November 15ths (It's A Rodeo)
11/15/1969
[4 months after the moon landing].
A Bowie interview:
"I was very pleased to see that `Space Oddity' went down well, I thought the audiences would miss the orchestral backing which was on the record."
[Perhaps back then fans didn't go to see a band sound like the record].
"I just want to sing to as many people as want to hear me, and I don't care where I do it. Mind you, I refuse to have my hair cut or change my appearance for anybody. I'm quite happy with the way I look, and people will have to accept me the way I am, or not bother at all."
[A testament to Bowie’s self-actualization as an artist].
11/15/2000
Thoughts on election predicament: Everything's old and outdated—too many things in America are so 18th century ...The thing that made this election different was the [identity politics]
11/15/2004
Once jazz became suffused in urban environments, it became elite and intellectual. It's now hard to deny that the intelligentsia is part of the fabric of America as a rodeo.
[This shifts the focus away from music as an "inside" element to an "outside element. I prefer the inside but it's interesting that you could operate creatively on a spectrum between inside and outside. But I'm wary because people tend to like the outside because it's easy to suss without effort or deep thinking or reflection].
11/15/2011
Gorgeous day, 70 degrees.Low-angle shadow, "Shadow Stack":
Police raid Zuccotti Park and evict protesters. The Occupy protests (loosely) share the same intensity as terrorist movements in the sense that the idea prevails. The war on terrorism may have seemed to be effective but has probably done nothing to the idea itself.
11/15/2016
"Ray", not because I know this stranger, but his face was aglow with the reflected light of a skyscraper on LaSalle Street. During the late fall and early winter, the angle of the sun is such that it reflects off of windows and becomes a kind of heliostat. I always wondered why cities didn't take advantage of this daylighting of dark city canyons.
11/15/2019, Friday
"Sheeleresque" (a la Charles Sheeler)
Audio Snapshot of this image:
11/15/2021
RIP Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (Mike). I still have my Flow book, and I've referenced it over the years in my writings....
11/15/2022
First snow. The dreariness returns...
11/15/2023
Almost summer-like, clear skies and fair, 65 degrees. It could be a day in May.
I want to resign from the Collective Unconscious. I used to say that TV infected it but now it's the Internet and Social Media.
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