Showing posts with label Michael Ondaatje. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michael Ondaatje. Show all posts

Thursday, September 3, 2009

Billy the Kid

Featured Michael Ondaatje's Collected Works of Billy the Kid, a documentary poetic recreation of the Billy the Kid mythology, and bpNichol's The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid, a fanciful phallic destruction of the myth. These texts were read side-by-side, for the most part accompanied by John Zorn's The Big Gundown, featuring his renditions of Ennio Morricone's movie themes.

Part 1
1. Poverty (Once Upon a Time in America) - John Zorn
2. Take the "A" Train - Duke Ellington & His World Famous Orchestra
3. Three Steps Backward - New Town Animals
4. Naval Aviation in Art? - Frank Zappa
5. Letter from an Occupant - The New Pornographers
6. Giu Ba Festa (Duck You Sucker!) - John Zorn
7. Two-By-Four-And-A-Half - Thee Skabling
8. 125th Street Prophet - Woody Herman & His Orchestra
9. Just in Case You Wonder - The Ugly Ducklings

Part 2
1. Traffic Jam - Artie Shaw & His Orchestra
2. Gaslight - The Ugly Ducklings
3. Peur Sur Ba Ville - John Zorn
4. I Wish You Would - The Ugly Ducklings
5. Swingin' At the Met - Les Brown & His Band of Renown
6. Once Upon a Time In the West - John Zorn
7. Furnace Room Lullaby - Neko Case & Her Boyfriends
8. My Little Red Book - The Ugly Ducklings