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Peter Mulvey
Biography
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Urban art-folksier Peter Mulvey has lived an artist's life since adolescence -- he was a college theater major, spent time busking in Dublin, Ireland, and founded the Milwaukee band Big Sky, all before his early twenties. But his professional music career didn't really begin until 1991, when was fired from a job at a Kinko's Copiers in Boston. Flat broke and in need of immediate cash to entertain his visiting brother, Mulvey starting playing his guitar in the subway. He supported himself that way for a couple of years, working ten-hour days in the smog-drenched underground. In the meantime, he released two CDs on his own (Brother Rabbit Speaks in 1992; Rain in 1993). Mulvey's rising star hit the accelerator in 1994 when he won the Boston Acoustic Underground competition. In 1996, he signed with Eastern Front Records and recorded the Boston Award-nominated Rapture, which won consistent raves for his dazzlingly funky acoustic fretwork. He tossed off an acoustic EP (Goodbye Bob) before releasing a much more aggressive acoustic modern rock album in 1997 (Deep Blue, also on Eastern Front). As a side project, the prolific guitarist also rejoined his old colleagues from Big Sky in 1997, to record a CD entitled Lately under the band name Little Sky. The solo The Trouble with Poets followed in the spring of 2000. ~ Darryl Cater, Rovi

Overheard at Table 3

". . . and in the 'oh no he DID-UNHT' department, I just heard an interview on NPR yesterday with the CEO of BP who actually dared to compare this oil spill with the AirFrance plane that went down in the Atlantic from Rio . . .

"yes, he most certainly did! He said that they didn't call for sanctions against the airline industry because of that tragedy. He also said they didn't cancel the Space Exploration industry because of Apollo 13. I couldn't believe it! I was screaming at my radio at this officious Brit, all smug, that those incidents didn't even compare!

"listen, the Exxon Valdez was only ONE tanker and to THIS DAY twenty years later, 200 miles of Alaskan coastline is still unsuitable for fishing - by the way, which was their ONLY industry! This is 5000 gallons of oil gushing out of the bottom of the ocean A DAY! It's like the Earth is a hemophiliac and BP just jabbed it with an ice pick - then turns to the rest of the kid's family and says 'Ooops! So sorry chaps, bit of a problem an' all that, eh wot!

"poncey Brit!"

Happy Mother's Day

Verble stands in the middle of cafe and raises an espresso (by the way, today, all women get free lattes!) and offers up this toast:

To all mothers -

May your day be filled with hugs,
May your refrigerator be filled with crayon drawings,
and may all your mandates be followed immediately and without question!

and always remember, two out of three ain't bad!



HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!!!

Overheard at Booth 4

Wife: . . . glad the work's good, so how are the people?

Husband: The people seem all right. There's this little old lady from Finland, can't understand a word she says. Which stinks because she's the one that going to be training me. Andy, who sits right across from me reminds me a lot of Nick, but that's all right, I eventually learned how to get along with him, and then there's this girl on the other side of the cubicle, seems nice, but bless her heart she's as ugly as they come!

Wife: So does she have a nice body?

Husband: See, that's you going again. I say she's ugly and you think it's code talk for nice body. No, she doesn't have a nice body, or a nice face. In fact, I hated thinking this but when I saw all those pictures of her kids on her desk I was wondering how in the world she could have had someone to help her have those kids!

Wife: How to you know they're her kids?

Husband: Because, poor kids, they're as ugly as she is!

Booth 6: at the monthly meeting of the The BibliOphiliacs' Review of Books: The End of the Alphabet

It's such a sweet sad little book, the Jane's chord being "This story is unlikely" - and it is, because no love, no marriage, is like this marriage - but we all want it to be, and that's what keeps you going through the entire book, even though no dying is ever this beautiful - but these two characters are beautiful, and we want to be like them, we want to be like Ambrose and Zipper, the beginning and the end of the alphabet, and every man, at the end, wants to die in the love of a woman like Zipper. It's incredible! I finished it on the bus and nearly broke out into tears, there, in front of all the other commuters.

plus, the writing is eloquent and beautiful -sparse, yet full of meaning, and how eloquently balanced, the dance between the two characters, how each of them remembers differently their communal history. The book does touch on some realities of marriage, such as the things that we want to say but don't, the boredom with the stories that the other tells, the disagreements about when to be with friends and when to not. So there are bits of real relationships that are interspersed in there, which is probably why the book is so touching . . . it has the reality of marriage mixed in with the fantasy.

Overheard in Booth 1

"Hey, I'm not so concerned about the number of Pakistani terrorists that might be here in the country so much as I'm concerned about the utter LACK of watchful t-shirt vendors that we've got! I mean, if that's what it takes to stop bombs, then really the only safe places are Manhattan and Venice Beach!"

Steppenwolf on Hancock

Steppenwolf talking to the Barista and Payne:

"I don't know why Hancock got mixed reviews - the wife and I watched it last night and it was hilarious - not something to show the kids, little bit heavy on the language, but other than that, it was spot on. I mean, Smith was great as usual, and it was a great twist on the whole genre: a superhero who's a foulmouthed drunk misanthrope - fantastic!

"Anyway, this one is a must-see, and again, I don't care what anybody else says - this is definitely a different take, and I'm not going to spoil it for you or give away any secrets, but let me just say that his arch-enemy is a surprise, and a twist on the usual archetype.

"The whole movie takes these superhero movies and just turns it upside down - again, this is one you really gotta rent!"