The perfect soundtrack/antidote to a dreary, chilly day spent inside copy editing.
http://www.nonesuch.com/albums/ligeti-beethoven
I imagine that it would be a wonderful soundtrack for other purposes, too, but that’s its purpose today, chez René.
I know I haven’t been updating the blog in a few days. Real life intrudes obnoxiously sometimes.
You hear all the best birds at 4:00 in the morning. Olivier Messiaen would love our south-city songbirds.
Today I added several links to the Links to Published Writing page, gussied up various pages with some new uploaded photos, and created a new catch-all page for unpublished writing. It’s called Odd Unpublished Things and contains, of all things, odd unpublished things: from a spate of fever-fueled DVD reviews to the last poem I ever finished, when I was an undergraduate in college.
This blogging bidness is a laborious task for a compulsive person with terrible completist tendencies tempered with paralyzing self-doubt, but I guess I can’t make a decent blog in one day, even if I do keep teenage vampire hours.
I will strive to be more interesting in the future. Thank you for reading, all three of you.
For at least 10 years, well-meaning people have been telling me that I need a blog. For professional reasons. Seeing as how I call myself a freelance writer. Sometimes these well-meaning people even put me on the spot and ask me where they can read my so-called writing. I just wave airily and say, “Oh, you could always google René Spencer Saller, and see what comes up.”
In truth, I mostly hate blogs, and it seemed very likely that I would hate my own, if I had one. But early this morning, plagued by insomnia, I thought, well, why not? It’s free, after all, and it’s easier if everything is organized in one place.
So far all I’ve done is upload a bunch of links. They’re all on the Links to Published Writing page above, haphazardly organized. Click at your peril.
I am also a freelance editor, but that’s far too boring to write about. I’m fairly good at it, and I’ve been doing it professionally for more than 20 years now.
The home of Unpopular Culture
Author of SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT (coming 11/21), CITY OF MARGINS, A FRIEND IS A GIFT YOU GIVE YOURSELF, THE LONELY WITNESS, and GRAVESEND
Film Journalism by Kimberly Lindbergs
Music and Beat literature-related blogsite
Writings on classical music and culture
Mostly car-free commuter. BWorks staffer. Former talk show producer. Overthinker, clog dancer, lover of Emily Dickinson.
Writing About and Reviewing Classical Music and Jazz
Studying the glorious work of those who want to do your thinking for you
We talk about music on our podcast and we write about it here
A Brief History of Music
Thoughts on pop music and other things now and then.
(A love affair with music)
St Louis At 45RPM
Fishwrap, Birdcage Lining, Packing Material, and, in a pinch, Ass-Wipe
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