Monday, June 23, 2025


DAPHNE DU MAURIER
Rebecca

I should remember the rose garden in summer, and the birds that sang at dawn. Tea under the chestnut tree, and the murmur of the sea coming up to us from the lawns below…they were memories that cannot hurt.



Sunday, June 22, 2025

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

LILIES NOT FOR ME
Will Seefried
UK, 2024

The Onion - Full page ad in The New York Times 06/22/2025

Americans really are the dumbest fucking people that have walked the planet since we started walking on two legs.

The batshit crazy that is Marjorie Taylor Greene:

4:17 PM - Before DJT started a war with Iran


7:42 PM - After DJT started a war with Iran

Playing

Emilíana Torrini
FISHERMAN'S WOMAN


MARJANE SATRAPI

If I have one message to give to the secular American people, it’s that the world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don’t know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly.

The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.



Saturday, June 21, 2025

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

THÉO ET HUGO DANS LE MÊME BATEAU
Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau
France, 2016

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Playing

Thelonious Monk
CRISS-CROSS


ANNE CARSON
"My Religion"

My religion makes no sense
and does not help me
therefore I pursue it.

When we see
how simple it would have been
we will thrash ourselves.

I had a vision
of all the people in the world
who are searching for God

massed in a room
on one side
of a partition

that looks
from the other side
(God’s side)

transparent
but we are blind.
Our gestures are blind.

Our blind gestures continue
for some time until finally
from somewhere

on the other side of the partition there we are
looking back at them.
It is far too late.

We see how brokenly
how warily
how ill

our blind gestures
parodied
what God really wanted

(some simple thing)
The thought of it
(this simple thing)

is like a creature
let loose in a room
and battering

to get out.
It batters my soul
with its rifle butt.



Friday, June 20, 2025

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™

A SPECIAL DAY
[UNA GIORNATA PARTICOLARE]

Ettore Scola
Italy, 1977

Playing

James
LAID


BENITO MUSSOLINI
My Autobiography
*

Your enemy's life is the only thing standing in the way of your victory.


*See also Donald Trump's Project 2025



Thursday, June 19, 2025

Watching
30 Days of the Gays™ 2025

ELEPHANT
[SŁOŃ]

Kamil Krawczyki
Poland, 2022


At least no one has to put words in that race-baiting cunt's sloppy mouth.

My God, D-Cups. Shut the fuck up.





GUY DEBORD
Society of the Spectacle

Although fascism rallies to the defense of the main points of bourgeois ideology which has become conservative (the family, property, the moral order, the nation), reuniting the petty-bourgeoisie and the unemployed routed by crisis or deceived by the impotence of socialist revolution, it is not itself fundamentally ideological.

It presents itself as it is: a violent resurrection of myth which demands participation in a community defined by archaic pseudo-values: race, blood, the leader.

Fascism is technically-equipped archaism. Its decomposed ersatz of myth is revived in the spectacular context of the most modern means of conditioning and illusion. Thus it is one of the factors in the formation of the modern spectacle, and its role in destruction... makes it one of the fundamental forces of present-day society.



Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Watching
30 Days of the Gays™ 2025

THE MAN WITH THE ANSWERS
Stelios Kammitsis
Greece, 2021

2025. 

DJT 2.0.

Playing

Johannes Brahms
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN B-FLAT MAJOR

Alfred Brendel

Bernard Haitink
Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam

Playing

Johannes Brahms
PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN D MINOR

Alfred Brendel

Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt
Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam


BERTRAND RUSSELL

First they fascinate the fools, then they muzzle the intelligent.



Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Watching
30 Days of the Gays™ 2025

TEMBLORES
Jayro Bustamante
Guatemala, 2019

Playing

Fleet Foxes
FLEET FOXES


ALBERT CAMUS

Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.



