Author Archives: Jeremy Denk

Injustice

Some good friends of mine are heading out today to Laramie, Wyoming to play a concert. I have never played there, which really doesn’t seem quite fair, for obvious reasons: There once was a pianist named JeremyWho flew out to give concerts in LaramieBut as he sat down to playA rip at his rear made […]

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Not Arrivederci, but Addio

There are some cultural events so momentous, dear readers, that I must suspend the daily rotor of events, must pause even mid-Venti, unfolding and plugging in the aluminum square which skeptical future generations, uncomprehending, will have to speculate was some sort of universal God or Icon, and lay fingers velvety over the clicking surfaces, and […]

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Overdue Recommendation

I advise readers of this blog to hear Gabriel Kahane’s masterful setting of a CraigsList posting (“Neurotic and Lonely”), immediately. Go to his MySpace page, and click on CraigslistNeurotic…

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Unnoticeable Variability

“Yes, I confess, to my eternal chagrin I am indeed a chip man.” I couldn’t really believe this sentence fell out of my mouth. If you haven’t traveled on Amtrak recently, you are in for a surprise; pursuant to some distant policy, the Acela workers are now aggressively pushing product. I came up, ordered a […]

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