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Listening
- "Chicago Improvisers Group" (Baker,
Bishop, Colligan, Drumm, Kessler, Margasak, Rempis, Vandermark, A. Vida) play
music of Bishop & Vandermark @ Green Mill
- Hamid Drake, Nate McBride & Ken Vandermark
play the music of George Clinton & Sun Ra @ Empty Bottle
- Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 94 For Three Instrumentalists (1980)
(Golden Years of New Jazz)
- Morton Feldman - For Christian Wolff (hat ART)
- Al Green - Tokyo... Live (The Right Stuff)
- Fritz Hauser - Pensieri Bianchi (hat ART)
- Mauricio Kagel - Variété (Montaigne)
- Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Shuffering and
Shmiling/No Agreement (Barclay)
- Urs Leimgruber - Ungleich (hat ART)
- Thelonious Monk - Complete Riverside Recordings
(discs 5-8, Riverside/OJC)
- Steve Reich - Phase Patterns/Pendulum Music/Piano Phase/Four Organs
(Wergo)
- Hal Russell - Hal's Bells (ECM)
- Mathias Spahlinger - Extension (hat ART)
- Caetano Veloso - Omaggio a Federico e
Giulietta (Universal)
- Iannis Xenakis - La Légende d'Eer
(Montaigne)
Reading
- Thinking Of The Self Speaking: Interviews with Harry Smith
- The Razor's Edge - Somerset Maugham
- Totally, Tenderly, Tragically: Essays and
Criticism from a Lifelong Love Affair with the Movies - Phillip Lopate
Watching & Listening
- Chicago Eye & Ear Control #1: Breathless (Chicago Filmmakers @
Columbia College)
- live music by Ken
Vandermark, Jeb Bishop, Nate McBride & Tim Mulvenna
- Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard
- Chicago Ear and Eye Control #2: Animation (Chicago Filmmakers @ Columbia
College)
- live music by Jim Baker, Axel Dorner, Michael Zerang &
Ken Vandermark
- "The Sinking of the Lusitania" - Winsor McCay
- "Felix Woos Whoopee" - Otto Messmer
- "The Stolen Heart" - Lotte Reiniger
- "The Magnetic Telescope" - Dave Fleischer
- "The Tell-Tale Heart" - Ted Parmalee
- "Begone Dull Care" - Norman McLaren
- "A" - Jan Lenica
- "Le Zez (The Nose)" - Alexandre Alexeieff & Clare Parker
- "Orb" - Larry Jordan
- "Quasi at the Quackadero" - Sally Cruikshank
Watching
(catching up on lots of films of the '90s)
- Rosetta - Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne (Music Box)
- Magnolia - Paul Thomas Anderson (City North 14)
- Being John Malkovich - Spike Jonze (Fine Arts)
- American Movie - Chris Smith (Music Box)
- Topsy-Turvy - Mike Leigh (Fine Arts)
- New Video (Chicago Filmmakers @ Chicago Cultural Center)
- "The Look of Love: A Gothic Romance" - Suzie Silver
- "small lies, Big Truth" - Shelly Silver
- "Johnny Take a Dive" - Jennifer Reeder
- "The Apparent Trap" - Julie Zando
- "Bouncing in the Corner #36DDD" - Dara Greenwald
- "Apeshit" - Leah Gilliam
- "Shifting Positions" - Kathy High
- Le Mépris [Contempt] - Jean-Luc Godard (Museum of Contemporary Art)
- The Exterminating Angel -
Luis Buñuel (Museum of Contemporary Art)
- Spellbound - Alfred Hitchcock (Facets Cinémathèque)
- Suspicion - Alfred Hitchcock (Music Box)
- Metropolis - Fritz Lang (Music Box) with
live organ accompaniment
- Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson (DVD)
- Happiness - Todd Solondz (DVD)
- Happy Together - Wong Kar-Wai (DVD)
- Chungking Express - Wong Kar-Wai (VHS)
- Safe - Todd Haynes (VHS)
- Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch (VHS)
- Delicatessen - Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro (VHS)
- Naked - Mike Leigh (VHS)
- Secrets & Lies - Mike Leigh (VHS)
- Barton Fink - Joel Coen (VHS)
- Insomnia - Erik Skjoldbjaerg (DVD)
- Hands On A Hard Body - S.R. Bindler (VHS)
- Crumb - Terry Zwigoff (VHS)
- Schizopolis - Steven Soderbergh (VHS)
- Proof - Jocelyn Moorhouse (VHS)
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo - Sam Firstenberg (VHS)
- My Dinner With Andre - Louis Malle (DVD)
- A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick (DVD)
- Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein (DVD)
- Double Indemnity - Billy Wilder (DVD)
- Charade - Stanley Donen (DVD @ Flix Fix #1)
- A Very Brady Sequel - Arlene Sanford (VHS)
- The Brady Bunch Movie - (VHS)
- Le Samourai - Jean-Pierre Melville (VHS)
- Caro Diario - Nanni Moretti (VHS)
- Short Cinema Journal #2 (DVD):
- La Jetée - Chris
Marker
- Cafe Bar - Alison de Vere
- Depth Solitude - Joachim Solum
& Thomas Lien
- A Guy Walks Into A Bar - Carmen
Elly
- Bride of Resistor - Mark Gustafson
- Eye Like A Strange Balloon
- Guy Maddin
- Vincent: The Junkie Chronicles - Michael Failla
- Big Brass Ring -
George Hickenlooper
- "Banquo's Chair" & "Back For
Christmas" - Alfred Hitchcock Presents TV episodes (DVD)
- Andy Kaufman - The Midnight Special (DVD)
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