10.23.2008: Cleveland (5)
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Highway RobberyIn an interview with The New York Times, Eminem reveals he rides a bike. See you on the streets of Detroit in a few days, Marshall.We have a day off here in the Land of Cleve, so a group of us hailed 2 taxis to take us to a movie theater in Shaker Heights to see W. I ride shotgun and when we tell the driver we’re going to see a movie, he volunteers ...
10.20.2008: Louisville (2)
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We’re staying at 21c, a combo museum and hotel here in downtown Louisville. The ground and lower floors are given over to curated shows of contemporary art, much of it from the collection of the owner, Steve Wilson and his wife.I was given Wilson’s contact by Stefan Sagmeister, who designed the package for the various physical manifestations of my current album, Everything That Happens Will Happen Today, as well as many of my past CDs. ...
10.15.2008: Milwaukee (2)
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It’s raining, so plans to bike down the lakefront to the new Calatrava designed museum are scuttled, but Lily has a school friend Andi here who has a better idea. A group of us pile into Andi’s car and head for the house of Andi’s friend Paul, who lives in a boat that was built on dry land. Paul, says Andi, is a bit of a historian of the rich local culture, so together they’ll ...
10.08.2008: San Francisco (1)
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C flew in from New York and met us in Santa Barbara, and after the show, she joined us on the bus to San Francisco, about a 5-hour ride. We took the back lounge, which sounds nice, but it turned out to be a bad idea. The lovely back lounge is the noisiest and bumpiest part of the bus; we got very little sleep. I was worried that our drowsiness would mess up the plans ...
09.23.2008: America The Beautiful (1)
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Memphis In the afternoon, one group went to the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and raved about how interesting, well thought out, and moving it is. I went to visit Winston Eggleston regarding a project to project some of his dad’s photos onto the side of a massive former Sears building here in November. This project would coincide with dad Bill’s upcoming retrospective at the Whitney in New York City. Jenni and Graham stopped ...
