Watching

THE HANDMAID’S TALE
Season Five (2022)

Creators
Margaret Atwood, Bruce Miller

Directors
Elizabeth Moss, Dana Gonzales, Eva Vives, Natalia Leite, Bradley Whitford

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CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Imagine going through life this stupid, this delusional.

The red hat hides the lobotomy scar.

Playing

Jason Webley
AGAINST THE NIGHT

GUY DEBORD
Society of the Spectacle

Although fascism rallies to the defense of the main points of bourgeois ideology which has become conservative (the family, property, the moral order, the nation), reuniting the petty-bourgeoisie and the unemployed routed by crisis or deceived by the impotence of socialist revolution, it is not itself fundamentally ideological. It presents itself as it is: a violent resurrection of myth which demands participation in a community defined by archaic pseudo-values: race, blood, the leader.

Fascism is technically-equipped archaism. Its decomposed ersatz of myth is revived in the spectacular context of the most modern means of conditioning and illusion. Thus it is one of the factors in the formation of the modern spectacle, and its role in the destruction of the old workers’ movement makes it one of the fundamental forces of present-day society.

Daily Painting

Andrej Dúbravský
HAVING A BATH TOGETHER (2013)

Watching

GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE
Kazuki Ômori
Japan, 1989

Watching

THE RETURN OF GODZILLA
Koji Hashimoto
Japan, 1984

Playing

Tom Waits
SMALL CHANGE

ALBERT CAMUS

Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.

Daily Painting

Yu Yuan
TWO HORSES (ND - mid-1700s)

Watching

TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA
Ishirô Honda
Japan, 1975

Watching

GODZILLA VS. MECHAGODZILLA
Jun Fukuda
Japan, 1974

James 2:1-4
How can you claim to have faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ if you favor some people over others? … If you give special attention and a good seat to the rich person, but you say to the poor one, ‘You can stand over there, or else sit on the floor’—well, doesn’t this discrimination show that your judgments are guided by evil motives?

Matthew 25:41-45
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: for I was an hungred, and ye gave me no meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me no drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me not in: naked, and ye clothed me not: sick, and in prison, and ye visited me not. Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

Zechariah 7:9-10
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.

Leviticus 19:34
The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

Deuteronomy 27:19
‘Cursed is anyone who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless or the widow.’ Then all the people shall say, ‘Amen!’

Desecration is the act of depriving something of its sacred character, or the disrespectful, contemptuous, or destructive treatment of that which is held to be sacred or holy by a group or individual.

TIMOTHY SNYDER

Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.

Daily Painting

Wang Meng
WRITING BOOKS UNDER THE PINE TREES (ND - mid 1300s)

Watching

GODZILLA MINUS ONE MINUS COLOR
G -1.0/C
Takashi Yamazaki
Japan, 2023

Playing

Cindy Wilson
REALMS

EDNA O'BRIEN
Interview with Philip Roth, The New York Times (1984)

[Roth: Are you surprised that you survived the isolated farm and the violent father and the provincial convent without having lost the freedom of mind to be able to write?]

I am surprised by my own sturdiness - yes; but I do not think that I am unscarred. Such things as driving a car or swimming are quite beyond me. In a lot of ways I feel a cripple. The body was as sacred as a tabernacle and everything a potential occasion of sin. It is funny now, but not that funny - the body contains the life story just as much as the brain. I console myself by thinking that if one part is destroyed another flourishes.

Daily Painting

Xiao Yuncong
ALBUM OF SEASONAL LANDSCAPES - LEAF B (1668)

Watching

THEY HAVE CHANGED THEIR FACE
Corrado Farina
Italy, 1971

Watching

DANZA MACABRA
[US Version: CASTLE OF BLOOD]
Antonio Margheriti
Italy, 1964

Robert Kennedy, Jr. - Because Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene need someone to laugh at.

"Sold. To the gentleman in the back with the 80s shoulder pads and orange paint spill on his face."

Playing

Billy Joel
GLASS HOUSES

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

The great man of the masses. It is easy to give the recipe for what the masses call a great man. By all means, supply them with something that they find very pleasant, or, first, put the idea into their heads that this or that would be very pleasant, and then give it to them. But on no account immediately: let it rather be won with great exertion, or let it seem so.

The masses must have the impression that a mighty, indeed invincible, strength of will is present; at least it must be seen to be there. Everyone admires a strong will, because no one has it, and everyone tells himself that, if he had it, there would be no more limits for him and his egoism. Now, if it appears that this strong will is producing something very unpleasant for the masses, instead of listening to its own covetous desires, then everyone admires it all the more, and congratulates himself.

For the rest, let him have all the characteristics of the masses: the less they are ashamed before him, the more popular he is. So, let him be violent, envious, exploitative, scheming, fawning, grovelling, puffed up, or, according to the circumstances, all of the above.

Daily Painting

Stuart Davis
MEMO (1960)

Watching

ODDITY
Damian McCarthy
Ireland, 2024

Watching

CAVEAT
Damian McCarthy
Ireland, 2020

Size does matter, Donnie.

Playing

The B-52s
BOUNCING OFF THE SATELLITES

Playing

The B-52s
WHAMMY!

FRED SCHNEIDER

I had no skills. I was just happy to be in a band.

Daily Painting

Hubert Robert
WASHERWOMEN (1796)

Reading

Adam Moss
THE WORK OF ART
How Something Comes from Nothing

Yeah, Alex. What would happen if President Biden uses his Supreme Court endorsed immunity from prosecution for "official acts in service of the office when MAGA stages another terrorist attack against our nation?

Playing

Gorō Yamaguchi
A BELL RINGING IN THE EMPTY SKY
Japanese Shakuhachi Music

Playing

Katsuya Yokoyama
THE ART OF THE SHAKUHACHI

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

We keep being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and - perhaps above all - more stupid.

Daily Painting

Adolph von Menzel
THE STUDIO WALL (1872)

Watching

THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA
Manoel de Oliveira
Portugal, 2010

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CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Playing

Nanae Yoshimura
ART OF THE KOTO - VOL 3
WORKS FOR NIJŪGEN

Daily Painting

Ilya Yefimovich Repin
PORTRAIT OF MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1881)

Playing

SEPHARDIC ROMANCES
Traditional Jewish Music from Spain

Thomas Wimmer
Ensemble Accentus

MAURICE SENDAK

Even as a kid, my sister, who was the eldest, brought books home for me, and I think I spent more time sniffing and touching them than reading. I just remember the joy of the book, the beauty of the binding. The smelling of the interior. Happy.

Daily Painting

Jean-Michel Basquiat
UNTITLED [CADMIUM] (1984)

Currently Watching

WHEN EVIL LURKS
[CUANDO ACECHA LA MALDAD]
Demián Rugna
Argentina, 2023

 

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The Infamous Stringdusters
LADIES & GENTLEMEN