Monday, March 06, 2006

Is local music on the Pope's iPod?

Rob Guy, a really nice fellow, a friend, and the guy who officiated my wedding, is hard at work reconstructing The Barkeyville Academy a turn of the century "college preparatory school-like a high school, but with a much more advanced curriculum" - a beautiful building in an area otherwise plagued by truck stops and out of state speeders....

Drake Well Park has published its list of upcoming events. Scroll to the bottom of the list for Pithole. The odd thing is, the list seems almost deliberately vague...

The Oil City-based Polish Heritage Project - an 18-year, 10-recording journey that has preserved the nuanced sounds of a local Polish choir - is being preserved in the Library of Congress. Save yourself a drive to DC and buy your own copy of "Nabozenstwo 40-Godzinne I Inne Piesni - 40 Hours Devotion and Other Hymns," or pick it up at Pastel Record and Music Company in Oil City. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Pope has it loaded on his iPod.

Erie area blog The Film Chair reports on the Oscars here and here.

In nonlocal news

A lot of the music at South by Southwest is leaving me flat this year, but the gig posters, oh, the posters...

The Drive-By Truckers A-Z is worth several minutes of diversion and lot of download time...

Ever wonder what religion Superman is? Me either, until I ran across a list of heroes and their religions. And people say I'm obsessive...

1 comment:

RC said...

thanks for the superman link...i like it.

--RC of strangeculture.blogspot.com