October 13ths

 

A mashup of entries from 10/13/1996 and 10/13/1997, using the old songwriting trick of superimposing the chorus with a repeat of the one of the verses, in this case Victorian Flowers, a song I wrote with a lyricist friend in 1996. The chorus lyrics would also be cross-alternated.

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10/13/1997

John Denver dies in plane crash.

Interesting that Wong Kar Wai (Chungking Express) talks about American pop music as “noise” or “sound”. Pop music really is not about lyrical content. It’s all about feel and the sound around the sound. He chose California Dreamin’ because it reminded him of an orange juice commercial and the image that “orange” conveys. He also wants his films to move like what the song sounds like. (Portishead does this to me, where I actually “feel” the “black-and-whiteness” of the sound.)

10/13/2013

Sometimes the most banal urban photos can become”tableaux”—in this case five lives at a street corner:

 10/13/2019

Marquee Poetry/Lyric:

Hustlers abominable
Ad Astra Judy 
Downton Abbey joker