ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1958

Showing posts with label 1958. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1958. Show all posts

Sunday, January 11, 2026

Daily Painting

Bernard Buffet
HIBOU OU LE GRAND DUC (1958)

Thursday, September 18, 2025

Daily Painting

Cyril Cox
LATE AFTERNOON LIGHT (1958)

Saturday, September 13, 2025

Playing

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers
MOANIN'

Monday, July 21, 2025

Daily Painting

Joan Eardley
SETTING SUN (1958)

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Daily Painting

Zdenek Burian
MAGIC RITES (1958)

Tuesday, March 25, 2025

Playing

Charles Mingus
JAZZ WORKSHOP 1957-1958

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Playing

John Coltrane
BLUE TRAIN
The Complete Masters

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Daily Painting

Alberto Giacometti
STILL LIFE WITH BOTTLES (1958)

Friday, November 1, 2024

Reading

Friedrich Dürrenmatt
THE PLEDGE
[DAS VERSPRECHEN]

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Playing

Martin Denny
EXOTICA - VOLUME II

Wednesday, September 4, 2024

Playing

Martin Denny
PRIMITIVA

Thursday, May 9, 2024

Currently Playing

Count Basie and the Count Basie Orchestra
THE ATOMIC MR. BASIE

Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Daily Painting

Virgil Finlay
Cover Art for Fantastic Universe Science Fiction, October 1958

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

Daily Painting

Eliot Hodgkin
PEELED LEMONS (1958)

Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Currently Playing

Count Basie
THE ATOMIC MR. BASIE

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Currently Playing

Thelonious Monk Quartet
MISTERIOSO

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Currently Watching:

BIG DEAL ON MADONNA STREET
Mario Monicelli
Italy, 1958

Daily Painting

Tilsa Tsuchiya
CEMENTERIO (1958)

Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Currently Reading

Jean Genet

THE BALCONY

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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.