November 9, 2004: 10x10 / 100 Words and Pictures that Define the Time is a snapshot of the moment in words and pictures culled from major news sources. A step away from Jonathan Lethem's beautiful idea of "musical news" from Gun, with Occasional Music:

The feeling was there before I tuned in the musical interpretation of the news on my bedside radio, but it was the musical news that confirmed it: I was about to work again. I would get a case. Violins were stabbing their way through the choral arrangements in a series of ascending runs that never resolved, never peaked, just faded away and were replaced by more of the same. It was the sound of trouble, something private and tragic; suicide, or murder, rather than a political event.