September 21sts

9/21/1998

Reading Umberto Eco essay on analysis of the cult status of Casablanca. He said the movie was an aggregation of lots of different elements—a movie made of other movies.            

[This is intertextuality–what LLMs now are. If we used LLMs exclusively, everything would be derived from something else, not arising from ideas that humans have. But even then, many ideas have already been thought of. Google resolved that 25 years ago, where you could look up something to see if it had already been done.]             

 9/21/2009

Went to performance of Turkish military ensemble at Millennium Park. I don’t know why but I have an affinity for Turkish folk song and Taqsim—almost a form of jazz riffing, but at the same time ritualistic and devotional.

On Van Buren at Wells, there’s this seedy tavern (Cal’s), and in one of the windows they made this strange “shrine” with a broken guitar and a Sinatra record.  

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Shrine (9/21/2009 photo) Music: "Road Heat" (a slowed-down slide guitar), other audio: a Turkish military ensemble recorded at Millennium Park in Chicago on 9/21/2009, a binaural field recording taken on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago in the summer of 2010. Embedded video: "Language of the Wood"

Today’s Songday: Cult Status of Casablanca (9/21/1998), which uses a mirror rhythm that is played backward in the second bar as if held up to a mirror.  

Cult Status of Casablanca - Lee Barry (9/21/1998) by meta4s