And if you don't know Roque Dalton's poem "Tavern (Conversatorio)" - lucky you to read it for the 1st time! app.box.com/s/95pdacur6n3p…

A marvel of polyphonic song youtube.com/watch?v=zsiYfk…

Just stopped reading tweets from an independent movie whose Twitter "strategy" should be taught in communications class as a how-not-to.

Hint: don't broadcast to everyone a series of form tweets each claiming to be "exclusive" to one local market.

Mark Buckheit is working on a guitar part to a new Three Fried Men score of a Thomas Hardy poem. Can't wait to hear what he comes up with.

We have talked about posting an open commission for people to score Thomas Hardy poems. His poetry is very musical, often about music.

His great novel "Tess of the D'Ubervilles" has music pulsing all through it. Scoring that novel would be an insane amount of fun.

Drank a beer at a shady picnic table in the heat and copied down spells from the Egyptian Book of the Dead I want to set to music.

Ordered a novel by Norbert Davis, Wittgenstein's favorite detective novelist, & Eleanor Marx's translation of Madame Bovary.

Confession: Eleanor Marx (translator & historian daughter of Karl) was one of my major literary crushes.

Babylonian incantation bowl, jewish aramaic, with demon drawing, ca 6th century.

Preparing for a week of sessions on our Confucius/Pound score in L.A. at Megha Gohil's studio.

Getting into Charlie Rich songs tonight. He does test the soul.

Ezra Pound is absolutely one of the best poets or translators to sing. If you have never scored Pound & can write songs, try it.

Final report on the 2014 International Uranium Film Festival (IUFF) in Rio de Janeiro, which screened our movie "Go South for Animal Index" scribd.com/doc/234951587/…

On our score of Pound's translation of ten Confucian odes we are scoring instrumentally the screwy subtitles & epigrams Pound interpolated.

Today in the beautiful San Fernando Valley we are recording bass & drums to "Sehnsucht, long poles," a Pound interpolation to Book 5 Ode 5.

Our coproducer Megha Gohil of Hollywood Recording Studio just told the most Confucian story about his traditional Indian mother.

Ezra Pound shares 1/4 songwriting credit with the unknown ancient Chinese poet & our 2 songwriters. So these scores are all quarter Pounds.

Song by Ezra Pound and Matt Fuller: "Sehnsucht, long poles," performed by Three Fried Men youtube.com/watch?v=Ua0jYb…