Word: jam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...late afternoon the lecture is coming to a close, but the best is still to come. Tonight, and probably continuing far into tomorrow morning, there | will be a seisiun, as in jam seisiun. Fledgling pipers will bring out instruments they really know how to play -- fiddles, hammered dulcimers, tin whistles, mandolins -- and dream of a day when they might join the elite. When a good seisiun is in the air, the word spreads, and the chance to play with not just one but five or six of the best pipers in the country all at once will bring out Irish...
That they get caught in a secular jam...
...album, Element of Light, the songs here are mostly acoustic and feature some nifty harmonica tooting. This choice of instrumentation gives Invisible a homey feel, even if the subject matter is outlandish and alienating. In fact, listening to this record is kind of like inviting the neighborhood psychopath to jam on your front porch...
...songs on Invisible Hitchcock form the sort of folk/blues jam Bruce Willis would love to have, if he possessed the sense of humor and talent to pull it off. Maybe there's a wine cooler commercial in Robyn Hitchcock's future. If so, you can be sure that it will be packed with the aliens, talking buildings and vegetable friends that make Invisible Hitchcock an eminently worthwhile compilation...
...small Midwestern town in the 1950s, when there was nothing better to chew on than last week's game and nothing better to savor than next Friday's. By laconically contrasting images of despair and hope -- bleak winter fields and the throbbing heat and noise of a jam-packed gym in the fourth quarter when the game is close -- Director Anspaugh achieves an admirable objectivity. He neither condemns nor justifies the sporting passion when it is distorted by claustrophobic pressure. He just tries to understand...