TRUG LIFE

Away In Virginia, I See a Mustard Field And Think Of You

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:43:29 -0500

Because the blue hills are like the shoulder and slopes of your back as you sleep. Often I slip a hand under your body to anchor myself to this earth. The yellow mustard rises from a waving sea of green.

I think of us driving narrow roads in France, under a tunnel of sycamores, my hair blowing in the hot wind, opera washing out of the radio, loud. We are feeding each other cherries from a white paper sack.

And then we return to everyday life, where we fall into bed exhausted, fall asleep while still reading, forget the solid planes of the body in the country of dreams. I miss your underwear, soft from a thousand washings, the socks you still wear from a store out of business thirty years. I love to smell your sweat after mowing grass or hauling wood; I miss the weight on your side of the bed.

by Barbara Crooker

This is just a great song title. #np

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 13:54:41 -0500

This is just a great song title. #np

ihititwithmyaxe: Science!, simplified.

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 21:15:56 -0500

ihititwithmyaxe:

Science!, simplified.

nprmusic: On this week’s All Songs Considered, preview some of...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:00:39 -0500

nprmusic:

On this week’s All Songs Considered, preview some of the records we’re most looking forward to in 2013. Hear new music from Low, fierce world rhythms from Red Baraat, a traditional latin love song from Ileana Cabra, a marriage of hip-hop and new jazz from Jose James, trippy electronica from FaltyDL, rapper Earl Sweatshirt and more.

theparisreview: All but overwhelmed byyour sudden appearance,...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:20:23 -0500

theparisreview:

All but overwhelmed by
your sudden appearance, I

Forgive me, it was
only the moon, but now

Your shadow has the quality
of substitution I seek

A nameless presence
requested down below

My state room lies
in wait, my fine-tuned hour

The ocean roils,
and later by the bow

Jack of hearts, jack of hearts,
where are you leading me now?

—Melanie Rehak, from “Lines to Seduce a Stranger an Hour Before the Ship Sails”
Photography Credit Michael Wolf

rollingstone: From Bob Dylan’s ‘Tempest’ to Frank Ocean’s...

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 12:25:04 -0500

rollingstone:

From Bob Dylan’s ‘Tempest’ to Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel Orange,’ Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ to Beach House’s ‘Bloom,’ see which albums landed on our list of the 50 best albums of 2012.

throughkaleidscopeeyes: Erykah Badu (right) at nine years, with...

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 16:30:08 -0500

throughkaleidscopeeyes:

Erykah Badu (right) at nine years, with her sister Nayrok, six, in Dallas in 1980. Photo from Texas Monthly.

this is by far the cutest childhood photo

"I’m thinking too of a piece like ‘Composition 76 (For Trio)’, which Braxton describes as ‘a static..."

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 10:15:57 -0500

“

I’m thinking too of a piece like ‘Composition 76 (For Trio)’, which Braxton describes as ‘a static sound space’, where there is no forward linear movement at all and the music is like a necklace of moments caught at the point of coming-into-being; this is a non-Western concept of time, more like the timelessness of meditation.

Like meditation, it may not be immediately accessible or effective: you have to learn the discipline of attunement, of finding how to listen, how to be in that moment and that time; the practice of humility.

”

- Graham Lock in ‘Forces in Motion: The Music and Thoughts of Anthony Braxton’

#trackoftheevening

Sun, 23 Dec 2012 21:15:13 -0500

#trackoftheevening

Mumford And Sons Can't Believe They All Got Each Other Mandolins For Christmas

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:00:25 -0500

Mumford And Sons Can't Believe They All Got Each Other Mandolins For Christmas

theparisreview: “After a month of hard listening, John Coltrane...

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:00:54 -0500

theparisreview:

“After a month of hard listening, John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman has become my own kind of internal soundtrack. I whistle these ballads as I walk down the street, but mess up their difficult melodies. I try to sing them, but can’t really, not the way I’ve heard them. So I put on my headphones and play the record again and furrow my brow as I marvel at its mysterious beauty.”

Read more of Matthew Kassel’s reflection on the 1963 jazz album here.

#trackoftheday

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:53:55 -0500

#trackoftheday

Here’s a quick primer on my all-time favorite trumpeter,...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 22:06:53 -0500

Here’s a quick primer on my all-time favorite trumpeter, Lee Morgan. Including my favorite tracks. Enjoy! @fighto

epsteinian: Irma Duncan dancing in a gardenphotograph, no...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:20:10 -0500

epsteinian:

Irma Duncan dancing in a garden
photograph, no credit given.

nevver: Calvin and Hobbes

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 10:40:29 -0500

nevver:

Calvin and Hobbes

Photo

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:41:35 -0500

homemade hanukiah!

Sun, 09 Dec 2012 23:04:16 -0500

homemade hanukiah!

#raykurzweil (at Coolidge Corner Theatre)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:35:38 -0500

#raykurzweil (at Coolidge Corner Theatre)

Ray Kurzweil lecture (at Coolidge Corner Theatre)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:33:42 -0500

Ray Kurzweil lecture (at Coolidge Corner Theatre)

Tue, 04 Dec 2012 18:32:07 -0500

Ray Kurzweil lecture (at Coolidge Corner Theatre)