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June 15, 2014
June 9, 2014
Managed to make it up to Naropa this weekend for Norma Cole and...
Managed to make it up to Naropa this weekend for Norma Cole and Kevin Killian’s play (where Barbara Guest is an angry god who sends Kari Edwards, Stacy Doris, and Leslie Scalapino back to sway the Pulitzer committee), and for Dodie Bellamy’s reading from TV SUTRAS, both of which were wonderful. In between, this scene from Snarfburgers (Dodie behind the camera).
June 8, 2014
"Mourning has to do with yielding to an unwanted transformation, where neither the full shape nor the..."
- Judith Butler (via languagefetishist)
June 3, 2014
venusbone:
jeandonnelly:
"She made enough poetry to keep her...
"She made enough poetry to keep her company" Joanne Kyger
I am so into all the Joanne Kyger Jean Donnelly has been posting.
May 27, 2014
May 26, 2014
Just after the camera zooms, an owl takes off from the clothes...
Just after the camera zooms, an owl takes off from the clothes line. There are 5 or 6 of them in our backyard in Austin. Will miss this bunch when we leave TX on Saturday, but Crane Giamo of Delete Press will keep them company (he rented our place).
May 23, 2014
Announcing Fun Party May @ Our New Location Grey Duck Gallery!
Join us at Grayduck Gallery @ 2213 E. Cesar Chavez on Saturday, May 24th, doors at 7:30 pm, reading at 8 pm! Featuring the works of Dale Martin Smith, Sarah Campbell and Justin Petropoulos.
Dale Smith has resided at various times in Texas, Yemen, Oregon, California, and…
May 22, 2014
21 Sun Ra Albums Are Released
By ALLAN KOZINN
NY Times Published: MAY 21, 2014
Sun Ra, the idiosyncratic jazz pianist and composer, used to say that he did not believe in birth or death, and he was able to keep his date of birth – May 22, 1914 – a secret until shortly before his death in 1993. So presumably, he would look askance at celebrations of his centenary. For admirers of his often theatrical, sometimes experimental music who want to mark the occasion, however, the Sun Ra Music Archive on Tuesday released 21 of the musician’s albums on iTunes, many of them in digital form for the first time (and others remastered).
The releases include music recorded between 1956 and 1974 – roughly the first half of Sun Ra’s career – and includes several albums that the archive regards as essential releases (among them, “Nubians of Plutonia,” “Jazz in Silhouette” and “Sun Ra Visits Earth”), as well as several that capture his more avant-garde side (including “Atlantis” and “Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy”).
A few of the albums (“Monorails and Satellites, Vol. 1,” for example) feature Sun Ra as a solo pianist; most capture him at the head of his Arkestra, in its many versions – the Myth Science Arkestra, the Astro Infinity Arkestra, the Solar Infinity Arkestra, the Intergalactic Research Arkestra and the plain old Arkestra. And though the recordings are mostly devoted to Sun Ra’s own music, there are some surprises, like the quirky “Sound Sun Pleasure!!” (1959) and “Holiday for Soul Dance” (1960) albums, with their endearingly reconfigured covers of songs like Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight,” the Lerner and Lowe show tune, “I Could Have Danced All Night,” and Gershwin’s “But Not for Me.”
The project was overseen by Michael D. Anderson, the executive director of the Sun Ra Music Archive, and Irwin Chusid, a journalist, broadcaster and music historian. Mr. Chusid provided notes for PDF booklets included with the recordings.
May 21, 2014
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