Oct 1999 Doings
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Studying

  • Alfred Hitchcock film class at University of Chicago's Graham School

Listening

  • Joe McPhee Trio @ Velvet Lounge

  • Von Freeman @ New Apartment Lounge

  • Witches & Devils; Vandermark 5 @ Velvet Lounge
  • Milford Graves solo @ Empty Bottle
  • Herb Ellis Meets Jimmy Giuffre (Verve)
  • Gerry Hemingway Quintet - Waltzes, Two-Steps, & Other Matters of the Heart (GM)
  • Charles Ives - Three Places In New England/Symphony No. 4/Central Park In The Dark (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Thelonious Monk - Complete Riverside Recordings (Discs 1-4, Riverside/OJC)
  • The Bali Sessions (3-CD, World/Ryko)
  • Caetano Veloso - Livro (Nonesuch)
  • Galina Ustvolskaya - #1 (hatART)
  • Mats Gustafsson - Education of Lars Jerry (Xeric)
  • Dizzy Gillespie - Complete RCA Victor Recordings (RCA Victor)
  • Matsayuki Takayanagi & Kaoru Abe - Kaitai Teki (DIW)

Reading

  • Dark Side of Genius: The Life of Alfred Hitchcock - Donald Spoto
  • Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure - Victor Turner
  • Towards A Cosmic Music - Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • The Medium Is The Massage - Marshall McLuhan
  • Harry Partch: A Biography - Bob Gilmore
  • Pimp - Iceberg Slim

Watching

  • L'Humanite [Humanity] - Bruno Dumont (Chicago International Film Festival)
  • Short films program (Chicago International Film Festival)
  • Genghis Blues - Roko Belic (Music Box)
  • Straight Story - David Lynch (Film Center preview)
  • Nosferatu - F.W. Murnau (Music Box with live organ accompaniment)
  • The Shop Around The Corner - Ernst Lubitsch (Music Box)
  • Elvira Madigan - Bo Widerberg (Film Center)
  • Grand Illusion - Jean Renoir (Music Box)
  • Crime of Monsieur Lange - Jean Renoir (Music Box)
  • Blackmail - Alfred Hitchcock (UofC Graham School)
  • The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) - Alfred Hitchcock (UofC Graham School)
  • The 39 Steps - Alfred Hitchcock (UofC Graham School)
        
  • The Lady Vanishes - Alfred Hitchcock (DVD)
  • Rebecca - Alfred Hitchcock (VHS)
  • Notorious - Alfred Hitchcock (VHS)
  • Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa (DVD)
  • Brazil - Terry Gilliam (DVD)
  • Taxi Driver - Martin Scorcese (DVD)
  • Walkabout - Nicolas Roeg (DVD)
  • Short Cinema Journal #5 (DVD)
    • Silent Rain In The Ninth - Jacob Rosenberg
    • Multi-Facial - Vin Diesel
    • Buy My Film - John Schnall 
    • That Strange Person - Eileen O'Meara
    • The Job - Arthur Fiedler
  • Baseball post-season, esp. Mets-Braves (TV)
  • Leaves changing color (various Chicago locations)