Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE GIRL FROM MONDAY
Hal Hartley
USA, 2005

Bonus Shorts:

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

HENRY FOOL
Hal Hartley
USA, 1997

Currently Playing

Real Life
HEARTLAND

JAYNE ANNE PHILLIPS
"Happy"

                  She knew if she loved him she could make him
happy, but she didn’t. Or she did, but it sank
into itself like a hole and curled up content.
Surrounded by the blur of her own movements, the
thought of making him happy was very dear to her.
She moved it from place to place, a surprise she
never opened. She slept alone at night, soul of
a naked priest in her sweet body. Small soft hands,
a bread of desire rising in her stomach. When she
lay down with the man she loved and didn’t, the
man opened and opened. Inside him an acrobat
tumbled over death. And walked thin wires with
nothing above or below. She cried, he was so
beautiful in his scarlet tights and white face
the size of a dime.

HAL HARTLEY
Henry Fool

FAY

Have a drink. 

FAY

Do you find me attractive?

HENRY

Yes.

FAY

I look young for my age, don't I?

HENRY

How old are you?

FAY

How old do you think I am?

HENRY

You look … young.

FAY

How young?

HENRY

I don't know. Young.

FAY

But how young? Do I look more like 20 or, you know, 30?

HENRY

Thirty.

FAY

Listen, you geek. After a couple of drinks, plenty of people mistake me for 18.

Daily Painting(s)

John French Sloan
MOVIES, FIVE CENTS (1907)

Malcolm Drummond
IN THE CINEMA (1913)

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

FLIRT
Hal Hartley
USA, 1995

Currently Playing

Reto Bieri
CONTRECHANT
Music for Clarinet Solo

Luciano Berio
Lied

Heinz Holliger
Contrechant

Salvatore Sciarrino
Let Me Die Before I Wake

Elliott Carter
Gra

Heinz Holliger
Rechant

Péter Eötvös
Derwischtanz

Gergely Vajda
Lightshadow-trembling

Franz Ackermann
UNTITLED (PACIFIC NO. 22 - MR PIGMAN, YOU ARE NOTHING) (1998)

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

AMATEUR
Hal Hartley
USA, 1994

Bonus Shorts:

THE OTHER ALSO (1997)
THE NEW MATH(S) (2000)

Currently Playing

My Morning Jacket
Z

GEORGE ORWELL
Nineteen Eighty-Four

"If you mean confessing,' she said, 'we shall do that, right enough. Everybody always confesses. You can't help it. They torture you."

"I don't mean confessing. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter: only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you — that would be the real betrayal."

She thought it over. "They can't do that," she said finally. "It's the one thing they can't do. They can make you say anything, but they can't make you believe it. They can't get inside you."

"No," he said a little more hopefully, "No; that's quite true. They can't get inside you. If you can feel that staying human is worth while, even when it can't have any result whatever, you've beaten them.”

Daily Painting

Max Beckmann
THE BATH (1930)

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

SIMPLE MEN
Hal Hartley
USA, 1992

Currently Playing

The Weeknd
HOUSE OF BALLOONS

HANNAH WEINER
"It Walks"

It walks.
That is,
it puts one foot in front of another
and moves in the direction of its face,
which is in the front of it,
and in the direction its eyes are looking,
if its eyes are in its face.

While it walks
it can look at scenery,
or think, if it thinks,
or just move closer to an ant
or a new job
or a piece of log to sit on
in between the walking.

Then it sits:
it lowers its ass, which is the hind part,
onto the log,
if it has an ass.
Because if it doesn’t
it lies.

That is,
its entire body rests upon the log
and all its legs fold under
or spread out
or go in the air
depending on how its legs are attached,
and where.

And arms,
if it has arms,
which are legs
that are not needed to walk on.

If it has arms
and legs
and an ass
it can ride a bicycle!

Then the scenery goes by much faster
if it is looking at scenery,
and it gets where it is going faster
if it is going somewhere.

Faster:
it can do it more often
between sunrise and sunset
or between sunset and sunrise
if it does it at night.
That is,
if it can do what it is doing
on a bicycle.

Daily Painting

Paul Serusier
INCANTATION IN THE HOLY WOOD (1891) 

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

Currently Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org
Hosted by Andrea Murray

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

SURVIVING DESIRE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1992

-

Bonus Shorts:

DOGS (1988)
NYC 3/94 (1994)
THE NEW MATH(S) (2000)

Currently Playing

Marin Marais
DIALOGUES

Mieneke van der Velden
Wieland Kuijken
Fred Jacobs

ITALO CALVINO
Cosmicomics

And, thinking of this judgment I would no longer be able to change, I suddenly felt a kind of relief, as if peace could come to me only after the moment when there would be nothing to add and nothing to remove in that arbitrary ledger of misunderstandings, and the galaxies which were gradually reduced to the last tail of the last luminous ray, winding from the sphere of darkness, seemed to bring with them the only possible truth about myself, and I couldn’t wait until all of them, one after the other, had followed this path.

