Friday, January 3, 2025

Watching

TIMESTALKER
Alice Lowe
UK, 2024


Reading

Timothy Snyder
ON FREEDOM



Playing

Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith
A COSMIC RHYTHM WITH EACH STROKE


LANGSTON HUGHES
“Harlem”

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore—
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over—
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?


Daily Painting

Donato Creti
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS - MERCURY (1711)

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Watching

I SAW THE TV GLOW
Jane Schoenbrun
USA, 2024

Watching

WE'RE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD'S FAIR
Jane Schoenbrun
USA, 2021

Playing

Johann Sebastian Bach
VOICES OF BACH
Works for Oboe, Choir, and Orchestra

Albrecht Mayer
English Consort
Trinity Baroque


DANIEL ZHU
"Trust" (Inspired by "Harlem" by Langston Hughes)


What happens to trust vanished?
Does it reappear
Out of thin air?
Does it painfully regrow
like a half-alive tree?
Does it haunt you-
A ghost in your dreams?
Does it leave you as empty-
nothing but a shell?
Does it destroy you and
Crush you underfoot?

Or does it leave you wondering
If trust
Can be attained
At all?



Daily Painting

Donato Creti
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS - MARS (1711)

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

Watching

DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES
Kevin Kopacka
Germany, 2021

Playing

Duke Ellington
THE REPRISE STUDIO RECORDINGS (1962-65)


WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS

I am not one of those weak-spirited, sappy Americans who want to be liked by all the people around them. I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it. My affections, being concentrated over a few people, are not spread all over Hell in a vile attempt to placate sulky, worthless shits.



Daily Painting

Donato Creti
ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATIONS - THE MOON (1711)