ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): August 2019

Saturday, August 31, 2019

KAMAND KOJOURI

They want us to be afraid.
They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes.
They want us to barricade our doors
and hide our children.
Their aim is to make us fear life itself!
They want us to hate.
They want us to hate 'the other'.
They want us to practice aggression
and perfect antagonism.
Their aim is to divide us all!
They want us to be inhuman.
They want us to throw out our kindness.
They want us to bury our love
and burn our hope.
Their aim is to take all our light!
They think their bricked walls
will separate us.
They think their damned bombs
will defeat us.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that my soul and your soul are old friends.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that when they cut you I bleed.
They are so ignorant they don’t understand
that we will never be afraid,
we will never hate
and we will never be silent
for life is ours!

Friday, August 30, 2019

VIRGINIA WOOLF from Between The Acts

Lucy turned the page, quickly, guiltily, like a child who will be told to go to bed before the end of the chapter.

Thursday, August 29, 2019

MAURICE SENDAK

Why my needle is stuck in childhood I don’t know. I guess that’s where my heart is.

Wednesday, August 28, 2019

OSCAR WILDE from The Importance of Being Earnest

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

NOTRE HISTOIRE
(English: OUR HISTORY)

Bertrand Blier
France, 1984

LE GITAN
(English: THE GYPSY)

José Giovanni
Italy/France, 1975

SEX FROM SCRATCH - MAKING YOUR OWN RELATIONSHIP RULES

Sarah Mink
2014

GUY DAVENPORT

I’ve carved the puppet, and I manipulate the strings, but while it’s on stage the show belongs to the puppet.

Monday, August 26, 2019

HALLDÓR LAXNESS from Independent People

The tyranny of mankind; it was like the obstinate drip of water falling on a stone and hollowing it little by little; and this drip continued, falling obstinately, falling without pause on the souls of the children.

Theme and variations on La veuve Couderc.
Novel by Georges Simenon, film by Pierre Granier-Deferre and starring Simone Signoret and Alain Delon.

Sunday, August 25, 2019

WINTERREISE, D 911

Franz Schubert, 1828

Julian Prégarden

Robert Reimer
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie

GIULIO CESARE, HWV 17

George Frideric Händel, 1724

Alan Curtis
Il Complesso Barocco

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Karina Gauvin, Romina Basso (Performer), Emoke Baráth, Filippo Mineccia, Johannes Weisser, Milena Storti

DEIDAMIA, HVW 42

George Frideric Händel, 1741

Rudolph Palmer
Julianne Baird, Brenda Harris, John Cheek, D'Anna Fortunato, Maire O'Brien, Peter Castaldi
Palmer Singers
Brewer Chamber Orchestra

HAIR
THE AMERICAN TRIBAL LOVE-ROCK MUSICAL

The New Broadway Cast

GUITAR EVANGELISTS 1928-1951

(Many) Various Artists

SONES DE SEFARAD

Grupo Cinco Siclos

HORN OF PLENTY

Grizzly Bear

GREEK TRADITIONAL VILLAGE MUSIC AND DANCE

(Many) Various Artists

YIDDISHBBUK

Osvaldo Golijov

St. Lawrence String Quartet

REQUIEM

Goat

EZIO

Gluck

JORGE LUIS BORGES - “Limits”

There is a line in Verlaine I shall not recall again,
There is a street close by forbidden to my feet,
There’s a mirror that’s seen me for the very last time,
There is a door that I have locked till the end of the world.
Among the books in my library (I have them before me)
There are some that I shall never open now.
This summer I complete my fiftieth year;
Death is gnawing at me ceaselessly.

Harold Moreland translation

LA VEUVE COUDERC
(English: THE WIDOW COUDERC)

Pierre Granier-Deferre
France, 1971

LA PISCINA
(English: THE SWIMMING POOL)

Jacques Deray
France, 1970

Saturday, August 24, 2019

Akio Jissôji

THE BUDDHIST TRILOGY

THIS TRANSIENT LIFE (1970)
MANDALA (1971)
POEM (1972)

YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE

Lynne Ramsey
UK/France/USA, 2017

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.