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May 17th 2013

Jesse Winchester — Payday

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One of the finest and most underrated songwriters of the early ’70s: Jesse Winchester, 69 today…

Jesse Winchester: Payday - from Jesse Winchester, 1970

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Posted at 10:30pm.

May 16th 2013

Jonathan Richman — Velvet Underground

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Jonathan Richman: Velvet Underground - from I, Jonathan, 1992

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Posted at 11:25pm.

May 16th 2013

Jonathan Richman — When She Kisses Me

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Jonathan Richman: When She Kisses Me - from Having a Party with Jonathan Richman, 1991

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Posted at 11:17pm.

May 16th 2013

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Jonathan Richman (b. May 16, 1951), always youthful, energetic and positive, is a seminal figure in rock and folk-inspired song-writing (he is so unique that labels quite fail me here). Who else sings about their ill-fitting jeans or a chewing gum wrapper on the sidewalk, with intense and real feeling?

“I decided as a kid I wanted to be a baseball player. Then I wanted to paint pictures and from there I decided I wanted to sing.” — Jonathan Richman

Photo of a youthful JoJo showing us his moves…

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Posted at 11:08pm.

Jonathan Richman (b. May 16, 1951), always youthful, energetic and positive, is a seminal figure in rock and folk-inspired song-writing (he is so unique that labels quite fail me here). Who else sings about their ill-fitting jeans or a chewing gum wrapper on the sidewalk, with intense and real feeling?
“I decided as a kid I wanted to be a baseball player. Then I wanted to paint pictures and from there I decided I wanted to sing.” — Jonathan Richman
Photo of a youthful JoJo showing us his moves…
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May 16th 2013

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Today the great American feminist poet, Adrienne Rich, would have turned 84…

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Adrienne Rich: What Kind of Times Are These

There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill
and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows
near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted
who disappeared into those shadows.

I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled
this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here,
our country moving closer to its own truth and dread,
its own ways of making people disappear.

I won’t tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods meeting the unmarked strip of light—
ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise:
I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear.

And I won’t tell you where it is, so why do I tell you
anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these
to have you listen at all, it’s necessary
to talk about trees.

Posted at 9:41pm.

Today the great American feminist poet, Adrienne Rich, would have turned 84…
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Adrienne Rich: What Kind of Times Are These There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old revolutionary road breaks off into shadows near a meeting-house abandoned by the persecuted who disappeared into those shadows. I’ve walked there picking mushrooms at the edge of dread, but don’t be fooled this isn’t a Russian poem, this is not somewhere else but here, our country moving closer to its own truth and dread, its own ways of making people disappear. I won’t tell you where the place is, the dark mesh of the woods meeting the unmarked strip of light— ghost-ridden crossroads, leafmold paradise: I know already who wants to buy it, sell it, make it disappear. And I won’t tell you where it is, so why do I tell you anything? Because you still listen, because in times like these to have you listen at all, it’s necessary to talk about trees.

May 15th 2013

Brian Eno — Becalmed

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Ambient for midnight?

Brian Eno: Becalmed - from Another Green World, 1975

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Posted at 11:24pm.

May 15th 2013

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Ralph Eugene Meatyard ( May 15, 1925 - 1972): Cranston Richie, 1964

Posted at 11:17pm.

May 15th 2013

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Jasper Johns: Target with Four Faces, 1955 - Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front (MoMA)

Posted at 11:12pm.

May 15th 2013

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Jasper Johns at 83…

Artist Jasper Johns, standing beside his mixed-media painting Target. (Photo by Ben Martin//Time Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Posted at 10:59pm.

May 15th 2013

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Ray Federman, young and dashing here, ca. 1973, changed tenses some three and a half years ago, but that shan’t stop us here at OF celebrating his 85th birthday today!

“True cynics are often the kindest people, for they see the hollowness of life, and from the realization of that hollowness is generated a kind of cosmic pity…” — Raymond Federman, The Twofold Vibration

Photo: Bruce Jackson

Posted at 10:47pm.