January 2012
1 post
“He has a very special way of playing drums, as if he were guzzling something...”
– Kid Millions’ New Solo Album Has Maximum Drumming - NYTimes.com
December 2011
2 posts
“Do me a favor and get rid of that dignity of yours! Go and run in the fields,...”
– Arthur Cravan, from Arthur Cravan & Roberto Bolano
November 2011
3 posts
wedding mix
Here’s a mix my friend Leah and I put together for her wedding — R&B classics with some more recent funk and soul mixed in. Enjoy. (M3U stream.)
“… a row of parking meters that had witnessed a panicked flight all...”
– Updike on the Kennedy assassination
“Protest is transformative precisely because people emerge, encounter one another...”
– Naomi Wolf — We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
1 post
Coltrane, for me, is a—a culminating figure in a very rich tradition of blues and jazz. A blues that injects a blue note into Western history, into Western musical harmony, a note of dissonance, disturbance, defiance, wrestling with darkness, but always sustaining a sense of endurance and stamina, rooted in a deep love of self and a love of others. And be it a Ma Rainey, be it a Billie...
June 2011
6 posts
“In 1979, we had concerts in Europe, and a truly magical performance of “Homage”...”
– George Lewis talks Charlie Parker | destination-out.com | Readability. People have said this about a My Morning Jacket concert one year at Bonnaroo.
“Describe your ideal taxicab.
¶It would be a Checker driven by a sane person....”
– Nothing Gets Between Fran Lebowitz and Her Checker - NYTimes.com via those great folks at The Awl
“The single peaked at #2 in the UK, losing the number one spot to Chuck...”
– Gudbuy T’Jane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“It is a national scandal that the Civil Service provides such ghastly drafting...”
– One man’s war on clichés (does what it says on the tin) | www.independent.co.uk | Readability
“Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of...”
– Terence McKenna’s Last Trip | www.realitysandwich.com | Readability
“Terry called one night and said, “I want you to play the part.” I...”
– Badlands: An Oral History: Movies + TV: GQ
May 2011
2 posts
iamalwayson:
“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man’s subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely in nature, but in man.”
- Emma Goldman
“They recorded a double album, Music to Eat, which is apocryphally said to have...”
– Hampton Grease Band - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
April 2011
3 posts
David Simon - Campus Progress →
We’re not describing Montgomery County or Orange County or Manhattan or the places where money has cauterized all the wounds of modern life and the self-inflicted pain of unbridled capitalism. Those are places where money and capitalism have achieved everything they can. This is the America that got left behind. We’re being as accurate to that America as other shows are when they depict affluence.
Here are some nice beats I dug up and suggested for use on the teen talk show I’m doing stuff with:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/74530 http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chicken_Jones/ http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chicken_Jones/Sour_Soul_12/13_Chicken_Jones_-_one_last_try http://freemusicarchive.org/music/This_One/Sour_Soul_12/11_This_One_-_up_north...
March 2011
3 posts
“Introduce symmetries and rhythms instead of principles.” — Hugo Ball
PDF http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/DadaSurrealism/DadaSurrReadings/BallFrgmnts.pdf
“The general low tone and sordid flavor of this story makes it, in our judgment,...”
– Double Indemnity (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“So, he had to vaseline his skull like crazy to even get the thing on. The second...”
– The List of Famous Hats (James Tate) - Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
February 2011
1 post
“The bar is opened from 11am to 11pm for business meetings on ordinary days....”
– Attractions in Accra, Ghana - Localyte.com
January 2011
6 posts
“The Ekang phase is intensely musical, and usually lasts all night. There are...”
– Bikutsi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“I saw countless BMWs and Mercedes, sometimes right in the line of fire, other...”
– Ethan Kennedy, on his commute to Northern Virginia from DC evening of 1/26
“If you go on a date to see him, I think what Ornette offers is a new...”
– Until I Get Married » The Until I Get Married Guide To Jazz Featuring Jason Moran
“My father, Charles Seeger, was a musicologist; when he was 90, he put out a...”
– Pete Seeger’s Top 10 Folk Tunes
“Several German nursing homes have fake bus stops outside to keep patients from...”
– Alzheimer’s Therapy Focuses on Care - NYTimes.com
December 2010
14 posts
“Three months later, Werner Herzog called Korine to give praise to the film...”
– Harmony Korine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“In fact, having seen and listened to so many things along the decades, I have...”
– Caetano Veloso interviewed by Beck
“Facebook is a very big business dedicated to opening new markets for American...”
– The Idler » World’s Most Boring Man Nominated ‘Person of the Year’ by American Magazine
“Take it from pop-friendly me—if you’ve spent more time with the...”
– Robert Christgau: CG: Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
“The lead, like the title, should be a flashlight that shines down into the...”
– Author and Journalist John McPhee on the Importance of the Lead - WSJ.com
“Later, Burgess spoofed Kubrick’s image, firstly in the musical version of A...”
– A Clockwork Orange (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. “where a Kubrick-like character is beaten” — wow.
“You are so serious, as if
a glacier spoke in your ear
or you had to walk...”
– Frank O’Hara on Bunny Lang
“I don’t want to get into apocalyptic statements, but I think the time is...”
– The Captain Beefheart Radar Station - Lester Bangs reviews Lick My Decals Off Baby
“John Leland’s writeup in a Spin magazine column wrote about the single...”
– I Can’t Wait (Nu Shooz song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Update to my previous post
I replied to Oscar and asked how he found me. He said he found me through the Library of Congress. I asked for details and he said that my contact information was “in one of the correspondence at the Library of Congress.” I don’t know how someone would go about finding my name and e-mail address somewhere in the Library of Congress’s realm. He reiterated his comments...
“Hi Mike,
I came here in 1966 as an American serviceman, joined the U.S. Navy....”
– I received this e-mail today at the address I use for my freelance work (it’s on my website, business card, etc.). I don’t know this guy. The subject matter suggests that he somehow knows that I’m a writer.
I wonder whether he found my business card on the bulletin board at...
“… [A]ny picture’s improved if you draw a cigarette in it. There’s nothing...”
– Paris Review – Lynda Barry on ‘Picture This’, Nicole Rudick
November 2010
6 posts
“A snowclone is a type of cliché and phrasal template originally defined as...”
– Snowclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Classes? Classes are for asses.”
– Letters of Note: Don’t try (Bukowski)
“I really would like to stop working forever—never work again, never do...”
– Ginsberg in the 50s
October 2010
3 posts
“Bands on the road playing and living hard without much shower access get stinky....”
– An Oral History of Oneida’s Each One Teach One / In Depth // Drowned In Sound