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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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lagniappe

reading table

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-called

to manufacture
the present.

Ubiquity’s
the new in-joke

bar-code hard-on,

a catch-phrase
in every segment.

—Rae Armantrout (1947-), from “Manufacturing”

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2019

Wednesday, February 27th

basement jukebox

Johnny Burnette Trio, “The Train Kept A-Rollin,'” 1956

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lagniappe

reading table

distant sight—
in withered fields
a little house’s lamp

—Kobayashi Issa, 1763-1827 (translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)

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2019

Friday, January 25th

tonight in Chicago

He’s playing at Buddy Guy’s club (Legends), opening for Buddy himself.

Toronzo Cannon, “All Along the Watchtower” (B. Dylan), live, Detroit area (Auburn Hills), 2017

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2019

Friday, January 4th

like nobody else

Arthur Russell (1951-1992), singer, songwriter, cellist, producer; “That’s Us/Wild Combination” (A. Russell), with Jennifer Warnes (Calling Out of Context, 2004)