Things Forks is doing / involved in / wants to take you to

http://www.japansociety.org/event/turntable-duo-otomo-yoshihide-christian-marclay
http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/42730
This Saturday at 5:00 for an artist discussion and 8:30 for Otomo/Marclay jam session.
Sold out but my date just bailed. Anybody wanna go?

I have enough interesting stuff in my life that I keep thinking about making this thread as a sort of quasi-craigslist thing and figured wtf let's give it a try

i would totally go to that but i do not live there

planes are cheap these days i hear

i tried to buy one and they said i didn't have enough money!

besides, i will be in NYC the first week of December anyway, yaay :)

well then keep an eye on this thread

Damn I would love to go but it's a bit far. I have an album they did together and it is brilliant.

Dang Forks, that sounds awesome but I have plans with friends at least into the early evening. I guess if you still don't have someone at like 7ish and you want to text me, go for it -- maybe it can happen.

alright. you still got my number? hit me up and if that +1 is still there you're welcome to come.

Lonnie Holley at The Whitney could not have been better, my god this guy.
http://whitney.org/Events/LonnieHolleyCooperMoore

oh wow, yeah I saw he was playing. I have only seen footage of him playing in living rooms. new lp on d2d soon too.

i talked with the D2D guy after; Lonnie basically was doing stream of consciousness for about an hour and a half. It was amazing, totally kick in the face stuff. a lot of monologuing in the style of abner jay but with real tight, intelligent and OUT THERE mindset. a lotta sun-ra/george clinton/lee perry madness and truth. def one of the best shows i've seen this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=DUvHOSrkaLg

aaaaand off to the bug at le poisson rouge. packing earplugs, feeling old.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jj5zk5v1krf4uge/Noteworthy%20-%20April%202013.mp3

^ from last night, this is an open conversation at Housing Works that i curated with the women who act as the artistic directors of SummerStage, Celebrate Brooklyn!, Joe's Pub and Japan Society; moderated by the theater critic for the NY Post.

i m proud

I forget: is your dad a hardcore gospel nerd?

yah, he's a scholar in the field. Why ya ask?

Saw his name in the acknowledgements of this old Gotham gospel comp I got yesterday.

the p-vine one? that's a humdinger.

It's an 80s LP from Krazy Kat and has a little less than half the same material as the first P-Vine comp. It's pretty good. I'd never heard early Violinaires, and I didn't know there was a "Clouds of Joy" besides the Mighty Clouds of Joy.

Forks, I ran into someone the other day whom I believe you must know, although I forgot to ask.

... Okay...?
Name rhymes with?

... Okay...?
Name rhymes with?

Bennie Masserman

Ha yes, we know each other quite well. Where do you know bennie from?

Don't really know directly, am familiar through Mr. Finewine and seeing the Dansettes perform a few times back in the day. Was in my neighborhood seeing a show last week and I recognized although it took me a while.

And that was the first time I had any kind of conversation with.

She's good people

Ran into another friends of Bennie last night but forgot to ask if there was a forks connection.

we're doing a show tonight in manhattan together that she's booked and i'm promoting...
http://www.greenwichhouse.org/announcements/uncharted-eli-smith

i never quite did use this for the bloggy purpose it was intended. maybe i should.

Ah, cool. Do you know her friend, used to front a faux J-pop band, lives in SF now?

I don't think so... We fell out of touch during her recent sanfran journey

Doing my yearly listmaking and here's my 2020 Concerts/Plays/Experiences. Such a good January!

Jan – Grand Ol’Pubry (Neal Medlyn, Jenn Harris, Murray Hill) at Joe’s Pub
Jan – Amber Martin: Bette Midler Bathhouse at Joe’s Pub
Jan – Allen Lowe Octet with Marc Ribot: Blues and the Empirical Truth at Roulette
Jan – Winter JazzFest Day 1: Theo Bleckmann at Subculture (solo), Hypnotic Brass Band at SOBs, Ambrose Akinmusire at Webster Hall, Gretchen Parlato at PR, Michael Mayo at Bitter End, Todd Sickafoose’s Bear Proof at Zurcher… tapped out for Jaimie Branch at The Dance
Jan – Winter JazzFest Day 2: Brandee Younger with Ravi Coltrane at Webster Hall, Makaya McCraven with Brandee: The Music of Gil Scott Heron at Webster Hall, Kat Edmonson at Subculture, Uri Caine with Barbara Walker: The Passion of Octavius Catto (with Mike) at Zurcher, Theo Croker with Tom King on piano and Kassa Overall (with Mike) at Mercury Lounge
Jan – globalFest at Copacabana: Cheikh Lo, Meklit, Xenia Franca, Le Amazons D’Afrique, Sofiane Saidi and Mazalda, La Chica, San Salvador, Ak Dan Gwang Chil
Jan – Scott Johnson and Contemporaneous at Roulette
Jan – Michael Mwenso and the Shakes at National Sawdust
Jan – Alvin Curran’s Shofar Rags XXL at Roulette
Jan: Ryan Haddad’s Falling for Make Believe at Under the Radar at the Pub
Jan: Lucy McCormick’s Triple Threat at Under the Radar at the Pub
Jan: Back to Back Theater Company’s The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes at Under the Radar at the Public
Jan: The Hawtplates’ Waterboy and The Mighty World at Under the Radar
Jan: Feos at The Public in the Martinson at Under the Radar
Jan: Jess Thom’s Not I at BRIC at Under the Radar
Jan: Amir Niar Zuabi’s Grey Rock at the Public
Jan: Cindy Sherman Opera Workshop with pieces by Paola Prestine, Ellen Reed, Nico Muhly and Missy Mazzoli at National Sawdust
Jan: Maiko Kikuchi’s Daydream Tutorial at The Public in the Shiva
Jan – The Conversationalists by James and Jerome at Bushwick Starr
Jan: American Museum of Natural History: New Planetarium show, Butterflies, T-Rex
Feb: Dorothea Lange at MoMA
Feb - Met Museum: Sarahel / British Galleries
Feb – Skinfolk at Bushwick Starr
Feb – Vuyo Sotoshe and Rafiq Bhatia with Leah
Feb – Raphael Saadiq and Jamila Woods with Leah
Feb – Sxip Shirey at National Sawdust
Feb – Michael Mwenso and the Shakers at National Sawdust
Feb – Fatoumata Diawara at Town Hall
Feb – Vivian Justin Bond at Joe’s Pub
Feb – Kassa Overall and Bilal at Joe’s Pub
Feb – MICHA Music with Leah at Joe’s Pub
Feb – The Westerlies at Littlefield
Mar – William Parker’s Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield at Town Hall
Mar – Beginner’s Ear with Layale Chaker and Sarafand at Greene Space
Mar – Go: Organic Orchestra at Roulette
Mar – Metropolis with Metropolitan Ensemble Livescore at National Sawdust
Mar – Schmermie’s Choice: Becca Blackwell at Joe’s Pub
Mar – The Fre (Taylor Mac) at The Flea
September- Eiko Otake: A Body in the Graveyard at Green-Wood Cemetery
October - Harlem Chamber Players in Green-Wood Cemetery
Nov – A Thousand Ways (500 Highwaymen) by phone

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