Oct 2003 Doings
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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