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Working through 15 Essential Black Liberation Jazz Tracks https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/arts/music/black-liberation-jazz.html?referringSource=articleShare For those without access: Sonny Sharrock, ‘Black Woman’ (1969) Hal Singer, ‘Malcolm X’ (1971) Mtume Umoja Ensemble, ‘Baba Hengates’ (1972) Pharoah Sanders, ‘Izipho Zam’ (1973) Roy Brooks and the Artistic Truth, ‘The Last Prophet’ (1973) Sun Ra, ‘Space Is the Place’ (1973) The Descendants of Mike and Phoebe, ‘Coltrane’ (1974) The Ensemble Al-Salaam, ‘Malika’ (1974) World’s Experience Orchestra, ‘The Prayer’ (1975) Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, ‘The Liberation Song (Red, Black and Green)’ (1975) Brother Ah, ‘Transcendental March (Creation Song)’ (1975) Oneness of Juju, ‘African Rhythms’ (1975) Black Renaissance, ‘Magic Ritual’ (1976) Pan Afrikan People’s Arkestra, ‘The Call’ (1978) Infinite Spirit Music, ‘Live Without Fear’ (1979) For those on Qobuz I've collected the tracks available there at https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/3367069

Seems to be working on my phone - https://www.hbo.com/watchmen

They’re pointing everyone to https://www.hbo.com

For the non-HBO subscribers... All of HBO’s Watchmen is free to watch this weekend https://www.polygon.com/2020/6/18/21295503/watchmen-hbo-free-streaming-juneteenth-where-to-watch

Speaking of older guys...

RIP Actor Ian Holm https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-13960349

Patrick Poivey, French voice of Bruce Willis, Tom Cruise, Kyle MacLachlan, Charlie Sheen, Spike Lee, Don Johnson, and Mickey Rourke, dies at 72 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/17/patrick-poivey-french-voice-of-bruce-willis-dies-at-72?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/images-on-the-golden-record/

A couple Gordon Parks vids...

In case you didn’t see this coming... Light Ends Its Multi-Camera Dreams of Revolutionizing Photography https://petapixel.com/2020/06/13/light-ends-its-multi-camera-dreams-of-revolutionizing-photography/

And following up to Mikey's post (and the concert)...

Listening to ECM on Qobuz, I think.

https://www.ttvjaudio.com/Grado-Hemp-Headphone-p/gra7777796.htm

I’ve moved to stronger psilocybins and now enchanting sirens follow me wherever I go.

I may have just hit the rails part, and agree on likability, though at least part of that is probably the differences between the paths/general stories covered (and if rumors are true it’s going to get darker in three). Kinda like if Seinfeld was a season of, well Seinfeld, and then a season of its final episode.

For the Bezo... lovers seems wrong... Apple Watch gen5 25% off.

Speaking of super fun series, one of the pluses of HBO becoming HBOMax is the Warner/TBS tie in, so Search Party seasons one and two are widely available before season three hits in a few weeks (season four already deep in production). Been drinking in season two around work this week.

It was destiny! In season 2 episode 3 of A Series of Unfortunate Events (which I believe maps over to book #612), they introduced Esmé Squalor, clearly named after the Salinger short For Esmé, with Love and Squalor, which a certain other Esmé is named for. She just smiled the whole episode.

On the subject of black covers and white lines

"I Still Play features eleven new solo piano compositions by John Adams, Laurie Anderson, Timo Andres, Louis Andriessen, Donnacha Dennehy, Philip Glass, Nico Muhly, Brad Mehldau, Steve Reich, Pat Metheny, and Randy Newman."

Meth is child’s play compared to what he was on in that scene. Nice job.

This a dozen times.

Terje Rypdal Waves

Ghosts of West Virginia. Maybe the best Steve Earle album since The Mountain.