Usually a good indicator that I'm bringing a sequence in for a landing when I delete everything I'd written before – all the notes, scribbles, frustrated pissings and moanings to myself – and churn out a page of something that resembles a workable synthesis. Always seeking that balance between the work being breathless and possessed of room to breathe.
I WAS TOO YOUNG TO HEAR SILENCE – Patrick Shiroishi
Saxophone (+ glockenspiel) in a parking garage should not be this stunning but I can’t stop obsessing over the magic Shiroishi creates here. Makes me think of what Sonny Rollins's days of woodshedding on the Williamsburg Bridge must have sounded like:
Lots of progress on the great house emptying: almost everything is disassembled, all keys and weird hiding places discovered. Should be set to have the place empty by the end of the year: second time in a year and a half I’ve had to do this and I’m ready to be DONE.
I Want You – Fiona Apple & Elvis Costello
Favorite version of this song, bar none: Apple is utterly possessed here, bleeding intensity.