THE DREAMING
____________________

Mario Andreacchio
Australia, 1988
 

KADAICHA - STONES OF DEATH
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James Bogle
Austrailia, 1988
 

 

Trans rights are human rights. 

Trans lives are human lives.

Trans lives matter.

-

AND, if "all lives matter," then protecting those most vulnerable to hatred, oppression, and violence must be a prime directive.

Otherwise, you're just one more useless maggot who needs to read your fucking Gospel of Matthew - starting with Chapter 25 - and take a long, hard look in the mirror. Because, as it stands Jesus has already promised you eternal damnation.

-

The King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.

 

BJÖRK
"Five Years" [Live, November 2021]

BJÖRK

"Five Years"

____________________

You think you're denying me of something

Well I've got plenty

You're the one who's missing out

But you won't notice

'Til after five years

If you'll live that long

You'll wake up

All loveless

I dare you

To take me on

I dare you

To show me your palms

I'm so bored with cowards

That say they want

Then they can't handle

You can't handle love

You can't handle love

You just can't handle

I dare you

To take me on

I dare you

To show me your palms

What's so scary

Not a threat in sight

You just can't handle

You can't handle love

You can't handle love, baby

You can't handle love

It's obvious

You can't handle

I dare you

To take me on

I dare you

To show me your palms

I'm so bored of cowards

That say they want

Then they can't handle

You can't handle love, baby

You can't handle love

It's obvious

You can't handle

I dare you, I dare you

I dare you, I dare you

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

The power of consumer goods has been engendered by the so-called liberal and progressive demands of freedom, and, by appropriating them, has emptied them of their meaning, and changed their nature.

ALISON'S BIRTHDAY
____________________

Ian Coughlan
Australia, 1981
 

Art Porn

____________________

Photographer unknown to me.

THOMAS HARDY

"His Immortality"

____________________

I

   I saw a dead man's finer part

Shining within each faithful heart

Of those bereft. Then said I: "This must be

   His immortality."

II

   I looked there as the seasons wore,

And still his soul continuously upbore

Its life in theirs. But less its shine excelled

   Than when I first beheld.

III

   His fellow-yearsmen passed, and then

In later hearts I looked for him again;

And found him--shrunk, alas! into a thin

   And spectral mannikin.

IV

   Lastly I ask--now old and chill -

If aught of him remain unperished still;

And find, in me alone, a feeble spark,

   Dying amid the dark.

Steve Martin and Edie Brickell
SO FAMILIAR
 

Huge win!

Freedom FROM your religion.

Freedom FROM your religious cults.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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Their discovery of the void brings with it new implications: not only that they must continue on in their actions and diligence, no longer considered as duties but as gratuitous, senseless routines, but also the exhilarating realization that all is nothing but a game.

VIY
____________________

Konstantin Ershov
Soviet Union, 1967

 .

 

CELIA
____________________

Ann Turner
Australia, 1989
 

Louis Armstrong & His All Stars
COLUMBIA AND RCA VICTOR LIVE RECORDINGS OF LOUIS ARMSTRONG AND THE ALL STARS

____________________

Disc 1:

Live at Town Hall, NYC
May 17, 1947

Disc 2:

Live at Carnegie Hall

November 16-17, 1947
 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

Death does determine life.

JOHNNY GUITAR
____________________

Nicholas Ray
USA, 1954
 

RAINER MARIA RILKE
____________________

Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connexion with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle.

Claude Debussy
LE DIABLE DANS LE BEFFROI
[The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe]
____________________

Christoph-Mathias Mueller

Eugene Villanueva, Lin Lin Fan, Michael Driers, Virgil Hartinger

Göttinger Symphony Orchester
Kammerchor St. Jacobi
 

Melody Night Band
UKRAINIAN FOLK MUSIC VOL. 1 - Українська музика в нашій крові.

Hotculko Kseniu 5:10

Tsyhanochko 3:25

Nich Taka Hospody 2:50

Na Mayami 3:13

Chohoz Voda Kalamutna 2:42

Moze Tak Ne Treba 2:00

Po Dorozi 3:21

Hey Ha 3:10

Moyi Yasyny 2:47

Hory Hory 3:45

Byla Mene Maty 3:28

Oy Ty Strumochku 3:25

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

When I make a film I'm always in reality among the trees, and among the people like yourselves. There's no symbolic or conventional filter between me and reality as there is in literature. The cinema is an explosion of my love for reality.

NEVRLAND
____________________

Gregor Schmidinger
Austria, 2019
 

WITCHHAMMER
[KLADIVO NA ČARODĚJNICE]
____________________

Otakar Vávra
Czechoslovakia, 1970

 

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
GLING-GLÓ
 

MATSUO BASHŌ

"A monk sips morning tea"

____________________

A monk sips morning tea,

it's quiet,

the chrysanthemum's flowering.

Гурт "Буря"
Burya IV - Live in Toronto (1985)
____________________

01. Весільний Марш
02. З Тої Гори Високої
03. Let’s Ask The Polka Band
04. Ой Чорна Я Си Чорна
05. Катринка
06. Ганджу
07. В’язанка Полька
08. Begin The Beguine
09. Танець З Вельоном В’язанка
10. Сам П’ю, Сам Гуляю

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

Olivera Katerina in Devičanska Svirka [The Maiden's Tune]

Đorđe Kadijević 
Yugoslavia, 1973

 

ŠTIĆENIK
[WARD, or PROTECTED]
____________________

Đorđe Kadijević
Yugoslavia, 1973

DEVIČANSKA SVIRKA
[THE MAIDEN'S TUNE]
____________________

Đorđe Kadijević
Yugoslavia, 1973

LEPTIRICA
[THE SHE-BUTTERFLY]
____________________

Đorđe Kadijević
Yugoslavia, 1973

 

 

DOROTHY PARKER

"Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror"

____________________

Helen of Troy had a wandering glance;

Sappho's restriction was only the sky;

Ninon was ever the chatter of France;

But oh, what a good girl am I!

