Jul 2003 Doings
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Listening

  • Fred Anderson Trio @ MCA
  • Ken Vandermark, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Tim Daisy, Frank Rosaly @ Empty Bottle
  • Sound in Action Trio @ Hungry Brain
       
  • Rabih Abou-Khalil - The Cactus of Knowledge (Enja)
  • Mahmoud Ahmed - Éthiopiques 6: Almaz (Buda Musique)
  • Derek Bailey - Duo & Trio Improvisation (DIW)
  • Ken Boothe - Crying Over You: Anthology 1963-1978 (Trojan)
  • John Cage [Markus Hinterhäuser] - Works for Prepared Piano (Col Legno)
  • John Carter - Shadows on a Wall (Gramavision)
  • Miles Davis - Olympia: 20 Mars 1960, Parts 1 & 2 (RME)
  • Howlin' Wolf - Chess Box (Chess)
  • Steve Lehman Quintet - Structural Fire (CIMP)
  • The Meters - Rejuvenation (Sundazed)
  • Thelonious Monk - Big Band and Quartet In Concert (Columbia)
  • Luigi Nono - "Das atmende Klarsein" et al (Col Legno)
  • Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra feat. Bill Dixon - The Enchanted Messenger (Soul Note)
  • Lee Perry - Cutting Razor: Rare Cuts from the Black Ark (Heartbeat)
  • Dizzy Reece - Comin' On (Blue Note)
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio - Pakistani Pomade (Unheard Music Series/Atavistic)
  • Sun Ra - Live in Paris at the Gibus (Universe)
  • Ken Vandermark/Paal Nilssen-Love - Dual Pleasure (Smalltown Supersound)
  • Anton Webern [Quartetto Italiano] - Complete Music for String Quartet (Philips)
  • Ben Webster - Soulville (Verve)
  • Teddy Wilson - Interaction (Drive)
  • various artists - Afro-Peruvian Classics: The Soul of Black Peru (Luaka Bop)
  • various artists - Bosavi: Rainforest Music from Papua New Guinea (Smithsonian Folkways)
  • various artists - The Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Volume One (Stern's/Earthworks)
  • various artists - Siya Hamba! 1950s South African Country and Small Town Sounds (Original Music)
  • various composers [Arditti String Quartet] - From Scandanavia (Montaigne)

Reading

  • The Delicate Thread: Teshigahara's Life in Art - Dore Ashton
  • Sergei Eisenstein: A Life in Conflict - Ronald Bergin
  • Light in August - William Faulkner
  • Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste - Clement Greenberg
  • A History of Experimental Film and Video - A.L. Rees
  • Naked - David Sedaris
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Watching

  • Vendredi soir - Claire Denis (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Dracula, Pages From a Virgin's Diary - Guy Maddin (Music Box)
  • The Howlin' Wolf Story - Don McGlynn (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Decasia - Bill Morrison (Facets Cinémathèque)
  • "Chicago Short Film & Video Festival - program 2" (Biograph Theatre):
    • Bad Meat trailer - Scott Dikkers
    • Artiste - Tedd Strom & Mike Dombrosky
    • Stubble Trouble - Calabash Animation
    • Somedays - Jeff Smith
    • Goggles - Michael Kwielford
    • Girls Gone Mild - Bill Baykan
    • Ahh, Perfect - Monte
    • Big Ass From the Past - Matthew Egan
    • G.I. Joe parts 1-3 - Eric Fensler
    • Diagnosis Trauma - Mike Nirenberg
    • Taco Hell - Bob Rissetto
    • Stamp - David Pasquesi, T.J. Jagodowski & Willy Laszlo
    • Mile Marker: Big Meat Texas - Leroy Koetz & Rich Talarico
    • Scared Straight Off Marriage - Dale Chapman
    • Ear Hanky - Chuck Ulie
    • Vive - Limboland Productions
    • Eulogy - John Lotenero & Bill Ward
        
  • The Dog Was Walking By (short) - Aktan Abdikalikov (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Swing - Aktan Abdikalikov (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Guard (short) - Beyzhan Aidkulvev (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Last Stop - Serik Apromov (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Milky Way - Luis Buñuel (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Une femme est une femme - Jean-Luc Godard (Music Box)
  • Rio Bravo - Howard Hawks (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Tenderness - Elyer Ishmukhamedov (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • A Fistful of Dollars - Sergio Leone (Music Box)
  • Applause - Rouben Mamoulian (LaSalle Theatre)
  • Man from Laramie - Anthony Mann (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Film of Her (short) - Bill Morrison (Facets Cinémathèque)
  • July (short) - Darezhan Omirbaev (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Kairat - Darezhan Omirbaev (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • The Decameron - Pier Paolo Pasolini (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Ride the High Country - Sam Peckinpah (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid - Sam Peckinpah (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Happy Together - Wong Kar-wai (Doc Films) or "HapgetpyToher"
  • Hell's Heroes - William Wyler (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • "MAVerick Ensemble Festival" (Chicago Cultural Center):
    • Interim - Stan Brakhage
    • Christ Mass Sex Dance - Stan Brakhage
    • Mothlight - Stan Brakhage
    • MFL - Chris Mich
        
  • "By Brakhage" (DVD):
    • Cat's Cradle
    • Window Water Baby Moving
    • Mothlight
    • Eye Myth
    • The Wold Shadow
    • The Garden of Earthly Delights
    • The Stars Are Beautiful
    • Kindering
    • I...Dreaming
    • The Dante Quartet
    • Nightmusic
    • Rage Net
    • Glaze of Cathexis
    • Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse
    • Untitle (For Marilyn)
    • Black Ice
    • Study in Color and Black and White
    • Stellar
    • Crack Glass Eulogy
    • The Dark Tower
    • Commingled Containers
    • Love Song
  • The Raven - Louis Friedlander (CATV)
  • Straw Dogs - Sam Peckinpah (DVD)
  • Macao - Josef von Sternberg (CATV)
  • Woman in the Dunes - Hiroshi Teshigahara (DVD)
  • Stars in My Crown - Jacques Tourneur (CATV)
  • Kino-Eye - Dziga Vertov (DVD)
  • Three Songs About Lenin - Dziga Vertov (DVD)
  • The Set-Up - Robert Wise (CATV)
  • "Treasures from American Film Archives" part 4 (DVD):
    • Luis Martinetti, Contortionist - W.K.L. Dickson
    • Caicedo, King of the Slack Wire - W.K.L. Dickson
    • Interior New York Subway, 14th Street to 42nd Street - Billy Bitzer
    • The Land Beyond the Sunset - Harold Shaw
    • I'm Insured - Harry S. Palmer
    • Snow White - J. Searle Dawley
    • Beautiful Japan (excerpt) - Benjamin Brodsky
    • Rose Hobart - Joseph Cornell
    • The Autobiography of a Jeep - Irving Lerner
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