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QUEEN OF THE STARDUST BALLROOM
Sam O'Steen
USA, 1975
Monday, September 30, 2024
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Sunday, September 29, 2024
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WILLIAM FAULKNER
[The ringèd moon sits eerily]
The ringèd moon sits eerily
Like a mad woman in the sky,
Dropping flat hands to caress
The far world’s shaggy flanks and breast,
Plunging white hands in the glade
Elbow deep in leafy shade
Where birds sleep in each silent brake
Silverly, there to wake
The quivering loud nightingales
Whose cries like scattered silver sails
Spread across the azure sea.
Her hands also caress me:
My keen heart also does she dare;
While turning always through the skies
Her white feet mirrored in my eyes
Weave a snare about my brain
Unbreakable by surge or strain,
For the moon is mad, for she is old,
And many’s the bead of a life she’s told;
And many’s the fair one she’s seen wither:
They pass, they pass, and know not whither.
The hushèd earth, so calm, so old,
Dreams beneath its heath and wold—
And heavy scent from thorny hedge
Paused and snowy on the edge
Of some dark ravine, from where
Mists as soft and thick as hair
Float silver in the moon.
Stars sweep down—or are they stars?—
Against the pines’ dark etchèd bars.
Along a brooding moon-wet hill
Dogwood shine so cool and still,
Like hands that, palm up, rigid lie
In invocation to the sky
As they spread there, frozen white,
Upon the velvet of the night.
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Saturday, September 28, 2024
WILLIAM FAULKNER
[The ringèd moon sits eerily]
The ringèd moon sits eerily
Like a mad woman in the sky,
Dropping flat hands to caress
The far world’s shaggy flanks and breast,
Plunging white hands in the glade
Elbow deep in leafy shade
Where birds sleep in each silent brake
Silverly, there to wake
The quivering loud nightingales
Whose cries like scattered silver sails
Spread across the azure sea.
Her hands also caress me:
My keen heart also does she dare;
While turning always through the skies
Her white feet mirrored in my eyes
Weave a snare about my brain
Unbreakable by surge or strain,
For the moon is mad, for she is old,
And many’s the bead of a life she’s told;
And many’s the fair one she’s seen wither:
They pass, they pass, and know not whither.
The hushèd earth, so calm, so old,
Dreams beneath its heath and wold—
And heavy scent from thorny hedge
Paused and snowy on the edge
Of some dark ravine, from where
Mists as soft and thick as hair
Float silver in the moon.
Stars sweep down—or are they stars?—
Against the pines’ dark etchèd bars.
Along a brooding moon-wet hill
Dogwood shine so cool and still,
Like hands that, palm up, rigid lie
In invocation to the sky
As they spread there, frozen white,
Upon the velvet of the night.
"WHAT DID DEMENTIA DONNIE SAY TODAY?"
QUESTION:
What action will you take to ensure that our jobs stay in America so that we can continue to build the best cars in the world here in Michigan?
DONALD TRUMP:
So, pretty much as we've been saying - and what I want to do is I want to be able to - look your business years ago - this area, I was honored as the man of the year was maybe 20 years ago - oh, and the fake news heard about it, they said it never happened it never happened and and I didn't know who it was, who was a group that honored me, as man of the year, the fakers back there - see the fake news - but they said they said, oh, and they looked and it, you know, they said, it never happened, but I said, I swear to you, it happened, it did happen - I always been to the year and I came and I made a speech and I said, why do you allow them to take your car business away? What are you allow it to happen? They're taking your business away and I didn't know too much about all I know is they were taking your car industry away from you - they said it never happened and lo and behold, somebody said, I remember the event - and then we found out and we had everything - we got the awards, we had everything - it did happen - but I gave a speech, which at the time was pretty controversial.
Friday, September 27, 2024
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Playing
Charles Avison
CONCERTI GROSSI (BASED ON SONATAS BY DOMENICO SCARLATTI)
Ignacio Prego
Tiento Nuovo
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- Charles Avison - Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti No. 9 in C Major
- Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata K87 in B minor
- Charles Avison - Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti No. 12 in D Major
- Charles Avison - Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti No. 5 in D minor
- Charles Avison - Concerto Grosso after Scarlatti No. 6 in D Major
- Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata K27 in B minor
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
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FRANZ KAFKA
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to.
