ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1957

Showing posts with label 1957. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1957. Show all posts

Friday, September 12, 2025

Playing

Sonny Rollins
A NIGHT AT THE VILLAGE VANGUARD

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Watching

LE NOTTI BIANCHE
Luchino Visconti
Italy, 1957

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Watching

THE SEVENTH SEAL

[DET SJUNDE INSEGLET]

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden, 1957

Thursday, May 8, 2025

Playing

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
THE COMPLETE 1957 RIVERSIDE RECORDINGS

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Playing

Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk
MULLIGAN MEETS MONK

Thursday, March 27, 2025

JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
Existentialism and Human Emotions

Our responsibility is much greater than we might have supposed, because it involves all mankind.

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JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

Les Séquestrés d'Altona

I hate victims who respect their executioners.

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Playing

Charles Mingus
JAZZ WORKSHOP 1957-1958

Monday, January 13, 2025

SAMUEL BECKETT
All That Fall

Let us halt a moment and let this vile dust fall back upon the viler worms.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Daily Painting

Paul Delvaux
THE CRUCIFIXION (1957)

Friday, November 22, 2024

GEORGES BATAILLE
Blue of Noon

Twenty years later, the boy who used to stick himself with pens was standing under the sky in a foreign street where he had never been, waiting for some unknown, impossible event. There were stars: an infinity of stars. It was absurd - absurd enough to make you scream; but it was a hostile absurdity.

Saturday, October 19, 2024

Daily Painting

Nathan Oliveira
SEATED MAN WITH OBJECT (1957)

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Daily Painting

Jean Dubuffet
PORTRAIT D'HOMME [PORTRAIT OF A MAN] (1957)

Saturday, September 21, 2024

Daily Painting

Frank Sinatra
SELF-PORTRAIT (1957)

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Playing

Martin Denny
EXOTICA

Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Playing

Gerry Mulligan and Thelonious Monk
MULLIGAN MEETS MONK

Thursday, July 25, 2024

Reading

Halldor Laxness
THE FISH CAN SING
[Brekkukotsannáll[

Translated by Magnus Magnusson

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Daily Painting

David Park
NUDE, GREEN

Monday, February 12, 2024

Daily Painting

Delilah Pierce
DC WATERFRONT, MAINE AVENUE (1957)

Monday, January 15, 2024

Currently Playing

Miles Davis
BIRTH OF THE COOL

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Currently Watching

8 HOURS OF TERROR
[HACHIJIKAN NO JYÔFU]
Seijun Suzuki
Japan, 1957

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SOME QUOTES

MARGARET ATWOOD

Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results.

DOROTHY ALLISON

If it’s true, I have the absolute right to terrify you with it.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

I am absolutely convinced that the main source of hate in the world is religion and organized religion. Absolutely convinced of that. And I think it should be - religion - treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt.

So when I say that I think religion poisons everything, I’m not just doing what publishers like and coming up with a provocative subtitle. I mean to say it infects us in our most basic integrity.

It says we can’t be moral without “Big Brother,” without a totalitarian permission. It means we can’t be good to one another without this. It means we must be afraid.

We must also be forced to love someone whom we fear - the essence of sado-masochism, the essence of abjection, the essence of the Master/Slave relationship. And that it knows death is coming, and can’t wait to bring it on.

I say that is Evil.

And though I do, some nights, stay home, I enjoy more the nights when I go out and fight against this ultimate wickedness and this ultimate stupidity.

JACK LONDON

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time living.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

STEPHEN BATCHELOR

It has taken four billion years of evolution to generate this kind of organism with this kind of brain, and yet we wake up in the morning and feel bored. How extraordinary it is to be here at all!

DOROTHY PARKER

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. Now what do we do?

CARL SAGAN

I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues.

When the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.

The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites - now down to 10 seconds or less - lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.