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For years I have been taking pictures of newsstands. It is always surprising to see a wide array of newspapers and magazines on public display. Mostly because it is rare to see someone reading a newspaper in public. Go to a coffee shop or lunchroom, everyone is scrolling soundlessly across time zones and content through a smart phone or striking dumbly on a computer keyboard. Oh to hear all those electronics clacking like manual typewriters–all public spaces would sound like the old newsrooms.
I posted a few photos here and there. The idea was to do it daily while I traveled to places that actually had newsstands (the Citgo at the exit here in town is not even a half-way decent newsstand, they do sell a few papers, though). There is a great newsstand in Kalamazoo, Michigan News. Michigan News has been there forever–at least all my life. Kalamazoo is a forty-five minute drive from here, far too costly to make it more than a few times a month, if that. I made the drive a few days ago. The magazine shelves at Michigan News were a little less stocked than usual–usually you cannot see the shelving, the magazines are packed so tight, overlapping, one title on top of another title. Maybe the publications are between their Winter 2017/2018 and Spring 2018 issues, shelves culled of spoiled product? (A few boxes stacked beneath the candy counter up front as evidence?) I didn’t ask the clerk because I didn’t want to hear, ‘we are scaling back.’ This way I can keep it positive until I hear anything different.
Driving home, I thought: in what folder in which hard drive do I have those photos I took of newsstands? Naturally, I dumped them off my smart phone into a computer, to make room on my phone for a new app or a critical, often daily software update. The photos are old news.
This is from a Wawa or 7-Eleven or Dunkin’ Donuts near Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia. The rack depicted is twice the size of the newsstand at the Citgo by the exit here in town.
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JOHN SCOTT HOFFMAN AND THE LIGHT FANTASTIC – you are the sunshine of my life
JOHN COLTRANE – part 1 – acknowledgement
PARK JIHA – sounds heard from the moon
ANDY BEY – i know this love can’t be wrong
THE KEELHAULER’S – ob la de
THE BEATLES – if i fell
ART AND DODDY TODD WITH MEMBERS OF THE TOKYO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA – chanson d’amour
JUNE CHRISTY – the first thing you know, you’re in love
YVES SIMON – manuel
VIC DAMONE – eternally
LINDA THOMPSON – first light
HOUSE AND LAND – home over yonder
SHIRLEY COLLINS – bonnie boy
MATTI BYE – forest in the sea
PAUL SIMON – 50 ways to leave your lover
TINY TIM – my true love
PRINCE – 1000 xs & os
THE TIME – girl
RICK JAMES – mary jane
BARRY WHITE – i’ve got so much to give
CHARLIE BYRD – theme from “love story”
JUDY NAUTA – the days of wine and roses
SHOCKING BLUE – love buzz
…after the intro, no-talking for the first 80-some minutes–get out your yoga mats, or maybe micro-dose, or set your mind back to a restaurant setting circa 2008…
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RUSALNAIA – kindling
HOUSE AND LAND – home over yonder
SUFJAN STEVENS – tahquamenon falls
ELIOTT CARTER – allegro scorrevole–adagio from string quartet no. 1
TRIO ELḖTRICO – return of the coconut groove
KPT.MICH.IGAN – ” ” take tablets
CBS LABORATORIES – left-right sound identification
JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON – part 3 — ibm 1402 card read-punch
APPARAT – multifunktionsebene
D-BRIDGE – i know
ACTRESS – audio track 5 (-6 version)
FANTASTIC PLASTIC MACHINE – honolulu, calcutta
