A Momentary Interlude

We interrupt this hiatus to bring you breaking news of important awesomeness...

Pardon me whilst I get all artsy-fartsy on your asses for a moment:

Some of y'all are aware that my husband Jamie co-runs a small press -- Narrow House -- of which his weekly rockheals.com is a part. Well, Narrow House has just released a new CD and book from our dear friend Ric Royer, and its getting rave reviews like this one from the Baltimore CityPaper:

“There Were One and It Was Two: Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum, a new spoken-word performance CD and book that's his first project with Narrow House Recordings and the local poetry publisher's most ambitious project to date. It's a funny, informative, and freakishly entertaining exploration of the concept of the double--as otherness, as twins, as pairings, as doppelgängers, and so on--in literature, in psychology, in epistemology, in nature, in mythology, and in the serendipitous collisions of all of the above. As with most of Royer's live performances, each of There Were One's 10 individual tracks takes the form of the narrative lecture, with sound accompaniment provided by local unconscious thought mover/shaker John Berndt. Don't misconstrue that setup, however: Royer and Berndt aren't tapping into some Jack Kerouac and Steve Allen hep-cat bop wonking. There Were One is one of the city's most genuinely odd cultural artifacts in some time.”

Also, there's a CD/Book release party (see flyer above) this Friday (err, tomorrow), so if you're local or Baltimore-bound, please to stop by!

And if you're not in the area but you'd like to snag a copy of your very own (for a measly $12!), please to click here to buy! And thank ye!

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Comments

[Baltimoregal]

Cool! I will try to make it- based on whether or not I collapse from heat exhaustion after my work retreat tomorrow... Barring that, I'll be there!

[TastesLikeCrazy]

Since I don't live anywhere near there, I guess I'll just have to shell out the $12. Thanks for the info.

[joy]

looks slightly odd and right up my alley;-)