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Day 34: Patna

Our stay in Patna began with being barred from two hotels for being for­eign­ers, then hav­ing the police called to our room by the third hotel for absolutely no rea­son. Luck­ily, the com­mand­ing offi­cer search­ing through our pass­ports while his col­leagues sat with their rifles ready also knew he’d been called for no rea­son, and …

04.05.2011 – 5:01:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in India II | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Emilie Simon

She’s appeared–admittedly pol­y­se­mous and ethereal–in my writ­ing more than once. And I’m cer­tain that in the future, oth­ers will be equally inspired by her work. If not, the future world will be def­i­nitely as deaf to the muses as I just fear they are today. I heard The Big Machine for the first time in the …

09.03.2010 – 9:59:AM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Success Story

After years of dust­ing itself in lan­guish, this aban­doned turntable rides again! Revived turntable: David Bowie — Space Oddity

08.31.2010 – 2:17:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Minor Setback, Major Sacrifices

I received word today that a story I wrote set for pub­li­ca­tion this win­ter called Cre­ation Myth had to be dropped from the mag­a­zine due to bud­get cut­backs.  With­out giv­ing any­thing away to you, the story fea­tures at least David Bowie, but pos­si­bly another other-worldly musi­cian from the future–from now? Does that mean from now, then? …

08.06.2010 – 10:00:PM | By Matt Carney | Posted in Blog | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)