Daily Painting

Gabrielle Garland
UNTITLED NO. 156 (2018)

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

TRUST
Hal Hartley
USA, 1990

-

Bonus Shorts:

THEORY OF ACHIEVEMENT (1991)
KID (1994)

Currently Playing

Gorillaz
CRACKER ISLAND

ITALO CALVINO
Cosmicomics

When a body succeeds in emitting or in reflecting luminous vibrations in a distinct and recognizable order--I thought--what does it do with these vibrations? Put them in its pocket? No, it releases them on the first passer-by. And how will the latter behave in the face of vibrations he can't utilize and which, taken in this way, might even be annoying? Hide his head in a hole? No, he'll thrust it out in that direction until the point most exposed to the optic vibrations becomes sensitized and develops the mechanism for exploiting them in the form of images. In short, I conceived of the eye-encephalon link as a kind of tunnel dug from the outside by the force of what was ready to become image, rather than from within by the intention of picking up any old image.

Daily Painting

Frank Frazetta
THE DISAGREEMENT (1985)

Currently Watching

[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH

Hal Hartley

USA, 1989

-

Bonus Shorts

THE CARTOGRAPHER'S GIRLFRIEND (1987)

AMBITION (1991)

OPERA NO. 1 (1994)

IRIS (1994)

Currently Playing

Nina SImone

JAZZ AS PLAYED IN AN EXCLUSIVE SIDE STREET CLUB

ITALO CALVINO
Cosmicomics

So our efforts led us to become those perfect objects of a sense whose nature nobody quite knew yet, and which later became perfect precisely through the perfection of its object, which was, in fact, us. I'm talking about sight, the eyes; only I had failed to foresee one thing: the eyes that finally opened to see us didn't belong to us but to others.

Daily Painting(s)

George Bellows
CIFFS AT EDDYVILLE (1920)

Guido Borelli
NOTTE NERA [Date unknown]

Currently Playing

Luigi Boccherini
FANDANGO, SINFONIE, and LA MUSICA NOTTURNA DI MADRID

Rolf Lislevand, José de Udaeta, Bruno Cocset, Manfredo Kraeme, Pablo Valetti

Jordi Savall
Le Concert des Nations

JAMES SCHUYLER

"This Dark Apartment"

____________________

Coming from the deli

a block away today I

saw the UN building

shine and in all the

months and years I’ve

lived in this apartment

I took so you and I

would have a place to

meet I never notice

that it was in my view.

I remember very well

the morning I walked in

and found you in bed

with X. He dressed

and left. You dressed

too. I said, “Stay

five minutes.” You

did. You said, “That’s

the way it is.” It

was not much of a surprise.

Then X got on speed

and ripped off an

antique closet and an

air conditioner, etc.

After he was gone and

you had changed the

Segal lock, I asked

you on the phone, “Can’t

you be content with

your wife and me?” “I’m

not built that way”,

you said. No surprise.

Now, without saying

why, you’ve let me go.

You don’t return my

calls, who used to call

me almost every evening

when I lived in the coun-

try. “Hasn’t he told you

why?” “No, and I doubt he

ever will.” Goodbye. It’s

mysterious and frustrating.

How I wish you would come

back! I could tell

you how, when I lived

on East 49th, first

with Frank and then with John,

we had a lovely view of

the UN building and the

Beekman Towers. They were

not my lovers, though,

You were. You said so.

Daily Painting

Alice Neel
HARTLEY (1965)

Currently Watching
[Never Actually Seen Before Edition]

WHAT DREAMS MAY COME
Vincent Ward
USA, 1998

Currently Watching

[Never Actually Seen Before Edition]

THESE ARE THE DAMNED

Joseph Losey

USA, 1963

Currently Reading

Italo Calvino
THE COMPLETE COSMICOMICS





Currently Playing

Johannes Brahms
CLARINET TRIO IN A MINOR, OP. 114
CLARINET QUINTET IN B MINOR, OP. 115

József Balogh

Jeno Jandó

Csaba Onczay

Danubius String Quartet

ITALO CALVINO
Cosmicomics

I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has become that flat, remote circle, I still look for her as soon as the first sliver appears in the sky, and the more it waxes, the more clearly I imagine I can see her, her or something of her, but only her, in a hundred, a thousand different vistas, she who makes the Moon the Moon and, whenever she is full, sets the dogs to howling all night long, and me with them.

Daily Painting

Martiros Saryan
LOVE. FAIRY-TALE. (1906)

Currently Watching
[Never Actually Seen Before Edition]

SKELETON TWINS
Craig Johnson
USA, 2014