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How is this new #SlickRick record SO GOOD?!?!?
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Coachella livestreams up on Youtube now.
Dijon in an hour on the Outside stage.
FKA Twigs on Sunday.
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Have had a hard time getting the #MyBinder #OpenRefine
instance to load this morning, the one recommended in the Library Carpentries OpenRefine curriculum.I haven't used it in a while myself -- any #Carpentries folks know if it is still alive and kicking? Maybe just having a bad morning?
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A full recording of Kevin Puts' opera "The Hours" (adaptation of the Cunningham novel) was released this week and available on streaming. W/ #JoyceDidonato, #ReneeFleming, and #KelliOHara.
This is quite beautiful:
https://youtu.be/vpg8gAdpHlc?si=2FZpknXYBr6PFy-r -
New Jill Scott album, "To Whom This May Concern," is an easy choice for the first listen of this #NewMusicFriday!
About a third of the way through, and it's showing a range of her styles and personalities so far. Pretty decent #DJPremier beat on "Norf Side," so that's cool, but not sure about Jilly's rapping...
Musically, "Beautiful People" and "Offdaback" both super solid. The latter has the rambling, off-the-top feel of Bilal's "Sometimes," in a good way.
Overall, all this feels like a real Jill Scott album, flaws and all, and that's a good thing!
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oh shoot, it's new music friday
and I completely missed that, as it's been a frantic morning of final class prep.
AND that new #Nas and #DJPremier album dropped.
guess i know what my commute soundtrack is going home.
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Listening to this Annahstasia record and WOW. Was on my to-listen list based on what I'd heard so far, saw it got BNM'd on Pitchfork and so thought I'd throw it on this morning.
Superb, YES, more of this please.
Quieter, almost folk-ish record with some strikingly sparse passages. Her voice is just beautiful --- I'm having trouble thinking of a 'sounds like X' reference. (Almost a bit of Tracy Chapman?)
Working with folks who work with #MosesSumney, #CassandraJenkins, and that comes through here in a good way.
Beautiful performance from #Obongjayar.
Again, her voice!!!
Here's the opening tune, definitely a stand-out and what a way to open a record:
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About 3/4 of the way through Hayden Pedigo's brand new "Live in Amarillo, Texas" --- which is exceptional. So the next track on my morning playlist in the making:
Hayden Pedigo - "Nearer, Nearer/Tints of Morning"
https://haydenpedigo.bandcamp.com/track/nearer-nearer-tints-of-morning
Fans of "primitive" fingerpicking a la #JohnFahey or, more recently, folks like #BillMckay or #NathanSalzburg should enjoy, but really anyone who likes instrumental guitar work.
As Pedigo says at the start of his album, the pieces feature a lot of "long pauses." If that perks your ears, like it does mine, check out the full album.
#HaydenPedigo #SundayListening #NowListening #ImpromptuPlaylist
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WINTER FEAR
(by Kay Ryan)Is it just winter
or is this worse.
Is this the year
when outer damp
obscures a deeper curse
that spring can’t fix,
when gears that
turn the earth
won’t shift the view,
when clouds won’t lift
though all the skies
go blue.#TodaysPoem #KayRyan #WinterBlues
Great coincidental read in the midst of an especially peculiar winter, which has brought the deep winter humdrums despite the season being (generally) fairly mild where I am.
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Question for #BookHistory and #Libraries folks, perhaps?
Are there any guides for researching historical library holdings? I would like to explore how common certain books were in public and academic libraries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Are there any reference works (or datasets?) that could help me with that?
And if I am interested in specific libraries, are there any options there -- beyond seeing if the title is still held and if they have any date slips hanging around on the inside cover? 😂
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Between her Front Porch appearance (linked) and her Tiny Desk spot, Jill Scott is killing it on this album roll out.
Of the two, the Front Porch performance is the one though.
Starting w/It's Love (classic!) and running the go go beat motif right through her new "Liftin' Me Up"?!?!
(plus "Whatever" and "Golden" ?!?!)
Ugh, she's the best.
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Noting a bunch of #FirstSentences from Faulkner's short story collection, *Knight's Gambit*, which I started poking at a few days ago.
Here's the first few from "Smoke," the first story in the collection:
"Anselm Holland came to Jefferson many years ago. Where from, no one knew. But he was young then and a man of parts, or of presence at least, because within three years he had married the only daughter of a man who owned two thousand acres of some of the best land in the county, and he went to live in his father-in-law's house, where two years later his wife bore him twin sons and where a few years later still the father-in-law died and left Holland in full possession of the property, which was now in his wife's name."
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@inthehands Would love to hear what #ungrading methods you have found success with, if you're willing to share!
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You could watch the speech, or you could listen to #LiseDavidsen sing Leonora in #Beethoven's #Fidelio
https://mastodon.world/@WConcertHall/114106977517829545
Streaming now! #Opera #classicalmusic
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The first half of "Immigrant Song" by #Deerhoof might be the most accessible thing they've ever done, and it's kind of a bop.
And then it descends into several minutes of straight noise-chaos, amazing.
(the whole album is really good.)
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CW: A quick list of my #2023AlbumsCatchUp listening from the last week or so.
Album 2: #TheAlchemist - Flying High. I actually went through most of his releases this year on the same day, including the just-released Flying High 2.
