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frankocean: desensitized eyes on this body i am…in this mirror i am. i got ostracized and didn’t notice till i closed my eyes last a.m. didn’t see. i need a point to keep these eyes in focus. i need my eyes to be quicker than your hands. they aren’t and won’t ever be- so when you do magic i won’t watch. see, my eyes have an ego. i need these eyes like..i need the holes in my head. i always find something off, like a hairline. symmetry gives me boner, it isn’t boring at all. my eyes don’t bore me at all. neither do yours. i never saw you fuck, except that one time? i still get off to the residue that the image left behind. what i see inside my mind now isn’t technically with my eyes. i heard about a third, but i’ll believe it when i see it blink on my forehead. big head. five head. eye don’t know. eyes just talking.    Windows to the Soul to the Windows View high resolution

frankocean:

desensitized eyes on this body i am…in this mirror i am. i got ostracized and didn’t notice till i closed my eyes last a.m. didn’t see. i need a point to keep these eyes in focus. i need my eyes to be quicker than your hands. they aren’t and won’t ever be- so when you do magic i won’t watch. see, my eyes have an ego. i need these eyes like..i need the holes in my head. i always find something off, like a hairline. symmetry gives me boner, it isn’t boring at all. my eyes don’t bore me at all. neither do yours. i never saw you fuck, except that one time? i still get off to the residue that the image left behind. what i see inside my mind now isn’t technically with my eyes. i heard about a third, but i’ll believe it when i see it blink on my forehead. big head. five head. eye don’t know. eyes just talking.   

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Champagne Bublé

OK, Billboard just made it official: Michael Bublé has the No. 1 album in America — his fourth album to debut on top.

Last Thursday I hitched a ride with Bublé’s promotional whirlwind for a few hours. NYT photog ninja Chad Batka caught some of the best moments. 
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Listening to the new Talib Kweli. One track begins like so: 

“Yo these swallows as horny as Charlie Parker / Be cuttin’ them ‘cuz I’m studying / These birds like Ornithology”

That line doesn’t appear in this here video, but Kendrick Lamar does.

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All Systems Are Go, and Tested

The alto saxophonist and composer Steve Coleman, working with his band Five Elements, began a weeklong residency at the Stone on Tuesday night.
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cmonstah: La Luz! Beginning this Thursday in Cusco, Peru, Celso will be creating a series of interventions around Qorikancha and the Santo Domingo museum, the sight of an old Inca sun temple. On August 29th, the final night of the exhibition, there will be a closing reception, in which everyone will be invited to take a piece of the installations home with them. Get all the details here! **Also, if you could please share this post, I’d appreciate it. My website is down due to server problems… :-( View high resolution

cmonstah:

La Luz! Beginning this Thursday in Cusco, Peru, Celso will be creating a series of interventions around Qorikancha and the Santo Domingo museum, the sight of an old Inca sun temple. On August 29th, the final night of the exhibition, there will be a closing reception, in which everyone will be invited to take a piece of the installations home with them. Get all the details here!

**Also, if you could please share this post, I’d appreciate it. My website is down due to server problems… :-(

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Ellen Willis on Bruce Springsteen in 1974

newyorker:

In his Profile of Bruce Springsteen in this week’s issue, David Remnick describes the Asbury Park rocker’s 1972 audition with John Hammond and his early career with Columbia Records:

Columbia signed Springsteen to a record contract and tried to promote him as “the new Dylan.” He was not the only one. John Prine, Elliot Murphy, Loudon Wainwright III, and other singer-songwriter sensitivos were also getting the “new Dylan” label. (“The old Dylan was only thirty, so I don’t even know why they needed a fucking new Dylan,” Springsteen says.)

Two years later, The New Yorker’s rock critic, Ellen Willis, went to see Springsteen perform at Avery Fisher Hall. Here’s a look back at her thoughtful and decidedly mixed review of the up-and-coming rock star (which we’ve unlocked in our archive this week): http://nyr.kr/Oksnj4
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Macnie World: Tim Berne's Snakeoil

jimmacnie:

It was gnarled momentum that initially made me fall for Tim Berne’s music. Some of the cresting swells of early albums like 7X and Mutant Variations helped sell a compositional style that fully values kinetic crescendos. Because he’s a texture fiend, the saxophonist has historically left…

Right with you there, Jim.
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Coming Soon! Meanwhile, here.

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