susurr.us

• 2009-07-31

  a woman from inside out

• 2009-07-10

  String Cheese Incident - Rothbury Festival - Michigan - 2009-07-03

• 2009-07-03

  He was obsessed with the Arctic, his imagination stoked by epic accounts of the doughty pioneers who had led wooden ships into uncharted waters and northern mists.

  —  Sara Wheeler, “In Cold Blood?”

• 2009-06-09

  Rolling Stones - Torn and Frayed - The villa Nellcote in Villefranche sur Mer - Summer 1971 - Exile

• 2009-05-13

  One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live among people who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, recognize its taste in the bitter leaves of plants.

  — Wade Davis “Shadows in the Sun”

• 2009-04-14

  

  sandstorm - Iraq - apr, 2005

• 2009-04-13

  

  snowstorm

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  Bring out your Dead

  The sound quality of the “Betty Boards,” which began circulating in 1987, was exceptional: so good that for the initiates, it nearly reinvented listening. She made her own stereo mix on a separate feed from the house P.A. mix, strictly for posterity, and she considered the mixes from 1977 among her best. (“I want you to be inside the music,” she once said of her audio ideal. “I don’t want stereos playing at you, I want you to be in there, I want it around you.”) The Cornell show was the first widely circulated tape to sound that good.

• 2009-04-02

  Pearl Jam - Corduroy - Vienna, Austria - 2006-09-25

• 2009-02-11

  Ludwig van Beethoven - Sonata 14 in C# ‘Moonlight’ - played by the great Claudio Arrau