Charlie Smith, “Call Girls”
My rage, you bet
and its spectacular aftermath, the visits from the cops,
the cut-rate pharmacies where
I bought medicine,
the all-night theaters
I retired to,
let me justify this,
the downtowns deserted by all but their most
persistent citizens,
the cries from two streets
over
as the pack began to circle back,
all this, I promise you,
explicable,
the covenants unalluded to,
the supermarkets I got stranded in,
the old girlfriends I called and out of consideration
for their new circumstances
never identified myself to,
all these,
a matter of reason, of consquence -
the particular block on Sunset
near some palm trees
where I faltered,
unable to go on,
the Mexican couple I mistook for informers,
the spectacular sunsets in that
part of the world,
the slow aging of affection,
the disputes, the roaring in traffic,
the conversion I reneged on,
something - maybe
you remember - to do with pride
and a diffident manner, some idea -
as I said - I was once
devoted to.
David Milch paraphrases Henry James
“I’m going to make a world not certain to be saved, a world the perfection of which shall be conditional merely, the condition that each several agent does its own ‘level best.’ I offer you the chance of taking part in such a world….Will you join the procession? Will you trust yourself and trust the other agents enough to face the risk?”
“Slow Tapes from Africa” Mixtape
Awesome Tapes from Africa posted this mix, which can be downloaded as .zip file here.
Above is a photo of the records that went into the mixtape:
Paulson Kalu - Dick Tiger A Naa (Nigeria)
Rex Lawson - Osuala Oru Enene (Nigeria)
Yamoah’s Band - Saman Me (Ghana)
African Brothers Dance Band - Mmobrowa (Ghana)
Black Dragons - Emalon Ni Hokowo (Benin)
Sorry Bamba - M’makono ‘Attends-Moi’ (Mali)
Orchestre du Jardin de Guinée - J.R.D.A. (Guinea)
Star Number One - Waalo (Senegal)
Number One du Senegal - Mory (Senegal)
Orchestre Rail Band de Bamako - Koro Koni (Mali)
Camayenne Sofa - Wayalangaï (Guinea)
F. Kenya - Ewule Adoma Kuma (Ghana)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - Nous Avons Gagne (Benin)
Achille Johnny - Mede Woui (Benin)
Demba Camara et son Groupe - Exhumation Folklorique (Guinea)
Gerhard Richter - “Atlas”
Atlas is a collection of all of the visual reference that has been accumulated through Gerhard Richter’s life. It would require more than a full museum to exhibit it, but the archive has been scanned and is available on his website.
