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.
music clip of the day
jazz/blues/rock/classical/gospel/more
2015
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Monday, March 16th
sounds of Chicago
Jack DeJohnette (drums) with MCOTD Hall-of-Famer Henry Threadgill (reeds), Roscoe Mitchell (reeds), Muhal Richard Abrams (piano), and Larry Gray (bass), Made in Chicago, 2015
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This, too, I never tire of.
Jackson Pollock (1912-1956), Greyed Rainbow, 1953
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Sunday, March 15th
sounds of Chicago
Caravans (feat. Shirley Caesar, lead vocals), “God Don’t Need No Coward Soldier” (J. Herndon), live (TV show), early ’60s
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lagniappe
reading table
You can live three days without bread—without poetry never.
—Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867; quoted in Julian Bell, Van Gogh: A Power Seething)
2015
Saturday, March 14th
sounds of Detroit
Don Was/Sweet Pea Atkinson, “Slow Down,” recording session, 2007
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lagniappe
art beat: more from the other day at the Art Institute of Chicago
This I never tire of.
Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), City Landscape, 1955
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Friday, March 13th
only rock ‘n’ roll
Sleater-Kinney, “A New Wave,” 2015
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Thursday, March 12th
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Suite No. 5 in C minor for Unaccompanied Cello; Anner Bylsma, live, 2000
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lagniappe
reading table
I haven’t got a kopeck, but as I see it, it’s not the person with a lot of money who is rich, but rather the one who has the wherewithal to be alive here and now in the lush, bountiful setting bestowed upon us by early spring.
—Anton Chekhov (1860-1904), letter to Lidia Avilova, April 29, 1892 (trans. from Russian by Cathy Popkin [Anton Chekhov’s Selected Stories, Cathy Popkin, ed.])
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Wednesday, March 11th
basement jukebox
Edwin Starr, “Twenty-Five Miles,” 1969
Nothing jumps out of speakers like a track mixed for car radio.
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lagniappe
reading table
even poorly planted
rice plants
slowly, slowly . . . green!—Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827; translated from Japanese by David G. Lanoue)
2015
Tuesday, March 10th
sounds of Chicago
Matthias Kranebitter (1980-), pack the box (with five dozen of my liquor jugs) (2013)
Mocrep, live, Chicago, 2014
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reading table
Collage=life.
—Joseph Cornell, diary entry, 1964
2015
Monday, March 9th
Need a jolt?
Ballet mecanique (1924) by Fernand Leger and Dudley Murphy (cinematography by Man Ray), with original score by George Anthiel (1900-1959), as performed in 1989 by the New Palais Royale Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble (Maurice Peress, cond.)
This I bumped into Friday at the Art Institute of Chicago, where it’s playing, continuously, in the exhibit Shatter Rupture Break, which runs through May 3rd.
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Sunday, March 8th
back to church
“Heavenly Home (Got to Take a Journey),” live, Langrun Branch Baptist Church, York, South Carolina
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lagniappe
reading table
I died for Beauty — but was scarce
Adjusted in the Tomb
When One who died for Truth, was lain
In an adjoining room —He questioned softly “Why I failed?”
“For Beauty,” I replied —
“And I — for Truth — Themself are One —
We Brethren, are,” He said —And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night —
We talked between the Rooms —
Until the Moss had reached our lips —
And covered up — our names ——Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
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