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[TheGreenOne]

Karin Krog w/ Dexter Gordon Ode To Billy Joe

[Bognoz]

Bill Frisell - Guitar in the Space Age

[Bognoz]

Yank Rachell

[TheGreenOne]

Patti Smith @ St. Mark's Church

[Bognoz]

Terry Bozzio

[TheGreenOne]

Le-Bataclan - ´72

[TheGreenOne]

The Unthanks: Close The Coalhouse Door

[artemis]

Found this recently and thought it nice - good song, good video.

 

BØRNS - Electric Love

 

Figured the boy was a one-hit wonder (maybe not even a hit), but I now realize he's not even close to one-dimensional, and can he sing.

 

Holy Ghost

[Bognoz]

Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind

[artemis]

The Illuminati is allegedly into that sort of discipline.  Goat fucking and the like.  No doubt more pleasurable than listening to King Crimson.  But maybe the minds being kicked out of the armchair belong to the band, and not the audience?  It's okay with me, but then they should pay the audience, not charge them admission.  I read once that R. Fripp had a guitar class, and he made the students hit the same note over and over, trying to get them to grasp the essential truth of one note before moving on to more complex things.  It's a wonder it didn't end with a guitar up his ass.  Radical action to unseat the hold of the pretentious sphincter.

[Bognoz]

Meltdown

[Bognoz]

Radical Action II

[Bognoz]

Discipline, you say?

Illuminati you aver?

 

Aye, Mac, that'll do, that'll do.

 

 

[Bognoz]

What's become of Balz?

[TheGreenOne]

prolly got married

 

[Bognoz]

Would that explain why

he absquatulated?

[TheGreenOne]

No, he didn't practice premarital conjugation.

[Bognoz]

You misspelled

praxis in congenital malformation.

[Bognoz]

Or was that

female genital mutilation?

[Bognoz]

Whatever ewe dew

don't axe the cow

with the prolapsed uterus.

[TheGreenOne]

It was an amateur that let the uterus lapse.

[artemis]

I appreciated Fripp's contribution to David Bowie's Scary Monsters LP.  Never heard a guitar make such noises prior to that.

Tried the single note exercise as well.  I appreciated the Zen approach.

I play guitar best (I don't say well) when I'm stoned.

It's only then that the monkey mind lets go and I listen to what the instrument is telling me.

At other (non-stoned) times, I'm trying to impose my will upon it - play these notes in this order at this speed ...

Technicians play at the edge of the beach, artists go diving for pearls.

[Bognoz]

I never heard tell of the single note

as an exercise in Fripp's guitar course.

 

I have read that the course started

with an exorcise, as it were,

with the need to embrace silence first.

[Bognoz]

A friend of mine who is now an aging painter

once felt serious consternation at the thought

that he was on the road to becoming

a third generation abstract expressionist.

[Bognoz]

He had studied with Franz Kline,

worked as a studio assistant for Rothko

and for Philip Guston as well.

He was well skewled, shall we say,

when he realized that they had made it

new, and now he was only following.

[Bognoz]

He was moved to destroyed nearly all

of his previous output. He put down his pencils,

his charcoal, his paintbrushes and turpentine.

Basically just said fuck it. For about a year.

[Bognoz]

After that, when he felt cleansed but unwhole,

maybe even unholy for the creative hiatus,

he grabbed a fat old phone book and began

again. Drawing circles on page after page.

Just circles. Round shapes. Understanding

that one simple form before adding to it

and moving on again as an original.

[Bognoz]

Decades later his work looks like no one else's.

[TheGreenOne]

Understanding that one simple form before adding to it

and moving on again as an original.

Sounds like he should have made absinthe.

[Bognoz]

His cellmate made pruno.

[artemis]

Understanding that one simple form before adding to it and moving on again as an original.

 

http://slashmuse.com...ven-ok-in-paris

[TheGreenOne]

Yet the French may elect one as President.

[Bognoz]

Ah, Artemonsieur posts another

roadside smudge pot.

[Bognoz]

Meaning I haven't thought of that painting

in decades. Could it be an inside reference

that you're at least as old as dirt?

[Bognoz]

But far less forgetful?

[Bognoz]

Actually, I'm surprised how that one has fallen

out of favor in popular discourse (was it ever really

in favor in popular discourse? prolly not so much).

But my frame of reference for such highbrow period smut

has been overtaken in the intervening years

more by Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe

and of course his sweet whoer Olympia.

[Bognoz]

But I kinda like the opening

Luxemburger wort makes.

[TheGreenOne]

Barnes writes about the painting a little bit but avoids making it a major topic.

[artemis]

I never saw that painting (as far as I remember) until a couple of days ago when I saw that web page. 

And I was looking for something else, specifically, the etymology of "cunt".  I had been thinking of a conversation between my wife and her friend, about forty years ago, wherein said friend said the words "my cunt".  Never before or since heard a woman use that word in such a first person, matter of fact manner, and I got to thinking, why not?.  That memory is not as old as that of the smudge pot, but it conceals its own mystery.  Should have delved deeper when the moment was at hand.  Or later, but not much later, if you see what I mean.

In any case, if a picture is worth a thousand words, hot tuna is mo bettah still.

[TheGreenOne]

[artemis]

Dirty hippies.

I had boots like that, before I ever heard of hippies.

I got the idea from the Daniel Boone TV show; and the boots by mail order from an ad in the back of Field & Stream magazine.  Wore them til they wore out.

 

Daniel Boone was a man

Yes a biggggg man

But the bear was bigger

So he ran like a ******

Through the woods

 

As I remember the etymology, Jorma was onstage and talking about something akin to the woman on the floor in the museum, and someone in the audience shouted "that's hot tuna!".

 

In Dream of the Red Chamber, a vintage Chinese novel, it's more elegantly described as the Jade Gate.

[artemis]

Heartbreak, you know, drives a big black car

[TheGreenOne]

[artemis]

But my frame of reference for such highbrow period smut has been overtaken in the intervening years

more by Edouard Manet's Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe

 

That has also been trumped in flesh and blood.

 

 

Also on the all-time LP names list - See Jungle!  See Jungle!  Annabella Lwin was 15 when the photo was taken.  Thus, prolly more "controversial" than the original.

[artemis]

Good band, too.  Veterans from Adam & the Ants backing Annabella.

[Bognoz]

[artemis]

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[DrinkSlinger]

Steely Danzig.
http://www.avclub.co...nzig-mas-245271

[TheGreenOne]

[TheGreenOne]

[Bognoz]

Merce Cunningham dancing to John Cage

Not

[TheGreenOne]

Beautifully executed.

[jaded prol]

..

 

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