Playing

Nam Hye-seung
BULGASAL - IMMORTAL SOULS
Original Soundtrack

Featuring Jeon Jong-hyuk, Kim Woo-jung, Jeon Jong-hoon, Cheon Min-jeong, Won Ye-na, Kim Soo-hyun, Kim Kyung-hee, Janet Suhh, Minseo, 4MEN, Kim Yeji, Kardi

IVOR GURNEY
"Ballad of the Three Spectres"

As I went up by Ovillers
   In mud and water cold to the knee,
There went three jeering, fleering spectres,
   That walked abreast and talked of me.

The first said, ‘Here’s a right brave soldier
   That walks the dark unfearingly;
Soon he’ll come back on a fine stretcher,
   And laughing for a nice Blighty.’

The second, ‘Read his face, old comrade,
   No kind of lucky chance I see;
One day he’ll freeze in mud to the marrow,
   Then look his last on Picardie.’

Though bitter the word of these first twain
   Curses the third spat venomously;
‘He’ll stay untouched till the war’s last dawning
   Then live one hour of agony.’

Liars the first two were. Behold me
   At sloping arms by one – two – three;
Waiting the time I shall discover
   Whether the third spake verity.

Daily Painting

Mia Bergeron
THE EMPTY ROOM (2016)

Playing

Víkingur Ólafsson
DEBUSSY - RAMEAU

SAM SHEPARD
Fool for Love

I missed you. I did. I missed you more than anything I ever missed in my whole life. I kept thinkin’ about you the whole time I was driving. Kept seeing you. Sometimes just a part of you.

Daily Painting

Alan Reynolds
SUMMER: YOUNG SEPTEMBER'S CORNFIELD (1954)

Playing

Dolly Parton and Family
SMOKY MOUNTAIN DNA - FAMILY, FAITH, AND FABLES

VERA BRITTAIN
Testament of Youth

It is quite impossible to understand,’ I commented afterwards, ‘how we can be such strong individualists, so insistent on the rights and claims of every human soul, and yet at the same time countenance (even take quite calmly) this wholesale murder, which if it were applied to animals or birds or indeed anything except men would fill us with a sickness and repulsion greater than we could endure.

Daily Painting

Léon Spilliaert
A FOREST (1934)

Playing

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
SONGS ON AN OTHER

DŌGEN

Enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water.
The moon does not get wet, nor is the water broken.
Although its light is wide and great,
The moon is reflected even in a puddle an inch wide.
The whole moon and the entire sky
Are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Daily Painting

Migishi Kōtarō
AUTUMN (2002)

Watching

THE VOURDALAK
Adrien Beau
France, 2023

Playing

Karen Geoghegan
PLAYS MOZART, ROSSINI, KREUTZER, CRUSELL

Gianandrea Noseda
BBC Philharmonic

WILFRED OWEN

All a poet can do today is warn.

Daily Painting

Wassily Kandinsky
AUTUMN IN MURNAU (1908)

Watching

TRIANGLE
Christopher Smith
UK/Australia, 2009

Playing

Charlie Parker
A STUDIO CHRONICLE 1940-1948

Disc One - 1940-1941
Witchita, Dallas, New York, Kansas

Disc Five - 1947-1948
New York, Detroit

VERA BRITTAIN
Testament of Youth

To my amazement, taut and tearless as I was, I saw him hastily mop his eyes with his handkerchief, and in that moment, when it was too late to respond or to show that I understood, I realised how much more he cared for me than I had supposed or he had ever shown. I felt, too, so bitterly sorry for him because he had to fight against his tears while I had no wish to cry at all, and the intolerable longing to comfort him when there was no more time in which to do it made me furious with the frantic pain of impotent desire.

And then, all at once, the whistle sounded again and the train started. As the noisy group moved away from the door he sprang on to the footboard, clung to my hand and, drawing my face down to his, kissed my lips in a sudden vehemence of despair. And I kissed his, and just managed to whisper 'Good-bye!' The next moment he was walking rapidly down the platform, with his head bent and his face very pale. Although I had said that I would not, I stood by the door as the train left the station and watched him moving through the crowd. But he never turned again.

Daily Painting

John Bellany
PORQUOI (1967)

Watching

KRIYA
Sidharth Srinivasan
India, 2020

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

Playing

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
FIRST FLIGHT TO TOKYO: THE LOST 1961 RECORDINGS

VERA BRITTAIN
Testament of Youth

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think - which is fundamentally a moral problem - must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process.

