Quote of the Day ** T-Shirt of the Century! **

"Without art, we are but monkeys with car keys."

-- (usually cited as Anonymous; once attributed to Jo Brand) Sent to me by Karen Shaffer, who probably got it from Stu Jenks, or vice versa.

** Want to be the Duchess Tremontaine? Wear this! **

My aesthetic Love God Jim Kelso has pointed us all to the work of Jacques Vesery . . . Please try not to drool on the computer; it's bad for it.

Waterson-Carthy

they're on a small US tour (NY state & Vermont) right now - see their website for gig details (remembering that, under the Brit system, 05/03/07 translates as March 5)!

Martin Carthy's music, and the Watersons, were a HUGE HUGE I mean would probably not have written it without them Huge influence on my Thomas the Rhymer and Delia's Through a Brazen Mirror. If you've never heard trad British ballads - or if you love them very much - don't miss them. Plus, they've got charisma to burn. (Oh, and the title -and epigraph - of TPOTS comes from the song "The Dominion of the Sword" - one of my original preferences for a title, btw! - on Carthy's album Right of Passage.) If you can't go, buy albums!

We will be at Symphony Space tom'w night, R Orch row E.