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ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
2000 American Book Award winner
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
just another ex-jazz-musician/proto-rapper/Jersey-Irish-poet-actor/print-junkie/film-raptor/beat-hipster-"white Negro"-rhapsodizer/ex-hippie-punk-'60s-radical-organizer's take on all things cultural, political, spiritual & aggrandizing
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UPCOMING EVENTS
TBA
SAY IT AGAIN: An Autobiography In Sonnets
CLICK ON IMAGES BELOW FOR LINKS TO ORDER (OR EMAIL ME FOR A SIGNED COPY OF ANY TITLES BELOW)
ANOTHER WAY TO PLAY
THE VILLAGE SONNETS
SWING THEORY
LOST ANGELS
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE
IT'S NOT NOSTALGIA
2000 American Book Award winner
MARCH 18, 2003
WHAT YOU FIND THERE
CANT BE WRONG
1997 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award "for Excellence in Literature"
OF
ROCKY DIES YELLOW
HOLLYWOOD MAGIC
CATCH MY BREATH
ATTITUDE
some recordings of my reading from some of the books above
- PUMA PERL AND ME READING 2022
- interviewed by Grace Cavalieri for The Poet and The Poem Series
- interviewed by E. Ethelbert Miller on DC's WPFW, scroll down to On The Margins April26th 9AM
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Sports Heroes, Cops and Lace" in my pad 2015
- Don Yorty filmed me reading "Love Never Dies" at KGB Bar 2015
- 8/11/2014 INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART ONE)
- INTERVIEW/READING FRIGGIN' FABULOUS RADIO (PART TWO)
- 1997 NPR ("BOOKWORM") INTERVIEW (by Michael Silverblatt)/READING
- 1990 "Poetry in Motion" reading of "The Healing"
- VARIOUS READINGS ON AUDIO AND VIDEO FROM 1977 TO RECENT AS ARCHIVED ON PENNSOUND
- 2008 LOCAL JERSEY TV READING/INTERVIEW WITH ME & POET JOSE FUNES
- TOM WILSON'S LALLY/OBAMA MASHUP
other sites where my work is discussed
- I Might Die Of Love For You/Burt Kimmelman reviews Another Way To Play
- JERSEY INDIE on my Leap Day 2016 reading
- Times Times 3/Swing Theory review
- Countdown To Main Street "Swing Theory"
- Best American Poetry Blog/David Lehman reviews Swing Theory
- Times Times 3
- Countdown To Main Street
- Jacket/Burt Kimmelman interviews me
- the parent du jour
- L.A. Examiner/Yvonne de la Vega interviews me
- Espresso Bongo/Jerome Sala on my writing
- fait accompli (scroll down)/Nick Piambino on my writing
- The Best Am. Poetry Blog/Brain Surgery T.Winch
- The Best American Poetry Blog
- doug lang's lally post
- doug lang's dc poetry history
- dc poetry history
- Vanitas/Libellum site reviews
- Last Night at the KGB Bar
- wikipedia as "Michael Lally (poet)"
- poem on The Best American Poetry Blog
- The Innisfree Poetry Journal
- AS AN ACTOR: YouTube
- IMDb (as Michael David Lally actor/with some incorrect info)
About Me
- Lally
MY LIFE 2
When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.
When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.
When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
most of my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been (up until then)
about women.
When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.
When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.
But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
CHECK OUT THESE BLOGS/SITES
- Rachel E. Diken
- @haikuavenue
- Don Yorty
- NauenThen
- BIRTH OF THE COOL
- EAST OF WEST L.A.
