Square Disk

Lapping it

2006-10-01T00:11:00.000-04:00

It was just a secret gathering of the power elite.
- Jam Nation

Out of me unworthy and unknown
The vibrations of deathless music;
"With malice toward none, with charity for all."
Out of me the forgiveness of millions toward millions,
And the beneficent face of a nation
Shining with justice and truth.
I am Anne Rutledge who sleep beneath these weeds,
Beloved in life of Abraham Lincoln,
Wedded to him, not through union,
But through separation.
Bloom forever, O Republic,
From the dust of my bosom!
-Edgar Lee Masters , Anne Rutledge

"Prehistoric Pubescent Grand Prix"

08. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Ain't No Sunshine
09. Jam Nation - Prehistoric Pubescent Grand Prix
10. Massive Attack - Better Things
11. Enigma - Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
12. Enigma - Morphing Thru Time
13. Verti-Marte - Twilight Singer

Note: A two part list from last week. This comes with several deep night downtempo tracks I love. Jam Nation, Verti-Marte and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. I hope you enjoy this, I really like it. See also : Age of Consent at music is art. [correction: Twilight Singer is the artist. Verti-Marte song title. thanks Jonny.]

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Solitary

2006-10-01T00:09:00.001-04:00

I know that the account of this kind of solitary imprisonment is insufferably tedious, unless there is some cheerful or humorous incident to enliven it,—a tender gaoler, for instance, or a waggish commandant of the fortress, or a mouse to come out and play about Latude’s beard and whiskers, or a subterranean passage under the castle, dug by Trenck with his nails and a toothpick: the historian has no such enlivening incident to relate in the narrative of Amelia’s captivity. Fancy her, if you please, during this period, very sad, but always ready to smile when spoken to; in a very mean, poor, not to say vulgar position of life; singing songs, making puddings, playing cards, mending stockings, for her old father’s benefit. So, never mind, whether she be a heroine or no; or you and I, however old, scolding, and bankrupt;—may we have in our last days a kind soft shoulder on which to lean, and a gentle hand to soothe our gouty old pillows.
-William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, XXII. Eothen

Therefore, if taken seriously, a Bitch is a threat to the social structures which enslave women and the social values which justify keeping them in their place. She is living testimony that woman's oppression does not have to be, and as such raises doubts about the validity of the whole social system. Because she is a threat she is not taken seriously. Instead, she is dismissed as a deviant. Men create a special category for her in which she is accounted at least partially human, but not really a woman. To the extent to which they relate to her a a human being, they refuse to relate to her as a sexual being. Women are even more threatened because they cannot forget she is a woman. They are afraid they will identify with her too closely. She has a freedom and an independence which they envy and challenges them to forsake the security of their chains. Neither men nor women can face the reality of a Bitch because to do so would force them to face the corrupt reality of themselves. She is dangerous. So they dismiss her as a freak.
-Jo Freeman, The BITCH Manifesto

"The Ones Before"

01. Ralph Towner - Solitary Woman
02. Eva Cassidy - Oh, Had I A Golden Thread
03. John Lee Hooker - Kiddio
04. Patti Smith - Rodondo Beach
05. Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
06. Neil Young - Harvest Moon

"The Ones After"

07. Flying Canyon - Crossing By Your Star
08. Lambchop - The Distance From Her to There (alternate version)
09. Ani DiFranco - Millenium Theater
10. Summer Hymns - Pity And Envy
11. Ani DiFranco - As Is
12. Rogue Wave - Endless Shovel

note: list connected to an old discussion. Also in it Eva Cassidy (hey Fishy, there ya go.) and a lot of excellent recent tracks. (Ani DiFranco, Lambchop)

image credit: moriza, lunaryurna

Linear

2006-10-01T00:09:00.000-04:00

It is difficult to incise that line with the white pencil in the paper, and that is in fact what they are – white linear incisions in black paper. There is very little give to the line so it looks almost like ink if you don’t look carefully. But it is not: it is the result of applying stroke over stroke, over stroke, over stroke . . . Moreover, you cannot use a very sharp pencil for this kind of drawing, because it tears the paper; so you start with a rounded off point, a relatively softened tool, which represents another irony: a softened tool for a hard edged job.

- Dan Flanvin, Commenting on his work

Veni

2006-10-01T00:06:00.000-04:00

Langt í burt vakir veröl stór
Grimmum töfrum tryllt
Eir arlaus óttast nótt og dag
Augu ín óttalaus og hrein brosa vi mér björt
Vonin mín, blessa brosi Þitt
Vekur ijó úr vær
Hvílist jör hljó í örmum snæs
Liljuhvít lokar augum blám litla stúlkan mín
- Björk, Vökuró (en)

Veni, Sancte Spiritus

Veni, Sancte Spiritus,
et emitte caelitus
lucis tuae radium.
...
Da virtutis meritum,
da salutis exitum,
da perenne gaudium,
Amen, Alleluia.
-Veni, Sancte Spiritus from Mass for Pentecost.

01. J.S. Bach - Sarabande (French suite No.1 in d minor)
02. Björk -Vökuró
03. Arvo Pärt - Veni Sancte Spiritus

note: A small list for Sunday evening, an end of week closing note. It's mostly modern minimalist works to balance out this week's gigantic and dark playlists. In it: Vökuró, Bjork's interpretation of a lullaby written by icelandic composer Jorunn Vidar, Veni Sancte Spiritus Arvo Pärt's Berliner Masse and Glenn Gould interpretation of Bach's work.

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Experiment

2006-09-11T10:38:00.000-04:00

This is a beginning of yet another experiment. Who knows what it will bring.