Mike Jurkovic Poop 2024


pOOp shite twenty twenty four

If you awoke fragile today steer clear    I’m standing on the dry line gathering steam    And may say things I don’t mean or purport to have written     Hitch my ride to the pity parade     and parrot its opiate shuffle    Barely disguise my disgust for the words you choose to screed your codex    Your rabid unholy verse     Your clown’s redress and how it persuades your querulous legion to shoot me on sight    Your sucker theorems historical record     Your crap orange portrait alongside FDR his cousin     Lincoln and the black guy you’ve demeaned deplored     You piece of shit     You rat’s ass     You hellbent blind soldier at war against science     At war against ourselves in which no house     stands     Not even the gold engraved ones     No not even the gold engraved

the jazz of twenty twenty four

Vijay Iyer – Compassion
Kris Davis – Run the Gauntlet
Patricia Brennan – Breaking Stretch
Joni Mitchell – Archives Volume 4
Mary Halvorson – Cloudward
Nduduzo Makhathini- uNomkhubulwane
Charles Lloyd – The Sky Will Be There Tomorrow
Wayne Shorter – Celebration, Volume 1
David Murray Quartet – Francesca
Lakecia Benjamin – Phoenix ReImagined (live)
The Bad Plus – Complex Emotions
McCoy Tyner / Joe Henderson – Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs
Micah Thomas – Mountains
Melissa Aldana – Echoes of the Inner Prophet
Matthieu Bordenave – The Blue Land
John Surman – Words Unspoken
Cannonball Adderley – Burnin’ in Bordeaux: Live in France 1969
Cannonball Adderley – Poppin’ In Paris: Live at the Olympia 1972
Ivo Perelman – Truth Seeker
Marilyn Crispell & Harvey Sorgen – Forest
Oscar Peterson – City Lights: The Oscar Peterson Quartet—Live in Munich, 1994
Joe Fonda – Eyes on the Horizon
Keith Jarrett, Paul Motion, Gary Peacock – The Old Country
Julie Sassoon – Inside Colours Live

the best books read:

The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City – Kevin Baker
Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism – Rachel Maddow
Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics – Terry Golway
A Few Words in Defense of Our Country: The Biography of Randy Newman – Robert Hilburn
Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans – Kenneth Womack
Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton, and Me – Bernie Taupin

as for movies – A Complete Unknown was a complete fairy tale that somehow got to the heart of the matter . . . Nosferatu was the best for my money

hang in there everyone . . .the maga savages will start eating their own soon

mj