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Timeless Eurythmics "This City Never Sleeps" Captures True (City) Love.

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A few train stops through some of my favorite cities via Eurythmic's "This City Never Sleeps" Possibly my favorite version: New York (fast) New York, Paris... New Orleans I guess it's just a feeling...

Everything I Do Gonh Be Funky From Now On

Tell me about it.

Havent' seen TREME, yet? You crazy? Watch it!

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Two trailers for new HBO's new show "Treme." Just now saw first episode of  "Treme," (pronounced "treh-may") and I'm telling you the show is AMAZING.  Set your DVR's, folks. "Treme" is a great example of how art can play an important role in our society getting us to care about the right stuff.  Art should always throw serve to throw a spotlight on subjects of importance:  And in this case, the subject is New Orleans.  And I love the context of the telling of this story, starting three mos. post-Katrina.  Brilliant context. "Treme" manages remind us why New Orleans is still the crown jewel of America's best cities.  And by doing so serves to both archive and reveal some of it's lesser known, quirky treasures.  Things not everyone even knows, yet. New Orleans's survival is connected to it staying on our radar. It needs artists and story tellers to keep reminding us that it's still there

Dark Shadows: It explains a lot.

Clearly, this was a show that didn't seem so far fetched to a kid abruptly transplanted from New Orleans, to New England, who now lived in a cluttered little home across the street from a graveyard and abandoned church in Vermont. A place so rural and peculiar that kids skinny dipped at recess, or counted beans for math and some even smoking pot by 4th grade. A place where the Grown Ups lived for The Opera, or attending Bach organ recitals held in derelict barns, and would think nothing of driving hours down to New York City just to see anything starring an Original British Cast . This was a world were there were wild winter storms, and long, summer days where not even a plane over head could disturb the remote cool green of the summers days. A world where grave stones were places to play hide and seek, and no matter what time of day, the Grown Ups never missed even one cocktail party being thrown by Vermont's most glamorous Episcopalians. It was elegant, and eccentri