Five Bullets 5.17.24
Chris Dave, Portal, Dark Matter & more
Good Morning & Happy Friday!
It’s a cloudy and cool morning here in New York City. I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying spring.
Earlier in the week I had a chance to check out one of my favorite drummers Chris Dave. It was my first time seeing Dave perform. I wrote about it earlier this week and included it in this week’s bullets.
If you’ve been following my ‘blog’ posts over the past few months, you’ll see that the topics range from history to science fiction to music. Lately I seem to be writing a lot about music. True to the Circles in Space ethos, I’m sure that my focus and interest will swing back to history or science fiction or something else entirely.
What are you interested in lately? Do you find that your interests follow any pattern? Perhaps the change of seasons sparks a new idea or a song you’ve heard several times before is only really connecting with you now at this moment.
Chris Dave at Blue Note
On Tuesday night Chris “Daddy” Dave performed two sets at Greenwich Village institution Blue Note with guitarist Charlie Hunter and DJ Rich Medina. The group’s set was a dynamic collection of genre-bending jams from Dave and Hunter interspersed with samples and scratches by Medina. Earlier this year Dave did sets with fellow D’Angelo alums
Bullets this week:
Music: Chris Dave - the “most dangerous drummer alive” - is at the Blue Note this week. I wrote about Tuesday’s set with guitarist Charlie Hunter and DJ Rich Medina.
Movies: Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis premiered at the Cannes Film Festival this week. The film stars Adam Driver as Cesar Catilina who plans to remake New Rome as a utopia following an apocalyptic event. Coppola, who has been working on the film since the late ‘70s, doesn’t have a distribution deal for a worldwide release yet but IMAX says it will show the film in late September.
NYC: Art installation Portal features a live video feed between New York City and Dublin, Ireland, and will reopen soon after some questionable behavior. All joking aside, the installation located at The Flatiron offers visitors a chance to interact with each other from across the globe in real time, 24/7. The founders of Portals said: “Portals were born from a feeling that we humans have more to share than what separates us; and from a sense that we are all interconnected on this planet of ours.”
Photography: Daniel Kramer passed away last month. After seeing Dylan’s moving performance on The Steve Allen Show, aspiring photographer Kramer relentlessly called Dylan’s manager’s office to try to setup a photo shoot with the musician. Kramer documented Dylan’s rise in 1965, photographing Dylan at performances, in the studio and at home, as well as the album covers for “Bringing It All Back Home” and “Highway 61 Revisited”.
TV: Apple TV’s series Dark Matter, based on the novel by Blake Crouch, explores the theory of parallel realities as Jason Desser tries to get back to his family after being forced into a parallel universe by another version of himself. So far the series is entertaining and engaging and I’m looking forward to seeing where it goes. The plot reminds me of Terry Miles’s Rabbits.
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