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Listening
- Available Jelly [Moore/Delius/Boeren/Wierbos/Glerum/Vatcher] @ Chicago
Cultural Center
- Ab Baars Trio @ Chicago Cultural Center
- John Hollenbeck/Theo Bleckmann @ Chicago Cultural Center
- Susie Ibarra Trio with Craig Taborn & Jenny Choi @ HotHouse
- Jason Moran's Bandwagon; Von Freeman Trio @ HotHouse
- Vincent Royer (viola) @ Alliance Francaise, performing:
- "Prologue" ( Gerard Grisey, 1976)
- "c'est un jardin secret..." ( Tristan Murail, 1976)
- "Inside" ( Pascal Dusapin, 1980)
- "Das Andere" opus 49 ( Horatiu Radulescu, 1984)
- "WNUR Chicago Sounds Jazz Festival":
- William Perry Explosion
- Dave Rempis Quartet with Jim Baker, Jason Roebke & Tim Daisy
- Fred Anderson with Harrison Bankhead & Isaiah Spencer
- Ken Vandermark/Joe Morris duo
- Phrenology Festival, night 2 @ Hungry Brain
- Kyle Bruckmann's Wrack with Jen Clare Paulsen, Kurt Johnson, Jeb
Bishop & Tim Daisy
- Fred Lonberg-Holm Trio with Jason Roebke & Gerald Dowd
- Sticks & Stones [Matana Roberts, Josh Abrams & Chad Taylor]
- Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Distance)
- Luc Ferrari - Piano Piano (Auvidis Montaigne)
- Charles Ives - Symphonies 1-4 (Decca)
- Phil Minton Quartet - Up Umeå (Blue Tower)
- Phonosycograph Disk - Ancient Termites (Bomb Hip-Hop)
- Frank Rosolino - Free For All (Specialty/OJC)
- Raul Seixas - Novo Aeon (Universal)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Anthony Braxton - Organic Resonance (Pi)
- Firmin Viry - Island of La Reunion: The Maloya (Ocora)
- Anton Webern [Quartetto Italiano] - Complete Music for
String Quartet (Philips)
- various artists - Ethiopia: Ari Polyphonies (Ocora)
- various artists - Folk Music from Belgium (Auvidis Ethnic)
- various artists - Madagascar: Vocal Anthology (Inedit)
Reading
- Great Neck - Jay Cantor
- Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction - Noël Carroll
- Wonder, the Rainbow & the Aesthetics of Rare Experiences -
Philip Fisher
- Information Inequality: The Deepening Social Crisis in America -
Herbert I. Schiller
Watching
- Chicago Cubs winning... winning... then losing (of course)
- A Mighty Wind - Christopher Guest (Doc Films)
- Kill Bill, Vol. 1 - Quentin Tarantino (River East 21)
- Uzak [Distant] - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (CIFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
- Crimson Gold - Jafar Panahi (CIFF @ Music Box)
- Goodbye Dragon Inn - Tsai Ming-liang (CIFF @ Landmark Century Centre)
- "The Animation Show" curated by Mike Judge & Don Hertzfeldt
(Gene Siskel Film Center):
- Cathedral - Tomek Baginski (2002)
- Pencil Tests and other early rarities - Mike Judge (c.1990)
- Mars and Beyond [excerpt] - Ward Kimball (1957)
- La course à l'abîme - Georges Schwizgebel (1992)
- Rejected - Don Hertzfeldt (2000)
- Billy's Balloon - Don Hertzfeldt (1998)
- Welcome / Intermission / End of the Show - Don Hertzfeldt
(2003)
- The Rocks - Chris Stenner, Arvid Uibel, &
Heidi Wittlinger
- 50% Gray - Ruairi Robinson (2001)
- Ident - Richard Goleszowski (1989)
- Mt. Head - Koji Yamamura (2002)
- Parking - Bill Plympton (2002)
- Strange Invaders - Cordell Barker (2001)
- Ricardo Shorts - Corky
Quakenbush
- Das Rad - Heidi Wittlinger (2001)
- "Shorts 2: Where You Stand" (CIFF @ Landmark Century Centre):
- The Last Customer - Nanni Moretti
- Coming Home - Gemma Carrington
- Barbeiros - Mervi Junkkonen
- The Trumouse Show - Julio Robledo
- To Impress the Girl Next Door - Tobias Bechtloff
- The School - Ezra Krybus & Matthew Miller
- Like Twenty Impossibles - Annemarie Jacir
- The Skywalk is Gone - Tsai Ming-liang
- "The Magick Lantern Cycle" - Kenneth Anger (Doc Films):
- Fireworks
- Eaux d'artifice
- Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome
- Scorpio Rising
- Kustom Kar Kommandos
- Invocation of My Demon Brother
- Puce Moment
- Rabbit's Moon
- Lucifer Rising
- Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan - Chu Yuan (Gene Siskel Film
Center)
- The Flicker - Tony Conrad (Cinema Borealis)
- Benilde, or the Virgin Mother - Manoel de Oliveira (CIFF @ Music Box)
- Ivan the Terrible - Sergei Eisenstein (Doc Films)
- Come Drink With Me - King Hu (Gene Siskel Film Center)
- Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son - Ken Jacobs (Doc Films)
- "Looney Laughs: A Tribute to Chuck Jones" (Biograph Theater):
- Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
- Rabbit Hood (1949)
- The Ducksters (1950)
- Rabbit of Seville (1950)
- Feed the Kitty (1952)
- Little Beau Pepe (1952)
- Rabbit Seasoning (1952)
- Duck Amuck (1953)
- Duck Dodgers in the 24th and ½ Century (1953)
- No Barking (1954)
- One Froggy Evening (1955)
- There They Go-Go-Go (1956)
- What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
- Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
- The 36th Chamber of Shaolin - Lau Kar-leung (Gene Siskel Film
Center)
- Line Describing a Cone - Anthony McCall (Cinema Borealis)
- I Was Born, But... - Yasujiro Ozu (CIFF @ Music Box) with benshi
- Ashik Kerib - Sergei Paradjanov (Doc Films)
- Blood Brothers - Zhang Cheh (Gene Siskel Film Center)
- "Films by Gregory J. Markopoulos" (Doc Films):
- Psyche
- Sorrows
- Twice a Man
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