We ain’t never goin’ home . . .
—Neneh Cherry (59:55)*
Neneh Cherry & The Thing (Mats Gustafsson, baritone saxophone, electronics; Ingebrigt Håker Flaten, bass; Paal Nilssen-Love, drums), live, Austria (Konfrontationen 2012, Nickelsdorf), 7/21/12
*“Call the Police” (S. McDee).
old stuff
Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Jeni LeGon, Fats Waller, “Living in a Great Big Way” (Hooray for Love, 1935)
Some sounds once they enter your brain they never leave.
Perfume, “Baby Cruising Love” (2008)
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How little we know,
and when we know it!*****
We close in on ourselves,
then yelp that the world is awry.*****
We had macaroni for lunch every day
except Sunday, when a small quail was induced
to be served to us. Why do I tell you these things?
You are not even here.—John Ashbery, miscellaneous fragments (“Like A Sentence,” “Tahiti Trot,” “This Room”)
enchanted forest
Bobo Stenson Trio (BS, piano; Anders Jormin, bass; Jon Fält, drums), “Olivia,” Sweden, 2009
My heaven, I said the other day, is full of string quartets—dancers, too.
New York City Ballet, 2012
keep on dancing
Theo Parrish, Detroit-based DJ/producer
“Smile,” 1997
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Talking music (record digging, technology, DJing, etc.), 2012
alone
Chris “Daddy” Dave (Chris Dave Trio), live, Japan (Osaka), 2010
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musical thoughts
If we are what we listen to, what are you?
How could one not be hopeful knowing this clip’s been viewed, as of today, over 700 million times?
PSY (AKA Park Jae-sang), “Gangnam Style,” 7/12
*****
Here’s another take.
Ai Weiwei (Chinese artist and dissident), 10/12
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found words
Caution—the moving walkway is ending.
—yesterday, Midway Airport (Chicago), returning from an aunt’s memorial service
post-election special
Weary of words?
John Luther Adams, The Light That Fills the World (chamber version, revised 2001), excerpt
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art beat: Saturday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Strand, The Court, New York (1924)
Film and Photo in New York (through 11/25/12)
A reader writes:
Have you seen these films?
Furry Lewis, guitar
William Eggleston, Stranded in Canton (1973-74)
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More?
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“Election Day”
By William Carlos Williams (1940)Warm sun, quiet air
an old man sitsin the doorway of
a broken house—boards for windows
plaster fallingfrom between the stones
and strokes the headof a spotted dog
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