Music

I hate that Spotify took money from ICE.  I watched Heart of Dog 2015, a movie about grief by Laurie Anderson, and while there's only a brief picture of Lou Reed, I'm sure the loss of him in 2013 is present, and the movie ends with a song off Ecstasy, and I realize I'd not listened to any albums since New York 1989, which I love.  1/1/2026 Ecstasy 2000 Lou Reed spotify 1/2 Set The Twilight Reeling 1996 Lou Reed spotify 1/3 Magic and Loss 1993 Lou Reed spotify 1/4 Songs for Drella 1990 Lou Reed spotify The movie Songs for Drella is on Criterion at the moment, and I quite liked that.  1/5  Mister Heartbreak 1984 Laurie Anderson spotify , YouTube "Gravity's Angel" borrows imagery from Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Anderson had "wanted to make an opera of that book ... and asked him if that would be OK... He said, 'You can do it, but you can only use banjo.' And so I thought, 'Well, thanks. I don't know if I could d...

I don't like Chet Baker singing more than one song. I tend to like authenticity over precision and from just the neck up, but his flat tones are just too off for me after a while. I think listening to a lot of music has changed my appreciation some, my taste profile away from authenticity, to more precision and complexity.  I hate how drugs killed the life out of so many musicians. He took it up in 1957. He's singing these songs before he's the addict I'm wary of. Maybe I don't like the fame and money that came his way that made him think he could be a drug addict. I certainly don't like him being voted over Clifford Brown and Miles Davis in 1954, that's just pure racism. I mean he's not bad, he's allowed to be in the top 3, maybe top 10 at the time.  I watched Let's Get Lost  (1988), interviews shortly before he died, some footage when he was younger, lots of talking heads. He seemed quite haunted, a husk of a human. That's what addiction do...