This past Wednesday was the 50th anniversary of the second and final recording session for Kind of Blue; Miles Davis et al. got together to put “Flamenco Sketches” and “All Blues” down on tape.
Here’s Davis’s legendary 60s band (Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony WIlliams) playing “All Blues” live.
And, here’s a different and more [...]
Because, you know, fuck actually reading Das Capital, Phenomenology of Spirit or Ecce Homo in the internet age. Some of these Twitter feeds aren’t in English.
Karl Marx: @charles_h_marx (deutsch)
Sigmund Freud: @sfreud
Friedrich Nietzsche: @nietzsche_f (deutsch) and @nietzsche_bot
Slavoj Žižek: @zizekspeaks
G. F. Hegel: @GeorgHegel
Carl Jung: @thecarljung
Changing Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990 (an archive created by the UCLA Library)
In Opposition of 4/20 Celebration (a post from D’Alliance, a blog from the Drug Policy Alliance Network; a friend who works for the organization posted this on the twitters. Maybe don’t read it at work if your boss is touchy about drugs.)
I’m currently forcing myself to read the just-released torture memos. I can’t even bring myself to write about them yet.
I challenge you: let’s assume that you were called upon to build the edifice of human destiny so that men would finally be happy and would find peace and tranquility. If you knew that, in [...]
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From The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot (1888-1965), lines 19-42
What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no [...]
“I like boring things. I like things to be exactly the same over and over again.” [Andy Warhol]
I’m in San Francisco at the moment visiting Casey. So far, the cultural highlight of the trip (aside from drinking in the Castro; my friend gingerbeer and I went out and had a couple of drinks on Monday, [...]
(That’s a sentence I never thought I would type.)
This blog is named for 4′33″, John Cage’s famous “silent piece” and a work with which I’ve been mildly obsessed ever since reading Cage’s book/manifesto Silence as a college freshman. Today, iTunes offered part of 4′33″ as a free download. Which, of course, is awesome. If you [...]