And everyone and I stopped sweeping.

Agree this one’s great fun, & the likely intended subtext, soft-pedaled just enough to get past the 50s censors, is delicious.

OK. I’ve seen the film now. As the linked interview says, this is an effort to express why we have this music.

Thanks to all who made this.

This Q&A about the film reinforces why I feel worried—even a bit ashamed—when I use Jazz elements in my Parlando Project compositions. As a poet & naive composer I haven’t lived this music—& as a barely musician I can’t represent its excellence.

But it still compels. I’ll do it—even if be damned.

But that composer is right, however worried I was at first reading her remarks. Dickinson’s Alternative Hymnal draws us in—“You can sing them to Gilligan’s Island!” But there more mystery there, enough that it shouldn’t be easy. #music #poetry #MusiscSky

I certainly felt, if not simply ease, an irresistible rightness to do so, a poem like this demands it. If my work detracts, ED’s poems will stand, asking again, until someone does it better. frankhudson.org/2024/09/24/i...

I can’t stop. Handing out samples in the aisles under this duo billing is a kind of performance. Lunds & Byerlys.

Deep cut, with portage and reportage: Sevareid and Port.

OK, I’m stretching out the concept: Blind Boy Grunt & Elston Gunnn

Wow. Didn’t know that Elk & Seal connection. I played a little with Dean Seal & still have his bass that he traded even-up for mine.

If modest fame is enough, Elk & Seal would be another MN duo billed by last names.

Chris said last names, but their Pottslyvanian billing was “Moose & Squirrel” — so, it should count.

I think I can see why you are glad to rediscover this profession of faith & process. It helps me, for one, understand why you write & the tactics you’ve adopted.

For those who’d like a small present to unwrap, here is your statement on #poetry

For those who prefer video, here's the "lyric video" of my performance of the song made from Paul Laurence Dunbar's poem "The Sparrow" about the gifts we overlook www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_g-...

I'll add a second to Paul's suggestion: these In the Reign the Mad King pieces of yours would make a fine collection.

I doesn’t need translation from English for this reader. 😀

For those sailing through their feeds, I’ll should offer the text of Dunbar’s poem of the refused gift. Here it is:

Your concluding stanza, however sad, is lovely.