Album 3: #DanielCaesar - NEVER ENOUGH
Album 4: #LaurelHalo - Atlas
Album 5: #BrianBlade - Mama Rosa
Album 6: #VicenteArcher - Short Stories
Album 7: #YoniMayraz - Dybbuk Tse!
Album 8: #ShinSasakubo & #JamaelDean - Convergence
Album 9: #CompleteMountainAlmanac - s/t
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Should be working on end-of-semester grades but have been fooling with my end-of-year music lists instead, lol.
Some of my favorite album *names* from the last year:
"Oh Glistening Onion, The Nighttime is Coming" (Pearla)
"Paper Cut from the Obit" (Celestaphone)
"Why does the Earth Give Us People to Love?" (Kara Jackson)
"Omnichord Real Book" (Meshell Ndegeocello)
"Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning" (Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah)
More to come...
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Starting to design a hybrid Intro to DH-ish course for the Fall and omg #Constellate is going to be a godsend for some stuff.
Theme is "Digitizing US Countercultures" and Constellate + the Independent Voices collection will be perfect.
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Although I listened to a number of #NewReleases from 2023-11-10, I'm a bit behind in my #2023AlbumsCatchUp project.
Album 10: #Mndsgn - Snaxxx
Listened to this twice now. Not as immediately catching as his prior album, "Rare Pleasure" - this is more of a beat tape, a follow-up to Snaxx - but cool nonetheless and will probably grow on me.Album 11: #VirkoBaley and #ClevelandSymphonyOrchestra - Music for Emily Dickinson
A new-to-me contemporary composer. Admittedly was not a focused listen, so can't comment much, but enjoyed it enough to have me mark it for a return listen. -
#MeshellNdegeocello was great last night (as always).
Was a smaller band than I expected: Abe Rounds on drums, Chris Bruce on guitar, Jake Sherman on keys, Justin Hicks on vocals, in addition to Meshell on bass.
Was surprised to not have Kenita Miller-Hicks rounding out the vocals.
But the band's sound was still BIG and DEEP.
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Seeing #MeshellNdegeocello tonight for her tour of her James Baldwin album ("No More Water").
With everything going on, I am a little nervous about this. And I am a BIG Meshell fan. But this could either make me very angry, could be an enormous catharsis, or just really depress the hell out of me.
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Was feeling a little unsure of how to spend the day.
So I started an apple honey babka I'd been eyeing this week (Joan Nathan/NYTimes).
The kitchen now smells like butter, sugar, and apples. Can't complain.
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Daytrip to see the #EugeneDebs house in #TerreHaute.
Seems very timely, don't know why...
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"Doin' the Louvre"
Paris, December 1991
For Patricia ZamoraYou're a junkie just like I am.
After we dump your husband in the Louvre's cafe
to sip the steaming tea and chew on his poetry,
we're off like schoolgirls, screeching in duet,
dazzled by the bright eternal gasp of ancient things.We've got no business here, homegirl and compañera,
we've got no business working our mouths around
this sharp, exquisite language, or savoring the sweet
tongue-squeeze of pastries, glossy cakes and shaved chocolate.We're of simpler stock--city and country dust,
collard greens, hopscotch, moonpies, bullet holes
and basement slow dances. We are shamelessly American,
rough street girls with rusty knees, the flip side of cocky
Parisian wisps in slim cashmere coats the color of tobacco.Girlfriend, you and I are *too* much scream for this place,
but you're a junkie just like I am.-- Excerpt from "Doin' the Louvre" by Patricia Smith
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"Should I dream one dream or seven?"
-- First sentence of William Vollmann, *The Ice-Shirt*
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(Started this morning. #ReadingNotes will go here.)
#WilliamVollmann #Bookstodon #WilliamTheBlind #TheIceShirt #FirstSentences
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"The rain continued. It was a hard rain, a perpetual rain, a sweating and steaming rain; it was a mizzle, a downpour, a fountain, a whipping at the eyes, an undertow at the ankles; it was a rain to drown all rains and the memory of rains. It came by the pound and the ton, it hacked at the jungle and cut the trees like scissors and shaved the grass and tunneled the soil and molted the bushes. It shrank men's hands into the hands of wrinkled apes; it rained a solid glassy rain, and it never stopped."
-- #FirstSentences of Ray Bradbury's "The Long Rain"
What a great opening!
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"My beloved aunt,
I am as innocent and forged in the image and likeness of God as any other, as every other, though I have been a cabin boy, shopkeeper, and soldier, and before then, long before, a small girl at your skirts."
- #FirstSentences of *We Are Green and Trembling* by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara (translated by Robin Myers)
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Started last night -- but was exhausted, so only got through three pages. Was awake enough to get excited by this first sentence though. Read a bit more this morning, and this is great so far.
#GabrielaCabezónCámara #Bookstodon #ReadingNotes #WeAreGreenAndTrembling
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I absolutely *loved* this article, which is ostensibly an investigation of fandom, but ultimately uses that to poke at things like criticism, aging, community, and more.
Super well-written, super funny, and a bit moving. It even moves with the breathlessness, the rhythm of fandom. I loved everything about it. Could easily use it in a #Writing class of some sort.
#GiftLink below.