tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56726919107014769652024-02-23T19:06:20.049-05:00Irwin ChusidDidn't get the second memo?<br>
It said disregard the first memo.Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.comBlogger87125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-57837007347281713302024-02-23T18:44:00.006-05:002024-02-23T19:05:46.817-05:00Mossy Mountain Trees<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrsRzpmCmGX7kmJVgdSIgmjrNO8C-c8fh3cx_YORSFUcm0Rm_8kmSOKkHCiWVf3CYQqyTZ94kobfZ9JgyISDDJjHdtURa6ljAMBJ1feWOIrNJEcwBH4O3iuASRhnoKLQukdmi6BZ0oCvAZKC7KwACLVTIh3xRD-kLg6Pyx9hoYPXnmvvT71AvJkMJXNg/s1440/park%20hike%20greenery%20CA.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="320" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="1440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrsRzpmCmGX7kmJVgdSIgmjrNO8C-c8fh3cx_YORSFUcm0Rm_8kmSOKkHCiWVf3CYQqyTZ94kobfZ9JgyISDDJjHdtURa6ljAMBJ1feWOIrNJEcwBH4O3iuASRhnoKLQukdmi6BZ0oCvAZKC7KwACLVTIh3xRD-kLg6Pyx9hoYPXnmvvT71AvJkMJXNg/s320/park%20hike%20greenery%20CA.jpg"/></a></div>Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-91332279956488569352023-08-27T16:04:00.003-04:002023-08-27T16:06:54.926-04:00Fixer Upper<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXczPhL-U_USOniLqMn_acb2SKXTkecW3MDJsIpidJpQorCKtzfdALWWyr0vm99ISm6O9YBN2-m88vDi30-pHFN-2duuhwF9Tzy4yqxih6_5i724alfCHJUr5JV01msuSkZvcsMfZ75Az4rDJ--zITg-5WBaE-nkBqts-Chw9P0Br5hFf5H0WmGDJYBZs/s2048/fixer%20upper%202.1.2.1.jpg" style="display: block; 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"><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1512" data-original-width="2016" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigYfJ-TafthoALomMxPIBo1mRVwOOGnZC6KuwXDfnUegpaJ3qJ9YcCOV9-vUItI3CbiRNoFKgv6Eqi6NJwz9gbUJcDGu9RnG8sfb3lBtRczBJqT5NGNPD0qz--vy6fmOBxCsSqOkQ-bcfrW-EAO-WPopgXPyKzaop4zhvS8mQNU1der_to4LeOTV-V/s400/working%20farm.jpg"/></a></div>Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-1955301606415161932018-06-02T22:52:00.002-04:002018-06-02T22:58:51.739-04:00Sadie Steinberg (1920-2018)<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Field Guide</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>by Lisa Hirschfield<br />
for her grandmother Sadie</i></span></div>
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Our morning walks</div>
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through cool chaparral</div>
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salt air and wild sage</div>
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trying and often failing</div>
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to memorize </div>
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the accurate flash </div>
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of color</div>
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until I could get home </div>
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and open the book you gave me </div>
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Golden-crowned sparrow </div>
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house finch</div>
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Oregon junco</div>
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not to be confused </div>
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with the rufous-sided towhee</div>
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All unexotic</div>
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but I wanted to know their names</div>
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their songs</div>
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their seasons</div>
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their other homes</div>
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Unlike learning to press wildflowers</div>
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watching your hands</div>
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gently arranging</div>
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larkspur</div>
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sand aster</div>
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cranesbill</div>
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and the illicit orange </div>
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of the California poppy </div>
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We interred them between volumes </div>
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of the World Book Encyclopedia </div>
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1955</div>
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For days I imagined pages </div>
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of bright fields</div>
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But there was no place </div>
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in my world yet</div>
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for faded things forced</div>
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into the wrong dimension</div>
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Though I must have saved them somewhere</div>
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because I never could throw anything away</div>
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because back then </div>
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everything had a face</div>
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Now I am only sure of your body</div>
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so delicate it takes</div>
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four men to lift</div>
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so you can lie in the garden </div>
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warming </div>
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maybe feel the breeze</div>
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brush your paper skin</div>
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I imagine myself descending </div>
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like you into these flowers </div>
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you once named cosmos</div>
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but then my body buoyed </div>
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by this invisible sea </div>
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of sound and light </div>
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How will you recede </div>
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to that single point in the dark</div>
