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THE BOY AND THE WORLD
[O Menino e o Mundo]
Alê Abreu
Brazil, 2013
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Thursday, August 31, 2023
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023
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SUZY EDDIE IZZARD
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people have a fair chance in this century - or forget it. If we can't do this, I don't think we are going to make it as a species. Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.
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Monday, August 28, 2023
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JEAN GENET
The Balcony
Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see?
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JEAN GENET
The Balcony
One can hear all that's going on in the street. Which means that from the street one can hear what's going on in this house.
HANNAH ARENDT
Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes.
On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its re- appearance is more likely than its initial emergence could have been.
Daily Painting
Pieter Bruegel the Elder
HUNTERS IN THE SNOW (1565)
The perfect image for when you've had the hottest June on record, the hottest July on record, the hottest August on record, the hottest year on record, and less than half an inch of rain in 70 days ... in NW Oregon. You know, that place you don't want to live (or even visit) because it's so wet and grey.
Sunday, August 27, 2023
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Currently Playing
AMERICA'S GREATEST HITS
Volume 2 - 1951
Various Artists including Mario Lanza, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Eddy Howard, Johnnie Ray, Weavers, Jo Stafford, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Carleton Carpenter & Debbie Reynolds, Frankie Laine with Mitch Millers' Orchestra, Vaughan Monroe & His Orchestra, Patti Page, Del Wood, Perry Como with The Fontane Sisters, April Stevens w/ Henri Rene's Orchestra, Guy Mitchell, Frank Sinatra with The Harry James Orchestra
JEAN GENET
Querelle of Brest
The rims of his eyelids were burning. A blow received straightens a man up and makes the body move forward, to return that blow, or a punch-to jump, to get a hard-on, to dance: to be alive. But a blow received may also cause you to bend over, to shake, to fall down, to die. When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death. Detectives, poets, domestic servants and priests rely on abjection. From it, they draw their power. It circulates in their veins. It nourishes them.
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Saturday, August 26, 2023
Currently Playing
AMERICA'S GREATEST HITS
Volume 3 - 1952
Various Artists including Pee Wee King And His Golden West Cowboys, Kay Starr, Georgia Gibbs, Leroy Anderson, Doris Day, Al Martino, Percy Faith & His Orchestra, Vera Lynn, Patti Page, Johnny Standley with Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, Joni James, Mills Brothers, Jimmy Boyd, Eddie Fisher, Ray Anthony, Rosemary Clooney, Johnnie Ray, Four Aces, Gaylords, Les Paul & Mary Ford, Ella Mae Morse, and Jo Stafford
JEAN GENET
Prisoner of Love
The hour between dog and wolf, that is, dusk, when the two can’t be distinguished from each other, suggests a lot of other things besides the time of day. The hour in which every being becomes his own shadow, and thus something other than himself. The hour of metamorphoses, when people half hope, half fear that a dog will become a wolf. The hour that comes down to us from at least as far back as the early Middle Ages, when country people believed that transformation might happen at any moment.
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Friday, August 25, 2023
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Thursday, August 24, 2023
SAMUEL GREENBERG
"And This Great Human Rebellion"
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And this great human rebellion, has it’s scattered laureates – sparks,
That kindle the flame to repeat my brother will cause the perfumed love more clear
And seek heavenly envy. In spite the selfish heart limits perhaps weave the better birth
We then easily blend a lodge, which can pray upon the universe of charm
And share the impulse of progress, this vital grain must plead thousand-fold
Live in us, as the blowing sea breeze! Through an angel gate,
The ecliptic change found me under a leafless Oak.
The cast shadowings of branches like Medusa’s skull
There in on looking leveled my talent to flood the mind in abstract ecstasy,
The gallant spurtive land and heaven with the numberless diamond circle, gives joy hither,
Whether the banner contains power to plenty the soul,
This humble chip in our reverence doth limit its whole
end.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
SUZY EDDIE IZZARD
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
I don’t like the word dysphoria. I refuse to be confused about this. It’s confusing, but I am trying to be not confused. Which is why I made up my own terminology—being in “girl mode” or “boy mode”—it’s how I describe where I am on any given day on that nonbinary continuum of gender identity, a concept that psychiatrists and sociologists and politicians and religious types don’t seem able to explain with any degree of medical or biological certainty why I wish to wear skirts and heels on certain days and trousers on others. I don’t know why, and neither do they. And I suppose, in the end, the why of it really doesn’t matter. It’s just who I am and the way I was born. That’s who a lot of us are and the way a lot of us were born.
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Monday, August 21, 2023
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H. P. LOVECRAFT
There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we learn and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life.
But some of us awake in the night with strange phantasms of enchanted hills and gardens, of fountains that sing in the sun, of golden cliffs overhanging murmuring seas, of plains that stretch down to sleeping cities of bronze and stone, and of shadowy companies of heroes that ride caparisoned white horses along the edges of thick forests; and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.
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Sunday, August 20, 2023
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SUZY EDDIE IZZARD
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death, and Jazz Chickens
We need to become more open minded to the idea that many of us exist on a spectrum - a continuum - of gender. That for some of us the choice isn't just one or the other - completely male or completely female - but often a combination of both. In fact, it seems there are three different lines on the sexuality spectrum: how you self identify, who you're attracted to, and what you look like. And it seems the dial can be at any place on any of those three lines.
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