Baxterblog

Baxter's back

2007-08-16T23:41:02Z

Hi there. I'm back, after not posting since April. My life has been complicated for the last few months, both personally and professionally. But it's not something I ever wanted to write about; this was never an autobiographical, let-it-all-ha...

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Thank you, Bob

2007-04-23T18:56:03Z

Bob Worral was a hell of a guy. He could make you feel like a lifelong friend after one conversation. Because he was intensely interested in other people, he could quickly find out which of his many interests overlapped yours, and soon you'd be ...

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Random ten

2007-03-30T11:29:19Z

1, Colorado - Stephen Stills 2. Believe In You - Amy Rigby 3. Broken Arm - Winterpills (available as a free download at the SXSW website - highly recommended) 4. Second Brain - Kaki King (different track available at SXSW - wonderful guitaris...

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Movie notes

2007-03-27T12:26:56Z

The movie 300 is reprehensible, knuckle-headed, ridiculous, completely wrong, and totally awesome. It's a movie you either go with completely and have a great time, or don't and find yourself continually amazed at how terrible it is. The second ...

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The Apples in Stereo

2007-03-25T18:31:31Z

There's a fine power pop album in here, but you have to dig through some layers of whimsy to get to it. The Apples have some catchy songs and put them across boldly,but they indulge themselves too much, mostly in between-track nonsense - instru...

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Connelly

2007-03-21T04:19:58Z

Since I'm on a mystery kick, I thought it was time to give Michael Connelly another try. His work is bestselling and critically acclaimed, he's the leading light in the genre of Modern American Noir, but he hasn't moved me. I'd tried him twice ...

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Premonition - I've got a bad feeling about this

2007-03-16T12:57:56Z

Yesterday, I heard a radio commercial for the new movie Premonition. It contained this phrase: "Critics say, Premonition is a sensational supernatural thriller. Four stars." It didn't name the critics who said these things, I couldn't find the...

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End in Tears, by Ruth Rendell

2007-03-16T04:54:25Z

Mystery writer Ruth Rendell is one of the best at what I think of as the Modern British Style, which combines elements of the police procedural and the deductive whodunit. End In Tears is the latest book in her Inspector Wexford series, which...

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Music notes, with the random ten

2007-02-24T06:43:08Z

Hi, I'm back. Trying to get back into the habit of blogging, with some record reviews and a random ten. This is the record I've been hoping Lucinda would put out for some time - melancholy without drowning in self-pity, meticulously crafted...

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Book of the week - The Italian Secretary

2007-02-24T04:23:28Z

When I was about 12, I read a book that really changed everything for me, affected my relationship with literature, set me on a path that I still travel to this day. I wish I could say that the book was something cool like On the Road or The Bro...

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