music clip of the day

alone

Paal Nilssen-Love (drums), live, Norway (Kongsberg Jazzfestival), 2011

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lagniappe

reading table

Faces are motion, which is why all the photos of you are bad. Even the most natural-looking portrait is a sentence interrupted, one note of an aria, held. Though faces themselves hide a deeper motion. You seem to sit there and meet my eyes across the table, but you are so many other places, clinging here for a moment against all the currents that will soon sweep you onward. We are so moved by the faces caught in the windows of trains going the other way because they tell us how all faces really are.

—James Richardson, “Ten-Second Essay #134”