Joined Yale and caught Jim White as he sang 3 or so songs as a kind of opening for the film Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus. It was lovely. Jim’s guitar playing has either improved a lot, or I never heard it so well before. The audience sat in attentive silence, which worked in Jim’s favor — in bars and clubs his subtle singing, the lyrics and dark humor sometimes get drowned out, but here everything could be heard perfectly.
The film got a pretty good review in the NY Times, though the Post apparently didn’t like it — Jim joked later that “those readers are my audience!”
An illuminating piece in the NY Times re: U.S. oil consumption, attitudes and U.S. reliance on foreign oil. If one reads even a little between the lines, the “justification” for Iraq seems pretty damn obvious… not to mention U.S. sabotage and criticism of the current Venezuelan government.
