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Walden Pond / A Frog Jumps In / Plop!

barrett caulk — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:16:08 -0800

Given recent economic woes, in conjunction with ecological, national security, and community issues regarding food production, does Japan have an interesting idea? Of course, certain contingents likely will be suspicious of such a plan in the States . . . . Bonus, almost completely unrelated, link to thirty translations of the Basho haiku that I copped my title from.

Turtle sex, chiropractic death, and peyote under the pillow: a year-by-year account of American primitive guitar

y2karl — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 19:32:48 -0800

...Record collectors are typically thought of as irascible loners, but in the Washington of the ’50s and early ’60s, there existed a group of scruffy young blues and folk fans who could’ve given the Illuminati a run for their all-seeing eyes. They thought of themselves as the guardians of a tradition the rest of the world had either forgotten or misinterpreted. They adopted fake names. They invented strange mythologies. They hatched plans to bring their favorite historical figures back from the dead--or at least back from the commercial oblivion to which the music biz had consigned them. But most of all, they inspired admiration and awe. Though they never used the term themselves, this bunch of vintage-78 obsessives was known by others as the East Coast Blues Mafia.

The Thong Club
via FaheyGuitarPlayers

Basho's Oku-no-hosomichi

chymes — Sun, 07 Dec 2003 19:32:54 -0800

Basho: Many old places brought down to us through poetry, but landslides and floods have altered paths and covered markers with earth, and trees arisen generations gone, and hard to locate anything now, but that moment seeing the thousand-year-old monument brought back sense of time past. One blessing of such pilgrimage, one joy of having come through, aches of the journey forgotten, shaken, into eyes. - Cid Corman's tr. of Basho's Oku no Hosomichi. 4 translations online.