music clip of the day

What’s needed sometimes, like, for instance, the other morning, when I was driving to court for a hearing in a murder case, slid this into the CD player, and cranked up the volume, is something to get your juices going.

Mark Ernestus, “Mark Ernestus Meets BBC,” 2011

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lagniappe

reading table

“Come see
the crappy house at night!”
croak the frogs

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), 1807 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)