Up 8.
Listened to a dharma talk, watched John Oliver on coronavirus. [also read a credible epidemiologist’s FAQ]
Form notes, 10 songs.
Took out trash, wrote email about taxes, took down laundry, left about 11:30. Finished Day on train.
Coffee at MoMa, read 1 ch. Disciplining Music.
Quick walk around new Donald Judd show.
Worked on bridge book intro about 1:30-5 at 53rd St. Library. I’ve worked over these paragraphs too many times.
Read another chapter of Disciplining Music on train. (Both on ethnomusicology.)
Home about 6. Watched What’s My Line with Bree.
Played through songs for Thursday’s set 20 mins. or so.
Read Laura Schroeder and Francois Schroeter, “A Third Way in Metaethics.”
Wasted time 7:30-10. Group call w/ Ted R. and Wendy E. postponed.
Forced myself to change gtr stings, listened to a side of Little Brother Montgomery (‘30s Bluebird recordings).
Lights out 12:30. Finished Douglas podcast.
3.1.20
Up 7.
Listened to most of a podcast about Frederick Douglas, watched last night’s SNL sketches.
Form notes on 10 songs, R&B Years 1942-1945, v. 1 disc 2.
Farmer’s market. Cold out.
Coffee, read 2 ch. Disciplining Music (Signifyin(g)/Miles Davis; Rossini)
Home at 3, wasted time until 6.
Read more of Jean Day, Daydream.
Worked on taxes. Listened to more of the R&B disc but didn’t take notes.
Tried to call dad; ready more Day until he called me back.
Coffee 8:30. Posted Feb. reading list, updated website.
Read Wendy Eisenberg, “Jazz as Will and Representation,” a poem of Ted Reichman’s, William Mazzarella, “Affect: What Is It Good For?”
Wasted time. Lights out 12:30.
[Didn’t: write, which I usually don’t on Sundays; work on music]
february 2020 reading
Asa Berg, Hackers, trans. Johannes Göransson
Bryan McCann, Getz/Gilberto
Grant Hier, The Difference Between
Peter Culley, Parkway
Katrina Forrester, In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Imperialism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy
Rachel Cusk, Coventry
Kio Stark, Talking to Strangers
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Constance Garnett
Vincenzo Ferrone, The Enlightenment: History of an Idea, trans. Elisabetta Tarantino
Joshua Clover, Riot. Strike. Riot.
Toward. Some. Air., ed. Fred Wah & Amy De’ath
Lars Iyer, Wittgenstein Jr.
L.E. Sissman, Night Music
Sean Bonney, Blade Pitch Control Unit
François Caillat [et al], Foucault Against Himself, trans. David Homel
Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
january 2020 reading
Garrett Caples, Power Ballads
Penelope Fitzgerald, Human Voices
Herve Guivert, The Mausoleum of Lovers, trans. Nathanaël
Chantal Maillard, Killing Plato, trans. Yvette SigertI
Booker T. Jones, Time is Tight: My Life, Note by Note
Alice Oswald, Woods, etc.
Neil Painter, Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Michael Burkard, Entire Dilemma
Michael Burkard, Unsleeping
Jacqueline Osherow, Whitethorn
Wallace Shawn, The Designated Mourner
Florencia Garramuno, Primitive Modernities: Tango, Samba, and Nation, trans. Anna Kazumi Stahl
december 2019 reading
Thomas Schnitt-Best, The Sonata
Jim Fletcher / Harry Mathews, Week One (pamphlet)
Ida Borjel, Miximum Ca’ Canny: The Sabotage Manuals, tran. Jennifer Hayashida.
Heike Geissler, Seasonal Associate, trans. Katy Derbshire
Lauren Hilger, Lady Be Good
Peter Freeman, The Music of Antonio Carlos Jobim
Miguel de Cervantes, The Adventures of Don Quixote (v. 2)
Cesar Aria, On Contemporary Art, trans. Katherine Silver
Patricia Hill Collins, Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory
Alan Felsenthal, Lowly
Harold Pinter, The Homecoming
Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Girl From Hollywood
Mason Currey, Daily Rituals: Women at Work
Erica Funkhouser, Post & Rail
The Foucault-Chomsky Debate on Human Nature
Stacy Syzmaszek, Journal of Ugly Sites & Other Journals
Robin Walz, Modernism