AN IMAGINARY HEAD

a fugitive and cloistered virtue, maintained by Elisa Ambrogio

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All Day

So this is reality too, come in

and now you’re here, all swept

up for you the floor shiny

and our wonderful pal, the

antelope clatters its little hooves

on the floor to eat from your

hand, all the pictures

you love on the walls and

your favorite books read

themselves aloud, and you

can leave if you want to, just

turn the page or have the kids

come over for cake, little Louie

from downstairs, he likes you

so much he brings his friends

too, the twelve year old girl,

She loves it here we give her

shiny hair and crackling

petticoats. It’s always

just after school and

just before supper. The

flower in the flowerpot smiles

all day in the sunshine

and waves its little

leaves when you come home. Such

a bright yellow floor and

such a big cozy bed

It says Hey Get Up or

You’ve got a temperature or

Stay here with me

let’s watch TV all day.

Sometimes there’s a moon

when we’re alone but

like always the grinning

kind that hangs from a

thin wire. Oh yeah, the

stars have five neat points

The coffee pot giggles and

the dishes wash themselves with

their little rubber gloves

squeaking and laughing.

You have that effect on things

and even the bathroom,

so often left out of things,

is happy, when you’re

home.

Oct 25

1978 RR

Poems | The Brooklyn Rail

So this is reality too, come in / and now you’re here, all swept / up for you the floor shiny / and our wonderful pal, the / antelope clatte

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David Hockney, California, 1965

Acrylic on canvas. 66⅛ x 78¼ in (168 x 198.8 cm).

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(Eileen) Gray asserted a home was a living organism, and had irritated Le Corbusier by questioning his thinking that a home was a “machine for living in.” E-1027 left Corbusier perplexed by how someone untrained in architecture, and a woman no less, could execute something so remarkable. This became a point of frustration for him, and he eventually felt the need to act in some way. He decided the white walls needed intervention and he painted eight provocative murals of Picasso-inspired female figures, some suggestively entwined, intended to mock Gray’s bisexuality. Angered, Gray defined these unwanted murals as an act of vandalism. After heated arguing, Badovici ultimately told Le Corbusier he was no longer welcome in the home. 

Though Le Corbusier defended his actions later in writing, saying he was simply bringing some colour to the building, Gray was left justifiably offended. Word War II interrupted things, and E-1027 temporarily became a base of the Italian military. In 1956, Badovici, who had owned the property, passed away, and in and odd twist it was Le Corbusier who arranged for it to be sold to an affluent Swiss widow named Marie-Louise Schelbert. Schelbert in turn passed the home onto her doctor, an alleged morphine addict, Peter Kaegi, who was gruesomely murdered there in what a police report described as a sex tryst gone wrong.

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Literal English Translation

Now spring brings back the thawed-out warmth, now the raging of the equinoctial sky subsides with the sweet breezes of Zephyr. Let the Phrygian plains be left behind, Catullus, and the rich land of sweltering Nicaea: let us fly away to the famed cities of Asia. Now my fluttering soul yearns to wander; now my joyful feet come alive with eagerness. Farewell, dear bands of fellow travellers, whom, having left home at the same time, split paths carry home by different routes.

Original Latin

Iam vēr ēgelidōs refert tepōrēs, iam caelī furor aequinoctiālis iūcundīs Zephyrī silēscit aurīs. Linquantur Phrygiī, Catulle, campī Nīcaeaeque ager ūber aestuōsae: ad clārās Asiae volēmus urbēs. Iam mēns praetrepidāns avet vagārī, iam laetī studiō pedēs vigēscunt. Ō dulcēs comitum valēte coetūs, longē quōs simul ā domō profectōs dīversae variae viae reportant.

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David Hockney, The Room, Tarzana, 1967

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David Hockney; Tennis Court, 1973, chromogenic print

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1980 : la masterclass de Sonny Rollins

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Sleepy Doug Shaw - 360 Record Shop, Red Hook, Brooklyn, March 8, 2024 / Tubby's, Kingston, New York, January 14, 2024 / WFMU Frow Show Tribute

Amidst the sadness of 2026, the recent, much-too-soon passing of Doug Shaw has to be one of the saddest. I didn't know him, but the overwhelming outpouring of love for the London-born/NYC-based musician over the past week or so tells me the world is a lesser place without him.

An underground mainstay, Shaw played with White Magic and Gang Gang Dance, but I only really became aware of him sometime this decade when my friend Michael Klausman recommended the Bandcamp-only live release Sleepy at Tubby's, which completely blew me away. I remember listening at first and thinking: "Man, this guy is as good as John Martyn." And then I remember listening again and thinking: "Man, this guy is better than John Martyn!" Dazzling guitar work, beautiful vocals, an effortlessly cool vibe. An incredible talent.

Which made it all the weirder that Shaw didn't really have an actual album that properly showcased that talent. His stuff was spread across various digital platforms in a semi-careless fashion. Fair enough — there was something effortlessly cool about that, too, a refusal to play the game by anyone else's rules. Still, his legend seemed to be growing; there was a collab LP last year with Animal Collective's Geologist, as well as a lengthy feature by Andy Cush in Hearing Things.

And apparently, there's a proper album ready to go, a fact that is both heartening and depressing. Doug won't get to enjoy the inevitable rave reviews and sold-out shows he deserves. The best that the rest of us can do is listen to the man's music. His Highlife Bandcamp page is filled with brilliant stray tunes; the Roolin YouTube page just posted a terrific video from a Red Hook record store, which captures Shaw casting a spell for 50+ minutes, culminating in an absolutely heartbreaking cover of Neil's "Old Country Waltz;" Kliked also shared a similarly terrific 2024 Tubby's set, culminating in an absolutely heartbreaking cover of Robert Wyatt's "Alliance." And Jesse Jarnow paid tribute on WFMU a few days ago with an hour's worth of loosies and rarities, giving a great overview of the Sleepyverse, which is expansive and entrancing.

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"Any serious moral accounting of the Weather Underground might consider how they would be remembered had they stormed a federal facility and indiscriminately fired 2,000 rounds of live ammunition, murdering 43 people in under 20 minutes (a crime actually committed by the New York State Police and correctional officers when they retook Attica in 1971). How might we judge them had they opened fire on unarmed protestors, injuring 28 and killing three by shooting them in the back (a crime actually committed by state police and highway patrol officers in the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre)? How might we remember the Weather Underground had it been J. Edgar Hoover and not Fred Hampton who lay in a drugged haze as armed men stormed into his home and shot him in his sleep?" - Emmett Rensin, A Better World Is Not Possible:  Did the Weather Underground have a point?

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On September 8th 1972, Robert Fripp brought his guitar and pedal board to Brian Eno's home studio. Using Eno's twin tape recorder/loop method set-up Fripp provided two takes - one for the background guitar loop and one for the foreground solos with Eno selectively manipulating which signals were committed to the final tape.

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One of the aftermaths of the Chilean coup d'état in 11.9.1973 was the gathering and killing of people with opposite political views.

Victor Jara (born 28.9.1932) was one of the many thousand people imprisoned and tortured at Estadio Chile in Santiago.

He was a teacher, a theater director, a poet, and probably most known as a singer songwriter and a communist. Those being the reasons why the new far right regiment murdered him brutally at the stadium where he was held captive 16th of September in 1973.

Victor was a voice of revolution along with others, and his voice got silenced.

But his legacy lives on. 🕊️❤️

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