Today I received two copies of Kansas English: The Journal of the Kansas Association of Teachers of English. The twice-yearly-published compendium includes poems, song lyrics and essays from a range of authors in Kansas. This issue featured “Red Dirt Farm” on page 65. Thanks for G to getting it listed and sending me copies.
ATS finished up yesterday. A very successful endeavor, the class generated positive feedback that hopefully will encourage others to take it in the future.
What a show last night was the Counting Crows in Lawrence! I haven’t blown out my voice from yelling in years, but I did last night. My favorite quote was when Adam Duritz said something about getting ready to play an old song, then remarked “at this point, anything before this album is pretty fucking old.” He’s right. The last studio album was 2002’s Hard Candy. It was a great disc, but six years is a long time between fresh material. Sure, they put out a compilation, a live CD and remastered their first CD August and Everything After, but six years is just too long to wait. Maybe that’s why the moved from what is now Verizon Amphitheater, where I last saw them in 2000, to Liberty Hall.
I was at that CC show wednesday, and it’s like the fourth time I’ve seen them….to me they were good but just didn’t seem to live up to shows I’ve seen of theirs in the past. not the same energy or creativity that I seem to recall, I hope it’s not a trend and more of a fluke.
I was at that CC show wednesday, and it’s like the fourth time I’ve seen them….to me they were good but just didn’t seem to live up to shows I’ve seen of theirs in the past. not the same energy or creativity that I seem to recall, I hope it’s not a trend and more of a fluke.