- COUNTDOWN TO MAIN STREET
- John Clarke
- Times Times 3
- TOM CLARK Beyond The Pale
- Leslie Greene
- The Best American Poetry (blog)
- Silliman's Blog
- Ken McCollough poet
- NOTES
- espresso bongo
- IFSF publishing
- E-NOTES
- bobby miller photos
- The Allen Ginsberg Project
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats
- Hullabaloo
- DANGEROUS MINDS
- Friggin Fabulous Radio
- the year of yellow butterflies (the blog)
- A LONGHOUSE BIRDHOUSE
- BELGIAN WAFFLE
- Really Bad Movies
- Vanitas Magazine blog site
- MY EYE AND I
- KINDSIGHT
- PAUL'S ART
- THE TEACHER'S VIEW
- fait accompli
- Trying To Be Cool
- McPherson's Lament
- Zuckerman's Journal
- Cord Keller's Albums
- Bill DeNoyelles: Ports of Entry
- douglangsfilmblog
- douglang'sdcpoetryblog
- MY ALASKAN ADVENTURES
- TERENCE WINCH
- Rain Worthington, Composer
- MAUREEN OWEN HOME PAGE
- Nikki Nash
- erictrules.com
- JOE BRAINARD
- MIND HONEY
- PENNSOUND
posts by rough categories (and some in more than one)
- personal history (1669)
- politics (1641)
- movies (910)
- poetry (767)
- PHOTOGRAPHS (755)
- history (642)
- not to be forgotten or underrated (590)
- quotes (576)
- not to be missed or overlooked (557)
- music (496)
- TV (402)
- family history (228)
- fiction and other prose (224)
- lists (222)
- Art (218)
- economics (203)
- spirituality (201)
- internet (129)
- humor (120)
- stage (101)
- science (72)
- media (67)
- education (66)
- non fiction (64)
- overrated (53)
- dance (44)
- "fashion" (22)
- fate (16)
- greetings (3)
- personalhistory (3)
- m (2)
Blog Archive
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- ANYONE ELSE HEAR THIS YESTERDAY ON NPR?
- THE OSCARS [AWARDS SHOW 2011]
- FOURTH ANNUAL LALLY'S ALLEY MOVIE AWARDS(?)
- PS TO LAST POST
- HMMMMMM...
- CHRIS MASON'S HUM WHO HICCUP
- PS TO GEORGE SHEARING R.I.P.
- WINTER WONDERLAND (CONT'D)
- PS TO YESTERDAY'S POST
- HMMMM..CUT TAXES FOR THE WEALTHIEST (WHO ARE WEALT...
- MORE OF THE SAME
- GEORGE SHEARING R.I.P.
- JUST ANOTHER EXAMPLE
- BOB DYLAN IN AMERICA
- DEJAVU ALL OVER AGAIN
- GREAT MOMENTS IN HISTORY (2/11/11)
- QUICK EGYPT ADDENDUM
- SHARON JONES AND WOODY
- BEEN FEELIN' THIS WAY FOR YEARS
- IT'S ALL RELATIVE
- LOVE VS. FEAR
- ANTIDOTE TO ALL THE RR BROUHAHA
- QUOTE FOR THESE DAYS
- PS TO MARIA SCHNEIDER R.I.P.
- STILL WAITING
- MARIA SCHNIEDER R.I.P.
- PS TO LAST (EGYPTIAN) POST
- EGYPTIAN SUSPICIONS
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5 comments:
I watched her sing the anthem and thought how hard she seemed to be trying. Now I know what to call it and I'm not a fan. I missed the goof up in the words because it was so over the top "over souling" I couldn't even focus. I do know someone who thought she was great but I think it's non musicians that may like it, just a guess.
Caitlin
I've been complaining about it for years, ever since it became the predominant style, but thought it was just me missing the singers of my boyhood who used it sparingly or were doing the much more thrillingly creative and original jazz singing or even scatting, still hitting notes exactly though, not sliding up and down as if searching for them.
Lal, me too. Been saying it like you for years. And it's not just vocals. Everyone from sax men to trumpet players to piano plinkers. Every body gotta play 10 notes when one (or better yet, plain silence) will just fine. A good friend of mine has it right: "Less is more."
~ Willy
"Music is the silence between the notes"
- Claude Debussy
Also there is an unattributed saying amongst musicians that goes like this:
"Play the music, not the instrument"
Oversouling is a great term for what Christina did that night. Hopefully, we're rounding the corner on this over the top style. Certainly the success of all kinds of "retro" r&b acts (like Sharon Jones) reveals an undercurrent that is flowing away from oversouling.
Here's a link (I hope) to Sharon Jones doing "This Land is Your Land":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9E86xHKop4&feature=related
She uses all kinds of bends and other vocalizations, but doesn't go over what the song can handle (in my opinion). It doesn't hurt that the band and horn section are groovin like a mutha'!
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