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Blue and Sentimental [by Ira Sadoff]
Last day of blogging and “I’m sweating a lot by now” which is a line from O’Hara’s tribute to Billie Holiday and arguably the best elegy about jazz ever written (“The Day Lady Died”).…
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Frank O’Hara and James Carter: Jouissance by Ira Sadoff
Frank O’Hara, in his mockifesto “On Personism,” writes “I don’t believe in god, so I don’t have to make elaborately sounded structures. I hate Vachel Lindsay, always have; I don’t even like rhythm, assonance,…
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This Just In . . . Bill Hayward in Psychology Tomorrow Magazine Issue 2
Rob Sedgwick (c) Bill Hayward 2012 We're always thrilled when filmaker/photographer Bill Hayward lets us know about recent work. If you follow this link you will find his "Portrait of the Collaborative Self" of…
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On George Gershwin’s Birthday
"Brother, if you can't paint [or write, or sing] in Paris, you'd better give up and marry the boss's daughter."
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DE-FAMILIARIZING THE FAMILIAR by Ira Sadoff
The lyrics of two of my favorite jazz standards, “My Favorite Things” and “Tea for Two,” are cheesy, insipid, even infantile bourgeois fantasies; the original vocals seem to me to be sung in that…
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Happy Punctuation Day!
Punctuation is fun!! Do you have a favorite punctuation mark? Maybe you are partial to the serial comma, which can cause problems when omitted and inspired these Columbia University undergraduates to write this song:.…
