All hail, Winkelmann (Beeple)

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Found foodage

Also, I’m nuts


Steve, Terry, Duffy and I went on a Mission yesterday to get burritos from El Farolito which means “light house” and ran into Craig Baldwin who leaked me 15 seconds of his upcoming film “Time Bomb” featuring Mills’ Maggi Payne.
Earthwise is a concert promoter but I’ve also produced visual elements of or with Negativland, “Hands of Orlac”, Starewich, Jessica Yu, Billy Nayer and Neurosis.
The burritos were fine. We also had ice cream, siseg, horchata, aqua fresa, and beer. Pork rinds.
There was some live music but i’m a bit fearful of the plague to resume the inducement of a live audience. Food seems essential; music as an attraction perhaps can wait. Speaking of time bombs.

And1: the disc is labeled “FIXED VERSION” which could mean remedied or made permanent.

edit to add, an hour later: exactly one hour later as I’m watching Craig’s “Tribulations 99: Alien anomalies under America” a white pedal falls from a lily, ominously. 

An excerpt fair use, for you’s guise:

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Laura Thomas V. Lava Thomas

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Oblique strategy for buskers

 

Nova Jimenez chose a quiet cul-de-sac in Palo Alto for an impromptu, COVID-era free performance last month (or so says the file, dated, February, 2021).<br /><br />She is an instructor in the music department at Stanford and has done more than 70 shows around Palo Alto recently. <br /><br />My rule of thumb is to play but not advertise, but that’s just me.<br /><br />Thank you musicians and artists for helping us through these trying times.<br /><br /><!– /wp:paragraph –>

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Ledisi wins the Grammy

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Terry Acebo Davis, Mark Weiss, Bruce Beasley, ‘Percent For Art’, Mitchell Park Library (3 — i.e. short version of the story)

(Dartmouth College)

We met in 2009 at Bruce’s Oakland studio, when the commissioners were touring and I was a proxy, then married in fall, 2017 in San Francisco
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Stacy and Linda expelled from Ridgemont

Jefferson claims he was ‘catfished’
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Lions With Wings…

is both a symbol of the arbitrary cultural detritus that fifth-gear capitalism expels into the world and also an effortless, obvious merger of the roots-rock then and the arena post-rap now that suggests the conditions for this song to succeed have always been with us, and will never go away.
i’m doing my best. Roaaaaaaaar.

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Notable jazz releases in a year that seemed to have stopped for a few months

