Dec 2003 Doings
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Listening

  • Peter Brötzmann, Hamid Drake, Kent Kessler & Ken Vandermark @ Onopa Brewing, Milwaukee
      
  • Count Basie - The Complete Atomic Basie (Roulette)
  • James Brown - Motherlode (Polydor)
  • John Cage [Malcolm Goldstein, Matthias Kaul] - Variations II et al (Wergo)
  • Alèmayèhu Eshèté - Éthiopiques 9: 1969-1974 (Buda Musique)
  • Eddie Gale - Black Rhythm Happening (Water)
  • Tubby Hayes - Night and Day (Ronnie Scott's Jazz House)
  • Doris Hays - The Piano Music of Henry Cowell (Finnadar, LP)
  • Earl "Fatha" Hines - Another Monday Date (Prestige)
  • Kent Kessler - Bull Fiddle (Okka Disk)
  • Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan [1982] (Warner Bros., LP)
  • Steve Lacy - Only Monk (Soul Note)
  • Olivier Messiaen [Riccardo Chailly/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra] - Turangalîla-symphonie (Decca)
  • Charley Patton et al - Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues: The Worlds of Charley Patton (Revenant)
  • Pee Wee Russell - We're in the Money (1201 Music)
  • Raul Seixas - 30 Anos de Rock (Universal)
  • Archie Shepp - Things Have Got To Change (Impulse!, LP)
  • Alan Silva/Kidd Jordan/William Parker - Emancipation Suite #1 (Boxholder)
  • Edgard Varèse [Riccardo Chailly/Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra & Asko Ensemble] - The Complete Works (London/Decca)
  • Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown (Verve)
  • VHF - Extracts (Erstwhile)
  • Phillip Wilson - The Phillip Wilson Project (Jazz Door)

Reading

  • The Film Sense - Sergei Eisenstein
  • Audacious Democracy: Labor, Intellectuals, and the Social Reconstruction of America - Steven Fraser & Joshua B. Freeman, ed.
  • Neo-Dada: Redefining Art 1958-62 - Susan Hapgood with essays by Maurice Berger and Jill Johnston
  • Marx - Terry Eagleton
  • Hegel - Raymond Plant
  • Schopenhauer - Michael Tanner

Watching

  • The Triplets of Belleville - Sylvain Chomet (Landmark Century Centre)
  • Destino [short] - Dominique Monfery (Landmark Century Centre)  Dali meets Disney!
       
  • Modern Times - Charles Chaplin (Music Box)
  • Down By Law - Jim Jarmusch (Movieside Film Festival @ Biograph)
  • Int. Trailer Night [short]- Jim Jarmusch (Movieside Film Festival @ Biograph) from Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
  • "Jim Jarmusch's Favorite Short Films" (Movieside Film Festival @ Biograph):
    • The High Sign - Buster Keaton
    • Bimbo's Initiation - Max Fleischer
    • They Caught the Ferry - Carl Theodor Dreyer
    • Towers Open Fire - William S. Burroughs & Anthony Balch
    • Got Your Money - Hype Williams (feat. Ol' Dirty Bastard)
  • Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - Jaromil Jires (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Yojimbo - Akira Kurosawa (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Sanjuro - Akira Kurosawa (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Anatahan - Josef von Sternberg (Gene Siskel Film Center)
  • Who Wants to Kill Jessie? - Václav Vorlícek (Gene Siskel Film Center)
       
  • "Homicide: Life on the Streets" season 1 (DVD)
  • Detour - Edgar G. Ulmer (DVD)
  • School Trip - Yoo Hyeon-mok (DVD)