Sometimes I just want to be swept away.
Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), String Quartet in F major (1903), 1st Mvt.
Takács Quartet, live, New York, 2017
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cloud becomes a mountain
becomes
a cloud—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue
This I could listen to all day.
Eva-Maria Houben (1955-), lines
R. Andrew Lee (piano), live, Denver, 3/8/17
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random sights
yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.
back to church
Rev. Al Green, “The Lord Will Make a Way Somehow” (T.A. Dorsey), live, Memphis (Full Gospel Tabernacle Church), 2012
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yesterday evening, Oak Park, Ill.
more
Tank and the Bangas, “Quick,” 2017
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It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.—Brenda Shaughnessy, “Card 12: The Hanged Man,” fragment (Our Andromeda)
what’s new
Oumou Sangaré (feat. Tony Allen, drums), “Yere Faga,” 3/30/17
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First cherry blossoms
just came out
pretty good day!—Matsuo Basho (1644-1694), translated from Japanese by David Young
timeless
Ann Peebles, I Can’t Stand the Rain,* 1974 (Hi Records)
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The only thing worse than trying to look younger than you are is trying to look wiser than you are.
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*Track list (courtesy of YouTube):
“I Can’t Stand The Rain” (Don Bryant, Bernard “Bernie” Miller, Ann Peebles)
“Do I Need You” (Bryant, Peebles)
“Until You Came into My Life” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles)
“(You Keep Me) Hanging On” (Ira Allen, Buddy Mize)
“Run Run Run” (Bryant, Darryl Carter, Peebles)
“If We Can’t Trust Each Other” (Earl Randle)
“A Love Vibration” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles)
“You Got to Feed the Fire” (Bryant, Miller, Peebles)
“I’m Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down” (Earl Randle)
“One Way Street” (Bryant, Peebles)
more
Yasmine Hamdan, “Beirut,” 2014
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No Romance sold unto
Could so enthrall a Man –
As the perusal of
His Individual One –‘Tis Fiction’s – to dilute to plausibility
Our – Novel. When ’tis small eno’
To credit – ‘Tis’nt true –—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 590 (Franklin)
bad news/good news
Bad news: You’ve heard nothing this good in who knows how long.
Good news: You’re about to hear this.
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers (AB, drums; John Gilmore, tenor saxophone; Lee Morgan, trumpet; John Hicks, piano; Victor Sproles, bass), “On The Ginza,” “Lament for Stacey,” “The Egyptian,” “I Can’t Get Started,” “Buhaina’s Delight,” live (TV show), London, 1964
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art beat
Robert Frank (1924-), Rooming house—Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, 1955/56
sounds of Lebanon
Yasmine Hamdan, “Galbi,” live, London, 2015
old school
Skip James (1902-1969), “Let Jesus Lead You,” 1964
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Robert Frank (1924-), Funeral—St. Helena, South Carolina, 1955/56
