Sunday, April 30, 2023

THE BEAUTY OF THE DEVIL
[La beauté du diable]
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René Clair
France, 1950

Art Porn
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Origin unknown to me.
Joseph Wölfl
THE STRING QUARTETS
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Pratum Integrum Orchestra Soloists

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String Quartet in C Major, Op. 30/2

String Quartet in D Major, Op. 30/3

String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 30/1

DONNA LYNN HOPE
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I’d rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I’m on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.


Daily Painting
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Otto Dix
Dr. Mayer-Hermann (1926)

Saturday, April 29, 2023

PANIQUE
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Julien Duvuvier
France, 1946



Currently Playing
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CLUB MOD
allclassical.org 

Hosted by Andrea Murray
Currently Reading
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WHEN THE MOUNTAIN FELL
[Derborence]
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Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
ON THE TOWN
Original Soundtrack Recording
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Frank Sinatra
Gene Kelly
Jules Munshin
Ann Miller
Betty Garrett
Vera-Ellen

Leonard Bernstein
National Symphony Orchestra

ANAÏS NIN
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I am like a snake who has already bitten. I retreat from a direct battle while knowing the slow effect of the poison.


Daily Painting
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Andre Serfontein
The Crossing (2020)

Friday, April 28, 2023

THE KILLERS
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Don Siegel
USA, 1964



THE KILLERS
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Robert Siodmak
USA, 1946



Today's Password is ...



Orazio Sciortino
CHAMBER MUSIC FOR PIANO AND STRINGS
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Ambra Piano Trio
Swiss Music Ensemble 'New Wave'

DAVID MITCHELL
Ghostwritten
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The snake grins through his fangs, admiring Eve's playacting. 

"God is a nice enough chap in His way. I daresay He means well. But between you and The Tree of Knowledge, He is terribly insecure."


Daily Painting
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Zao Wou-Ki
Vol d'oiseaux (1954)

Thursday, April 27, 2023

Currently Reading
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MIRACULOUS ABUNDANCE
One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World
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Perrine Hervé-Gruyer
Charles Hervé-Gruyer

THURSDAY SHORT:

WHAT'S WRONG?
Barry Kimber
UK, 2014
Dmitri Shostakovich
LADY MACBETH OF MTSENSK
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Maria Ewing

Aage Haugland, Sergej Larin, Philip Langridge, Anatoly Kotcherga, Heinz Zednik, Kurt Moll, Elena Zaremba

Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestre* Et Chœurs De L'Opéra Bastille

BILL MOLLISON
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Affluent societies have, all unnoticed, developed an agriculture which produces a polluted waste product, in the presence of famine and erosion elsewhere, and the threat of water shortages at home.

The lawn has become the curse of modern town landscapes as sugar cane is the curse of the lowland coastal tropics, and cattle the curse of the semi-arid and arid rangelands.

It is past time to tax lawns - or any wasteful consumption - and to devote that tax to third world relief. I would suggest a tax of $5 per square metre per month for both public and private lawns, updated annually, until all but useful lawns are eliminated.


Daily Painting
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William Roberts
The Barber’s Shop (1946)

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Franz Schubert
PIANO TRIOS
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Trio Wanderer

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Piano Trio No. 1 in B-flat Major, D 898

Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat Major, D 929

BILL MOLLISON
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I think it's pointless asking questions like "Will humanity survive?" It's purely up to people - if they want to, they can, if they don't want to, they won't.

Use all the skills you have in relation to others - and that way we can do anything. But if you lend your skills to other systems that you don't really believe in, then you might as well never have lived. You haven't expressed yourself.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much. And choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.

We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth. We don't have to suppose we need oil, or governments, or anything. We can do it.


Daily Painting
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Michael Noakes
Self-portrait with Beard (1958)

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Currently Reading
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THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION
Forty Essays
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Guy Davenport


NOISY LOVE SONGS
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Okkyung Lee

W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM
The Moon and Sixpence
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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history.


Daily Painting
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Lennart Anderson
St. Marks Place (1956)

Monday, April 24, 2023

NÖEL COWARD IN NEW YORK
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Nöel Coward

AMY BONNAFFONS
“The Other One”
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A karaoke room in the middle of the day is a great place to cry, because you can be completely alone.


Daily Painting
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Kjell Nupen
Composition (2000)

Sunday, April 23, 2023

Currently Reading
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ANTI RACIST ALLY
An Introduction to Action and Activism
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Sophie Williams
UNPLUGGED IN NEW YORK
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Nirvana

TERENCE McKENNA
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.


Daily Painting
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Doron Langberg
Nir and Zach (2018)

Saturday, April 22, 2023

IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE
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Ti West
USA, 2016
Currently Playing
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CLUB MOD
allclassical.org 

Hosted by Andrea Murray
Earth Day.

No one is free.

Earth Day.




 

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN
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Hem

ANGLO SAXON LAW
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Whatever is affixed to the soil belongs to the soil.

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HOMER
The Odyssey
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I would rather be tied to the soil as a serf than be king of all these dead and destroyed.

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WC LOWDERMILK (1953)
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If the soil is destroyed, then our liberty of action and choice are gone.

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JONATHAN SWIFT
Gulliver's Travels
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Whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind - and do more essential service to his country - than the whole race of politicians put together.


Daily Painting
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Wifredo Lam
The Jungle (1943)

Friday, April 21, 2023

MOTHER
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Bong Joon Ho
Korea, 2009



AT TOWN HALL (1958)
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Nina Simone

MARGARET ATWOOD
The Robber Bride
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Every ending is arbitrary, because the end is where you write The End. A period, a dot of punctuation, a point of stasis. A pinprick in the paper: you could put your eye to it and see through, to the other side, to the beginning of something else. Or, as Tony says to her students, Time is not a solid, like wood, but a fluid, like water or the wind. It doesn't come neatly cut into even-sized length, into decades and centuries. Nevertheless, for our purposes we have to pretend it does. The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.


Daily Painting
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Fritz Aigner
Self-portrait

Thursday, April 20, 2023

M3GAN
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Gerard Johnstone
USA, 2023
Art Porn
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Rocco
From the series KOMBO



THURSDAY SHORT:

THE BELLIES [Les ventres]
Philippe Grammaticopoulos
France, 2009

Carl Nielsen
THE COMPLETE STRING QUARTETS
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The Danish String Quartet
Daily Painting
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Karl Hofer
Frühe Stunde [Early Hour] (1935)

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

THE SADNESS
[哭悲 / Ku bei]
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Rob Jabbaz
Taiwan, 2021
Currently Reading
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THE MODERN HERBAL DISPENSATORY
A Medicine-Making Guide
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Thomas Easley
Steven Horne
BELOVED
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Mumford & Sons