Coming down to crunch time...

Darcy James Argue's Secret Society - "Infernal Machines"
Joe Henderson - "Black Narcissus"
Joe Henderson - "Lush Life"
Mark Taylor - "Spectre"
Miles Davis - "Bitches Brew"

re-learning how to love music

Kenny Werner - "Lawn Chair Society"
Wayne Shorter - "Speak No Evil"
Wayne Shorter - "Juju"
Cake - "Fashion Nugget"
Osvaldo Goljiov - "Oceana", "Tenebrae", "3 Songs for Soprano and Orchestra"
Lee Konitz - "Nonet"

Re-evaluating what I love about music, and why I put so much time into it.  Hopefully I come out on top of myself.

in sickness and in health

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Beethoven Symphony No. 3 Conducted by Otto Klemperer
Wayne Shorter - The All Seeing Eye
Jefferson Airplane - Surrealistic Pillow
Jimmy Giuffre - The Jimmy Giuffre 3
Freddie Hubbard - Backlash
Pat Metheny - Orchestrion

enjoyed with a cup of yerba matte

i've started a listening log to sort of keep track of all of the things i'm listening to.  currently i'm keeping track of who played on what, what year it was released, by what record company, and when i listened to it.  i'm considering adding comments about each album though....

czech it out

Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis/Gil Evans

Meat is Murder - The Smiths

Doolittle - The Pixies

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo
Windowlicker - Aphex Twin

dig it, with a cup of char

Not so much jazz

Prince - "Controversy"
Public Enemy - "Fear of a Black Planet"
Daft Punk - "Discovery"
Run DMC - "Crown Royal" "Raising Hell"
Tears for Fears - "The Hurting"

...and...

Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh - "Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh"

False Idols

I had an experience with my family today that made me realize something not just about myself, but about the rest of America (and probably most of the developed world). I was with my family at the beach and my sister happened to notice that a couple from the bachelor was a couple of feet away from us on the beach (cool, if you're into that. I am not). So, my sister goes over and talks to them and I assume had a very nice conversation with them. Then she says that it was the best thing that had happened to her in a long time. These people were on the bachelor, they have no other celebrity or intrinsic value other than the fact that they were on probably one of the WORST reality shows put there, yet these people made my sisters day (good for her). My point is that we have stopped thinking people like this as people (which they are) and started thinking of them as godlike figures (which they are not). The people my sister met today have not bettered the world in any way; they have not defied the laws of physics, they have not cured cancer, they have not written a symphony, yet these people are worshipped by society. It has now become my quest to figure out why these people are treated with such high esteem. 

Hypothesis #1: they give people watching the bachelor a look into the glamorous love-lives of ordinary people which proves to them that love exists and is real (and in fact, can be captured for a live television audience!). The problem with this is that the majority of the contestants on the bachelor end up separating after the show ends, trust me, I looked.

Hypothesis #2: they are really, really, ridiculously good-looking (sort of). 

I think we can all take advice from this occurrence and remember that if we meet somebody that we admire, that they are just people (except for Sean Connery). I'm sure some celebrities feed off of their fame, so why should we be so inclined to give it to them?  These people deserve nothing but humility and a soft-spoken handshake or word of encouragement from the "regular" population, which they are just as much a part if as we are.

Listening for the night

Philip Glass' 6th and 8th Symphonies
Erik Truffaz
Some Marilyn Monroe movie
All enjoyed with a cup of keemun concerto from allegro tea
I hope that zero people that read this blog have a great night