Thursday, March 26th
These guys I could listen to all day.
Kelin-Kelin’ Orchestra (with Brice Wassy, drums, vocals), “Me Feeh” (B. Wassy), live, Paris, 2013
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2015
Wednesday, March 25th
sounds of Chicago
Dave Rempis (tenor saxophone) & Tim Daisy (percussion), live, Chicago, 2013
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lagniappe
random thoughts
Sometimes it seems surprising that any of us survives even a single day in a world so sad.
2015
Tuesday, March 24th
can’t wait
This weekend they’ll be in Chicago, playing at Constellation.
Vijay Iyer Trio (VI, piano; Stephan Crump, bass; Marcus Gilmore, drums), Break Stuff, 2015
2015
Monday, March 23rd
like nobody else
Lonnie Holley, “From the Other Side of the Pulpit,” 2013
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lagniappe
art beat
Lonnie Holley, African Woman Crying
2015
Sunday, March 22nd
testify!
Lee Williams and the Spiritual QC’s, “Jesus Is Alive and Well,” live, 10/8/98
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lagniappe
art beat: more from Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Water Lily Pond, 1917/19
2015
Saturday, March 21st
alone
John Cage (1912-1992), In a Landscape (1948)
Anton Batagov (1965-, piano), live, Moscow, 2014
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lagniappe
art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago
Paul Cezanne, The Bay of Marseilles, Seen From L’Estaque, c. 1885
This, too, I never tire of.
2015
Friday, March 20th
Sounds echo across generations. Here, on the 88th birthday of my long-gone father, are sounds I first heard through my sons.
TV on the Radio, live (studio performance), Santa Monica, 2014
2015
Thursday, March 19th
otherworldly
Turgut Ercetin (1983-), String Quartet No. 1 (“December”); The Jack Quartet, live, Stanford University, 2011
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lagniappe
reading table
Lacan said that there was surely something ironic about Christ’s injunction to love thy neighbour as thyself—because actually, of course, people hate themselves.
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We know almost nothing about ourselves because we judge ourselves before we have a chance to see ourselves.
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Self-criticism is an unforbidden pleasure: we seem to relish the way it makes us suffer.
—Adam Phillips, “Against Self-Criticism,” London Review of Books, 3/5/15
2015
Wednesday, March 18th
Feeling glum?
Not for long.
Jim Campilongo & Honeyfingers,* live, New York, 2013
*JC, guitar; Luca Benedetti, guitar; Jonny Lam, lap steel guitar; Catherine Popper, bass; Shawn Pelton, drums.
2015
Tuesday, March 17th
sounds of Chicago
Tweedy, live (studio performance), Seattle, 3/12/15
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lagniappe
random sights
How reassuring to find this four blocks from home.
