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I'd Rather Be in Italy: Leaves
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Friday, November 25, 2011. So it's fall and the trees have been very busy dumping their leaves. Thanksgiving is always a reference point for me. It seems like my first few years living here, there were still lots of leaves left on the trees as we rolled into the last part of November. This year, definitely not. We have had some early cold, and most of the leaves are down. Bing Crosby - Autumn Leaves. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: January 2012
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Sunday, January 08, 2012. Story for a Full Moon. I love Italo Calvino's stories. Tonight I ran across news that an album of music inspired by If on a winter's night a traveler. Will be released this week, and the samples sound lovely. I'll write more once I get my hands on the whole thing. I hadn't heard the following story before, but I thought this little film was just beautiful. The distance from the moon - Italo Calvino. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: April 2013
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Sunday, April 28, 2013. But I haven't been able to put it together quite right, and the moment has passed. So today I am posting for the sake of the music. Because for the first time today I came across this one. Oh, Mumford and Sons. Masters of the slow crescendo of intensity, and the crushing wave that is the full impact of the song's resolution. I have no words. Mumford and Sons: Home. Tuesday, April 02, 2013. So What is the collective memory of our age that we want to pass on?
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: Learning again
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Saturday, October 26, 2013. Since the beginning of September, there has been a piano in my apartment. It is a marvelous old instrument that belonged to my grandmother, an accomplished pianist in her own right. It has loaned an air of gravitas to my hobbled-together little home. I had to give away an Ikea metal-framed futon to make a place for it. This looks a little more grown up. Isn't it lovely and dignified? See the sheet music on the piano in the picture? On Sebastian Wolff's ...
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: Musique d'auteur
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Thursday, October 10, 2013. So a person who watches night-time comedy content produced by Comedy Central is bound to see a lot of advertisements for adult beverages. Most ads are just icky. Few rise above the scuffle. One company, though, long known for its iconic print ads, does so consistently. The ad I saw this weekend while catching up on the Colbert Report on hulu was as visually and musically arresting as an ad could be. So I went hunting. And Run Boy Run. And finally, there...
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: No words.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Sunday, April 28, 2013. But I haven't been able to put it together quite right, and the moment has passed. So today I am posting for the sake of the music. Because for the first time today I came across this one. Oh, Mumford and Sons. Masters of the slow crescendo of intensity, and the crushing wave that is the full impact of the song's resolution. I have no words. Mumford and Sons: Home. April 28, 2013 at 6:33:00 PM EDT. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: Life is bigger than I am.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Sunday, March 10, 2013. Life is bigger than I am. And I find myself seeking escape in just about any way I can. Books. Sleep. Music. Sleep. Sleep. Netflix. Books. Sleep. Sleep. Sleep. Lauren Hoffman - Out of the Sky, Into the Sea. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. All original content ©yalayla! Blogging with Amilynne (now defunct). I am a hypocrite, but I have reasons for that. Life is bigger than I am.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: Story for a Full Moon
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Sunday, January 08, 2012. Story for a Full Moon. I love Italo Calvino's stories. Tonight I ran across news that an album of music inspired by If on a winter's night a traveler. Will be released this week, and the samples sound lovely. I'll write more once I get my hands on the whole thing. I hadn't heard the following story before, but I thought this little film was just beautiful. The distance from the moon - Italo Calvino. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Story for a Full Moon.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: March 2013
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Sunday, March 31, 2013. I am a hypocrite, but I have reasons for that. JC Penney was playing Morrissey the other night - Every Day is Like Sunday. And I want it on record that I don't approve of my youth becoming the new cool vintage for kids to appropriate much the same way I appropriated peace signs and other trappings of the '60s to be cool when I was a teenager. The Smiths - Stop me if you think you've heard this one before. Sunday, March 10, 2013. Life is bigger than I am.
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I'd Rather Be in Italy: October 2013
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I'd Rather Be in Italy. Saturday, October 26, 2013. Since the beginning of September, there has been a piano in my apartment. It is a marvelous old instrument that belonged to my grandmother, an accomplished pianist in her own right. It has loaned an air of gravitas to my hobbled-together little home. I had to give away an Ikea metal-framed futon to make a place for it. This looks a little more grown up. Isn't it lovely and dignified? See the sheet music on the piano in the picture? On Sebastian Wolff's ...