Wes Phillips

You know how all of those articles about Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music identified him as an "experimental filmmaker"? Well, Early Abstractions was one of those experiments.

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Of course, he does.

I was reading Alex Ross's spot-on "Burying">http://www.therestisnoise.com/2007/03/burying_the_led.html">"Burying the Lede" this morning, when I followed a link to an essay he'd published in The New Yorker back in February that you simply must read.

Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at supper
time,

You get tea when it's raining, tea when it's snowing.

Tea when the weather's fine,

You get tea as a mid-day stimulant

You get tea with your afternoon tea

For any old ailment or disease

For Christ sake have a cuppa tea.

It sends "envoys" ahead to prepare the site.

Possibly not, according to John Gibbens. He says the records we all know (and many of us worship) have always been played at the wrong speed.

I've spent my time throwing bales of hay onto wagons and into barns. To think that I now complain of a hard day's work at the keyboard!