voices I miss
Hound Dog Taylor (AKA Theodore Roosevelt Taylor, 1915-1975) and the Houserockers (Brewer Phillips, guitar; Ted Harvey, drums), “Taylor’s Rock” (H.D. Taylor), live, Ann Arbor Blues Festival, 1973
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voices in the wind
the withered field’s
crows—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
sounds of Chicago
Jackie (AKA Jacqui) Verdell (1937-1991), “Too Close to Heaven” (following remarks by Jesse Jackson), live, Chicago, 1972
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random sights
other day, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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frosty night—
seven poor men
in a huddle—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
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Tim Hecker, “That World,” 2019
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yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
like nobody else
Antony (AKA Anohni) with Lou Reed, et al., “Candy Says” (L. Reed), live, New York, 2006
*****
Here’s the original track (The Velvet Underground, 1969).
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random sights
this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)
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Laurie Anderson, “My Right Eye” (L. Anderson), Homeland, 2010
soundtrack to a dream
Tim Hecker, Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006)
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A life that is here and now is timeless.
—William Carlos Williams, Selected Essays (1969)
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Laurie Anderson (with Bill Laswell [bass], Colin Stetson [bass saxophone], et al.), “Only An Expert” (L. Anderson), live (TV show), 2010
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A career in vestige management.
A dream job
back-engineering
shifts in salience.I’m so far
behind the curve
on this.So. Cal.
must connect with
so-calledto manufacture
the present.Ubiquity’s
the new in-jokebar-code hard-on,
a catch-phrase
in every segment.—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Manufacturing”
No one fired up this pianist—one of the most influential in the history of jazz—like this drummer.
Bill Evans Trio (BE [1929-1980], piano; Philly Joe Jones [1923-1985], drums; Marc Johnson [1953-], bass), “Nardis” (M. Davis), live, Italy (Umbria), 1978
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How many poems have gotten so much attention with so few words?
so much depends
upona red wheel
barrowglazed with rain
waterbeside the white
chickens—William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), “The Red Wheelbarrow”
This I could listen to all day.
Georgia Louis, “Canaan Land,” live (TV show), New York, 1960s
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found words
Yesterday, on the radio, a man held in solitary confinement in Louisiana’s Angola Prison for over forty years:
You feel like the atmosphere is closing in on you. You feel like the very skin on your body is compressing.
—Albert Woodfox, author of Solitary (out March 5th)
like nobody else
Laurie Anderson, “Language of the Future,” Dublin, 2017
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random thoughts
Each day we go somewhere we’ve never been before.
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