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                                                  A metal box, it's been housed inside this wall. The face, its lid opens the wrong way. It swings up on a bent hinge where a sock wraps around the brass coat hook that is holding it fast to the rafter above. The cloth wires are all gone. Inside there's just some tape and whiskers now. This would have been used with pride, men would have seen to that. Now they're rarely opened. Instead, they sit darkly in basements fading towards the rust.

It's best to be wrong with a hammer in hand then to be right outside thank you -  A birthday song for the birthday crew As in the hot jazzy beats of the day, the steel and glass represented here borrows from a rich tradition of Latin flavors like samba and salsa. You'll see this in the strong interplay of the steel and glass as it reflects the seasons and the lively urban lifestyles that surround it. The tower is guided by the principles of song. It's measured and it serves it's purpose. The beginning and the end serve a similar function to the building's top and it's bottom, they're similar but different. The one is informed by the other and our experience of both is all the more rich for connecting each of them. We'll stack the plates on the edge of the sink and talk about the farm for awhile. I can gather my thoughts and shew out a few of the more persistent fly's in my truth. But for now let's get this story straight. Our crazy ...

from the left, EC Brown, Tom Colley, Michael S Thomas, Mike Wolf, Marc Fischer, Ann Hruby campfire sing along, I don't care...

fig a. performance draft for, Empty Praise and Dry Drunks part1 Up in the corner there's a plastic video camera with a wire that feeds into the drywall behind it. But it stops behind the yellow cigarello display. Underneath the Canadian whiskey there's a video feed playing on a black TV. The tubes make every clear image on it fizzle with the power of electric snow. The feed is from a box set called, Mirror Mirror. It features an unlicensed Wegman still from '72 on it's front. The second disk is behind-the-scenes footage. It's labeled in fat Sharpie, MAKING OF DISC #1. Mirror Mirror was shot in HiDef and then doctored down in the studio. There are 12 vignettes on disc one but the DVD player can't loop them. Instead it goes through them one at a time, switching between each of the retail settings with an audible click once it's finished. First there's the ubiquitous furniture store, then the uninspired car showroom, and so on. When all of them have...