Thursday, April 17, 2025

Playing

Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention
OVER-NITE SENSATION


JOHN ADAMS
Second US President

You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.



Daily Painting

Bolesław Biegas
VAMPIRE IN THE FORM OF TURA (1917)

Wednesday, April 16, 2025

Watching

BLACK MIRROR - Season 7
BÊTE NOIRE
Tony Haines
UK, 2025




Watching

BLACK MIRROR - Season 7
PLAYTHING
David Slade
UK, 2025




Watching

BLACK MIRROR - Season 7
COMMON PEOPLE
Tony Haines
UK, 2025



The elephants know.

Playing

Art Tatum
SOLO MASTERPIECES - VOL 6

Daily Painting

John Lurie
BAREFOOT WITH COFFEE (ND)


JOHN LURIE

The monster who lives under my bed is lost in depression. He just lies there, listless. I have to get up in the middle of the night and poke him with the end of a broomstick and tell him to get to work.



Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Watching

HAPPER'S COMET
Tyler Taormina
USA, 2022

Reading

Michel Nieva
DENGUE BOY

Translated by Ramul Bery

Clay Bennett
Chattanooga Times Free Press

Even Marjorie Taylor Greene cringes when she hears Nancy Mace speak.

Playing

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
GHOSTEEN



ABHIJIT NASKAR
The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality


The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.



Monday, April 14, 2025

Watching

THE RED SUITCASE
Fidel Devkota
Nepal, 2023

Shout out the fucking third-party voters and the 90 million eligible Americans who REFUSED to vote.

“We always have to obey the laws, but we also have homegrown criminals that push people into subways, that hit elderly ladies on the back of the head with a baseball bat when they’re not looking, that are absolute monsters. I'd like to include them in people to get out of the country. They're as bad as anybody that comes in. We have bad ones too. I'm all for it."





Playing

Lucinda Williams
WORLD WITHOUT TEARS


FLANNERY O'CONNOR
The River”

While he preached, Bevel’s eyes followed drowsily the slow circles of two silent birds revolving high in the air. Across the river there was a low red and gold grove of sassafras with hills of dark blue trees behind it and an occasional pine jutting over the skyline. Behind, in the distance, the city rose like a cluster of warts on the side of the mountain. The birds revolved downward and dropped lightly in the top of the highest pine and sat hunch-shouldered as if they were supporting the sky.



Daily Painting

Félicien Rops
L’ENTRÉE AU BAL (1858)

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Watching

CIVIL WAR
Alex Garland
USA, 2024




Playing

John Coltrane
OLÉ COLTRANE


RICHARD PRYOR

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.



Daily Painting

Richard Stabbert
TENDER (2024)

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Watching

BLACK MIRROR - Season 7
USS CALLISTER
- INTO INFINITY




Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Playing

Hal Harley
FAY GRIM
Original Soundtrack

Playing

Hal Harley
HENRY FOOL
Original Soundtrack


ABHIJIT NASKAR
Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood


“Sonnet 1984"

Government IDs are just ankle monitors, issued
to tag citizens like dogs, or I should say, apes.
There can be governments without constitution,
but there is no government without surveillance.

When you elect a so-called representative,
you're officially signing your life to them.
Don't be naive enough to think otherwise,
and then yell about human rights violation.

Violation of citizen rights is right of the government,
it's the unspoken rule of the handbook of democracy.
Once in a blue moon you may get a benevolent government,
but 9 times out of 10 you'll end up under an autocracy.

A freethinking citizen is contradiction in terms,
no good to the grand design of democratic dictatorship.
Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people,
democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of sheep.



Daily Painting

Robert Janitz
COLLATERAL DAMAGE I (2013)

Friday, April 11, 2025

Watching

BLACK MIRROR - Season 4
USS CALLISTER




Blooming flowers, laughing children.

Playing

Grizzly Bear
PAINTED RUINS


GEORGE CARLIN

Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the résumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you'd expect from an office temp with a bad attitude.

And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would've been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say "this guy", because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man.

No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he's at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn't give a shit, which would explain a lot.



Daily Painting

Mirko Rački
CITY OF DIS (1906)

Thursday, April 10, 2025

Playing

Hal Harley
NED RIFLE
Music from the Film

Playing

The Beatles
THE BEATLES

April 10, 2025 - ICE Twitter post declaring ideas can enter a country illegally and the spreaders of ideas can be stopped (disappeared). The cross is no an accident. It's a dog whistle to christians for purification and extermination. Half a million views in the first 30 minutes.

They're not even trying to be subtle.


GEORGE ORWELL
1984

Whether he wrote DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER, or whether he refrained from writing it, made no difference. Whether he went on with the diary, or whether he did not go on with it, made no difference. The Thought Police would get him just the same. He had committed — would still have committed, even if he had never set pen to paper — the essential crime that contained all others in itself. Thoughtcrime, they called it. Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.



Daily Painting

Waldemar Fink
LATERNENLICHT [LANTERN LIGHT] (1912)

Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Watching

HOUSE
Nobuhiko Obayashi
Japan, 1977



You can say that again.

Playing

Ján Cikker
VZKRIESENIE [RESURRECTION] (1962)

Jaroslav Krombholc

Alena Míková, Teodor Srubar, Beno Blachut

Prague National Theatre Chorus and Orchestra


WANG WEI
“My Cottage at Deep South Mountain”

In my middle years I love the Dao
and by Deep South Mountain I make my home.
When happy I go alone into the mountains.
Only I understand this joy.
I walk until the water ends, and sit
waiting for the hour when clouds rise.
If I happen to meet an old woodcutter,
I chat with him, laughing and lost to time.



Daily Painting

Andrej Dúbravsky
FIVE FRIENDS (2019)

Tuesday, April 8, 2025

ACCEPTABLE:
the racism
the lies
the cruelty
the corruption
the incompetence
the sexual assault
the fraud
cops savagely beaten for a lie
the persecution of trans Americans

NOT ACCEPTABLE:
Any inconvenience to ME