If i was from the big town I would be calm and debonair

i feel better about life when i listen to it

it's very soothing, calming. makes you think about perspectives and people and the world around you. imo.

it's "contemplative"

recommended: listening while in a hotel room by yrself

talking to a girl on okcupid who is working on casting & fundraising for a new production of Perfect Lives.

!!!

finally listened to In Sara Mencken Beethoven - amazing

sooo good. fuck we should listen to that right now, we have a copy at the store.

hate you so much

come to new york & see it when it's time.

more about your selection of girls on okc in brooklyn or wherever than the show. I get antsy at shows, expecially 6 hour shows. anyway, on this far-flung theoretical trip to ny, are you giving me lodging or what?

sure, i got a couch.

Robert Ashley's Foreign Experiences is being performed at Mills on April 2nd

ARGH I have a gig that night

that's a great one to present at Mills because it's all refracted anecdotes about living in Oakland while teaching at Mills in the late 70's

i have a gig that night too - but i'm playing late enough i can do both.

we make one great weird curve

the drawings of a geocentric solar system when we meet them in the books make us avert our eyes

god, this is sentimental

i am not sitting on a bench next to myself, whatever that means

<3 <3 <3

aw aw aw

looking back, i didn't get the up and down part.

a notion they referred to as space

robyn are you just listening to this over & over?

down from des moines

yes
(i'm writing, and what i usually do when writing is put songs/albums/playlists on repeat, and so the music comes in and out of consciousness but at the same time creates this steady non-disruptive rhythm/tone)

<3

<3

and all rooms were not the same, some better than others

Title:
A Performance by Robert Ashley
When:
Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Where:
Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Martinos Auditorium
154 Angell Street
Description:
Distinguished composer/librettist/singer David Ashley will perform scenes from two of his operas, "Concrete" and "Atalanta (Acts of God)." Robert Ashley has an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera; his recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting, known for their original style and their distinctly American subject matter and use of language. His music has been described as "nothing less than the first American opera."
Cost:
Free

^ @ brown university providence rhode island usa earth

and here's a 14 hour PBS series ashley did on modern decomposers in the 70s

http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ashley.php

^^ every second of that worth watching, that 14 hour work is one of my favorite films / videos of the 70's

http://www.sfcv.org/event/mills-college-dept-of-music/robert-ashley-%E2%80%9Canswers

“Selected Lectures Written to be Sung”, Wednesday, March 29 10:30 AM
“Answers”, Thursday, March 31 7:00 PM.

are you gonna play hooky from work to go to the Weds. thing?

I'm guest lecturing Zeena's class on tuesday, so two days of hooky (& three consecutive days of Mills) is probably pushing it. Maybe, though.

that simple notion
a coincidence among coincidences
is all one needs to know

enough light on clear days for ordinary occupations

In the beginning, there were rocks
and on those rocks with harder rocks
we learned to make a million bruises
to spell out things like "we were here" and "watch your water"

he sat and thought about obedience
he had resolved that, of the two kinds,
the kind that takes every message of order, rule, law as error
that everybody who passes along these messages
that loathes the buildings
that contradicts the inner voice
that resists, in short, was his
and the other kind...
how could it be?

Introducing Susie. Susie works at the bank. That’s her job. Mostly she helps people count their money. SHE LIKES IT

my facebook "text box" when that was still a thing had that line it, but with my actual name

it takes one to peddle and one to steer

http://thatmorningthing.blogspot.com/

if i was from the big town i would be calm and debonair

- marion finucane

he worked with the forwardness and the backwardness

was talking to a musician at a show tonight and she told me she is going to perform with robert ashley here in mtl in early june and i am like aaaaaah

"try to keep in touch with forms of disorder that have been successful in other places so that you can adopt them to local conditions. you can't think of everything."

Introducing Susie. Susie works at the bank. That’s her job. Mostly she helps people count their money. SHE LIKES IT

and here's a 14 hour PBS series ashley did on modern decomposers in the 70s
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Ashley.php
― sorry ozzy but your dope is in another castle (Edward III), Thursday, 24 March 2011 15:54

just dl'ed these, thx. the glass performances are crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFuBczVTCBw

having seen them play 'The Backyard' for about 9 years now, including once sitting right next to Ashley, it's been amazing to see Martin begin by interpreting very much in his own voice (with his own occasionally more snarky tone bringing an edge to the more ironic lines) and very gradually move closer and closer and closer to purely inhabiting Ashley's original persona.