This is a weirdly misadvertised 17 minute track on the Star Wars original soundtrack 2004 release. While the track does start with a grimly prophetic alternate version of the music to the famous binary sunset scene (the use of the dies irae hints at the deaths of Luke’s aunt and uncle, a scene where that […]
Month: August 2019
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka
National Library of LatviaRiga, LatviaJuly 2018 Riga in contrast to Bucharest has a lovely old town that did not suffer during the Soviet era (instead it got itself UNESCO listed). The library lies on the other side of the Daugava River. I got a view of the building while waiting a few minutes across the […]
Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei
National Library of RomaniaBucharest, RomaniaApril 2018 Bucharest is a town that’s rather stuck with the Communist architecture of the 80s, yet, if you’re willing to navigate its various side streets you can sometimes find gems of a past era. When I was there I had the good fortune to glimpse the Mănăstirea Antim, a monastery […]
Nielsen Library
Adams State UniversityAlamosa, ColoradoJuly 2019 Isn’t every library in the world named Nielsen Library? Actually this isn’t the case although Smith College in my hometown has the Neilson Library, which when I last saw it looked like nothing more than a Victorian façade and a giant bulldozed ditch as part of Maya Lin’s latest architectural […]
Promiscuity
If you have time for it, listen to this song.
SLV
Every region has its acronyms, shortcuts for referring to places. Creede and the surrounding area have SLV, San Luis Valley, as the abbreviation for where they are. The name infuses the valley. There’s the SLV REC, San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative (when asked what REC stood for at work I once said “regional electric […]
Gates A54-A87, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado
While I can attest that it’s not the illuminati headquarters, gates A54-A87 offer a respite from the bustle of DIA for those of us paupers who cannot afford visiting the airport lounges. Lying in a one story building attached to the eastern side of Concourse A, these gates primarily serve small planes travelling to out […]
San Luis Valley Regional Airport, Alamosa, Colorado
My first view of this airport came when the pilot on my eight-seater Boutique Air flight, pointed the nose down in order to lose thousands of feet of altitude quickly before approach. This was a bit harrowing. A few minutes later we landed incredibly softly on runway 20 after a somewhat turbulent approach. Alamosa has […]
What to do now
It’s been almost three months since I graduated college with a degree in philosophy and music, and a certificate in arts and technology! In that time I’ve been working in the box office at Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado, a job that will end in about a month. One of the things I miss most […]