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Monday, November 24, 2008

Air is a good thing. We should all inhale and exhale regularly, in an every day basis, to enjoy the benefits of a healthy breathing. Furthermore, the best thing to do while breathing is inhaling the air of others (despite the reactions or how annoying that might sound)... Place your mouth close enough to a person of the opposite genre and inhale when she/he exhales... The experience is "breathtaking" and simultaneously you are provided with a well-filtered amount of clean air...

Have a nice day

pam param pam pam para ram || pam param pam pam para ram

Sunday, November 09, 2008

there was a female beggar today on the subway who should not have been a beggar at all. I will attempt a brief description of her anatomy and figure : She was quite thin ,I assume this was a result of her drug abuse, I suppose she was or had been a drug addict for the sound of her voice was like a stuttering sequence of ill-produced words... She could make one wander if she was ever able of producing a smoothly balanced sentence. Her face was stunning : Although she was skinny and you could see her face bones, the fact that the white light of the train highlighted both them and her almost rectangular face shape was remarkable. She had these big,wet,blue eyes and her chin was trembling as if when you withhold yourself from bursting into tears... Her chin was constantly shaking forming those romantically ugly lake of wrinkles on it. Her hands were scared and her nails were black on the tips

A little bit more about her physical appearance : she was wearing a windbreaker pullover like these really expensive carhartt-ones with a hood which she was apparently using to cover her hair. The pullover extended from her shoulders to her knees. It was a really large piece of clothing for her to have worn. It must have been a discarded-once-loved nylon-padded item laying in a recycle bin somewhere in Athens and she found it useful to fulfill her biological need for warmth. It was grey-coloured! Like her soul... Instead of pants she wore tights... black cotton tights... Let's move on to her behavior...

The details I aforementioned about her voice are a bit assumptive for I was wearing my earphones while the girl passed right by me... Nevertheless, I can vividly recall her making the smallest of moves in her effort to speak and her mouth opening just slightly... She had her right hand extended in order for the good Samaritans to offer her help... I did not offer her any money on the grounds of me being a righteous and wicked pachyderm...

That's all I remember of her...

Well... If not all these are the elements that comprise the physical impact that made on me for all the clues I mentioned are skin-deep... The grand idea that my experience made me adopt is the cruelty , meaning whatever I want cruelty to mean... I was fuckin' touched by that girl..... We are all animals in the essence!!! Ever mother Tereza hided deep under her skin a blood-thirsty flesh-fed carnivore!!!

Grand revelations cannot only be accomplished by irrational experiences but also by experiences of the everyday life that the participant is willful enough to take them to the next level of consideration and appreciation... (nv)


Always and forever magnificently enlightened by the figure of the naked female body

I'm pretty sure I've got breathing problems... That's a pitty cause I like breathing... A lot!

Listening to "Portrait In Jazz" played by the Bill Evans Trio...

Watching ,having pressed the mute button, "The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion" of Woody Allen...

bye

Friday, November 07, 2008

on the essence of beauty (based on regret and me being spontaneous) :

a woman obstructs a guy wanting to get his dog out of his car.
the woman was naked a few seconds ago and the man is furiously heading towards the unlocked vehicle.
the curious fact of the case is that the dog is mad at the owner.
define owner man.
the man reaches for the key.
the keyhole is now a mouth.
the woman is now "the beauty"
define beauty woman.
beauty is old but can still allure the male gender.
beauty approaches the owner who is now confused by the surrealistic nature of his everyday life.
nevertheless, the creatures make love.
the owner starts the conversation.
"Be that real beauty then I am incapable of understanding the essence", the owner says.
Beauty replies "If incapable then alone".
"I am mad" are the owner's words.
"Something about it should you do"
but all of a sudden everything mutes.
the creatures can't talk.
they don't remember they could.
their forms are different.
human genitalia.
the act of intercourse.
their only memories.
voices are heard out loud from a television screaming in an empty white room.
the television orders the man to fertilize and the woman to multiply.
their only memories in use.
the woman's belly is a blob.
the new logic in born.
beauty could not be understood by the new logic.
the mouth is a keyhole.
the dog exits the car.

It's been a long time... many things have driven me away from what had become second nature to me, writing. I am returning to the fruitful garden of creation with a quality post about one of the most avant-garde jazz albums in the lifetime of music... The name of the masterpiece which I will make an effort to review is OUT TO LUNCH and it is a record of Eric Dolphy's five original compositions...

For those who run into Eric Dolphy for the first time I am obliged to say that this great musician died at a very young age on the year 1964. The loss of such a tremendous musician led the jazz community to an era of deep grief when some of the best free & cool jazz compositions were written. That period extended from 1964 to 1973. Eric Dolphy was a flute and alto sax performer and his distinctive abstract tunes made him famous in a society where modal jazz was just a toddler. Along with Ornette Coleman (i wouldn't mention John Coltrane for his impact on music is more massive than the universe itself) they set the foundations for what was supposed to be the shape of jazz to come: a more abstract and free sum of sounds that were not what ragtime or classic jazz had provided people with. So to cut a long story short , the album is a 5-track record (I've got the digitally remastered eddy van gelder edition so I do not know how many tracks the original had) and the names are :

-hat and beard
-something sweet,something tender
-gazzelloni
-out to lunch
-straight up and down

hat and beard is a very mysterious and dark tune which could easily be the teaser for a hitchcock movie. Bass' walk is like tiptoeing on the edge of mount rushmore while being chased by the gangsters from "North by Northwest"... There is where Dolphy enters with an alto sax (if I'm not mistaken) and the madness starts... The solo of the man is SICK SICK SICK. There are no words that can withhold the dark energy that the solo conveys. It might seem too spontaneous but it is not. The scales used are structured in a way that only Dolphy could have imagined... Just amazing... as the tune unravels the other musicians take turns to show off their talent...

the responses of each player reveal what was possible when each participant was thoroughly conversant with traditional techniques yet in no way felt shackled by them...

something sweet,something tender is not at all what the title proposes. In my opinion it is a bass based composition with a violin-like sax. The track starts with a furious scale which lasts for a few seconds but is a proof for the evolution of music at that time. Dolphy here has incorporated elements of bossa and downtempo in his music...

Gasselloni is a flute session. It is quite rare in jazz standards for the artist to use only flute as a means of expression. This act shows Dolphy's classical approach to jazz music. The name of the song is the name of a great modern flautist. Everything holds to the flute pattern for the first 13 bars, then... FREEDOM!!! Although traditional and old-fashioned flute is adopted in the most beautiful way.

Out to lunch : This is a recurring figure round an improvised chorus. The figure sets the rhythm section up with a definite solo feeling. In the improvised section the rhythms overlap. The bass follows no bar line at all. Tony Williams is completely free. He doesn't play time, he just plays! Even though the rhythm section breaks the time up, there's a basic pulse coming from inside the tune. That's the pulse the musicians play...

Straight Up and Down : According to A.B. Spellman who wrote the original liner notes "this one reminds me of a drunk walking"... the keyword for this tune is freedom. The basic chords are introduced but from then on nobody follows something established. no rhythm section,no bar leading music, no nothing... just freedom...

my favorite tune is featured on straight up and down. I believe that I like this pattern so much for it bears a strong resemblance to "245" from outward bound.

I am going to close this review with the words of Eric Dolphy after finishing the recording of out to lunch. He said: "I'm on my way to Europe to live for a while... Why? Because I can get more work there playing my music, and because if you try to do anything different in this country, people put you down for it."

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