C'MON C'MON

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Mike Mills

USA, 2021

Art Porn

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Photographer unknown to me.

Nice.

Stevie Wonder

FIRST HITS

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EIGHT DIAGRAM POLE FIGHTER

[五郎八卦棍 - Wu lang ba gua gun]

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Lau Kar-Leung

Hong Kong, 1984

W. E. B. DU BOIS

The Autobiography of W. E. B. Du Bois - A Soliloquy on Viewing My Life from the Last Decade of Its First Century

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Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?

JUSTE AVAN LA NUIT

[Just Before Nightfall]

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Claude Chabrol

France, 1971

THE STAND

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Josh Boone

Benjamin Cavell

USA/Canada, 2020 

THE STAND

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Josh Boone

Benjamin Cavell

USA/Canada, 2020

W. E. B. DU BOIS

"On Christianity"

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The theology of the average colored church is basing itself far too much upon 'Hell and Damnation'—upon an attempt to scare people into being decent and threatening them with the terrors of death and punishment. 

We are still trained to believe a good deal that is simply childish in theology. The outward and visible punishment of every wrong deed that men do, the repeated declaration that anything can be gotten by anyone at any time by prayer.

THE BATMAN

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Matt Reeves

USA, 2022

Currently Reading

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THE INHABITED ISLAND

[aka PRISONERS OF POWER]

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

-

Originally published as Обитаемый остров (1969)

Translated by Andrew Bromfield (2020)

THE HUMANS

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Stephen Karam

USA, 2021

Art Porn

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Abigale Eku

Paul-2876

W. E. B. DU BOIS

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Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.

Voces8

ENCHANTED ISLE

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TRE FRATELLI

[THREE BROTHERS]

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Francesco Rosi

Italy, 1981

Currently Reading

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ONE BILLION YEARS TO THE END OF THE WORLD

[aka DEFINITELY MAYBE]

Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

-

Originally published as За миллиард лет до конца света (1977)

Translated by Antonina W. Bouis (1978)

Arcangelo Corelli

CONCERTI GROSSI, OP. 6

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Pavlo Beznosiuk

The Avison Ensemble

LANGSTON HUGHES
"Cultural Exchange"
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In the Quarter of the Negroes

Where the doors are doors of paper

Dust of dingy atoms

Blows a scratchy sound.

Amorphous jack-o'-Lanterns caper

And the wind won't wait for midnight

For fun to blow doors down.

By the river and the railroad

With fluid far-off going

Boundaries bind unbinding

A whirl of whistles blowing.

No trains or steamboats going—

Yet Leontyne's unpacking.

In the Quarter of the Negroes

Where the doorknob lets in Lieder

More than German ever bore,

Her yesterday past grandpa—

Not of her own doing—

In a pot of collard greens

Is gently stewing.

Pushcarts fold and unfold

In a supermarket sea.

And we better find out, mama,

Where is the colored laundromat

Since we move dup to Mount Vernon.

In the pot behind the paper doors

on the old iron stove what's cooking?

What's smelling, Leontyne?

Lieder, lovely Lieder

And a leaf of collard green.

Lovely Lieder, Leontyne.

You know, right at Christmas

They asked me if my blackness,

Would it rub off?

I said, Ask your mama.

Dreams and nightmares!

Nightmares, dreams, oh!

Dreaming that the Negroes

Of the South have taken over—

Voted all the Dixiecrats

Right out of power—

Comes the COLORED HOUR:

Martin Luther King is Governor of Georgia,

Dr. Rufus Clement his Chief Adviser,

A. Philip Randolph the High Grand Worthy.

In white pillared mansions

Sitting on their wide verandas,

Wealthy Negroes have white servants,

White sharecroppers work the black plantations,

And colored children have white mammies:

Mammy Faubus

Mammy Eastland

Mammy Wallace

Dear, dear darling old white mammies—

Sometimes even buried with our family.

Dear old

Mammy Faubus!

Culture, they say, is a two-way street:

Hand me my mint julep, mammy.

Hurry up!

Make haste!

ERIC ROHMER'S SIX MORAL TALES

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VÉRONIQUE AND HER DUNCE

France, 1958

THE BAKERY GIRL OF MONCEAU

France, 1963

SUZANNE'S CAREER

France, 1963

NADJA IN PARIS

France, 1964

A MODERN COED

France, 1966

W. E. B. DU BOIS

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Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.

NICK CAVE

"The Moon Is In The Gutter"

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The moon is in the gutter

And the stars wash down the sink

I am the king of the blues

I scrape the clay off my shoes

And wade down the gutter and the moon

The moon blinds my eye with opal cataracts

As I cut through the saw-mills and the stacks

Leaping over the gully where I would one day take Lucy

Then wash up my hands in the gutter and the moon

Such a long way from home, just me and

The moon is in the gutter

All my plans are flushed down the drain

I wander lonely as a cloud

Over memories at her mound

Then lie down in the bitter gutter moon

MY NIGHT AT MAUD'S

[MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD]

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Eric Rohmer

France, 1969

1932

The greatest musicians and orchestras from the year 1932 by ill rec on YouTube - 39 songs in a long play compilation including:

• Roger Wolfe Kahn
• Joe Rines
• Art Kassel
• Fred Waring
• George Olsen
• Ted Lewis
• Isham Jones
• Leo Reisman
• Arden-Ohman Orchestra
• Ray Noble
• Paul Whiteman

Full playlist HERE

From the files of "Funny Things I've Heard on Instagram"

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I once dated a girl with a twin. People asked me how I could tell them apart. 

Lisa painted her fingernails purple. 

And Bob had a cock.

-

@ihatecarslol

proud bois

Jean-Louis Trintignant 

1930-2022

DORIS LESSING

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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement.

Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga

LOVE FOR SALE

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Massive dumps.

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

GEORGIA BLUE

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RED ROCKET

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Dean Baker

USA, 2021

Tears For Fears

THE TIPPING POINT

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DORIS LESSING

The Golden Notebook

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Very few people really care about freedom, about liberty, about the truth, very few. Very few people have guts, the kind of guts on which a real democracy has to depend. Without people with that sort of guts a free society dies or cannot be born.

ALL NIGHT LONG

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Basil Dearden

UK, 1962

Currently Reading

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CH'I

A Neo-Taoist Approach to Life

R. G. H. Siu

If only.

COME TO DADDY

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Ant Timpson

Canada/New Zealand, 2019

Nazism. Fascism. Christianity. Islam.

There is no difference.

X

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Ti West,

USA, 2021

E.T. - THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack 

20th Anniversary Reissue

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John Williams

-

That's right. 

Released 40 years ago today on June 12, 1982.

I'm not old, you're old.

THE FLORIDA PROJECT

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Sean Baker,

USA, 2017

Art Porn

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Photographer unknown to me.

LICORICE PIZZA

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Paul Thomas Anderson

USA, 2021

Currently Reading

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CHASING HOMER

László Krasznahorkai

Translated by John Batki

DEMONIC

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Neill Blomkamp

USA-Canada, 2021

NED RIFLE

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Hal Hartley

USA, 2014