Modular Activities Program in Science

Modular Activities Program in Science (Houghton Mifflin, 1974)

THANK YOU for listening to Trish's tape!

September 28

Happy birthday Trish! Thinking of you. James put up a little birthday present at Future Crayon... repost below.

Let the balloons go outside!

Tülay

Hello Turkish record. I like this because it sounds like ESG or Rosa Yemen or some other downtown post punk. Lovely.

Boats, Beasts and Beauties

I'm so happy and excited for my friend Andrew Demetrius, who is curating an amazing exhibition on the English toymaker and sculptor Sam Smith. Smith was a visionary tinkerer who specialized in wooden boats, dolls, and moving automata, always signing his creations "Sam Smith, genuine England!" If you're up in Scotland there is an ongoing show at the Scottish Fisheries Museum, and, coming soon, a related exhibition of Smith's works on paper at the University of St. Andrews. The coup of the story is that on Nov. 2 Andrew will be interviewing the legendary Ron Geesin, who composed the soundtrack for this 1976 documentary about Smith. There will be a screening of the film and a banjo performance by Geesin himself. Aaaaarghhhh wish I could be there!!!

(images via sam-smith.org)

Who Killed Cock Robin?

Our friends Sam and Mabrouka sent us this Folkways record last week. So nice! I've been playing this song over and over.

Crisp and autumny today in Vermont... leaves still green but not for long! It's nice when you want to make an apple pie and you can go right to the local orchard to get the apples. The cider donut is our regional specialty. I was feeling gluttonous going back for seconds but as my wife says, "they're not getting any fresher."

James Broughton

There is a new documentary out called Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, directed by Stephen Silha and Eric Slade. Looks great! Broughton was a poet and filmmaker, the mischievous goat-god of the west coast, bard of the Radical Faeries. I really love his stuff. A cinema of eros is the best I can do to describe it, a life-long celebration of cavorting nudes and furry body parts, the earthy pleasures of art, sex, poetry, music, etc. This DVD is really great, and there are a few of his films up on youtube.

I put together some of my favorite music from his films here. If you like harpsichord and moog doodlings, micronesian flute and gamelan and conch shell tone poems then you might be into it. Lou Harrison is the key dude here -- some of his (unreleased?) fourth world-scapes sound like Dolphins into the Future or Spencer Clark.

Enjoy, and as Big Joy said, always 'follow your weird!'