Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 12:47:41 -0700
From: "Dave, Recollection Books" <recall-AT-eskimo.com>
Subject: Daily Bleed: 8/29 CHARLIE PARKER


Daily Bleed in full, updated, 52 entries,
http://www.recollectionbooks.com/bleed/0829.htm

Text excerpts:

AUGUST 29 --  CHARLIE PARKER
"Bird." Likely to remain most brilliant jazz artist ever.

1533 -- Atahualpa, 13th & last emperor of the Inca empire
in present-day Peru, is put to death by Spanish
conquistador Pizarro.

The poet will point to the moving clouds & the
sway of the treetops...

         & he will teach them to smell history in the
         wind, to touch it in stones polished by the
         river, & to recognize its taste by chewing
         certain herbs, without hurry, as one chews on
         sadness.

        ---Eduardo Galeano

1758 -- US: First Indian reservation established.
The American reservation system provided Adolf Hitler
with a blueprint for Germany's concentration camps
during the Nazi reign.

1854 -- Australian-born English folklore scholar
Joseph Jacobs, lives

1862 -- Maurice Maeterlinck lives.
Belgian Symbolist playwright & poet

1865 -- "Battle" of Tongue River; Beloved & Respected
Comrade Leader General Connor leads  troops in dawn
attack on a sleeping Arapaho village ...
Connor was relieved of command for killing women &
children

1876 -- In Italy Carlo Cafiero writes Bakunin: "The
effect of the trial of Malatesta & Co. in the three Apulias
is incredible. The jury -- the richest men of the province
even -- immediately after the verdict shook hands with
the accused...

1901 -- Carrie Nation axes John L. Sullivan's saloon
in the name of temperance.

1911 -- Ishi, last Stone Age man in America, surrenders.
Of 2,000 alive in 1864, only 50 were alive in 1865.
The rest were killed by whites.

1920 -- Charlie "Bird" Parker hatched

1966 -- The Beatles perform their last public concert.

1967 -- Final TV episode of "The Fugitive".
The one-armed-man did it.

1968 -- Chicago Democratic convention: Antiwar
protesters clash with police & national guardsmen
in the streets outside, & hundreds of people, including
innocent bystanders & members of the press, are
brutally beaten by Chicago's finest.

1976 -- Jimmy Reed, the "Big Boss Man" of the blues,
dies

1977 -- Three people are arrested in Memphis
after trying to steal Elvis' body.

1992 -- Radical analyst & schizo-theorist
Felix Guattari dies

     One cannot escape the feeling, despite his
     supposedly radical intention, of an embrace of
     alienation, even a wallowing in estrangement &
     decadence. "

    ---John Zerzan, "The Catastrophe of Postmodernism"

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