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Standard loop, a couple breathing problems climbing up to the zoo, but felt pretty good beyond that. Only real problem is that summer seems to have hit the 801 in full force … going from mid-70s earlier this week, to mid-90s today.

Heat, especially rapid heat, is not something I do so [...]

Art vs. Copyright

Sita Sings the Copyright Blues

Boing Boing, Roger Ebert, and the Tribeca Film Festival all love Nina Paley’s brilliant cartoon, which links heartbreak, the Ramayana, and 1920s jazz. Copyright law, though? That’s another story. Find out why.

First things first. Sita Sings the Blues is a completely unique animated feature, mixing up personal pain, [...]

Is iTunes killing music?

Record Labels Skip Apple’s iTunes – WSJ.com Some in Music Industry Say the Online Store Crimps Overall Sales By ETHAN SMITH and NICK WINGFIELD August 27, 2008 6:29 p.m.

ITunes has been the runaway hit of the music business, selling more than five billion song downloads since it started five years ago. But a growing [...]

Poetry Friday

ROUND ABOUT MIDNIGHT

Jazz radio on a midnight kick, Round about Midnight.

Sitting on the bed, With a jazz type chick Round about Midnight,

Piano laughter, in my ears, Round about Midnight.

Stirring up laughter, dying tears, Round about Midnight.

Soft blue voices, muted grins, Excited voices, Father’s sins, Round about Midnight.

Come on baby, [...]

Poetry Friday

JAZZ CHICK

Music from her breast, vibrating Soundseared into burnished velvet. Silent hips deceiving fools. Rivulets of trickling ecstacy From the alabaster pools of Jazz Where music cools hot souls. Eyes more articulately silent Than Medusa’s thousand tongues. A bridge of eyes, consenting smiles reveal her presence singing Of cool remembrance, happy balls Wrapped in [...]

Wow … blast from the past …

Scenes from the swing scene at the Hi-Ball Lounge in San Francisco, late 1998 or early 1999. My then girlfriend, now ex-wife Kim shows up three times in dance sequences … she’s wearing the black suit with red top, dancing with the big guy in the blue bowling shirt (whose name I’m blanking) and [...]

Defined by places …

Is it cheesy to crib a post for your own blog from comments that you’ve left on someone else’s?

Fastgrrrl wrote today about having a sense of place, and how places leave their mark on people.

My place … I’m still trying to determine exactly where my place is …

It’s the Tennessee River, drifting [...]

Poetry Friday

FOR MILES

Your sound is faultless     pure & round         holy     almost profound

Your sound is your sound     true & from within     a confession     soulful & lovely

Poet whose sound is played     l lost or recorded     but heard     can you recall that 54 night at the Open Door     when you & bird     wailed five in the [...]

Down By Law

So when you hear the phrase “Down By Law”, what pops to mind?

Is it the incredible punk bank fronted by Dave Smalley (who also fronted Dag Nasty and ALL)? Or is it the even more incredible independent film by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tom Waits, John Lurie (of the Lounge Lizards), and Roberto Benigni?

As [...]

Quote of the Day

20th Chorus

   Jazz killed itself    But dont let poetry kill itself

Dont be afraid    of the cold night air

Dont listen to institutions When you return manuscripts to       brownstone

dont bow & scuffle       for Edith Wharton pioneers or ursula major nebraska prose    just hang in your own backyard       & laugh play pretty          cake trombone & [...]