The Eastside View

travel, eating, reading, theater, music; occasional political remarks

Thursday, February 15, 2018

Steak and potatoes

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S T. V ALENTINE has come and gone, bringing Ash Wednesday with him — a curious and perhaps ominous conjunction that I don't recall ev...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018

’Pataphysical Mechanisms

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Charlotte Posenenske: Series D Square Tubes Photo: Johnna Arnold Mechanisms on view at The Wattis Institute through Feb. 24, 201...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Ideal geometry

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l-r: East-West (diptych), 48 × 88 in, 1968; Sunstrut , 108 × 48 in, 1981; San Francisco Spring (Sweet Rain) , 108 × 114 in, 1974 As in...
Monday, December 11, 2017

A TOUR OF NETHERLANDS AND ITALY: 1

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A TOUR OF NETHERLANDS AND ITALY October-November 2017 Prinseneiland I: Amsterdam 1: Arrival; October 27, 2017 We landed at Schip...
Saturday, November 18, 2017

Small Concerto for piano and orchestra (1964)

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(reposted, with edits, from January 28, 2010) T HE EARLIEST PIECES of mine that I still like to think of, Three Pieces for Piano , were ...
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Thursday, October 26, 2017

Pasadena Theater

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In flight, October 26, 2017— Dickens, adapted by Mike Poulton: A Tale of Two Cities , directed by Geoff Elliott & Julia Rodriguez-E...
Thursday, October 05, 2017

Tradition and the avant garde, as seen in 1968

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Eastside Road, October 5, 2017— j UST FOR FUN , and because I've just run across it, a transcription made by I know not who of remarks...
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Monday, September 25, 2017

Manifesto, 1966

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F ROM SOME TIME in 1966, this rather breathless and no doubt far too dense summary of what I had then come to believe: The important thin...
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Monday, September 11, 2017

Doggerel written while driving north

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Highway 101, September 11, 2017— S OMETIMES WHILE DRIVING or riding on these car trips silly verse jumps into my mind: 1. An ant is on...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Back to the desk

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Eastside Road, August 27, 2017— Ali A. Rizvi: The Atheist Muslim: A Journey from Religion to Reason New York: St. Martin's Press, 20...
Friday, August 18, 2017

from Calls and Singing, for chamber orchestra

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1968: from Calls and Singing Note beginning the pocket calendar for 1968:   and, later in the calendar, do string orchestra piece on E, ...
Monday, August 14, 2017

Getting on with the memoir

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A   FEW READERS have responded to the previous post, offering a draft version of the first section of a new memoir, with comments and in s...
Saturday, August 05, 2017

memoir

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I HAVE BEEN BUSY writing further in my memoir — "further," because I've already published a volume covering my first thirty ...
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Sunday, June 25, 2017

New book from Rome: Where to Dig, and How Far Down

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Portland, June 25, 2017— P UBLISHED , HERE AT peripatetic Ear Press: Where to Dig, and How Far Down , an 80-page paperbound book containi...
Thursday, June 22, 2017

Más poesía

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Portland, Oregon, June 22, 2017— A FRIEND WROTE of this photo, which I don't particularly like, that it made me look like a Latin-Am...
Tuesday, June 13, 2017

EIGHTS AND TWOS FOR LINDSEY ON HER 82d

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Eastside Road, June 10, 2017— which fell in fact on the seventh Great day! Though the days grow short: busy suns       rise, set ...
Friday, June 09, 2017

Cats

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Eastside Road, June 9, 2017— Thomas McNamee: The Inner Life of Cats New York: Hachette, 2017 pp. 278      read 6/5/17 Carl Van Vech...
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Sunday, June 04, 2017

Book not written

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Eastside Road, June 4, 2017— I N  M ARCH , 1970, I thought about writing a book, whose chapters would be 1: 31 for Henry Flynt 2: Bottle...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Light Reading; Close Reading

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Eastside Road, May 30, 2017— Jean Rhys: Sleep It Off, Lady New York: Harper and Row, 1976 ISBN 0-06-13572-7 pp. 176      read 5/27/17 ...
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