Dec 2001 Doings
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2001: A Ducal Odyssey
      an aural/autodidactic journey into Ellingtonia
, supplemented by readings in 
        The Duke Ellington Reader -
Mark Tucker, ed.;
         Duke Ellington: A Listener's Guide - Eddie Lambert; and
         The Centennial Edition: Complete RCA Victor Recordings ["RCA Box"] liner notes

  • The Carnegie Hall Concerts: January 1943 (Prestige)

Listening

  • Anthony Braxton/Lauren Newton - Composition 192 (Leo)
  • Miles Davis - Volume 1 (Blue Note)
  • Miles Davis - Volume 2 (Blue Note)
  • Barry Guy New Orchestra - Inscape-Tableaux (Intakt)
  • Jandek - Living In A Moon So Blue (Corwood) 
  • Kukl - Holidays In Europe (The Naughty Naught) (Crass)
  • Fela Anikulapo Kuti - Monkey Banana / Excuse O (Barclay)
  • Oliver Lake - Holding Together (Black Saint)
  • MIMEO - Music In Movement Electronic Orchestra (Perdition)
  • Evan Parker/John Edwards/Mark Sanders - The Two Seasons (Emanem)
  • Django Reinhardt - Volume Three (1938-39 Paris Decca) (JSP)
  • Sweethearts in a Drugstore - Second Edition (Ninth World Music)
  • Frank Zappa - Uncle Meat (Rykodisc)

Reading

  • The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity - Tom Gunning
  • Give My Regards To Eighth Street - Morton Feldman

Watching

  • The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson (Pipers Alley)
  • Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure - George Butler (Navy Pier IMAX)
  • In The Bedroom - Todd Field (CineArts 6)
  • Battle Royale - Kinji Fukasaku (Facets Cinémathèque)
       
  • The Long Goodbye - Robert Altman (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Bande à part [Band of Outsiders] - Jean-Luc Godard (Music Box)
  • Le mepris [Contempt] - Jean-Luc Godard (Music Box)
  • Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa ("An Afternoon with Studs Terkel" @ Facets Cinémathèque)
  • Metropolis - Fritz Lang (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Kiss Me Kate - George Sidney (Music Box) in 3-D!!!
  • Antonio Gaudí - Hiroshi Teshigahara (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • "Cartoons and French Boys" (Chicago Cultural Center):
    • Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day - Wolfgang Reitherman
    • The Red Balloon - Albert Lamorisse
    • Fat Albert: Junk Food
  • "Crime and Leisure in America, part 1" (Chicago Cultural Center):
    • The Wonders of Dolphins - Michael Wiese
    • Shoplifting: Sharon's Story - Dennis Kull
    • Black Music in America: the Seventies
    • Interviews with My Lai Veterans - Joseph Strick
    • The Glassmakers of Herat - Elliott Ermitt
            
  • Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One - William Greaves (CATV)
  • Cockfighter - Monte Hellman (DVD)
  • Key Largo - John Huston (CATV)
  • The Decalogue: VI-VII - Krzysztof Kieslowski (DVD)
  • The Apple - Samira Makhmalbaf (CATV)
  • Woman of the Year - George Stevens (CATV)
  • Desperate Living - John Waters (DVD)
  • The Apartment - Billy Wilder (CATV)
  • W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films (DVD)
    • Pool Sharks - Edwin Middleton
    • The Golf Specialist - Monte Brice
    • The Dentist - Leslie Pearce
    • The Fatal Glass of Beer - Clyde Bruckman
    • The Pharmacist - Arthur Ripley
    • The Barber Shop - Arthur Ripley
  • Shorts 11: Ecstacy (DVD)
    • Hate* (*A Comedy) - Drew Daywalt & David Schneider
    • Mister Smile - Fran Krause
    • The Closet - Shawn Scheppes
    • Chuck - Alex Turner
    • House - Charles & Ray Eames
    • Jimmy McGriff - Daniel Peacock
    • Bass on Titles - Saul Bass
    • Smash - Kirsten Winter
    • Three Tricksters (Coyote) - Jonathon Stearns & Gordon Bijelonic
    • Scrub - Andrew Takeuchi & Rob Schmidt
    • Moods of the Sea - Slavko Vorkapich & John Hoffman
    • Lovely Day - Chris Backhouse