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On this day in 1934, notorious bank robbers Bonnie Parker and...

Thu, 23 May 2013 15:25:00 +0200

On this day in 1934, notorious bank robbers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish, Louisiana…

Hermes Nye: Bonnie and Clyde - from the 1955 album Texas Folk Songs with Hermes Nye and Guitar

The spirit of Hermes Nye’s singing emerges in his forthright statement, “Love to sing them, love to hear other people sing them, love to learn new ones. That’s about all.” These thirteen songs explore the Lone Star State, from a song attributed to desperado Belle Starr to a corrido from south Texas. - Smithsonian Folkways

Jean Tinguely: Meta-Harmonie I, 1978 Love the dog..!

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:16:23 +0200

Jean Tinguely: Meta-Harmonie I, 1978

Love the dog..!

Tinguely in the work-shop

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:15:39 +0200

Tinguely in the work-shop

Jean Tinguely: Chaos (drawing for a self-destroying...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:15:13 +0200

Jean Tinguely: Chaos (drawing for a self-destroying meta-machine), Tate

Jean Tinguely and Yves Klein, up to some mechanical...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:14:23 +0200

Jean Tinguely and Yves Klein, up to some mechanical no-good…

Jean Tinguely: Meta-Machine (Basel)

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:13:44 +0200

Jean Tinguely: Meta-Machine (Basel)

Jean Tinguely (May 22, 1925 - 1991) was a Swiss painter and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:07:41 +0200

Jean Tinguely (May 22, 1925 - 1991) was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics. Tinguely’s art satirized the mindless overproduction of material goods in advanced industrial society.

Silje Nergaard: This Is Not America (Metheny/Mays; lyrics David...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:51:51 +0200

Silje Nergaard: This Is Not America (Metheny/Mays; lyrics David Bowie) - from Nightwatch, 2003

Piano: Tord Gustavsen; bass - Harald Johnsen; drums - Jarle Vespestad

Horns arranged by Magnus Lindgren

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Steve Swallow: “You Didn’t Think” (music by Steve...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:43:00 +0200

Steve Swallow: “You Didn’t Think” (music by Steve Swallow/poem by Robert Creeley, from his 1978 volume Hello) - from Home, 1980

Personnel: Sheila Jordan (voice); Steve Kuhn (piano); David Liebman (saxophone); Lyle Mays (synthesizer); Bob Moses (drums); Steve Swallow (bass)

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Robert Creeley: The Eye (Poetry 1967)

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:34:27 +0200

Robert Creeley: The Eye

(Poetry 1967)

Robert Creeley’s reading at the Vancouver Poetry Conference,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:26:02 +0200

Robert Creeley’s reading at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, August 12, 1963

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Allen Ginsberg: Robert Creeley at the Vancouver Poetry...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:17:42 +0200

Allen Ginsberg: Robert Creeley at the Vancouver Poetry Conference, August 12, 1963

Black Mountain poet, and much more - Robert Creeley: May 21,...

Tue, 21 May 2013 23:08:51 +0200

Black Mountain poet, and much more - Robert Creeley: May 21, 1926 - 2005…

——

Robert Creeley: Yesterdays

Sixty-two, sixty-three, I most remember
As time W. C. Williams dies and we are
Back from a hard two years in Guatemala
Where the meager provision of being
Schoolmaster for the kids of the patrones
Of two coffee plantations has managed
Neither a life nor money. Leslie dies in
Horror of bank giving way as she and her
Sister and their friends tunnel in to make
A cubby. We live in an old cement brick
Farmhouse already inside the city limits
Of Albuquerque. Or that has all really
Happened and we go to Vancouver where,
Thanks to friends Warren and Ellen Tallman,
I get a job teaching at the University of British
Columbia. It’s all a curious dream, a rush
To get out of the country before the sad
Invasion of the Bay of Pigs, that bleak use
Of power. One of my British colleagues
Has converted the assets of himself and
His wife to gold bullion and keeps the
Ingots in a sturdy suitcase pushed under
Their bed. I love the young, at least I
Think I do, in their freshness, their attempt
To find ways into Canada from the western
Reaches. Otherwise the local country seems
Like a faded Edwardian sitcom. A stunned
Stoned woman runs one Saturday night up
And down the floors of the Hydro Electric
Building on Pender with the RCMP in hot
Pursuit where otherwise we stood in long
Patient lines, extending often several blocks
Up the street. We were waiting to get our
Hands stamped and to be given a 12 pack
Of Molson’s. I think, I dream, I write the
Final few chapters of The Island, the despairs
Gathering at the end. I read Richard Brautigan’s
Trout Fishing In America but am too uptight
To enjoy his quiet, bright wit. Then that
Summer there is the great Vancouver Poetry
Festival, Allen comes back from India, Olson
From Gloucester, beloved Robert Duncan
From Stinson Beach. Denise reads “Hypocrite
Women” to the Burnaby ladies and Gary Snyder,
Philip Whalen, and Margaret Avison are there
Too along with a veritable host of the young.
Then it’s autumn again. I’ve quit my job
And we head back to Albuquerque
And I teach again at the university, and
Sometime just about then I must have
Seen myself as others see or saw me,
Even like in a mirror, but could not quite
Accept either their reassuring friendship
Or their equally locating anger. Selfish,
Empty, I kept at it. Thirty-eight years later
I seem to myself still much the same,
Even if I am happier, I think, and older.

——

(Photo by LaVerne Harrell Clark, Dec. 04, 1963 — University of Arizona Poetry Center)

Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson: Earth (poem by Les Barker, set...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:59:34 +0200

Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson: Earth (poem by Les Barker, set to a traditional melody) - from Mr. Straw’s Hallway, 2002

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Folk master Martin Carthy is 72 today… Photo: Keith...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:56:57 +0200

Folk master Martin Carthy is 72 today…

Photo: Keith Morris, 1972

One for Ray - R.I.P. The Doors: The Crystal Ship - from The...

Tue, 21 May 2013 09:51:18 +0200

One for Ray - R.I.P.

The Doors: The Crystal Ship - from The Doors, 1967

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It’s been several years now that we’ve celebrated...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:48:20 +0200

It’s been several years now that we’ve celebrated Judith Golden’s birthday (she is 69 today) with images from her unique Tarot deck…

This year has been very up-and-down so far, so here is Judith’s take on the Wheel of Fortune…

2000-2006 - hand colored archival ink jet print on rag paper

Mickey Newbury: The Future’s Not What it Used to Be - from...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:28:00 +0200

Mickey Newbury: The Future’s Not What it Used to Be - from Frisco Mabel Joy, 1971

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Birthday of one of my favorite song-writers, Mickey Newbury (May...

Sun, 19 May 2013 23:17:24 +0200

Birthday of one of my favorite song-writers, Mickey Newbury (May 19, 1940 - 2002), who has languished on the verge of being forgotten for a long time now…

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One of the finest and most underrated songwriters of the early...

Fri, 17 May 2013 22:30:20 +0200

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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