jazz domino

Three Corners #1:Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice Authentic Deep Pan #2: Miles Davis ▼ JERRY GARCIA, DAVID GRISMAN, TONY RICE: SHADY JAM from “The Pizza Tapes” CD (Acoustic Disc) 2000 (US) ▼ JERRY GARCIA, DAVID GRISMAN, TONY RICE: SO WHAT from “The Pizza Tapes” CD (Acoustic Disc) 2000 (US)

brian and dennis, wilson and wilson; sans charlie

‘dirty doll“. photograph from here. From the second disc of Pavement’s 2004 re-release of “Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain” – L.A’s Desert Origins – featuring previously unreleased material which was subsequently rerecorded for their third album, “Wowee Zowee“. I met Steve Malkmus once on stage at a village hall in Belgium during Sonic Youth’s “Dirty” tour.

goodbye coney island

Two years ago, apparently, the Brooklyn Museum staged a small exhibition of no more than 50 photographs entitled “Goodbye Coney Island“. “The collection “traces the evolution of this fabled part of New York over the past 125 years,” over which time it has undergone many transformations.”I would have liked to have seen that. This is

snow, what f@cking snow ?*

Oh yeah. And somebody – somewhere – mentioned to me it was Christmas. Is that right ? By my calendar it’s still December 8th. F@ck Billy Bob Thornton. Next thing you know, we’ll all be getting sentimentally dewy eyed over Bill Murray’s million dollar panto turnin “Scrooged“. What a load of shit. I’m always getting

from here to eternity…

vladimir putin pulls off a passable impression of our uncle bill. ▼ WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS: MILDRED PIERCE REPORTING (OLD SARGE) from “Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales” CD (Island Red) 1993 (US)PURCHASE SPARE ASS ANNIE AND OTHER TALES

grant lee buffalo

“assiniboine hunting buffalo” by paul kane, 1796 – 1872. ▼ GRANT LEE BUFFALO: FUZZY from “Fuzzy” LP (Slash) 1993 (US) HUNT IT DOWN

the fall: the palace of excess

The Palace Of Excess. William Blake: 28 Nov. 1757 – 12 Aug. 1827. Mr. Beer N. Hockey recently reminded me where this quote comes from. I used to be a commercial illustrator until my world went pear-shaped, and William Blake was an influence not least because of his rebellious tenacity and unassailable doggedness. Mervyn Peake

carl orff: musica poetica

Gassenhauer Für Kinder iii: the unreleased theme to”Badlands”.This piece is improvised around a composition for flute – from 1536 – by Gunild Keetman, under the mentorship of Carl Orff. Although inseparably associated with Terrence Malick’s movie “Badlands”, this recording can be found more readily on the Orff-Schulwerk – Volume 1” CD released on the Celestial