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Jun 16, 2023Liked by ETHAN IVERSON

1) I ran a still image from that video in September of last year, without noting the name of the show, or the dancer, and I certainly did not know the needle drop so thank you for reminding me there to …do the math. Seems like it borrows from “sorry to bother you” by Boots Riley.

2) see also Hanif abdurraqib, various, but especially about Soul Train and War “Ballero”;

3) local interest: Rabiah Kabir, flautist for Stanford’s Cien Mil Mangos, trying to engage the crowd May 5, 2023, at Stanford’s Tresiidder Union coffee house known as CoHo.

4) self-indulgent, lying to myself and strangers: I will use that line to close the last show I ever do. “The music experience is officially cancelled “

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Ok, I admit I only read the top half of this. Sonatine. Not sure what it is, but if we can get it on our media boxes, that solves my problem of what to show, what goes with Chinese food tonight. Incidentally, our guests are the widow and son of the mathematician Paul J. Cohen -- not the son who I sent to see your Bacharach thing in LA, the other one. They are twins. (We thought we were watching Stanford vs Wake Forest in besibura but that comes on tomorrow. )

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…more than the sumo of its parts

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I see you watched it. The play-acting sumo is hard to explain unless you see it first!!

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Eric Cohen, son of Paul J. Cohen, nixed the idea of watching it at the dinner party because it might upset Christina Karls Cohen, his mother. I waited and watched during the witching hours.

Did not understand the title until this morning, read the wiki.

Thinking of calling my new band — I’m a producer— Sonachine, which is the Hepburn version of Sonatine, plus one of the bandmembers is from “chi”. As I am.

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