Daily Painting

Leonora Carrington
BIRD BATH (1978)

Watching

TO KILL THE BEAST
[MATAR A LA BESTIA]
Agustina San Martin
Argentina, 2021

Tamara Rocca, Ana Brun, João Miguel

Playing

Metro Boomin'
HEROES AND VILLAINS

WILFRED OWEN
"The Parable of the Old Man and the Young"

So Abram rose, and clave the wood, and went,
And took the fire with him, and a knife.
And as they sojourned both of them together,
Isaac the first-born spake and said, My Father,
Behold the preparations, fire and iron,
But where the lamb for this burnt-offering?
Then Abram bound the youth with belts and straps,
and builded parapets and trenches there,
And stretchèd forth the knife to slay his son.
When lo! an angel called him out of heaven,
Saying, Lay not thy hand upon the lad,
Neither do anything to him. Behold,
A ram, caught in a thicket by its horns;
Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.
But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one.

Daily Painting

John Sten
AUTUMN LANDSCAPE (1906)

Watching

ABRUPTIO
Evan Marlowe
USA, 2023

Playing

Robert Fuchs
SERENADES NOS 3, 4, 5 FOR STRING ORCHESTRA, OP. 14

Christian Ludwig
Cologne Chamber Orchestra

UMBERTO SABA
“The Little Tree”

It’s raining hard today.
The day is more like night,
the spring is more like fall,
and in the yard a driving wind lays waste
to the little tree that, seeming not to, stands
steady and firm; it seems among the plants
like a too-green adolescent grown too tall.
You watch it. It may be
your pity stirs for all of those white flowers
the north wind strips from it; and they are fruit,
sweet preserves we set
aside for winter, those fallen flowers spread
across the grass. And your vast maternity
aches for them, all.

Daily Painting

Cy Twombly
NIGHT WATCH (1966)

Watching

THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL
Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Lee Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes
Around the World, 2019

Playing

Warsaw Village Band
WATERDUCTION

BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY
“Ebb Tide”

First the tide rushes in
Plants a kiss on the shore
Then goes out to sea
And the sea is very still once more

So I rush to your side
Like the oncoming tide
With one burning thought:
Will your arms open wide?

At last we’re face to face
And as we kiss through an embrace
I can tell, I can feel you are loved
You are really, really mine
In the rain, in the dark, in the sun

Like the tide at its ebb
I’m at peace in the web
Of your heart’s arms
Of your arms

Daily Painting

Sandra Blow
SPACE AND MATTER (1959)

Watching

√964 PINOCCHIO
[ピノキオ√964]
Shozin Fukui
Japan, 1991

Reading

Vera Brittain
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH

Playing

Hank Mobley
THE COMPLETE HANK MOBLEY BLUE NOTE SESSIONS 1963-1970

HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick

Let it continue hanging there a while till we can get a chance to attend to it.

Daily Painting

Léon Spilliaert
POND IN AUTUMN (1929)

Watching

FLUX GOURMET
Peter Strickland
UK, 2022

Playing

Various Artists
PLANET SQUEEZEBOX
Accordion Music From Around the World

TAO YUANMING

Success and failure? No known address.
This or that goes on, depending on the other.
And who can say if Milord Shao was happier
ruling a city, or sacked, his excellent melon patch?
Hot, cold, summer, winter: don’t they alternate?
Mayn’t a man’s way wander on just so?
Yes, those who “get there” know their opportunities…
have learned to untie the knots of knowledge.
But was it the notable or the notorious that our Sage spoke of?
The latter he called opportunists. Those who get there, doubtless,
know doubt nor care no more. Yet, doubt you not, nor do dead generals,
who plotted carefully at what seemed opportune,
and knew naught, right or wrong.
If, of a sudden, you’re offered fine wine,
let the sun sink. Enjoy it.

Daily Painting

William Gropper
THE CRITIC (1946) 

Watching

FROM BEYOND
Stuart Gordon
USA, 1986

Watching

RE-ANIMATOR
Stuart Gordon
USA, 1985

Playing

Tomáš Svoboda
THREE QUARTETS

Delgani String Quartet

IRIS MURDOCH
The Message to the Planet

Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.

Daily Painting

Jacques de Tonnancour
PRÈS DU LAC (1956)

Watching

THE FACE OF ANOTHER
[他人の顔]
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Japan, 1968

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

They'll come for you, too. No matter how hard you try to hide within them, they'll come for you, too.

NO KINGS
October 18, 2025

-

Seen in Portland, OR - Photographer unknown to me.

Playing

The Cranberries
NO NEED TO ARGUE

STEPHEN STILLS
"For What It's Worth"

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
A-telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Are getting so much resistance from behind

Time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and a-carrying signs
Mostly say hooray for our side

It's time we stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
Step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
We better stop
Hey, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
We better stop now
What's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down
We better stop
Children, what's that sound?
Everybody look what's going down

URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed

It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is. You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.

Daily Painting

Tamara de Lempicka
THE REFUGEES (1931) 

Watching

NIGHTSIREN
[SVETLONOC]
Tereza Nvotová
Slovakia/Czech Republic, 2022

Playing

The Cranberries
EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT, SO WHY CAN'T WE?