The Nels Cline Singers, Share the Wealth (Blue Note)
Lafayette Gilchrist, Now (Lafayette Gilchrist Music)
Maria Schneider Orchestra, Data Lords (ArtistShare)
Rudresh Mahanthappa, Hero Trio (Whirlwind)
Fred Hersch, Songs From Home (Palmetto)
Jeff Parker, Suite for Max Brown (International Anthem)
Chicago Underground Quartet, Good Days (Astral Spirits)
Ron Miles, Rainbow Sign (Blue Note)
Lakecia Benjamin, Pursuance: The Coltranes (Ropeadope)
Thelonious Monk, Palo Alto (1968, Impulse)
Thana Alexa, ONA (self-released)
Nubya Garcia, Source (Concord)
Ambrose Akinmusire, On the Tender Spot of Every Calloused Moment (Blue Note)
Lisa Mezzacappa Six, Cosmicomics (Queen Bee)
Jeremy Pelt, The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 (HighNote)
Nina Simone, Fodder on My Wings (1982, Verve)
Dayna Stephens Trio, Liberty (Contagious Music)
Dayna Stephens, Right Now! Live at the Village Vanguard (Contagious Music)
Sara Serpa, Recognition (Biophilia)
Matana Roberts & Pat Thomas, The Truth (Otoroku)
Charles Lloyd, 8: Kindred Spirits (Live From the Lobero) (Blue Note)
Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Artlessly Falling (Firehouse 12)
Charles Mingus, @ Bremen 1964 & 1975 (Sunnyside)
Keith Jarrett, Budapest Concert (ECM)
Artemis, Artemis (Blue Note)
Joshua Redman-Brad Mehldau-Christian McBride-Brian Blade, Round Again (Nonesuch)
Matthew Shipp Trio, The Unidentifiable (ESP-Disk)
Norah Jones, Pick Me Up Off the Floor (Blue Note)
Connie Han, Iron Starlet (Mack Avenue)
The John Santos Sextet, Art of the Descarga (Smithsonian Folkways)
James Carney Sextet, Pure Heart (Sunnyside)
Bill Frisell, Valentine (Blue Note)
Tyshawn Sorey, Unfiltered (self-released)
Jennifer Curtis & Tyshawn Sorey, Invisible Ritual (New Focus)
Heroes Are Gang Leaders, Artificial Happiness Button (Ropeadope)
Jeff Cosgrove-John Medeski-Jeff Lederer, History Gets Ahead of the Story (Grizzley Music)
Dezron Douglas & Brandee Younger, Force Majeure (International Anthem)
Pat Metheny, From This Place (Nonesuch)
Sonny Rollins, Rollins in Holland (1967, Resonance)
Sun Ra Arkestra, Swirling (Strut)
The Claire Daly Band, Rah! Rah! (2008, Ride Symbol)
Gregory Tardy, If Time Could Stand Still (WJ3)
Kurt Elling, Secrets Are the Best Stories (Edition)
Jeremy Pelt, The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 (HighNote)
Dafnis Prieto Sextet, Transparency (Dafnison Music)
Matt Wilson Quartet, Hug! (Palmetto)
Liberty Ellman, Last Desert (Pi)
Dave Douglas, Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity (Greenleaf Music)
Webber/Morris Big Band, Both Are True (Greenleaf Music)
Anne Mette Iversen Quartet + 1, Racing a Butterfly (BJU)
Christian McBride, The Movement Revisited: A Musical Portrait of Four Icons (Mack Avenue)
Nicole Mitchell & Lisa E. Harris, EarthSeed (FPE)
Fay Victor’s SoundNoiseFunk, We’ve Had Enough! (ESP-Disk)
Larry Ochs-Aram Shelton Quartet, Continental Drift (Clean Feed)
Jon Irabagon, I Don’t Hear Nothin’ but the Blues: Volume 3: Anatomical Snuffbox (Irabbagast)
Brad Mehldau, Suite: April 2020 (Nonesuch)
Thundercat, It Is What It Is (Brainfeeder)
Thumbscrew, The Anthony Braxton Project (Cuneiform)
Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah, Axiom (Ropeadope)
Sam Gendel, Satin Doll (Nonesuch)
Dan Weiss Starebaby, Natural Selection (Pi)
Joel Harrison + 18, America at War (Sunnyside)
Dave Rempis-Jeff Parker-Ingebrigt Håker Flaten-Jeremy Cunningham, Stringers and Struts (Aerophonic)
Dave Douglas, Marching Music (Greenleaf Music)
Wayne Escoffery, The Humble Warrior (Smoke Sessions)
Edward Simon, 25 Years (1995-2018, Ridgeway)
Allegra Levy, Lose My Number (SteepleChase)
Anna Webber, Untamed . . . Rectangles (Out of Your Head)
Camila Meza & the Nectar Orchestra, Ambar (Sony Masterworks)
Chris Potter, There Is a Tide (Edition)
Aaron Parks, Little Big II: Dreams of a Mechanical Man (Ropeadope)
Luciana Souza, Storytellers (Sunnyside)
Jacob Garchik, Clear Line (Yestereve)
Jon Jang, The Pledge of Black Asian Allegiance (Asian Improv)
Aubrey Johnson, Unraveled (Outside In)

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Oakland A’s swing for homers times 3,000

Call it Superduperstar Cuty


The A’s announced a plan with a baseball park, 3,000 homes and some shops.
I haven’t swung a bat in about 10 years but have sat through 3,000 hours of development proposals here in Palo Alto. I should bone up on this project. I think its near Yoshis not the airport.
Maybe we’ll move there.

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