Posts Tagged ‘Marvin Gaye’
Union College | Don Love Building | Lincoln, Nebraska | 2010 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang The exquisite melody of “The Flower Duet” from Léo Delibes' opera Lakmé has stalked me like The Monster Book of Monsters from Harry Potter universe since last Friday. It’s almost malevolent. So, last night, I tried to dog-fight it by first chewing through a gigantic chuck of Chocolove 55% dark chocolate bar, infused...
More →Marvin Gaye’s “You Are A Wonderful One” was gleefully mingling into sunbathed sceneries when I reached Western Historic Trails Center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sun was up. Breeze was on. A perfect spring Saturday morning, minus the inconvenience that I forgot to pack my dark chocolate reserve in my backpack. I hummed alone with Gaye like an old-fashioned karaoke machine and soon let go of my little chocolate emergency. You...
More →Plastic Bottle Screaker | 2009 | Photo by Jen-Kuang Chang I don’t normally purchase drinks packaged in plastic bottles. Environmental consciousness aside, the existence of plastic bottles, in my little everyday-codex-for-JK-behaviors-of-normalization, has the potential of becoming a great sonic distraction. For some reasons, I don’t seem to be able to put those maddeningly screaky bottles down without some off-speed Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On unstoppably echoing in my head....
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