Archives for September 2005

i waved my hope around like a cheap flag

whose colors had faded

whose emblem was laughable.

Erin McKeown, “Love in 2 Parts”

i waved my hope around like a cheap flag

whose colors had faded

whose emblem was laughable.

Erin McKeown, “Love in 2 Parts”

Our Girl and I have been tearing around Chicago for the past two days, looking at plays, taping radio shows, and eating too well. (I’m using her computer, which is why this posting is signed with her name.) The only cloud on the horizon is that I’ll be returning to New York first thing this morning, sigh.

More later, perhaps even later today. Normal blogging will resume tomorrow. Until then, see you in Manhattan!

Our Girl and I have been tearing around Chicago for the past two days, looking at plays, taping radio shows, and eating too well. (I’m using her computer, which is why this posting is signed with her name.) The only cloud on the horizon is that I’ll be returning to New York first thing this morning, sigh.

More later, perhaps even later today. Normal blogging will resume tomorrow. Until then, see you in Manhattan!

– Weekly salary paid to John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk in 1957 for playing tenor saxophone in Monk’s quartet: $100

– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $679.61

(Source: Lewis Porter, JazzTimes, October 2005)

– Weekly salary paid to John Coltrane by Thelonious Monk in 1957 for playing tenor saxophone in Monk’s quartet: $100

– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $679.61

(Source: Lewis Porter, JazzTimes, October 2005)

“Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating. This is how they first become accessible to broad taste, which is lazy taste, and by the same token to the processes of publicity and consecration. As long as they were trammeled up in the urgency of getting things said they were too difficult, too ‘controversial.'”

Clement Greenberg, Hofmann

“Not all, but too many of the best writers, composers, and artists of our time begin to be acclaimed only when they no longer have anything to say and take to performing instead of stating. This is how they first become accessible to broad taste, which is lazy taste, and by the same token to the processes of publicity and consecration. As long as they were trammeled up in the urgency of getting things said they were too difficult, too ‘controversial.'”

Clement Greenberg, Hofmann