MONO ENZYME 307- excerpt from fear of light
THOMAS FEHLMANN – berliner luftikus
JAMES LAST – i hear you knocking
JJ CALE – everything will be alright
OSCAR HARRIS & THE TWINKLE STARS – twinkle stars boo galoo (live)
THE HAPPY DOLLS – pick up the pieces
THE DYNAMICS – please think it over
LONSKI & CLASSEN – i danced again
THE COUNTS – what’s up front that counts
THUNDERCLAP NEWMAN – something in the air
VERSUS – underground
HOSPITALITY – liberal arts
RICHARD DAVIES – sign up maybe for being
ULTIMATE PAINTING – not gonna burn myself anymore
SPISSY – nothing boy
GREG KIHN BAND – the breakup song (they don’t write ’em)
SPIDER BAGS – summer of ’79
SOFT WALLS – never come back again
THE FIRST EDITION – just dropped in (to see what condition my condition is in)
a bunch of m o o n songs thrown in to salute the super blue blood full 🌝 & a loooooong way to go to introduce the THINK song
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THE DEAD KENNEDYS – 🌕 over marin
NILS FRAHM – all melody
TOMITA – mercury
FLEETWOOD MAC – sisters of the 🌕
GRAND PARC – winter
ANTIETAM – breathe
ROBERT WYATT – slow walking talk
KEN NORDINE – my baby
CHAD & JEREMY – everyone’s gone to the 🌕
BISHOP ORCUTT CORSANO – parked chrysanthemums
TIGUE – quilts
COH – 🌕viewhigh
MIKE HANKINSON AND THE PUTNEY V.C.S.3 SYNTHESIZER – 🌕light sonata
THE STOOGES – down on the street
THE BONZO DOG BAND – tubas in the 🌕light
LAURA CANNELL – entrance to the vault
HARRY PARTCH – psalm 17
NEŞET ERTAŞ – öldüm yalvara yalvara
YO LA TENGO – you are here
JUANA MOLINA – rio seco
TINY RUINS – little did i know
THE KINKS – full 🌕
SIEGEL SCHWALL – song
THE ROLLING STONES – 🌕light mile
LEON RUSSELL – wild horses
THINK – once you understand
B-52s – there’s a 🌕 in the sky
BEAMERS & BROTHER’S HAWK – 🌕
PETER THOMAS SOUND ORCHESTRA – the hound of blackwood castle
a lot of talk near the two hour and twenty-five minute mark + update from stockton at the three hour and six minute mark
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NADA: tic toc
ELVIS COSTELLO – green shirt
DICK DIVER – seagulls
THEM – my lonely sad eyes
SALAD BOYS – under the bed
KA BAIRD – tok tru
THE ALAN LORBER ORCHESTRA – where
H.C. MCENTIRE – one great thunder
JUAN TORRES – sin ti
FRANCOIZ . BREUT – ma colores
AL GREEN – free at last
PETE ROCK – guitar
PETE ROCK – aretha
PRINCE – annie christian
PRINCE – something in the water
RONNIE LAWS – nothing to lose
KEITH SWEAT – right and a wrong way
KRAFTWERK – megaherz
XYLOURIS WHITE – only love
LEON RUSSELL – black sheep boogalou
SIEGEL-SCHWALL BAND – walk in my mind
WADADA LEO SMITH – monk and his five point ring at the five spot cafe
WADADA LEO SMITH – caravan of winter
COLLEEN – sun against my eyes
CAT POWER – names
PERFUME GENIUS – normal song
EYYUBI MUSTAFA SUNAR BEY – evç ara taksim
DEREK LILLYWHITE – cantina
RUTH WELCOME – smoke gets in your eyes
MILT BUCKNER – blue prelude
LISTEN:
FLEETWOOD MAC – i’m so afraid
FLEETWOOD MAC – spare me a little
HERON OBLIVION – beneath fields
CHARLES BOONE – shunt
DEVO – u got me bugged
FRED FRITH – what a dilemma
SQUIRM – come back to michigan
FAZERDAZE – take it slow
GEORGE FIELDS – say, i do
SAM GENDEL – ha
BENNIE CARTER – a kiss from you
THE ALAN LORBER ORCHESTRA – the look of love
JUAN TORRES – tomara algun tiempo
SANDY DENNY – no end
THE FALL – bill is dead
THE FALL – blindness
THE FALL – smile
EARTH, WIND & FIRE – imagination
EARTH, WIND & FIRE – the way of the world
THE ISLEY BROTHERS – midnight sky
NICK LUCAS – tiptoe through the tulips
LAL & MIKE WATERSON – winifer odd
YO LA TENGO – she may she might
YO LA TENGO – shades of blue
BYRON MAC GREGOR – americans
NEIL DIAMOND – you don’t bring me flowers (instrumental)
NEIL DIAMOND – solitary man