THE DIETRICHS - Heiðrik á Heygum and Simon Ask Ulsnes

"Bang Bang"

Video by Jonas Rose Høeg

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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

We survive, in the confusion of a life reborn beyond reason.

MAGIC
____________________

Richard Attenborough
USA, 1978

-

I was 12 or 13 when I saw this at my friend Mike's house - they were heathens who let us kids watch R-rated movies (unsupervised) on HBO - and it scared the fuck out of me. As much as I loved puppets as a kid, ventriloquist dolls were my version of the clown phobia. I'm not afraid of them anymore, but when I see them in thrift stores or wherever I'm still a little creeped.

Also, this is the film Richard Attenborough directed between A BRIDGE TOO FAR and GANDHI.

 

A NEW NAME
SEPTOLOGY VI - VII
____________________

Jon Fosse

Translated by Damion Searls
 

 

THE DIETRICHS - Heiðrik á Heygum and Simon Ask Ulsnes

"Venus As A Boy"

Video by Jonas Rose Høeg

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They Might Be Giants
THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS

 -

Because what else would you listen to when you start the day relocating  seventeen blueberry bushes about 700 feet from their original location?

Wanna feel old? People born after this album came out in 1986 are now eligible to be the US president.

ANDRIANA GNAP
<<Забутa доріженька>> / "Forgotten Road"
Live at Rochester Ukrainian Festival 2019

From the album Songs From Home (Пісні з Дому) by Andriana, featuring her family trio Heavenstar. Portions of CD sales are donated to wounded warriors and orphans of Ukraine through www.HopeforUkraine.net. 

For more information or to purchase the CD, visit www.Andriana.org.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

The sexual freedom of today for most people is really only a convention, an obligation, a social duty, a social anxiety, a necessary feature of the consumer's way of life.

HORRORS OF MALFORMED MEN

[江戸川乱歩全集 恐怖奇形人間]

____________________

Teruo Ishii

Japan, 1969

Original Japanese poster from 1969.

THE CONFORMIST
[IL CONFORMISTA]
____________________

Bernardo Bertolucci
Italy/France, 1970
 

FROM THE THIRD EYE
The Evergreen Review Film Reader
____________________

Edited by Ed Halter and Barney Rosset

 

THE DIETRICHS - Heiðrik á Heygum and Simon Ask Ulsnes

"Like Someone In Love"

Video by Jonas Rose Høeg

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Written by Jimmy van Heusen and Johnny Burke for the film BELLE OF THE YUKON (1944). Dinah Shore was the original performer. It was a hit song for both Dinah and co-star Bing Crosby. The song quickly became a jazz standard recorded by, among others, Kay Kyser, Tommy Dorsey, Frank Sinatra, Chet Baker, Stan Getz, Margaret Whiting, Ella Fitzgerald, Blossom Dearie, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan, Nancy Wilson, Rosemary Clooney, and Björk.

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«Ой червона калина на лузі»
Хор імені Г. Верьовки
Солістка — Тетяна Пирогова
Українська народна пісня в обробці Анатолія Авдієвського

"Oh, red viburnum in the meadow"
Veryovka Ukrainian Folk Choir (est. 1943)
Soloist - Tatiana Pirogova
A Ukrainian Folk Song arranged by by Anatoly Avdievsky

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

Truth lies not only in a dream, but in many dreams.

TILBURY
____________________

Viðar Víkingsson
Iceland, 1987
 

LAKE OF THE DEAD
[DE DØDES TJERN]
___________________

Kåre Bergstrøm
Norway, 1958
 

Madeleine Albright

1937-2022

RAINER MARIA RILKE

"I Am Much Too Alone in This World, Yet Not Alone Enough"

____________________

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough

to truly consecrate the hour.

I am much too small in this world, yet not small enough

to be to you just object and thing,

dark and smart.

I want my free will and want it accompanying

the path which leads to action;

and want during times that beg questions,

where something is up,

to be among those in the know,

or else be alone.

I want to mirror your image to its fullest perfection,

never be blind or too old

to uphold your weighty wavering reflection.

I want to unfold.

Nowhere I wish to stay crooked, bent;

for there I would be dishonest, untrue.

I want my conscience to be

true before you;

want to describe myself like a picture I observed

for a long time, one close up,

like a new word I learned and embraced,

like the everyday jug,

like my mother’s face,

like a ship that carried me along

through the deadliest storm.

THE DIETRICHS - Heiðrik á Heygum and Simon Ask Ulsnes

"Can't Get You Out Of My Head"

Video by Jonas Rose Høeg

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DakhaBrakha
NA MEZHI

 

Cracow Klezmer Band
DE PROFUNDIS
 

"Medley of Ukrainian Folk Songs" music and vocals performed by Family Trio Heavenstar. Filmed and edited by Andriana. 

Вязaнка Українських Народних Пісень: Музика і вокаль y виконанні: Родинний Тріо Небозір

Visit andriana.org to hear and purchase the 2013 album Songs From Home by Andriana, featuring folk songs by Andriana and Family Trio Heavenstar. 

 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

I think to scandalize is a right, to be scandalized is a pleasure, and those who refuse to be scandalized are moralists.

EYES OF FIRE

[CRYING BLUE SKY]

____________________

Avery Crounse

USA, 1983