Saturday, August 2nd
summer in the city
Chvrches, live, Chicago (Lollapalooza), 8/1/14
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summer in the city
Chvrches, live, Chicago (Lollapalooza), 8/1/14
summer in the city
St. Vincent, live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 7/19/14*
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lagniappe
reading table
the scrawny pine, too
looks extravagant . . .
summer moon—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
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*Set list (courtesy of YouTube):
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Rattlesnake
5:39 Digital Witness
9:13 Cruel
13:10 Marrow
17:40 Every Tear Disappears / Shout (Tears for Fears)
22:16 Surgeon
27:35 Cheerleader
31:19 Prince Johnny
37:15 Birth In Reverse
41:10 Huey Newton
46:47 Bring Me Your Loves
50:52 Your Lips Are Red
sounds of Manchester
The Warehouse Project (feat. Diplo, Four Tet, Nicolas Jaar, Skream, et al.), 2012
sounds of Chicago
Specter (AKA Spekter, Andres Ordanez), “Pipe Bomb,” 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
[N]othing enhances pleasures and blocks guilt like a looming cataclysm.
—Aleksandar Hemon, The Book of My Lives
passings
DJ Rashad, October 9, 1979-April 26, 2014
Live, Chicago (Pitchfork Music Festival), 2013
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“I Don’t Give A Fuck” (sampling Tupac Shakur’s dialogue in Juice), 2013
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“I’m Gone” (remixing Gil Scott-Heron’s “Home Is Where The Hatred Is”), 2011
only rock ’n’ roll
The War On Drugs, “Under the Pressure”
Live, Philadelphia, 3/14/14
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Recording (Lost in the Dream), 3/14
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lagniappe
reading table
Now, unlike then—sixty years ago—we know so much more about others . . . . [t]hough, of course, we know not much more of the important things—what’s in others’ hearts; and if their hearts are broken or damaged or full.
—Richard Ford, “A Symposium on Magic,” The Threepenny Review, Spring 2014
sounds of Chicago
Chicago Underground Duo (Rob Mazurek, cornet, electronics, voice; Chad Taylor, drums, mbira, electronics), live (music begins at 4:30), Italy (Venice), 2013
(This clip, alas, has some glitches: at 56:15 both the sound and the picture drop out, returning, with just one of two audio channels, at 58:46.)
Nick Hennies (music, film editing), “Lineal” (Part 1), 2009
[vimeo 7567186 w=560&h=315]
Someday our world, and its shiny technology, will seem no less remote.
serendipity*
Christopher DeLaurenti (sampling Marvin Gaye, “What’s Going On” [1971]), live, Seattle, 2009
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lagniappe
reading table: passings
Bill Knott, February 17, 1940-March 12, 2014
Night Thought
Compared to one’s normal clothes, pajamas
are just as caricature as the dreams
they bare: farce-skins, facades, unserious
soft versions of the mode diem, they seem
to have come from a posthumousness;
floppy statues of ourselves, slack seams
of death. Their form mimics the decay
that will fit us so comfortably someday.
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*This I bumped into yesterday, listening to the radio (WFMU: Miniature Minotaurs [Kurt Gottschalk]).
sounds from all over
Russia
Anton Maskeliade, “Crown,” Moscow, 2014
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Japan
Perfume, “Sweet Refrain,” 2013
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Egypt
Cellar Door, “Blind,” 2013
