31 Dec 2009 01:14 pm2
everywhere i turn it seems people are very glad that 2009 is over. not to be a naysayer but i don’t have such bad memories of it. in fact it seems like one of the best years this decade, color me a simpleton optimist. see, we made it through! some of us with some new found (little and old) ones to care for and laugh with! new and old songs to love and hum and ... ten years of memories,… Read More
28 Oct 2009 12:00 am1
you know the Spanish rhyme about the sky, looking as if it is bricked up? tonight waiting for a train to take me back home from Gatwick i looked up and thought that was precisely what had happened, wondering when a good unbricker would appear.. it looked like the wall across the platform, gray and completely smooth like a plane of plaster reaching up to the end of the sky. But it was only fog. An illusion of pasty flatness… Read More
07 Oct 2009 12:00 am
Bluestonehenge. ‘I think we have found incontrovertible proof that the river was very important to the people who used Stonehenge. I believe that the river formed a conduit between the living and the dead and this is the point where you leave the realm of the living at the river and enter the one of the dead at Stonehenge.’ Prof. M. Pearson on today’s Guardian. A younger more archaeo-inclined me gets excited when i read such headlines. I’ll keep… Read More
06 Oct 2009 12:00 am2
Hey peeps, happy Autumn. There are leaves everywhere. The birds still have some of their harvest to come, but it’s time to start thinking of buying your bulk peanuts and balls of sueeeeet. Come late October, early November, they’ll be coming around, specially the squirrelbirds. I was down in Madrid last week and loaded up on pipas-related snacks for the birdhouse. Summer was great, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something about this autumn i’m really excited about. Apart from… Read More
02 Sep 2009 12:00 am3
If anywhere near these cities you MUST (italic & bold - very insistent!) attend these concerts! i have heard some songs now and, oh my, wow, they are amazing as you could well imagine. as per usual, do it for me, the pipas member who is disadvantaged in ability to attend such long distance musical events. have fun, mark
Amor de Días = Alasdair MacLean (The Clientele) and Lupe Núñez-Fernández (Pipas), plus a handful of… Read More