some reason, was part of the regular curriculum in 7th grade. After class, a group of us sat in a circle on worn-down student desks that were all a slightly different … Continue reading
Pop Life: Say Goodbye
E. wants a summer anthem, and I have a couple of options, but what kind of summer do we want? What kind of summer would each song summon? The summer I worked with E., I lived in North Adams, just … Continue reading
LAX / Mazatlán
All of the seats in the waiting area are taken so I sit on the floor near the garbage cans. But then a man in shorts and a cowboy hat walks by and says, “Road block!!” He was talking to … Continue reading
Scratch that.
Yesterday, I read the Louis Menand article in The New Yorker about Sartre and Beauvoir. It ends with this line: Though her affairs, for the most part, were love affairs, it is plain from almost every page she wrote that … Continue reading
Part III: Billy Joel Epilogue
Since that night, Annette Roque and Matt Lauer have had three children. During her last pregnancy in 2006, Annette filed for divorce. But then she took it back. They went through counseling. This is all public record—I never spoke to … Continue reading