Simply & extraordinarily beautiful. Track one is playing right now.
Once again, Walrus, you're right on the money.
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Today, boys and girls, we’re going to look at ‘Song of the Chinchilla’ by Lisa Jarnot*. I liked the poem immediately – and I’ve given it to ...
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April Fool?
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Glad you like it, O Carpenter.
I'm currently in a Bird and Monk phase, prompted by reading Miles Davis's autobiography. (I'm into autiobiographies at the moment: first Chaplin, now Miles, then after that it will be Dylan's Chronicles.) But back to Miles: this section on Bud Powell could have been used in Anti-Oedipus:
"So that was that. After them shock treatments, Bud wasn't never the same, as a musician and as a person. Before Bud went to Bellevue [psychiatric ward in NY], everything he played had a wrinkle in it [The Fold!]; there was always something different about the way the music came off. Man, after they bashed his head in and gave him shock treatments, they would have done better cutting off his hands, instead of cutting off his creativity. Sometimes I used to wonder if them white doctors gave him shock treatments on purpose, to cut him off from himself, like they did to Bird."
W.
PS The Gizzi/Lucretius thing was a good catch -- I wonder if anyone else has noticed?
Monk's one of my absolute favourites - the Live at the It Club CD is terrific. I also particularly like solo Monk. Braxton did a great Monk record - Six Monk's Compositions - and Elliot Sharp's guitar take on Monk standards is very interesting, too.
Did you see the recent BBC 4 evening on him?
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Ron's link to the new Keith Waldrop book is timely - I don't know KW's work much (his wife's a bit more). The interview (conducted by Peter Gizzi - ha! coincidence!) is full of valuable insights. It confirms - to me at least - Gizzi's own collagiste tendencies. I once e-mailed him to try & sound him out on this - but his reply was a little bit evasive. Now I've got real evidence for that Periplum poem & suspect that he's doing this throughout the volume. However, I'm starting to see that what seems to be simple 'lifting' can lead to quite complicated consequences (Waldrop is good on this). And what does it mean if the reader doesn't 'get' the source? Or - as, say, Graham Foust, you provide your source?
Plenty to ponder.
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Looks likely we'll be adding a kitten to the Belgianwaffle household. Up until now it's just been goldfish. A whole new learning experience awaits.
O'Hara had cats, didn't he?
Cheers
The C.
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