But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
ERICH FROMM
Escape From Freedom
Only if man masters society and subordinates the economic machine to the purposes of human happiness, and only if he actively participates in the social process, can he overcome what now drives him into despair — his aloneness and his feeling of powerlessness. Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning. The victory over all kinds of authoritarian systems will be possible only if democracy does not retreat but takes the offensive and proceeds to realize what has been its aim in the minds of those who fought for freedom during the past centuries.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2024
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Monday, September 23, 2024
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THOMAS MANN
Doctor Faustus
It is only annoying - if you don't want to call it pleasant - that in music - at least in music - there are things for which, even with the best will in the world, no truly characterizing adjective, or combination of adjectives, can be found in the whole realm of language. I have been struggling with this for a few days - you cannot find an adequate term for the spirit, the attitude, the gesture of this theme. Because there is a lot of gesture in it. Tragically bold? Defiant, emphatic, the spirit driven to the sublime? All of this is not good. And 'splendid'! Of course, that is just a silly capitulation. In the end you end up with the factual prescription, the name: Allegro appassionato, that is the best.
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Sunday, September 22, 2024
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Playing
Ciro Ferrigno
RE-ESISTENZE [CHAMBER MUSIC]
Performers: Carlo Termini, Ciro Ferrigno, Davide Navelli, Domenico Sarcina, Francesco Capocotta, Francesco Maria Navelli, Giuseppe Navelli, Kansax Quartet, Lorenzo Ceriani, Mario Tammaro, Neapolis Brass Ensemble, Olga Laudonia, Salvatore Lombardo, Silvia Bellio, Simona Padula
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- Quatuor a corde pour la tin de l'humanite a J.P. Assange
- Quetzalcoati Fantasy for Flute and Piano
- A Legend, Elegia for Double Bass and Piano
- Suite for Piano
- Tre personaggi alla ricerca di un Oboe
- Two Variations on a Theme from the Afterlife
- Sonata for Trumpet and Piano
- Four Miniatures for Sax Quartet
- Three Vocalise for Trombone and Piano
- Don Domineo Scarlati in Signono
THOMAS MANN
Doctor Faustus
It seems to me, however, that despite the logical, moral rigor music may appear to display, it belongs to a world of spirits, for whose absolute reliability in matters of human reason and dignity I would not exactly want to put my hand in the fire. That I am nevertheless devoted to it with all my heart is one of those contradictions which, whether a cause for joy or regret, are inseparable from human nature.
Saturday, September 21, 2024
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THOMAS MANN
Doctor Faustus
Nature in her creative dreaming, dreamt the same thing both here and there, and if one spoke of imitation, then certainly it had to be reciprocal. Should one take the children of the soil as models because they possessed the depth of organic reality, whereas the ice flowers were mere external phenomena? But as phenomena, they were the result of an interplay of matter no less complex than that found in plants.
If I understood our friendly host correctly, what concerned him was the unity of animate and so-called inanimate nature, the idea that we sin against the latter if the boundary we draw between the two spheres is too rigid, when in reality it is porous, since there is no elementary capability that is reserved exclusively for living creatures or that the biologist could not likewise study on inanimate models.
Friday, September 20, 2024
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THOMAS MANN
Doctor Faustus
This was in fact the book's crude and intriguing prophecy: that henceforth popular myths, or better, myths trimmed for the masses, would be the vehicle of political action--fables, chimeras, phantasms that needed to have nothing whatever to do with truth, reason, or science in order to be productive nonetheless, to determine life and history, and thereby to prove themselves dynamic realities.
It made it possible to understand that truth's fate was closely related to that of the individual, indeed identical with it--and that fate was devaluation. The book opened a sardonic rift between truth and power, truth and life, truth and community. Its implicit message was that community deserved far greater precedence, that truth's goal was community, and that whoever wished to be part of the community must be prepared to jettison major portions of truth and science, to make the sacrificium intellectus.
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