Friday, January 31, 2025

Watching

PRIVATE PROPERTY
Leslie Stevens
USA, 1960




Reading

Sonam Thakchoe
THE TWO TRUTHS IN INDIAN BUDDHISM
Reality, Knowledge, and Freedom

Marianne Faithfull
(1946-2025)

Playing

Broadcast
BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO
Original Soundtrack


ANNA SWIR
"A Double Rapture"

Because there is no me
and because I feel
how much there is no me.



Daily Painting

Per Kirkeby
BJERGET [MOUNTAIN] (1967)

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Watching

THE BEAST MUST DIE
[LA BESTIA DEBE MORIR]

Román Viñoly Barreto
Argentina, 1952




Making America Great Again Again.




Do the children go to Guantanamo too, or do they get their own concentration camps?

Playing

Pancho Vladigerov
STRING CONCERTOS

Alexander Vladigerov

Georgi Badev, Dina Schneidermann, Ventseslav Nikolov
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra


LEONARD COHEN
"Everybody Knows"

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That's how it goes
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died
Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long-stem rose
Everybody knows

Everybody knows that you love me baby
Everybody knows that you really do
Everybody knows that you've been faithful
Ah, give or take a night or two
Everybody knows you've been discreet
But there were so many people you just had to meet
Without your clothes
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that it's now or never
Everybody knows that it's me or you
And everybody knows that you live forever
Ah, when you've done a line or two
Everybody knows the deal is rotten
Old Black Joe's still pickin' cotton
For your ribbons and bows
And everybody knows

And everybody knows that the Plague is coming
Everybody knows that it's moving fast
Everybody knows that the naked man and woman
Are just a shining artifact of the past
Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows

And everybody knows that you're in trouble
Everybody knows what you've been through
From the bloody cross on top of Calvary
To the beach of Malibu
Everybody knows it's coming apart
Take one last look at this Sacred Heart
Before it blows
And everybody knows

Everybody knows
That's how it goes
Everybody knows



Daily Painting

Jim Dine
FIVE FEET OF COLORFUL (1962)

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Watching

THE WHITE REINDEER
[VALKOINEN PEURA]

Erik Blomberg
Finland, 1952




Watching

BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING
Christiane Cegavske
USA, 2006




A fucking nazi is a fucking nazi is a fucking nazi.

Playing

Dave Soldier and Richard Lair
THAI ELEPHANT ORCHESTRA


CONSTANTINE P. CAVAFY
“Morning Sea”

Here let me stop. Let me too look at Nature for a while.
The morning sea and cloudless sky
a brilliant blue, the yellow shore: all
illuminated, beautiful and grand.

Here let me stop. Let me pretend that these are what I see
(I really saw them for a moment when I first stopped)
instead of seeing, even here, my fantasies,
my recollections, the icons of pleasure.


Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn



Daily Painting

Paul Gustave Fischer
WINTER DAY IN KRYSTALGADE (1894)

Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Watching

SEIRE
Park Kang
Korea, 2021



Playing

Ian Bostridge
JS BACH - CANTATAS AND ARIAS

Fabio Biondi
Europa Galante


ALEKSANDAR RISTOVIĆ
"Happiness"

The mouse is golden,
and so is the turtle, and the spider,
and even the centipede,
and the pebble with which you try
to get rid of it
without leaving your seat,
from which one can observe many other
things and golden beings.


Translated by Charles Simic



Daily Painting

Robert Rauschenberg
RHYME (1956)

Monday, January 27, 2025

Watching

THE PETRIFIED FOREST
Archie L. Mayo
USA, 1936




Watching

OF HUMAN BONDAGE
John Cromwell
USA, 1934


Playing

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
JASON ISBELL AND THE 400 UNIT


JOHN KEATS
“I had a dove, and the sweet dove died”

I had a dove, and the sweet dove died
And I have thought it died of grieving;
O what could it grieve for? Its feet were tied
With a silken thread of my own hand’s weaving:
Sweet little red feet! why would you die?
Why would you leave me, sweet bird, why?
You liv’d alone on the forest tree,
Why, pretty thing, could you not live with me?
I kiss’d you oft, and gave you white pease;

Why not live sweetly as in the green trees?



Daily Painting

Watanabe Seitei
DUCKS IN THE RUSHES (1897)

Marty Two Bulls ... From FIVE years ago.

Sunday, January 26, 2025

Watching

LIBERTATE
[FREEDOM]

Tudor Giurgiu
Romania, 2023

Watching

WILDCAT
Ethan Hawke
USA, 2023


Reading

Adolfo Bioy Cesares
THE INVENTION OF MOREL AND OTHER STORIES

Translated by Ruth L. C. Simms

Y'all need to get your fucking heads out of the fucking sand.

Playing

Leonard Cohen
LIVE IN DUBLIN
September 12, 2013


GEORGE ORWELL
1984

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.

Daily Painting

Maurice Utrillo
LE LAPIN AGILE (1938)

Saturday, January 25, 2025

Watching

SUNDELBOLONG
Sisworo Gautama Putra
Indonesia, 1981




Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Thoughts and prayers, Princess Tiny Meat.

No matter what happens in the coming months and years, PLEASE do not ever let a single third party voter try to rewrite history with the filthy lie that they didn't actively, enthusiastically, and personally choose Pete Hegseth as the leader of the US military.


Playing at AllClassical.org (98.9 in PDX)

Giuseppe Verdi
AIDA

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Angel Blue, Piotr Beczała, Judit Kutasi , Quinn Kelsey, Dmitry Belosselskiy, Morris Robinson


How can they win?

By getting us to flail over endless individual crimes while missing the big picture.

Everything is connected. Canada, pardoning J6 terrorists, Panama Canal, ICE, Indigenous Americans, Hegseth, LGBTQ+, eating cats, salutes, etc.

All gasoline on smoldering White Nationalism.

Then they force an economic collapse. A nation of starving people with no healthcare and no hope does not resist. It turns to the self-proclaimed, christian-endorsed savior as the only way out.

"I alone can fix it ... with MY well-armed regional nazis and MY prosecution-immune law enforcement."

Here we are on the precipice staring at a tsunami of evil the US has never seen nor contemplated. What do we do?

Do we sit next to Winston, head down, at The Ministry of Truth, or do we ready ourselves as one and fight a battle that only ends with the utter destruction of one side or the other?

Playing

Radiohead
THE BENDS


GEORGE ORWELL
1984

Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain.

The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything.

Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer.

In the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now.

There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed.

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always - do not forget this, Winston - always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.






Daily Painting

Maurice Denis
A SNOWY GARDEN (1909)