my name is mud... give me a drink

some music fromjohn cassavetes' - the killing of a chinese bookie - 1976classic drone seriessound, sound design, music in film my name is mud heavy to be one with the lady i love... what is that junk called?music/sound - bo harwoodsound mixer - robert (buzz) knudson

the man's contact man

peter yates - the friends of eddie coyle - 1973classic drone seriessound, sound design, music in film city sounds (boston), bar ambiencemusic - victor j. kempersound editor - ron kalish, richard p. cirincionesound recordist - richard ragusesound re-recordist - dick vorisek

forest notes

lumen * w/ 2 contributions by art of memory correspondent- trees as wind instruments in bresson’s mouchette- it is something invisible by matthew swiezynski

trains in cinema, part 6

train wreck at montparnasse - 1895- ben affleck - gone baby gone - 2007- tomas alfredson - let the right one it - 2008- carroll ballard - black stallion - 1979- john cassavetes - husbands - 1970- jack clayton - the innocents - 1961- john cromwell - since you went away - 1944- olivier dahan - la vie en rose - 2007- stephen daldry - the reader - 2008- david fincher - the curious case of benjamin

john cassavetes' husbands distilled into 23 blurs, streaks and abstractions(discovered while listening to toru takemitsu)

to a current's ear --

lucile hadzihalilovic - innocence - 2004sound from opening creditstitle - emily dickinson - i think that the root of wind is water

univers du western - lonely are the brave

david miller - lonely are the brave - 1962(landscape photography)kirk douglas - john w. "jack" burnswhiskeygena rowlands - jerry bondigeorge kennedy - deputy sheriff gutierrezwalter matthau - sheriff morey johnsoncarroll o'connor - hintonwilliam schallert - harrybill raisch - one arm(he was stand-in for burt lancaster)cinematography by philip h. lathrop *music by jerry goldsmith *screenplay by

by its own delicacy, caressed

more sluggish the snowy hive,clearer the window’s crystal,
on a chair, a turquoise veil,thrown there, carelessly, lies.

a tissue, self-intoxicated,as if it never felt winter’s
touch, experiencing summer’s,
by its own delicacy, caressed:

and, if in icy diamonds
frost is eternally streaming,
here — it’s dragonflies flickering,
blue-eyed, living, and gone.osip mandelshtam - the stone - translated

trees from michelangelo antonioni's il grido - 1957cinematography by gianni di venanzo

hope that the stars know

window please watch the sun gohope that the stars know it's time to shine.daydream - be born on dark wingslet every sky sing this song of mine.- townes van zandtbe here to love me: a film about townes van zandt - margaret brown - 2004

i wish to speak

music exists to say things that words cannot say...a refreshment for those who've run out of words.for lost childhood...to muffle the hammering of shoemakers.for the time before we were born,before we breathedor saw light...(which is why it is not entirely human)images & text - tous les matins du monde - alain corneau - 1991( for matthew )

follies (serene velocity)

softness and abstractions in the spirit of john cassavetesfrom frederick wiseman's titicut follies - 1967also surrounded bysamuel fuller, nicolas ray, bela tarr, hieronymus bosch, ernie gehr, robert altmanmany others........found here

from the oblique plucking of a string

opening sequence of peter jackson's heavenly creatures - 1994cinematography by alun bollinger(title from old man ponge)

the sounds of the sounds of the sounds of the sounds

twenty three recordings of reality by jean painlevé

floating in the air above out of which it has arisen

—oskar fischinger - wax experiments - 1923-1927—oskar fischinger - an optical poem - 1938—mary ellen bute - tarantella - 1940—annie besant & charles leadbetter - thought-forms - 1847-1933

bird with the shoe-button eyes

joseph cornell - cotillion - c. 1938cinematography - larry jordan"a room in third avenue"nostalgic thoughts most of dayworking in cellar on new bird boxoctober 3, 1949—in the quince tree petals making a medieval tapestry of the lawnresolution of mean mood in cellar, approaching the sublime "early morning" of monday and tuesday - birds under the quince tree in early summer shadows sun gradually

nothingness

untitled (plum and dark brown) - 1964your paintings are like my films. they are about nothing... with precisionmichelangelo antonioni to mark rothko, during a visit to rothko's studio in 1962, according to motherwell and peter selzsee temps mort: rothko and antonioni by jeffrey weissfound in mark rothko published by skira - 2008for the complete story

trains in cinema, part 5

- american mutoscope and biograph co - the blizzard - 1899- jon amiel - the singing detective - 1986- paul thomas anderson - there will be blood - 2007- michelangelo antonioni - l'avventura - 1960- busby berkeley - gold diggers of 1935 "lullaby of broadway" - 1935- curtis bernhardt - possessed - 1947- g.w. "billy" bitzer - interior new york subway 14th street to 42nd street - 1905- robert breer -

a sound of some new unknown life

why is it so unutterably beautiful? it is pure music, but for me it has so many implications, - hard to define - of course it is enigmatic, all great art has its secrets -; it has all the deep mysteries of the earth and its environs - for me, the agony of the old primitive earth stirring restlessly at the beginning of spring; something tremendous is going on in the earth, but i do not know

where love illuminates (and leaves materialism in remnants)

otar iosseliani, aprili (april), 1961lights illuminate, water pours, while footsteps amidst tables and chairs bewilder and confuse, musicians play, doors open and close, only to leave materialism in ruin, and return to one's love.