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Over at the New York Review of Books Seth Colter Walls celebrates Sun Ra.

[Guy Le Querrec/Magnum Photos]

Dodgers look to stay alive. They host the Cards tonight in Los Angeles.

Let’s Go Base-Ball.

[Photo Via: The Minimalisto]

Whoop.

[Photo Credit: Kelly Burgess]

From Letters of Note enjoy this letter that sound engineer Steve Albini sent to Nirvana in 1993:

Most contemporary engineers and producers see a record as a “project,” and the band as only one element of the project. Further, they consider the recordings to be a controlled layering of specific sounds, each of which is under complete control from the moment the note is conceived through the final six. If the band gets pushed around in the process of making a record, so be it; as long as the “project” meets with the approval of the fellow in control.

My approach is exactly the opposite.

I consider the band the most important thing, as the creative entity that spawned both the band’s personality and style and as the social entity that exists 24 hours out of each day. I do not consider it my place to tell you what to do or how to play. I’m quite willing to let my opinions be heard (if I think the band is making beautiful progress or a heaving mistake, I consider it part of my job to tell them) but if the band decides to pursue something, I’ll see that it gets done.

I like to leave room for accidents or chaos. Making a seamless record, where every note and syllable is in place and every bass drum is identical, is no trick. Any idiot with the patience and the budget to allow such foolishness can do it. I prefer to work on records that aspire to greater things, like originality, personality and enthusiasm. If every element of the music and dynamics of a band is controlled by click tracks, computers, automated mixes, gates, samplers and sequencers, then the record may not be incompetent, but it certainly won’t be exceptional. It will also bear very little relationship to the live band, which is what all this hooey is supposed to be about.

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Back to basics. Alexandra makes an apple pie.

Vittorio Storaro talks about the art of cinematography.

Sad Girl NYC Subway via All Nerd Everything.

Tough loss for the Tigers. They had the Sox where they wanted them. They were poised to take a 2-0 lead. But they failed.

A split on the road is good. Verlander in Game 3 is good. Losing last night: rough.

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Let’s Go Ti-Gers!

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Alabama–John Coltrane

[Photo Credit: Lisa Wilson]

Couple of games today–we’ll be rooting for the visitors in both.

Let’s Go Base-ball!

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Naughty Rita–Fletcher, Beatles mash-up by Ill Chemist

[Photo Credit: Frank Horvat]

Game 1 of the NLCS. Dodgers vs. the Cards.

Let’s Go Base-ball!

[Photo Credit: Nick Gerber]

Oh So Pretty…

Comes news that Sachin Tendulkar is retiring. 

Here’s more from Time.

[Photo Credit: Sumit Dayal]

The book is out.

Woody Allen movie posters. 

Oh, man. This looks damn good. I’m trying it.

“Calder exhibit at the Guggenheim” by John Swope (1964)

FourFingerWu gives us Walker Evans.