ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1960

Showing posts with label 1960. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1960. Show all posts

Thursday, December 18, 2025

Playing

Ben Webster & Gerry Mulligan
GERRY MULLIGAN MEETS BEN WEBSTER

Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Daily Painting

Vlastimil Beneš
VRŠOVICE GARDENS IN WINTER (1960)

Friday, September 5, 2025

Daily Painting

Albert Tucker
EXPLORERS, BURKE AND WILLS (1960)

Monday, September 1, 2025

Daily Painting

Eva Hesse
UNTITLED (1960)

Monday, August 4, 2025

Playing

Charles Mingus
MINGUS IN ANTIBES
With Ted Curson, Eric Dolphy, Booker Ervin, Dannie Richmond
Special Guest Bud Powell

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Watching

ADUA AND HER FRIENDS
[ADUA E LE COMPAGNE]
Antonio Pietrangeli
Italy, 1960

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Daily Painting

Milton Avery
DUNES AND SEA II (1960)

Friday, June 6, 2025

Reading

James Baldwin
ANOTHER COUNTRY

Friday, May 30, 2025

Playing

Booker Ervin Quintet
COOKIN'

Playing

Booker Ervin
THE BOOK COOKS

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Daily Painting

Nathan Oliveira
SEATED MAN (1960)

Friday, March 28, 2025

Daily Painting

Robert McGinnis
MURDER ME FOR NICKELS (1960)

Cover Art for the novel by Peter Rabe

Sunday, February 2, 2025

Playing

Ben Webster and Oscar Peterson
BEN WEBSTER MEETS OSCAR PETERSON

Friday, January 31, 2025

Watching

PRIVATE PROPERTY
Leslie Stevens
USA, 1960

Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Daily Painting

Saul Leiter
SNOW (1960)

Monday, December 23, 2024

Nancy - December 23, 1960

Sunday, December 22, 2024

Playing

Ella Fitzgerald
ELLA WISHES YOU A SWINGING CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 20, 2024

Daily Painting

Robert Rauschenberg
CANTO XIV/ CIRCLE SEVEN, ROUND 3, THE VIOLENT AGAINST GOD, NATURE, AND ART (1959-60)
From the series Thirty-Four Illustrations for Dante's Inferno

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Watching
HorrorFest 2024

PEEPING TOM
Michael Powell
UK, 1960

Friday, September 20, 2024

Watching

THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH
Roger Corman
USA, 1960

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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.