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I should take more vacations like this. Ten days, post-season, in Montauk is both very restful and can be very productive. Having nothing va...

Leaving tomorrow for ten days in Montauk, Long Island, probably without computer access unless I happen on an internet cafe. Montauk's a...

Somewhere around 1972, in Poughkeepsie, I discovered that the local library (Adriance Public Library) had LPs for loan. In the spring of tha...

First Record Club in quite some time last night, first I've attended since May having missed June's. Special guest Chris Cochrane, a...

I don't normally do concert plugs here but there's this band Floriculture, who are playing in Brooklyn at the Center for Improvisati...

Watched, and enjoyed, Lynch's "Inland Empire" today. Having recalled several analyses of it when it was first released last ye...

I know everyone's breathless awaiting more Braxtonia. I'm workin' on it! Just too much other stuff to do, listen to, watch. And,...

I mentioned this album by David Garland a couple weeks back. Finally got around to giving it some more listening time and, while I still wou...

New listening: Graham Stephenson/Dave Barnes - s/t (no label) Jin Sangtae/Park Seungjun - 5 Modules IV (Manual) Ferran Fages - Cançons per a...

So a little while back, an obscure gentleman going by the nom de web of Arbogast posted a comment here. Intrigued as I always am by a new p...

My lovely niece Tiana was down this weekend so I dutifully shepherded her around the city on Saturday, hitting several museums. First up was...

An outgrowth of the Galas event, this afternoon I picked up this 4-disc set on the British JSP label, "Rembetika; Greek Music from the ...

Cleared up another small matter at the Galas show that had been bugging me for a little while. I was seated at a table with composer/writer ...

Saw Diamanda Galas last night (a review will appear at Bagatellen within a few days). Hadn't seen her live since attending the Plague Ma...

Drove up to Poughkeepsie yesterday to see the folks and my brother Glen and his wife Arlo. Blasting Ligeti in both directions (very wide ran...

I came to Roach's music indirectly and still probably don't have a really good grasp of it. I think I first became familiar with his...

Birthday pelf: Simon Schama - Landscape and Memory Jim Harrison - Returning to Earth Shisaku Endo - Stained Glass Elegies Manuel de Landa - ...

I'm not the biggest Monet fan in the world. Maybe an early prejudice against certain painters I was "supposed to" like early o...

Light posting around here recently due to general busyness (and consequent lack of opportunity to delve further into Braxtonia) and paucity ...

Thank you, gentlemen.