Thursday, August 11th
sounds of London
DJ EZ, live, London, 2014
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lagniappe
reading table
She went around pre-registered
for her own eventual absence.—Rae Armantrout, “Hoard”
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Month: August, 2016
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Wednesday, August 10th
sounds of Chicago
DJ Frankie Knuckles (1955-2014), live, New York, 2013
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lagniappe
random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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reading table
9 killed on city’s deadliest day in 13 years
—Chicago Tribune, this morning
2016
Tuesday, August 9th
sounds of London
Four Tet (aka Kieran Hebden), live, London, 2016
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lagniappe
reading table
father and son
go their separate ways . . .
blossom viewing—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2016
Monday, August 8th
sounds of Chicago
DJ Mike Dunn, live, Chicago (Gramaphone Records), 2015
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lagniappe
musical thoughts
Yeah, everybody’s got a bomb
We could all die any day,
But before I’ll let that happen
I’ll dance my life away.—Prince, “1999”
2016
Sunday, August 7th
four takes
“Seat in the Kingdom” (aka “That’s Alright”)
Laura Rivers, 1963
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Hightower Brothers, 1963
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Betty Golden & the Roses of Sharon
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St. Paul FBC Male Chorus Anniversary (Mt. Canaan Baptist Church), 2009
2016
Saturday, August 6th
Sometimes the best of what’s new is old.
Betty Davis, “Down Home Girl” (Miles Davis & Teo Macero, prods.; John McLaughlin [guitar], Herbie Hancock [keyboards], Harvey Brooks [bass], Mitch Mitchell [drums]), 6/28/16 (rec. 1969)
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday, Art Institute of Chicago
From Thirteen Laughing at Each Other, Juan Muñoz (1953-2001), through 10/5/16
2016
Friday, August 5th
summer in the city
Digable Planets, “Pacifics” (“N.Y. Is Red Hot”), live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/16/16
2016
Thursday, August 4th
sounds of Egypt and Lebanon
Maryam Saleh (Egypt) & Zeid Hamdan (Lebanon), “Eslahat” (or “Esla7at”), live, Beirut, 2014
2016
Wednesday, August 3rd
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Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), Piano Concerto in G major (1929-31); Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra (Yuri Termirkanov, cond.) with Martha Argerich (piano), live, Stockholm, 2009
2016
Tuesday, August 2nd
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Frederic Chopin (1810-1849), Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor; Martha Argerich, live, 1966
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lagniappe
It is like what we imagine knowledge to be . . .
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979), from “At the Fishhouses”
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