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Tuesday, July 14th

what’s new

How often does a drummer get equal billing?

Tom Misch (vocals, guitar) and Yussef Dayes (drums), “Night Rider,” “Tidal Wave,” published 7/13/20

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random sights

this morning, Chicago

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Rescue workers said there was little hope of finding any more survivors from a landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar that killed at least 170 people. Many of the dead were scouring the mine’s rubble for remnants of the gemstone.

—The Economist, 7/11/20

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Friday, July 10th

alone

Not able to travel? Your ears can.

Keyvan Kalhor (1963-, setar), live, Iran (Tehran), 5/21/20

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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To what shall I compare
this life of ours?
Even before I can say
it is like a lightning flash
or a dewdrop
it is no more.

—Sengai (1750–1837, Japanese Zen monk)

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Thursday, July 9th

sounds of New York

Joe Morris (guitar), Sam Newsome (soprano saxophone, preparations), Charmaine Lee (voice, electronics), live, New York, 2018

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random sights

this morning, Chicago (Columbus Park)

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Do search. But in order to find other than what is searched for.

—painter Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), Washington Post, 7/7/20

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Monday, July 6th

alone

Why not begin the week with something beautiful?

Patricia Brennan (vibraphone), “Sonnet” (P. Brennan), 2018

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Another take.

Recording, 2020

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random sights

yesterday, Oak Park, Ill. (Oak Park Conservatory)

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This world of dew
is only a world of dew—
and yet

—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

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Friday, July 3rd

basement jukebox

Ann Peebles (1947-), “I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down” (E. Randle), 1973

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random sights

yesterday, Chicago

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In pale moonlight
the wisteria’s scent
comes from far away

—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by Sam Hamill

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Wednesday, July 1st

never enough

Need a break from America 2020?

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791), Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major (K. 467); Lucerne Festival Orchestra (Herbert von Karajan, 1908-1989, cond.) with Dinu Lipatti (1917-1950, piano), live, Switzerland (Lucerne), 1950

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random sights

a while ago, Ireland (Dingle Peninsula)

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The undisguised brutality of our time is weighing heavily on us.

—Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), letter to Oskar Pfister, 1/27/20, two days after his daughter Sophie died of Spanish flu