Riding the train/sit there and sightsee

“it is hard to be anywhere once

and twice is a dream”

(From The Desk by Cid Corman)

This week my attention was rocked by new thinking and split between stuff that “interferes with your breathing” and stuff where you could say “this is the sound of God, in case anyone was wondering”

Keetje Kuipers

https://keetjekuipers.com/

Nicole Callihan

https://www.nicolecallihan.com/

Add Joanne Kyger to the list.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanne_Kyger

And Fela Kuti (1971)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jbzdl9isW0

Psychedelic Furs (1981) Talk Talk Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_awQndgU-KY

Robert Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op.17 (Andsnes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ7hE4lQAYs

And I learned a little about Nick Land and accelerationism. This link got me started

http://joshuacitarella.com/_pdf/Politigram_Post-left_2018_short.pdf

Plus continued work on a couple of tremendous projects I’m not at liberty to discuss.

I devoured the Walks to the Paradise Garden. https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/books/walks-to-the-paradise-garden-a-lowdown-southern-odyssey/

Jonathan Williams, oh my goodness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Williams_(poet)

Then there was Tsitsi Dangarembga and an interesting interview:

 https://bombmagazine.org/articles/tsitsi-dangaremgba/

I’ve read her first novel, Nervous Conditions, a couple of times. In it, along with everything else, there’s a sense of delight in how she compassionately and honestly dealt with the feelings of girls, young women.

Robert Forster has died. I remember him mostly from "Medium Cool" and "Jackie Brown."

Buy pumpkins

I said look I said harsh beauty

Comes along once in a Total Pho.

Her name was Promise Ji.

She took her race track tea

Black with honey.

My biggest fear was

Half and half.

Getting a charge of out Eric Dolphy

So I wrote to the governor re AB 881

and

listened to Frank Zappa music.

Black napkins

Burnt weeny sandwich

Waka/jawaka

A Token of His Extreme

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGZreIjhtVY

and The Observatory by Caroline Shaw

And:  

Brahms-Quintet for Piano and Strings in f minor op. 34

Brahms Quintetto per Pianoforte e Archi in Fa Minore Op 34 Quartetto Italiano, Pollini

Brahms Clarinet Quintet In B minor op. 115

Johannes Brahms - Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano in A Minor, Op. 114

Brahms Sextets Nos. 1 & 2

Brahms intermezzi.

Brahms violin concerto.

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Live at the Scene

After intense writing, I like to relax, read some African-American Urban Fiction. You know what that’s all about. Usually the authors have me laughing out loud at the truth of their creative English, what Fred Moten and Stefano Harney call “eloquent vulgarities” and “mutant grammar.”

My Besties: The Come Up by Asia Hill wasn’t as druggy and explicit and nasty as most, but still I enjoyed the tone. Here are some samples:

“Feel me? We rode hard in these streets.”

“He took care of me. He always made sure I had the best video games and the newest Jordans.”

“Something told me that she was a rotten bitch on the inside.”

I laughed out loud at the description of a young woman wearing an all-white outfit: “Tiki over here looking like a glass of whole milk and shit.”

Then a pivot to T.S. Eliot and his Four Quartets.

And then Art Pepper (“I see where I wanna go, it’s just trying to get there.”) kills it with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn8VzO-KbfQ

And where I left off is no longer there

And neither I nor there are the same as when we both were.

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And now we’d like to play a tune

Tom Weatherly

https://jacket2.org/feature/short-history-tom-weatherly

Short History of the Saxophone, 2006

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7932195-short-history-of-the-saxophone

Philip Glass, Concerto for Saxophone quartet, 1995

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jb6YeV_Aik

Art Pepper, 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trsf4NdKAYM

Dexter Gordon, 1979

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dyHw2tO1o

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How my days go

After intense writing, I like to relax, take in a couple of shows:

Amy Winehouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srkdnRhnHPM

Puscifer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQegO1Ofc8w

Triptych

Next Saturday the University of Notre Dame hosts the University of New Mexico in a football game. The Fighting Irish vs. the Lobos.

The left panel is Touchdown Jesus, on a chapel I believe at Notre Dame. The right panel is the Lobo logo of UNM in the 1960’s. The center panel is my father, bridging the two cultures.

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