Tuesday, May 29th
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Björk, “The Gate,” interview, TV show (Later . . . with Jools Holland, BBC), 5/26/18
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yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
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2018
Monday, May 28th
what’s new
Is anyone in pop music farther out?
Björk, “Blissing Me,” TV show (Later . . . with Jools Holland, BBC), 5/26/18
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I am flowering and dying.
—Peter Gizzi, from “Tradition & The Indivisible Talent”
2018
Tuesday, January 2nd
what’s new
Like her or not, you’ve got to give her this: she’s unafraid to go her own way.
Björk, “Arisen My Senses,” 12/20/17 (video)
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random sights
other day, Berkeley, Calif.
2017
Tuesday, November 28th
what’s new
Björk, “Blissing Me,” 11/16/17
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reading table
Mortality is fatal
Gentility is fine
Rascality, heroic
Insolvency, sublime—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), 2 (Franklin), excerpt
2017
Wednesday, September 27th
what’s new
Björk, “The Gate,” 9/20/17
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reading table
Said is missaid.
—Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), “Worstword Ho” (1983)
2017
Wednesday, June 14th
like nobody else
Björk, “Notget” (video, 2017; audio [Vulnicura], 2015)
2015
Friday, June 19th
what’s new
Björk, “Stonemilker” (360 degree virtual reality), 2015
2012
Wednesday, 8/22/12
It’s impossible, sometimes, to separate our experience of music, especially pop music, from the surrounding circumstances. The other day, for instance, I was taking my son Luke back to school in Bloomington, Indiana. He was playing dashboard DJ. As we rolled through the hills of southern Indiana, nearing our destination, this came on after a long stretch of hip-hop (Lil Wayne, Eminem, Young Jeezy, Tyga, et al.), and the electronic intro, the Björk-like voice—they lit up the highway.
Ellie Goulding, “Lights”
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art beat: yesterday at the Art Institute of Chicago (after a hearing at the nearby federal court building)
Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective (through 9/3/12)
Look Mickey (1961)
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Artist’s Studio “Look Mickey” (1973)
2012
Thursday, 7/12/12
If, someday, Björk invites you over for tea, don’t be surprised if she wants to show you this.
Martha Argerich, at home with then-husband conductor Charles Dutoit, Switzerland (near Lausanne), 1972
‘Recently I have been guilty of watching a lot of YouTube,’ Björk says. She’s been exploring Martha Argerich (1972 home movies) . . .
—Alex Ross, The Rest Is Noise (blog), 11/13/11
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Happy Birthday, Suzanne!
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