Miles Davis (preference for electric) Pharoah Saunders Shabaka Wendy Eisenberg Flea Black String More Eaze Sofie Birch Josh Martin Ambrose Akinmusire Anastasia Coope Gregory Uhlmann Dagmar Zuniga William Tyler Astrid Sonne Blue Lake Okkyung Lee Chaz Knapp Sam Wilkes Sam Gendel (esp digi-squires, Doober) MF DOOM Mary Lattimore M. Sage Lia Kohl Charles “Poppy Bob” Walker Saapato Tortoise Lucrecia Dalt Six Organs of Admittance (esp For Octavio Paz despite what we know now, see Jazmina Barrera’s Queen of Swords) Cole Pulice (saw live at The Lab paired with Lynne Avery) Mason Lindhal Marisa Anderson Ann Annie Magic Tuber Stringband Bitchin Bajas Yasmin Williams Julianna Barwick Dolphin Hyperspace (saw live at SF JAZZ) Makaya McCraven (esp 2025 mixtapes) Theon Cross (esp Affirmations live) Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Max Roach Early Fern JJJJJerome Ellis Ken Pomeroy Kara-Lis Cloverdale Rhiannon Giddens Fieldwork Amina Claudine Myers Patricia Brennan Kris Davis Mary Lou Williams Jessica Williams Beila Pino Palladino Maria Somerville Trio of Bloom Emily A.
Having made the journey from the front yard to the back, beneath the weight of the second story where morning light was filling rooms, I was comfortable with the progress of our adolescent wildflowers. Then, between the backdoor and backfence, light filled me up. The poppies are stubbornly refusing to bloom. Mild flakes of disappointment crawled up my temples. For a moment I considered the preposterous notion of watering the Redwood Tree.
The guy in combat boots with adorned with a skull. He’s reading Love In the Time of Cholera, headphones crowning his head into a phone call. He’s got coffee.
Good morning A man came into the Zen center and dropped ashes on the Buddha.
One hundred and fifty years ago men put metal penises in the earth and started burning fuel in earnest, beginning to fill the atmosphere with ash.
There are other men, same same men, who claim “Buddha is everything.” They are very strong and will hit you if you say otherwise. How do you fix their minds?
Being around people Benching just outside the coffee shop Heads pointing down Talking Tap clink Passersby entering and exiting Entering and exiting is the point
The room was cold. The light a little caustic. Acoustics wan. From the back row I had to squirm to the side to see Kurzweil’s full face. Like 17 people there, maybe? Intimate, secret, and in on it. Rugged cool!
“Paper is pleasurable.”
“My life for a while was in pages.”
“My visual secret is that all my characters look like me.”
The bartender at Berreta is asking if I like bitterness and I answer yes. At this point I’m open to interpretation and open to interpretations. I get Cynar, a hefty portmanteau that smoothes out my technologies of resistance across the bar plane. An incubation space for monsters. To the right of my glass, an open challah bag is a gaping hole.
Can you eat here Can you get food here
I can get food here I will get food here
This place is too expensive for you
I will eat at this place
There is another food for you over there
“I didn’t realize what we had.”
He couldn’t see from the view, from within his stomach. His nerves are too high.
Well, brother, you work full-time; overtime, frequently, because it’s only a five-day work week. Your hands are full cutting a path through what the racists made today.
And brother, your Yeezies are barely scuffing the stacked monomers. Where did you come from? There are dicks the size of city blocks clouding your view.
“Racism is a visceral experience” - Coates
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“Including the body…towards social justice…is the primary path forward” - Blackwell
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“We focused our efforts in the wrong direction…white supremacy doesn’t live in our thinking brains…it lives and breathes in our body.” - Resmaa Menakem
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“The only path forward requires dismantling who we think we are.” - Blackwell
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“The body…says, this is true…this is happening…this is honest.” -Blackwell
“Few skills are more essential than the ability to settle your body.
Over morning coffee, mixed with used iron goddess king tea leaves. Questions about things in paper.
kopi pagi tambah daun teh raja dewi besi
Why ya why ya why ya why ya why ya wanna why ya wanna
Some people just have acres of arable land lying around to play with Why didn’t Lauren work with her family to give this land back to indigenous tribes? In 2022 tribes finally won 7 acres back after 200 years.