The third album

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I'm not so swift with 10 albums in 10 days... probably more like 10 albums in 100 days... my life (at 70ish) is packed from breakfast to past midnight... i have been scrambling these months and days to find money and clients for my archiving team of 7 people, and also maintaining my own work as a counselor--and that has left remarkably little time for...
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ferkixlll:
That will open one's eye.

o happy day!

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oldernow:
@ferkixlll you're welcome - i have been in contact with them, they seem to be what we see - earnest and a talented and a bit flaky -- totally deserving support and recognition!
ferkixlll:
The footage of their view of the Comet is interesting, appears 5min & 35sec in. Cuts to a slightly magnified shot at 8min & 40 sec. It gets washed out in the Solar Glare, but sublet changes to the Tail are discernible.

1 of 10 albums (ish) that are essential for me

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Without a doubt this is the first album that walloped me upside the head and scrambled my brains. I think I heard this in 1961 or 62 about 3 years after it came out. At the time I was all about the clarinet, practicing up to four hours a day. Our band in junior and then senior highschool was literally nationally known - in 1967...
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oldernow:
@ferkixlll  I didn't really get into Bitches Brew until I heard John Coltrane's A Love Supreme... then it was all good!  nowadays I've been liking the Miles sets from Newport Jazz Festival (remember that?)
ferkixlll:
Never got to go. Finally heard ( mentioned it Blog about 5 years ago ) the Bootleg Tapes of the Newport Folk Festival where Dylan went 😱 Electric! An amazing day: Donovan and Richard & Mimi were on about The War ( viet nam ). Muddy Waters was electric, so why the outrage?

Y knot?

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oldernow:
@ferkixlll I dropped a 20 in their online hat and got a nice note back from Handkerchief--whose actual last name is Pocket - seems pretty obvious where she got her moniker from!  Very sweet throwback folk - i wish them well. remind me a little of the Spoon Lady
fancy:
This is sooo cool!

Wednesday

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@lewolf tagged me to name my favorite or whatever song. I have a lot to say about it so bear with me. It's Sunday Morning by Velvet Underground (see below). The album itself with the Banana on the cover: it came with a little sticker that said "peel slowly and see" and if you did peel the banana which was a sticker on the original...
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oldernow:
@ferkixlll -- i meant Laurie Anderson, and her very powerful cd Songs from the Bardo - which is indeed the Tibetan Book of the Dead.  Most of the Egyptian Books of the Dead are fragmentary and have only spotty or speculative translations with the exception of the Papyrus of Ani, which is pretty interesting.
ferkixlll:
They are. Have my copy of Budge ( ya, I know that the "Stargate" franchise ridicules him ). When Mourning find random chapters of either Egypt or Tibet of use. ** I wish that I had lifted it from the Kent State Library: they had a nice Folio of Ankhenaten's "Hymn To The Sun". Shows some of the roots of Hebraic thought.

a lil musical interlude

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just some old farts playin a tune

reading list for these times

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I picked most of these because they only work if you read them slowly--often out loud--and let the language become music. they are not really about plot, they are about flowing images, sounds, thoughts and perceptions:

Isolation reading list: Ulysses by Joyce; Gravity's Rainbow - Pynchon; Tropic of Cancer - Miller; Baudelaire; Proust (all 6 books); Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Gibbon...
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oldernow:
@kaicito try it as a book on tape - but sample it first--there are at least two readers and one is pretty unbearable, while the other 'feels' like Proust.  (I have read a good deal of him in French, where the language absolutely soars...but there are a lot of words i have to look up on account of this not being the 19th century any more.)  He can be quite snarky - more so as the books go along.  for example "she looked at me as though  I were an oily stain on her favorite rug" --also if you know French a lot of the names are a hoot - like "Madam Fatass and Madamoiselle Bullshit &c.
kaicito:
@oldernow As my French is barely serviceable enough to find a restroom or to order an omelet, I'm reading what I can only hope is an adequate German translation. It has the plus of being annotated, which as you say helps the contemporary reader to get some of the hidden meaning. Guilty pleasure these days: the Founders series by Robert Jackson Bennett - loved the first volume "Foundryside" and have just downloaded to my Kindle the just-published 2nd one, "Shortfall". Good fun!

Saturday

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user119547201:
Beautiful mix.. Help us to keep up❤️
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