Cecil Taylor speaking on the limits of a form of music journalism that is fixated on practicality and not, what he calls, “magic” m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3um5S…

A key text in the Dental Humanities

Advanced cat music: Wagner Abortions: Debussy, etc. Absolute bewilderment: Beethoven Agonized bravura on a pocket handkerchief: Liszt Amoeba weeps: Webern Chromatic meows of amorous cat: Bizet Forlorn wail of amorous cat: Liszt

It's sad how many people seem to feel the need to postulate imminent societal collapse in order to reject the work ethic and careerism. That would be okay even if you didn't think the world was ending!!

This Monopoly style board game of Yale made by the Black Panther's magazine in 1970 is fantastic. Someone should really make this.

This afternoon’s listening!

Leonora Carrington was born 107 years ago today, 6 April, at a house called Westwood in the village of Clayton-le-Woods near Chorley in Lancashire, England

Now re-reading (and loving):

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Happy 100th Birthday Marshall Allen! Thank you for many decades of visionary art and music. Took these photos at the Arkestra house in 2004, grateful to have spent some time there Sun Ra Arkestra

Marshall Allen turning 100 years old feels like a beautiful benediction for those who devote their lives to art & spend their time (many decades) enriching the often terrible experience we have on this earth. salute to the king, thank you for everything, we love you 🫡💜🪐🌌

it’s over and done y’all. hope everyone is strapping in for the final, wild ride of the rollercoaster that was the American experiment.

#NowPlaying 40 fucking years of this working-class masterpiece. Tight as fuck, smart as hell, topically sprawling and intellectually heavy, punk jazz or jazz punk, this is Bob Dylan to me. 🖤

Such incredible erudition to trace the evolution of this drink through the ages

I still agree with this

Larry Eigner

My dearest Fall and love poem For. S. Corona Paul Celan (Tr. Michael Hamburger) Autumn eats its leaf out of my hand: we are friends. From the nuts we shell time and we teach it to walk: then time returns to the shell We love each other like poppy and recollection