Thursday, March 14th
sounds of New York
Tim Berne (alto saxophone, composition) with Herb Robertson (trumpet), Marc Ducret (guitar), Joey Baron (drums), et al., live, New York (TV show), c. 1990
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2019
Wednesday, March 13th
sounds of England
Four Tet (AKA Kieran Hebden), BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix, 3/17/18
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there’s no shame
that you totter . . .
old chrysanthemum—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2019
Saturday, March 9th
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Tim Hecker, “That World,” 2019
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lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)
2019
Thursday, March 7th
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Laurie Anderson, “My Right Eye” (L. Anderson), Homeland, 2010
2019
Wednesday, March 6th
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)
2019
Tuesday, March 5th
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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”
2019
Saturday, March 2nd
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.
2019
Friday, March 1st
what’s new
The Pedrito Martinez Group (PM, percussion, lead vocals; Sebastian Natal, electric bass, vocals; Jhair Sala, percussion, vocals; Issac Delgado Jr., keyboards, vocals), “Tuvé Una Revelación,” live, Washington, D.C., 2/20/19
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random sights
Oak Park, Ill, this morning
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March!
2019
Thursday, February 28th
sounds of New York
Louie Vega (DJ), live, New York, 12/18/18
2019
Tuesday, February 26th
what’s new
More from this new album.
Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone, percussion), “One Time In,” published 2/11/19 (Trio Tapestry with Marilyn Crispell [piano], Carmen Castaldi [drums], 2019)
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Emily Dickinson, writing to her cousins (Louise and Frances Norcross) after the death of their father, closes with this (letter #278, poem #528 [Franklin], 1863):
Let Emily sing for you because she cannot pray.
‘Tis not that Dying hurts us so –
‘Tis Living – hurts us more –
But Dying – is a different way –
A kind behind the Door –The Southern Custom – of the Bird –
That ere the Frosts are due –
Accepts a better Latitude –
We – are the Birds – that stay.The Shiverers round Farmer’s doors –
For whose reluctant Crumb –
We stipulate – till pitying Snows
Persuade our Feathers Home
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