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danjohnson

watermore

About Me

chillin

My Interests

mandolins

I'd like to meet:

ornette coleman

Music:

jazz

Movies:

the man who knew too much

Television:

snl is dubious this season

Books:

stone butch blues: do yourself a favor

Heroes:

legislators and lobbyists

My Blog

bert versus ernie: submit

this animal farm minimal family are more it's not m it's k but g go out out and out history is recently it's century rent eternity enter to grow in wisdom a memory where friendship is all illness i...
Posted by danjohnson on Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:41:00 PST

Liberate This You Democrat

In a baseball game liberation comes from running around the bases and arriving safely at home without becoming "out." In the ghetto liberation comes from getting out of the ghetto. At least that's wh...
Posted by danjohnson on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:09:00 PST

p.s. this is america w.b.

                     Lately I feel I am crazy when I write. I am ambivalent about the source of the disea...
Posted by danjohnson on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:34:00 PST

this word art which stink

murmuring poets. I am a writer. I was a writer. I was a writer. When I lived on the bus line I had a bus pass. There was a man there who caught the bus. That is a poem. Or a poet. There is a poet who ...
Posted by danjohnson on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:34:00 PST

what a statue

Streets. Houses. Buildings. In this weird little aquarium it is impossible to think about Albany. Facts. Numbers. Zip codes. Hardly anybody knows Albany anyways. I grew up here and I don't know Alba...
Posted by danjohnson on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 03:10:00 PST

Preston and Them: Solo Piece

Solo Piece Sound texture: behind / underwater / windy / huge and dark. Winter in Buffalo. A train in the tunnel. But why the trash can. Rolling on the street curb. SPACEGHOST! Buffalo. Emerging from t...
Posted by danjohnson on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:43:00 PST

Elvis Costello Opens for Dylan in Albany

Elvis Runs out waving arms And jumps on it Like a champ "Angels want to wear" Tasteful light in green red green "Down in the blue chair" Black suit What's important here? What do all these People thi...
Posted by danjohnson on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 04:18:00 PST

Preston and the Akashics Pt. II: Bone Appetit!

When I was a young man and I would smoke some marijuana and I'd go to a jam session And play jazz the only thing I needed to know was the changes One of the things I noticed in my entire history of pl...
Posted by danjohnson on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 05:47:00 PST

Don Preston et le Akashic Ensemble at SUNYA, Part I

This is going to be a talk about my Personal experiences composing music A lot of people want to know about Frank Zappa And how he taught and composed music He used every method in the book and a lot...
Posted by danjohnson on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:15:00 PST

McLaughlin and 4th Dimension at the Egg, and Stan

track from somewhere silent way or live evil mark mondesir drums hadrian feraud bass gary husband synths midi and drums counteractivity of chordal elements is this harmony or expanses which fold into ...
Posted by danjohnson on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:04:00 PST