Monday, June 16, 2025

Watching
30 Days of the Gays™ Edition

AT NIGHT ALL THE CATS ARE BLACK
[DE NOCHE LOS GATOS SON PARDOS]

Valentin Merz
Switzerland, 2022





Playing

Jan Dismas Zelenka
TRIO SONATAS

Paul Dombrecht, Marcel Ponseele, Danny Bond, Chiara Banchini


JEAN-LÉON GÉROME

The Lie said to the Truth-
"Let's take a bath together,
the well water is very nice.

The Truth, still suspicious,
tested the water and found out
it really was nice.

So they got naked and bathed.

But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water
and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well
to get her clothes back.

But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth,
looked away, with anger and contempt.

Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared
forever, hiding her shame.

Since then, the Lie runs around the world,
dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy.
Because the world has no desire to know
the naked Truth.

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

A DICE WITH FIVE SIDES
Riccardo Tamburini
Italy, 2022



Happy Birthday to ME.
Happy Birthday to ME.

Happy Birthday, Sleepy Donnie.
Happy Birthday to ME.



Playing

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
The Original Movie Sound Track

Playing

SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
The Original Movie Sound Track

Bee Gees

Yvonne Elliman, Walter Murphy, Tavares, David Shire, Kool and The Gang, KC and The Sunshine Band, MFSB, and The Trammps


ABHIJIT NASKAR
Neurosonnets: The Naskar Art of Neuroscience


When someone plays fast and loose with rights and freedom, their place is either in the jungle or in a mental institution, not in office. Fascism, fundamentalism and nationalism, these are the ultimate mental illness.



Saturday, June 14, 2025

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Reading

Helen Whybrow
THE SALT STONES - SEASONS OF A SHEPHERD'S LIFE

Playing

Judy Garland
JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL


WILHELM REICH
The Mass Psychology of Fascism

Fascism is the frenzy of sexual cripples.



Friday, June 13, 2025

Playing

Patricia Kopatchinskaja
TAKE TWO


GEORGE SELDES
Fact and Fascism

The truth is not in the commercial media because the truth is a dagger pointed at its heart, which is its pocketbook.



Thursday, June 12, 2025

Currently Watching
30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

SWAN SONG
Todd Stephens
USA, 2021

Playing

Björk
VESPERTINE


FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Human, All Too Human

It is easy to give the recipe for what the masses call a great man. By all means, supply them with something that they find very pleasant, or, first, put the idea into their heads that this or that would be very pleasant, and then give it to them. But on no account immediately: let it rather be won with great exertion, or let it seem so. The masses must have the impression that a mighty, indeed invincible, strength of will is present; at least it must be seen to be there. Everyone admires a strong will, because no one has it, and everyone tells himself that, if he had it, there would be no more limits for him and his egoism.

Now, if it appears that this strong will is producing something very unpleasant for the masses, instead of listening to its own covetous desires, then everyone admires it all the more, and congratulates himself. For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is. So, let him be violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, groveling, puffed up, or, according to the circumstances, all of the above.



Wednesday, June 11, 2025

Playing

PJ Harvey
TO BRING YOU MY LOVE


NORMAN MAILER

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.


Daily Painting

Paul Klee
OR THE MOCKED MOCKER

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

LOVE IS STRANGE
Ira Sachs
USA, 2014

Trying to reach the level of shit stain.

Even failing at that.

Daily Painting

René Magritte
THE SONG OF LOVE

Playing

Roy Ayers
EVERYBODY LOVES THE SUNSHINE


FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT

The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism - ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. Among us today a concentration of private power without equal in history is growing.



Monday, June 9, 2025

Watching
30 Days of The Gays™ Edition

MONSTER
[怪物]

Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 2023

His hatreds are his spiritual nourishment.

Playing

Grant Green
FUNK IN FRANCE - FROM PARIS TO ANTIBES (1969-1970)


ERNEST HEMMINGWAY
For Whom the Bells Toll

“Are you a communist?"

"No I am an anti-fascist"

"For a long time?"

"Since I have understood fascism.”



Daily Painting

Pablo Picasso
GUERNICA (1937)