Q&A with Quentin Tolimieri about Monochromes II (elsewhere 044-3)
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Q&A with Quentin Tolimieri about Monochromes II (elsewhere 044-3)
www.elsewheremusic.net/qa-with-quen...
Look... a war crime.
#classical | Jean Sibelius | Finlandia, Op.26 No. 7 • Night-Ride And Sunrise, Op.55 • Pohjola's Daughter, Op.49 • En Saga, Op.9 | L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Horst Stein | Released by Decca in 1972.
remember to set your clocks tonight. time begins at 2 am
It was the sort of interior that is designed at great expense by energetic divorcées who don’t take cheques.
—Len Deighton, Berlin Game
My mom: what do you think of Newsom?
Me: absolute loser piece of shit
Her: why?
Me:
It would be only fair to the reader to say frankly in advance that the attitude of any person toward this story will be distinctly influenced by his theories of the Negro race. If he believes that the Negro in America and in general is an average and ordinary human being, who under given environment develops like other human beings, then he will read this story and judge it by the facts adduced. If, however, he regards the Negro as a distinctly inferior creation, who can never successfully take part in modern civilization and whose emancipation and enfranchisement were gestures against nature, then he will need something more than the sort of facts that I have set down. But this latter person, I am not trying to convince. I am simply pointing out these two points of view, so obvious to Americans, and then without further ado, I am assuming the truth of the first. In fine, I am going to tell this story as though Negroes were ordinary human beings, realizing that this attitude will from the first seriously curtail my audience. W. E. BURGHARDT DU BOIS Atlanta, December, 1934
I'd forgotten how hard the preface to DuBois's "Black Reconstruction" (1934) went...and am saddened by how contemporary it still feels.
These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.
If you're a powerful creative person, a moment will always arrive when you can do something a little brave that will help people, or refuse to. The book I'm working on right now is in part a history of who did what. All I'll say about this is, it never gets forgotten. deadline.com/2026/03/pixa...
guys i'm thinking monochromes ii might be even better than monochromes
this is my favorite album on @yukozama.bsky.social's elsewhere label, a magnificent set of fifteen piano studies. monochrome 12 is especially moving
If you’re not already familiar with this album please give it a listen, whether or not you give a shit about Brazil. Brilliant stuff. Hugely influential to the last 60 years of music in Brazil, but way overlooked outside it.
Roy Ayers, Virgo Vibes (1967)
Lot of great players on this one, but Herbie Hancock (playing under the pseudonym Ronnie Clark) is the secret sauce here.
Hello! One month from today I’m releasing my new book about our majestic universe, which thinks with poetry, quantum physics, relativity, Zhou kingdom philosophy, galaxies, particles, Akan aphorisms, Black feminism, Star Trek, Alice in Wonderland. AND it’s for all readers. 📚💙
Please preorder it! 🧵
Not writing any long reviews of the best albums of the year anymore, but if i did, well, this one most definately would belong there... Black country soul/alt-americana like you've never heard it before.
Direct from the New York battlefield
#nowplaying
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🖤 Georges Perec at his desk
(in his apartment on rue Linné, Paris, shortly after receiving the 1978 Prix Médicis for *Life: A User’s Manual*)
Thanks. I'll look for it, too.
Oh, nice. I still need to see that. I read a lot of Deighton way back when. I'm fairly certain I read that when it came out, though I'd wager any recall of it's been lost to the mists of time. I'll check my local library for a copy.
No matter how bad you think colonialism was, it was worse. (And it's not actually over.)
"UK museums hold more than 263,000 items of human remains from around the world, including whole skeletons, preserved bodies, such as Egyptian mummies, skulls, bones, skin, teeth, nails, scalps and hair."
It's because his eyes are too close together
Jackie McLean & The Cosmic Brotherhood - New York Calling Steeplechase, 1975
This is a good record
#GoodRecord
My new Reading Project post is up and FREE TO ALL! In this one, I discuss two distinct, and distinctly discomfiting novels: TO THE WHITE SEA by James Dickey, and Thomas M. Disch's science fiction classic 334.
billryan64.substack.com/p/dont-let-a...
So, in 1969, the Isley Brothers held a legendary soul & gospel revue at Yankee Stadium, released in cinemas in 1970, after which it was never put on video or online and was something of a holy grail. This week, an HD copy surfaced: Part One. Highlight: Patti Austin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpvl...
morning frost over land, a man walks toward a stand of trees, his back to the camera
the air is frost
He minds you somewhat of a juggler, balancing a long staff on his chin.
Amina Claudine Myers • Golden Lady In The Graham Cracker Window
