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[votd] Bill Evans Combo
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in MusicThe YouTube page says we should listen to this piece the first thing every morning. I would not argue.
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{votd} Different clips from “Black Cat, White Cat” (1998)
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I somehow stumbled on this movie at the video store twenty-five years ago. It was made in Yugoslavia, which still existed in 1998. It strange and wonderful. I was hoping to find the whole movie on YouTube. Here are some clips and movie review … just let them play. The movie does seem to be…
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{votd} David & Romany Gilmour—Between Two Points
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in MusicBroke an early promisePut trust in an unknownFell headlong into the armsOf the first that stirred me Unsteadied a steady heartAnd took me to a place I’ve never beenA place I’ve never been since Stopped hoping at an early ageStopped guessing at an early ageStart accepting things from day oneAnd then things can’t go too…
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{votd} Knox Bronson ~ The Forever Spring
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in MusicI discovered this video, Regen (Rain), by a Dutch filmmaker, Joris Ivens from 1929. I thought it might work as the visual for my piece, “the forever spring,” from my album the seasons | remixed/remastered. They are both fifteen minutes long. I put them together and am happy with the result.
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{votd} Michaelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up” (1966)
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I remember reading a review of Blow-Up in the very left-wing mid-Sixties magazine, Ramparts, edited by the madman Warren Hinkle, who was a good friend of my dad’s, although I didn’t know it at the time. The review was really strange, straining for meaning, overly verbose and enigmatic. I really couldn’t understand it, though I…