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Wednesday, 5/16/12

It’s easy to play a lot of notes; what’s hard is to play a few.

Jon Hassell (trumpet), “Last Night The Moon Came,” live, Switzerland (Lausanne), 2009

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lagniappe

reading table

Barn’s burnt down—
now
I can see the moon.

—Mitzuta Masahide, 1657-1723 (translated from Japanese by Lucien Stryk and Takashi Ikemoto)

Tuesday, 5/15/12

what’s new

Black Dice, “Pigs”

Recording (Mr. Impossible, 4/12) & Video

I fell in love tonight. She left immediately when I played her this.

—YouTube comment

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Live (music starts at 1:40), New York, 2012