Today is the day...

[Julian.West@mac.dartmouth.edu]

Abbreviated Table of Comments (good idea, Ed.):
 -- Laurie A./kd lang/_Rocket's Tail_/jessica/Richard Rhodes/Natalie
                            
Many thanks to Ray R. for a fine review of Laurie Anderson's latest effort.
Unfortunately, though, the B.A.M. series _just_closed_. I had expected 
there would be an associated album (which is one reason I didn't blow off
a weekend and drive to NYC) but I didn't know for sure. Thanks.

yong-mi kim asks for:  [Any] Michelle Shocked and k.d. lang [fans?]
I'll bet there are quite a few among love-hounds, yes.

> "Rocket's Tail (For Rocket)" - a thumping,  rocker 
> that begins with the _erection_ of a gorgeous lattice-work 
I was beginning to suspect that _RT_ had something to do with
the fireworks in the "Nausicaa" chapter of Ulysses!  :-)

Jessica on getting married:
> :)
And on maybe getting _TSW_ one day early...
> !!!!!!!!! jumping around! :) ! !!!!!! ! ! :) _neat_ really really really
love
> ! :) !!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I CAN'T WAIT TILL TOMORROW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!
Enjoy the album, jessica.

> see Richard Rhodes' THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.
Yes indeed.  A first-rate book.  For the same price you can buy two
tickets and popcorn for the new film _Fat_Man_and_Little_Boy_, and
by the looks of things you will leave the theatre knowing _less_ about
the Manhattan project than you knew when you entered.

> (Brian May) PS there is *one* music reference in there!
Not you, too.

> if she had Natalie Merchant's (of 10000 Maniacs) accent.
Natalie is of course from Jamestown, upstate NY.  Review in this
Sunday's NYT placed _Innocence_Mission_ in upstate Pennsylvania.
Close 'nuf.