Demond Matsuo’s voice is gilded. There is a warm sparkle like gold leaf over the inflections of this Morgan City native who utters phrases borrowed from fifth-century poets and Viennese secessionist painters. His temperament, likewise, seems like loam brushed with honey. There is both a common and exceptional quality to Matsuo and to his art. They are as raw as they are concocted.
It should be a welcomed reminder, in the day-to-day haze of always needing more, when those basic components that make life livable suddenly climb to the top of must-haves.
One day, maybe a year ago, I was out somewhere with my daughter, doing wholesome, family stuff, and I see a friend with his child and say hello.
That little nugget of regurgitated political jive comes four paragraphs down in the latest press release from the Office of the Governor.
Six years ago Malia Krolak and Michael Crespo were having the same conversation we all have every summer: There's just nothing to do.
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