Last night, our ALA and ACRL student chapters hosted Mary Ellen Davis, Executive Director of ACRL, and GSLIS alum. She spoke about ACRL and the future of academic libraries, and also showed us the new ACRL recruiting video. She did speak relatively realistically about the situation though. More so than ALA for sure. [11 Jun [...]
Entries from April 2005
Mary Ellen Davis at UIUC
April 30th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Tags: Conversation · Education · Food and Drink · Librariana
Origin of Love :17: resonance
April 28th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Origin of Love – Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Hedwig and the Angry Inch original motion picture soundtrack, © 2001)
I’ve only had this 9 days. I 1st watched the movie on 9 Aug & bought the soundtrack 11 Aug 02, but I love it. I’ve listened to it at least once and usually twice a [...]
Broken Bicycles / Junk :16: resonance
April 28th, 2005 · Comments Off
Broken Bicycles / Junk – Anne Sofie Von Otter Meets Elvis Costello (For The Stars, © 2001)
Another one I lucked into. I took TJ to downtown Normal (3 Jun 02) and we stopped in Mother Murphy’s and I grabbed this since I’m an Elvis fan. The queen of European opera does pop. What an incredible [...]
Thanks for the hug!
April 26th, 2005 · Comments Off
Thank you for the hug ma’am!
Better even than the massage I got today.
Tags: My Life
Come Away With Me :15: resonance
April 26th, 2005 · 3 Comments
Come Away With Me – Norah Jones (come away with me, © 2002)
Someone left this CD in the computer lab early in the summer & I borrowed it out of the lost & found. What an incredible young talent & she even wrote this song. I love this CD!
…and I want to walk with you [...]
Theöne Redux
April 26th, 2005 · 1 Comment
Well, I made it through my story-song just fine yesterday. My left leg started shaking pretty violently towards the end for some stupid reason. Residual embarrassment from last week?
The extra week actually allowed me to make it more my own and to say it as a poem vs. singing it—which was terrifying to me.
Theöne [...]
Tags: Education · Librariana · Music · My Life
I Don’t Know Enough About You :14: resonance
April 26th, 2005 · Comments Off
I would like to dedicate this years CD (Valentine’s Day 2002) to two of the many souls we lost this past year. Maybe if the world payed more attention to what they both sang and wrote about we wouldn’t suffer the loss of so many… [George Harrison was the 1st dedicatee]
Peggy Lee 26 May 1920 [...]
falling is like this :13: resonance
April 24th, 2005 · Comments Off
falling is like this – Ani DiFranco (out of range, © 1994)
you give me that look that’s like laughing with liquid in your mouth like you’re choosing between choking and spitting it all out like you’re trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling and falling is like this
Just [...]
Perfect Fingers :12: resonance
April 24th, 2005 · Comments Off
These next 2 songs [only one here], particularly, are about ‘touch.’ I’m actually compiling songs for a CD about ‘touch,’ but that’s a different story.
The gift of touch is even better than that of music, but it is necessarily more restricted. Don’t ever lose this gift or you will have lost almost everything.
A comment [...]
Night :11: resonance
April 23rd, 2005 · 3 Comments
Night – Feisty (Better Than Chocolate, © 1999)
Tell me that you need something that I can give,a better way to purr inside your skin,please make me me again.
This & #12 are from one of my favorite little ‘love story’ movies. It’s even higher on my list of soundtracks. A beautiful little story about the search [...]