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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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Someone Must Have Sent That To Kemp, Or, Not Enough Friends

Posted on August 26, 2012, 2:55 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

The way I became familiar with the piece is a sort of a shaggy dog story of lonely young people leveraging what social assets they had, and making do with what was available.

Tags: 1972, 1973, Abaddon, Abaddon's Bolero, apocalyptic rock, Apollyon, Archibald Macleish, aristocracy, Bach;, Baltimore, Bennett Hall, Beowulf, Bizet, Blue Hairs, bolero, Chastain, Chopin, Church of the Open Door, Cuban bolero, Damned, Debussy, Elect, Elon College, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Emory University, Grateful Dead, ham lamb & strawberry jam, Homewood Campus, Hopkins Press, In-a-Gadda-da-Vida, Inez Malone, Iron Butterfly, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johns HOpkins Univeristy, Keith Emerson, Kemp Malone, Kindle, Last Judgment, libraries, Light My Fire, Mateus, Modern Language Association, Muir Matheson, nature magazines, northern European languages, Old English, Old Norse, over-the-top rock, plain brown wrapper, Playboy, Prelude in C Major, Procol Harum, Repent Walpurgis, Richmond, Seven Tin Soldiers, Shakeseare Suite, Sherry, Southern aristocracy, Spanish bolero, the Animals, the Doors, The Girl I Left Behind Me, Trilogy, U-Haul, University of Pennsylvania, University Parkway, up north, war, We Love You Lil, William Walton
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Rounding Second Base

Posted on February 22, 2011, 10:29 pm, by Jack L. B. Gohn, under The Close Up, Theme Songs.

This Casanova stuff was terribly exciting, but in the psychotherapeutic language we all use today, I needed to process it. And that’s when I had my California Girls moment.

Tags: 120 film, 1965, 1966, Ann Arbor High School, Beach Boys, beard, Brian Wilson, Calcutta, California Girls, Casanova, Charlevoix, Crazy Eights, Dear John, DeJur reflex camera, Dion, Driver's Education, Eastern Michigan University, Goldfinger, Golf, Hollister's The Water's Edge Lodge, I'm A Wanderer, James Bond, Kare John, Lake Michigan, Mike Love, Modern Language Association, Murray's Inn, Olympia Press, Petoskey, Playboy, scruples, second base, Summer Days (And Summer Nights), the Beach Boys, third base, Traverse City, Walk On By, Whitehall Michigan, Woodstock
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Posts Tagged ‘Modern Language Association’

Bat’s Squeak

Someone Must Have Sent That To Kemp, Or, Not Enough Friends

Rounding Second Base

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