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When I was ten </div>
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you told me </div>
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once you hear a meadowlark</div>
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you can never forget it</div>
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<br />Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-5008892736878201422018-04-25T06:24:00.000-04:002018-04-25T06:24:19.293-04:00Wood Bull Barn Window<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8qzxdTqQ5ne1aAuIbAZzju749VbyexPUnSqK3SMnUFH9C8JsrgincXu_F4vmTMIJh8ZhxHl8qPxlLoUvr1NcS7J6sqVIlN5T2UPcT2KrJlLZKWB8KhB_84e4SvqyV7nt36FQAegAMnc/s1600/Wood+Bull+Barn+window-72.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH8qzxdTqQ5ne1aAuIbAZzju749VbyexPUnSqK3SMnUFH9C8JsrgincXu_F4vmTMIJh8ZhxHl8qPxlLoUvr1NcS7J6sqVIlN5T2UPcT2KrJlLZKWB8KhB_84e4SvqyV7nt36FQAegAMnc/s400/Wood+Bull+Barn+window-72.jpg" width="400" height="366" data-original-width="864" data-original-height="790" /></a></div><br />Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-86890473426216035222018-04-24T11:13:00.000-04:002018-05-02T00:42:13.234-04:00Sawblade instructions<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-87044220966220015272018-04-23T07:25:00.001-04:002018-04-24T11:11:39.384-04:00Sunbaked barn<br />
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<br />Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-35637448096202038762017-10-23T07:27:00.000-04:002018-04-23T07:29:26.114-04:00Oldwick rustic scene<br><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-22025939500876626602017-07-29T13:52:00.001-04:002017-07-29T13:55:33.869-04:00Reclaiming Sun Ra's Legacy<br />
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An excellent story by my friend <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Knipfel" target="_blank">Jim Knipfel</a></b> about Sun Ra's posthumous legacy, posted at <a href="https://logger.believermag.com/post/angels-and-demons-at-play" target="_blank"><i><b>The Believer</b></i></a>. The article discusses at length the work I've been doing since late 2013 administering and sorting out Ra's convoluted catalog and rights conflicts on behalf of Sun Ra LLC, the heirs of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ra" target="_blank">Herman Poole Blount</a>. Pictured above: administrator and his "boss," Thomas Jenkins, Jr. (a.k.a. "Capt. T"), son of Ra's older sister Mary and patriarch of the family. Photo snapped Nov. 22, 2014, outside the Jenkins home in Powder Springs, Georgia.<br />
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"Thomas—a man I love and admire for his diligence, humor, and strength of character—explained to me the parade of unscrupulous characters who, after Ra's departure, emerged from the shadows to assert rights without lawful claims. Jenkins provided conclusive, documented proof of chain-of-title on Ra's rights for Sun Ra LLC, as well as a chronicle of dubious, and in some cases provably fraudulent, claims by those who felt entitled to a financial stake in Sunny's artistic legacy. And when I say financial stake, I should add, such as it was. Ra died impoverished, and owed the IRS—are you ready?—$146,799.95." </blockquote>
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Chusid admits he had no idea what he was getting himself into when he agreed to step inside Sun Ra’s universe to try and sort a few things out. “I did it to help Michael [D. Anderson], because he asked,” he says in retrospect. “I did not comprehend the scope of the task ahead and had no idea where it would lead. To be honest, I foresaw a tremendous expenditure of time and labor without any prospect of making it profitable. Just about every project I've developed—Raymond Scott, Esquivel, Jim Flora, Langley Schools, Shooby Taylor, outsider music—started as a labor of love, a challenge, something that intrigued me, and that was grounded on a unique artistic legacy that appealed to me. It was that way with Sun Ra. He's one of the great, unsung musical geniuses of the 20th century—easily dismissed as a crackpot or a charlatan by those who barely know his music. And if all you know is 'Space is the Place,' you don't know his music."</blockquote>
Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-42915809018514041002016-08-27T20:22:00.001-04:002017-07-29T13:55:55.151-04:00Shooby at Nola Sound, 1975<br />
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<br />Irwin Chusidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15226232494945112888noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5672691910701476965.post-10976411739648173972015-12-01T11:12:00.001-05:002022-05-21T11:45:10.876-04:00One Space Cat<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>One Space Cat</b> consists of recordings I made with <b>R. Stevie Moore</b> in 2008-2009. I sang and played drums and percussion. The lovely <b>Amy Annelle</b> duets on "Sin City" and <b>Lane Steinberg</b> plays all but drums and sings backing vox on "You Never Know." The album could have been called <i>I Can't Sing, But I Sang</i> (apologies to Florence Foster Jenkins). These tracks, released in December 2015 without fanfare, are not a resume item, but were fun to record. I love these songs, and it was an honor to perform them. They're available in <b>iTunes</b> and elsewhere, but you can have them for free. <b><a href="https://ln5.sync.com/dl/2dc66d660/iimxgrgz-pfrwrkgr-3h5xtyfq-w84bfnr8" target="_blank">Download here</a></b>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cover art is an acrylic painting by an unknown artist, found in a Frenchtown NJ antique shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Best of Both Worlds" - <b>Miley Cyrus</b> (as Hannah Montana; comp. by Matthew Gerrard and Robbie Nevil)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Cinnamon Girl" - <b>Neil Young</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Sin City" - <b>Flying Burrito Brothers</b> (comp. Gram Parsons and Chris Hillman)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Since K Got Over Me" - <b>The Clientele</b> (comp. Alasdair MacLean)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"You Never Know" - <b>Wilco</b> (comp. Jeff Tweedy)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I Want You in My Life" - <b>R. Stevie Moore</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"I'm From New Jersey" - <b>John Gorka</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Instrumental versions are included if you're inclined to record your own vocal.</span></div>
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