May 13ths
Today's Songday is based on the 5/13/1977 Keith Haring journal entry, apparently when he was hitchhiking from Minnesota to North Dakota. "Took a bus to 1-94 and caught a few little rides and then a truck ride all the way to the border of N. Dakota where we ate three cheeseburgers and drank some beers. It was all farmers and when I went to the bathroom they all talked about my hair...Rednecks! Then we got a ride from a pilot who likes Bachman Turner Overdrive and then a truck ride into N. Dakota." Arranged for string quartet and became one of the Shortets: 5/13/2012 Duck Dunn died at 70 in Tokyo. 5/13/2015 Music in 2015 is where cubism was 100 years ago, ready to be redefined for better or for worse. Perhaps this type of rhythmic structure eluding the bar line is the perfect expression for life in the teens, as we may look back at it 100 years from now, which is how long it may take for music to completely change. [5/13/2025: AI music can’t be avant-garde (yet) or eve...
