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Monday, 11/15/10

Madonna would’ve been a big star back then, too.

“Snake Hips (Do The Wiggle Waggle Woo),” Happy Days (1929), with Sharon Lynn (singer), Ann Pennington (dancer)

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As I sd to my
friend, because I am
always talking, — John, I

sd, which was not his
name, the darkness sur-
rounds us, what

can we do against
it, or else, shall we &
why not, buy a goddamn big car,

drive, he sd, for
christ’s sake, look
out where yr going.

—Robert Creeley (I Know a Man)

Want to hear Creeley read this? Here (MP3).

Friday, 11/6/09

Some performances are so intimate and so strange that part of you feels as though you should avert your eyes. But another part knows that you can’t.

Nina Simone, “Feelings,” live, Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), 1976

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Here Robert Creeley reads his poem “Please.”