Wind

A gust of wind made it look as if the grass were racing away. A white plastic bag caught on the end of the hedge was flapping, and it struck me that someone who didn't know that wind existed would have thought that the bag was moving of its own accord. (Knausgaard, My Struggle, Book Three: Boyhood, transl. Don Bartlett, Archipelago 2014, p. 51)

Joycean Dashes

H.G. Wells on James Joyce's use of dashes for dialogue instead of quotation marks:

...most of the talk flickers blindingly with these dashes, one has the same wincing feeling of being flicked at that one used to have in the early cinema shows. (from "James Joyce," in The New Republic 1917-03-10)

Playlist, Week of 2015-10-25

A classic revisited; I hadn't listened to all of this in a while. Wyatt wrote none of the songs, but he dominates this album. His drumming is brilliant: subtle but powerful, bombastic when called for but always with a keen melodic sense and high level of invention.

Playlist 2015-10-26:

*Muhal Richard Abrams: 1-OQA + 19
*Anthony Braxton with the Northwest Creative Orchestra: Eugene (1989) (selections)
*Dave Bryant: The Garden of Equilibria
*Dave Burrell: After Love
*John Coltrane: Blue Train
*John Coltrane: 1958-09-25 Joe Brazil’s basement, Detroit (CDR)
*Joe Morris/Agusti Fernandez/Nate Wooley: From the Discrete to the Particular
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-08-24 “No Pressure, No Pleasure” (wav)
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-10-12 “A Froggy Evening” (wav)
*Ozric Tentacles: Erpland
*Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost: Most Materiall (disc 2)
*Sonny Rollins: Sonny Meets Hawk!
*Sun Ra: Detroit Jazz Center (1980-12-31) (disc 20) (CDR)
*Sun Ra: Hiroshima
*Sun Ra: Outer Reach Intensity/Energy
*Colin Blunstone: One Year
*Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Punch the Clock
*Bob Dylan and The Band: The Basement Tapes- Complete (disc 1)
*Roky Erickson & the Aliens: The Evil One
*Flying Lotus: Until the Quiet Comes
*Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (disc 2)
*Gong: You
*Hatfield and the North: Hatfield and the North
*Janel & Anthony: Where Is Home
*Matching Mole: Matching Mole’s Little Red Record
*Santana: Santana
*Super Furry Animals: Mwng (2015 reissue) (disc 1)
*Brian Wilson: No Pier Pressure

Reading List, Week of 2015-10-25

Reading List 2015-10-26:

*Fletcher, John, and William Shakespeare. The Two Noble Kinsmen (Arden 3rd series, rev. ed., ed. Lois Potter) (reread/started)
*Vollmann, William. Rising Up and Rising Down, Volume 1 (started)
*Shakespeare, William. The Winter’s Tale (Arden ed., 2nd series, ed. J.H.P. Pafford)(reread/finished)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Four (transl. Don Bartlett) (in progress)

New Ting Ting Loft gig this Saturday: Cheap Fest VI

Yes, of course we're not on the poster (nice poster anyway!), but New Ting Ting Loft is definitely playing at Cheap Fest VI at Strange Matter this Saturday, at 3 PM. You can see the full schedule here. For ease of setup, I think I'm just gonna bring snare and hi-hat. We'll be immediately followed at 3: 15 by Bushmeat, with Thomas Stanley, author of The Execution of Sun Ra. Should be fun!

Playlist, Week of 2015-10-18

Playlist 2015-10-19:


*AMM III: It Had Been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado
*AMM: Laminal (disc 2)
*AMM: From a Strange Place
*AMM: Before Driving to the Chapel We Took Coffee with Rick and Jennifer Reed
*AMM: 1998-04-03 Padova, Italy (CDR)
*Anthony Braxton: Past, Present, Future: Selections from the Tri-Centric Foundation Archives, Vol. 2 (mp3)
*Taylor Ho Bynum Sextet: 2013-11-09 Jazz Gallery, NYC (2nd set) (CDR)
*Rodger Coleman and Sam Byrd: 2015-05-14/15 Nashville (wav)
*John Coltrane: Fearless Leader (disc 6)
*John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (disc 4)
*Kris Davis: Massive Threads
*Alexander Hawkins: Alexander Hawkins Trio
*Dave Holland: Prism
*Mahavishnu Orchestra: The Lost Trident Sessions
*Roscoe Mitchell: L-R-G/The Maze/S II Examples
*Musica Elettronica Viva/AMM: Live Electronic Music Improvised
*New Ting Ting Loft: 2015-10-12 “A Froggy Evening” (wav)
*Evan Parker and Eddie Prévost: Most Materiall (disc 1)
*Max Roach: We Insist!
*Wayne Shorter: Super Nova (side 2)
*Sun Ra All Stars: 1983-11-01 Paris (CDR)
*Cecil Taylor Quintet: 1965-07-02 Newport Jazz Festival
*Various artists: The Hot Spot (original motion picture soundtrack)
*Beatles: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heart Club Band (side 2)
*Captain Beefheart: The Spotlight Kid
*Guided by Voices: Get Out of My Stations
*High Llamas: Lollo Rosso
*Liz Phair: Exile in Guyville
*Paul McCartney: Tug of War (2015 ed.) (disc 1)
*UYA: 1989-10-08 Urban Young Agitation (wav)
*UYA: Z (Blue) “Z (Blue) (pt. 2)”

Reading List, Week of 2015-10-18

Reading List 2015-10-19:

*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Four (transl. Don Bartlett)(started)
*Kirwan, Peter, “Shakespeare Apocrypha and Canonical Expansion in the Marketplace,” in Philological Quarterly 91.2 (2012) (started/finished)
*Weiss, Larry, “William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays,” in Shakespeare Newsletter 63.3 (2014) (started/finished)
*Knausgaard, Karl Ove. My Struggle, Book Three: Boyhood (transl. Don Bartlett)(finished)
*Shakespeare, William. The Winter’s Tale (Arden ed., 2nd series, ed. J.H.P. Pafford)(reread/in progress)