Much gratitude to Erica and the staff at underscore_magazine for publishing my piece, A Beautiful Cacophony, in issue 6. www.underscoremag.com/issues/issue...
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Much gratitude to Erica and the staff at underscore_magazine for publishing my piece, A Beautiful Cacophony, in issue 6. www.underscoremag.com/issues/issue...
A quiet, short, minimalist piano piece I wrote and recorded today. The title is a quote from Machado de Assis. youtu.be/nYr12yPvY5U
Eddie Hazel and Michael Hampton from Funkadelic
Prince
And from a different direction: Richard Thompson (phenomenal on acoustic and electric)
“Taste and nutrition have long been the leading reasons people crave particular foods. Now, those two find themselves in a throuple with texture.” -actual sentences that appeared in today’s NYTimes
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen.
Otoboke Beaver
James Chance and the Contortions
Sun Ra Arkestra
James Brown
Ike and Tina Turner
Many thanks to the staff at RIC Journal for publishing my attempt at 'nature' writing in their latest issue. ricjournal.com/2025/11/19/p...
Ooh, I'm going to start wishing people "Happy Valentine's Day". I don't care what the calendar says. Calendars are for losers.
What a great idea for a lit mag. One month fiction under the spell of Mingus, the next month under the spell of Sun Ra, then Monk, Dolphy, Bird, Miles, Ornette Coleman . . .
The Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard, Curtis Fuller, Cedar Walton edition of the early 60's Jazz Messengers always gives me a good feeling.
we can speak of past time, and in a vaguer, but familiar sense, of future time, but we simply cannot expect a second nothing, a second void, a second blank. Oblivion is a one-night performance; we have been to it once, there will be no repeat.
-Vladimir Nabokov “Ada, or Ardor”
Started up my weekly zoom lit group last Tuesday (we’re doing Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor) I looked beyond the monitor at my newly brushhogged field to catch a deer taking a crap.
Beautiful (and blind) Miss Kitty
Ernie Kovacs Gravesite "Nothing in Moderation"
Very good article. Made me think about the opposing idea of finding the like within differences. And The Au Pairs song “you’re equal but different, it’s obvious”.
Many thanks to @wordkunst.bsky.social and the staff at @thearsonista.bsky.social for publishing my piece “Fingerprint”. burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...
FINGERPRINT by Michael L Sevy @mlsevy.bsky.social
New for BURNING HOUSE PRESS @thearsonista.bsky.social
LANDSCAPE // LABYRINTH
burninghousepress.com/2025/09/18/f...
Composed and recorded yesterday. A 3 chord theme, some musings, theme restated and out. youtu.be/ZGUldX46rI8?...
From the latest NYRB sale. Most looking forward to Cesare Pavese. I know his prose but not his poetry.
Hard to keep it to just 10 films but for the moment these are my choices.
Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.
-Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) tr. Richard Zenith
Fave film each decade
10s The Cook
20s Greed
30s The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
40s Detour
50s Ordet
60s Viridiana
70s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
80s Grave of the Fireflies
90s Eternity and a Day
00s Werckmeister Harmonies
10s An Elephant Sitting Still
20s Godzilla Minus One
Doubt belongs to the present tense and the present tense only; it blossoms upon it like a poisonous lily on the clouded top of a pond. At this point the narrator would do anything he can to extricate himself from the dark well of the present tense.
-Magdalena Tulli (Moving Parts) tr Bill Johnston
Mathias Énard wrote this over 17 years ago when almost 1/2 of the current population of Gaza were not yet born.
- “Zone” translated Charlotte Mandell
I could cry with all my body, all my life, that this was a fortunate thing for me and I knew it. That for me, writing was like crying. That no book could be joyful without indecency.
-Marguerite Duras (Yann Andréa Steiner) tr. Mark Polizzotti
“Wouldn't it be amusing to see how they would look if one were to be so extremely foolish as to show them the beneficial effects that are sometimes produced here by those people who give them a feeling of such great, such mortal boredom.”
-Nathalie Sarraute (Here) trans. Barbara Wright
My Heresies by Alina Stefanescu. And Giaco, a cat.
Giaco with a strong recommendation. I concur.
You came here to gather up a life. But you know what you’re gathering? Words. No - more like air, my friend - words are sounds composed of air. Air. You’re gathering air.
-Antonio Tabucchi (Tristano Dies: A Life) trans. Elizabeth Harris
Despite huge advances in science and technology, it will seem a barbarous time.
Archipelago Book sale haul.
