The Many Sides of Tagging
The first time I was tagged, I was no where near any books, so I thought I could sneak away quietly. But the second time I was tapped, I realized there was no escaping karma, so here 'tis.
The rules of the meme:
1. Pick up the nearest book.
2. Open to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the next three sentences.
5. Tag five people, and acknowledge who tagged you.
This passage comes to us courtesy of Vikram Chandra's Sacred Games, nearly 1000 pages of film noir that's been kicked down a Bollywood alley. Good stuff.
"'Gaitonde,' he said, 'they are bajaoing your baja, you better run away and hide, you'll get finished.' After our thirteenth death, three of my boys just didn't appear for morning attendence the next day. I knew they hadn't been killed, but that they had just walked away from a losing game."
I believe I've lunched with some performing arts professionals who sport pretty much the same outlook.
I send the iChain along to The Husband, The Professor, The Journalist, The Ethnomusicologist (who swears he wants to play in the mud of new music with us), and The Man Who Introduced Me To My Life. Play ball.
AJ Blogs
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the blog of the National Performing Arts Convention
Terry Teachout on the arts in New York City
Andrew Taylor on the business of arts & culture
rock culture approximately
Rebuilding Gulf Culture after Katrina
Douglas McLennan's blog
Art from the American Outback
No genre is the new genre
John Rockwell on the arts
Jan Herman - arts, media & culture with 'tude
dance
Apollinaire Scherr talks about dance
Tobi Tobias on dance et al...
jazz
Howard Mandel's freelance Urban Improvisation
Focus on New Orleans. Jazz and Other Sounds
Doug Ramsey on Jazz and other matters...
media
Jeff Weinstein's Cultural Mixology
Martha Bayles on Film...
classical music
Greg Sandow performs a book-in-progress
Exploring Orchestras w/ Henry Fogel
Harvey Sachs on music, and various digressions
Kyle Gann on music after the fact
Greg Sandow on the future of Classical Music
Norman Lebrecht on Shifting Sound Worlds
publishing
Jerome Weeks on Books
Scott McLemee on books, ideas & trash-culture ephemera
theatre
Wendy Rosenfield: covering drama, onstage and off
Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world
Elizabeth Zimmer on time-based art forms
visual
Public Art, Public Space
John Perreault's art diary
Lee Rosenbaum's Cultural Commentary
Tyler Green's modern & contemporary art blog

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