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Bat’s Squeak

Posted on March 7, 2013, 9:05 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

I knew now that I had a susceptibility. I might never act on it, but I had it. What I did not have, it soon emerged, was a job.

Tags: 1974, 1975, Ann Arbor, Baltimore, BART, bat's squeak, Black Water, Brideshead Revisited, Catholic, Charles Ryder, Christmas, condominium, Confederacy, Detroit Metropolitan Airport, Doobie Brothers, English Ph.D., flirtation, Golden Gate Bridge, Goucher College, Gray Line, Guilford Avenue, Japanese Tea Garden, job market, Julia, Mary Ann Singleton, meat market, Mission Dolores, MLA, Modern Language Association, New Orleans, New Year's, North Carolina State University, Patrick Simmons, Raleigh, San Francisco, Southern, Southwest, Tales of the City, Telegraph Hill, Union Square, University of New Mexico at Las Cruces, Valencia Street
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Through the Heat

Posted on January 25, 2013, 9:47 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

In my mind’s eye, I’m walking that two-block long stretch of 31st Street in blistering, shimmering, soul-annihilating heat. And instantly, the song that comes to my mind is Santana’s Eternal Caravan of Reincarnation. Never have I heard a number that so vividly conveys sheer atmospheric heat.

Tags: 1972, 1975, 3035 Guilford, 3120 St. Paul St., Antero Pietila, Body Heat, Caravanserai, Carlos Santana, Estate, Eternal Caravan of Redemption, Grantchester Meadows, Hadley Caliman, Lazy Afternoon, Michael Shrieve, Neal Schon, Not In My Neighborhood, Pink Floyd, restrictive covenants, Santana, Something Cool, Summer in the City, Tom Rutley, Too Darn Hot, Towson Public Library, Under the Boardwalk, Up on the Roof, Wendy Hass
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