Composing cool tunes for warm people
by Nicole Skeltys Graeme and Eugenie: the ties that bind Last night I Skyped Canberra to try and speak to Eugenie, my adopted Mum. I have been more than usually anxious about Graeme, my adopted Dad, for over a week now. When I was in Philadelphia I received an email[…]
Read More »by Nicole Skeltys Pittsburgh: Je T’aime! As I write this, we have been living in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, for almost 3 weeks. Lawrenceville is an inner working class Pittsburgh suburb which is in transition to becoming a funkier neighborhood. You can tell its ‘up and coming’ because there are little designer[…]
Read More »by Nicole Skeltys A week and a half ago, we caught a bus from NYC Chinatown to Philadelphia. What happens is you buy your ticket from hawkers off East Broadway, then a person waving a flag yells something incomprehensible at you and you run after them down the street, looking[…]
Read More »by Nicole Skeltys When we introduced ourselves, the large black doorman broke into a big sly grin, showing a gold capped tooth. “The Jilted Brides, huh? Ha ha ha. Thats a great name”. A couple of babes dressed in uptown fashions for their night out in the East Village, teetered[…]
Read More »By Nicole Skeltys Back to the garden “We are stardust, we are golden,We are caught in the devils bargain,And we got to get ourselves back to the garden”.“Woodstock”, Joni Mitchell, 1969. Whitehead’s autocratic personality jarred with his espoused libertarian views and alienated many of the artists that initially gathered to[…]
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