This sound-world I could inhabit, happily, all weekend.
Gérard Grisey (1946-1998), Vortex Temporum (1994-96)
Ensemble Sonorama, live, Argentina (Buenos Aires), 2013
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reading table
When we recognize we ‘think again’
without knowing what or if
we thought before.—Rae Armantrout, “Fusion,” excerpt (New Yorker, 3/7/16)
what’s new
Black Star (Talib Kweli, Yasiin Bey [formerly known as Mos Def])
TV broadcast (The Colbert Report), 2011
“Fix Up”
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“Astronomy (8th Light)”
Vodpod videos no longer available.More? Here.
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reading table
I’m on a crowded ship
and I’ve been served the wrong breakfast.This small mound
of soggy dough
is not what I ordered.“Why don’t you just say
what you mean?”Why don’t I?
*****
To be awake
is to discriminateamong birdcalls,
fruits, seeds,
“to work one’s way,”
as they say,“through.”
*****
Apes can mind-read.
Studies showwhat makes us human
is our tendency to point.*****
I am not alone in this
sentence.—Rae Armantrout, Money Shot (2011), misc. fragments
Frederic Chopin, Mazurka in C Major, Op. 24, No. 2
Martha Argerich, live, Sweden (Stockholm), 2009
More? Here. And here. And here. And here.
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musical thoughts
When I don’t play Chopin for a while, I don’t feel like
a pianist.—Martha Argerich
*****
reading table
Look how
we “attempted to express ourselves.”Every one of these words is wrong.
It wasn’t us.
Or we made no real attempt.
Or there is no discernible difference
between self and expression.*****
The outer world means
State Farm Donuts Tae Kwando?*****
Today could be described as a retired man humming
tunelessly to himself.*****
Any statement I issue
if particular enoughwill prove
I was here*****
It’s as if
the real
thing—
your own
absence—
can never be
uncovered.*****
These temporary credits
will no longer be reflected
in your next billing period.—Rae Armantrout, Versed (2009), misc. fragments
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