Nov 2004 Doings
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Listening

  • Peter Brötzmann & Robert Barry; Joe McPhee, Mats Gustafsson, Kent Kessler & Paal Nilssen-Love @ Empty Bottle
  • "Be Music, Night": Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet with Mike Pearson @ NU Law (Chicago Humanities Festival)
  • Bang on a Can All-Stars @ Chicago Cultral Center
    • "Four Studies" by Conlon Nancarrow
    • "Dalem" & "Sangut" by Evan Ziporyn
    • "Music in Fifths" by Philip Glass
    • "Arapua" by Hermeto Pascoal
         
  • A Certain Ratio - Early (Soul Jazz)
  • Jaap Blonk - Flux de Bouche (Staalplaat)
  • Anthony Braxton / Ted Reichman - Duo (Leipzig) 1993 (Music & Arts)
  • Anthony Braxton / Richard Teitelbaum - Duet: Live at Merkin Hall, NYC (1994) (Music & Arts)
  • Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - Images (Okkadisk)
  • Peter Brötzmann Chicago Tentet - Signs (Okkadisk)
  • The Clash - London Calling [Legacy Edition] (Epic)
  • Ivo Perelman Quartet - Sound Hierarchy (Music & Arts)
  • Dimitry Shostakovich [Emerson String Quartet] - Complete String Quartets discs 2-4 (Deutsche Grammophon)
  • Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Original Soul Sister (Proper)
  • Clarence Williams - 1927-1928 (Classics)
  • Larry Young - Mothership (Blue Note)
  • Lester Young - The Complete Savoy Recordings (Savoy Jazz)
  • various artists - Troubadours of Allah: Sufi Music from the Indus Valley (Wergo)

Reading

  • Stockhausen Serves Imperialism - Cornelius Cardew [from UbuWeb]
  • A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking - Samuel Fuller

Watching

  • The Big Red One: The Reconstruction (Samuel Fuller, 1980/2004) @ Music Box
  • Undertow (David Gordon Green, 2004) @ Landmark Century Centre
  • Kings of the Sky (Deborah Stratman, 2004, video) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
       
  • Ryakusho: renzoku shasatsuma [AKA: Serial Killer] (Adachi Masao, 1969-75) @ UofC Film Studies Center
  • Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
  • Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
  • The Grand Duke's Finances (F.W. Murnau, 1924) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
  • Faust (F.W. Murnau, 1926) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
  • City Girl (F.W. Murnau, 1930) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
  • Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (F.W. Murnau, 1931) @ Gene Siskel Film Center
  • Osaka Elegy (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1936) @ Doc Films
  • Ugestsu (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1953) @ Doc Films
  • Sansho Dayu (Mizoguchi Kenji, 1954) @ Doc Films
  • Letter From an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948) @ Doc Films
  • Death By Hanging (Oshima Nagisa, 1968) @ UofC Film Studies Center
  • The Man Who Left His Will on Film (Oshima Nagisa, 1970) @ UofC Film Studies Center
  • Love Affair at Akitsu (Yoshida Yoshishige, 1962) @ Chicago Cultural Center
  • Eros + Massacre (Yoshida Yoshishige, 1970) @ UofC Film Studies Center
  • "Films from the Academy Film Archive" @ Gene Siskel Film Center:
    • Film No. 1 (Harry Smith, 1946) with Dizzy Gillespie, "Manteca" soundtrack
    • Film No. 2 (Harry Smith, 1946-48) with jazz soundtrack
    • Film No. 3 (Harry Smith, 1947-49) with Dizzy Gillespie, "Guarachi Guaro" soundtrack
    • Hot House (John Whitney, 1949)
    • Logos (Jane Conger Belson Shimane, 1957)
    • Frank Film (Frank & Caroline Mouris, 1973)
    • Even - As You and I (Roger Barlow, Harry Hay & Leroy Robbins, 1937)
    • Limitations (Robert Nelson, 1988)
    • Obmaru (Patricia Marx, 1953)
    • Castro Street (Bruce Baillie, 1966)
    • Rio Reel (Russ Tamblyn, c.1968)
    • The Off-Handed Jape (Robert Nelson, 1967)
    • Film No. 1-3 (Harry Smith, 1946-49) with Tom Waits soundtrack
  • "JPEX 1 - Expanded Visions" @ Univ. of Chicago Film Studies Center:
    • Shiki Soku Ze Ku (Matsumoto Toshio, 1975)
    • At Santa Monica 1 (Idemitsu Mako, 1974)
    • Le Cinema (Okuyama Jun'ichi, 1975)
    • My Movie Melodies (Okuyama Jun'ichi, 1980)
    • Snarl-Up!!! (Okamoto Akio, 2001)
    • Heliography (Yamazaki Hiroshi, 1979)
    • Cessna (Nakajima Takashi, 1974, 8mm on video)
    • Coffee Break (Furukawa Taku, 1977)
    • Atman (Matsumoto Toshio, 1975)
    • Spacy (Ito Takashi, 1981)
    • Observation (Yamazaki Hiroshi, 1975)
    • Why? Remix (Tanaami Keiichi, 2002, video)
  • "JPEX 3 - Sex Underground" @ Univ. of Chicago Film Studies Center:
    • Apparatus M (Ito Takashi, 1996)
    • Feedback (Kawanaka Nobuhiro, 1973)
    • Inner-Man (Idemitsu Mako, 1972)
    • Dead Youth (Donald Richie, 1967)
    • Awanono (Uehara Miho, 2003, 3m, 8mm on video)
    • Ai (Love) (Iimura Takahiko, 1962, Super-8 on 16mm)
    • Baby Variations (Idemitsu Mako, 1974)
    • I Want You to Kiss Me (Imaizumi Koichi, 2004, 5m, video)
    • Utsu-musume Sayuri (Kimura Takashi, 2003, 4m, video)
    • Investigation (Nakajima Takashi , 1984, 8mm on video)
    • Kosoku Bozu (Tamano Shin'ichi, 2002, 8mm on video)
    • Benighted But Not Begun (Saito Yukie, 1994)
    • An Introduction to Cinema for Boys and Young Men (Terayama Shuji, 1974, triple projection)
         
  • Holiday (George Cukor, 1938) off CATV
  • The Scarecrow (Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline, 1920) on DVD
  • The Goat (Buster Keaton & Mal St. Clair, 1921) on DVD
  • The Boat (Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline, 1921) on DVD
  • The Paleface (Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline, 1921) on DVD
  • Cops (Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline, 1922) on DVD
  • The Balloonatic (Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline, 1923 ) on DVD
  • Our Hospitality (Buster Keaton & Jack Blystone, 1923) on DVD
  • Go West (Buster Keaton, 1925) on DVD
  • Seven Chances (Buster Keaton, 1925) on DVD
  • Battling Butler (Buster Keaton, 1926) on DVD