ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1961

Showing posts with label 1961. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1961. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Reading

Stanisław Lem
SOLARIS

Saturday, October 25, 2025

Playing

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

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Watching

LA NOTTE
Michelangelo Antonioni
Italy, 1961

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Watching

L'ASSASSINO
[THE ASSASSIN]
Elio Petri
Italy, 1961

Friday, June 27, 2025

Playing

Horace Parlan
UP & DOWN

Booker Ervin, Grant Green, George Tucker, and Al Harewood.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Playing

Judy Garland
JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL

Thursday, May 22, 2025

From 1961.

Sunday, April 13, 2025

Playing

John Coltrane
OLÉ COLTRANE

Friday, March 28, 2025

Playing

The John Coltrane Quartet
AFRICA/BRASS

Sunday, January 12, 2025

NANCY
Ernie Bushmiller
January 13, 1961

Monday, November 25, 2024

Watching

TIME OF THE HEATHEN
Peter Kass
USA, 1961

Thursday, November 14, 2024

Reading

Margaret Atwood
PAPER BOAT
New and Selected Poems 1961-2023

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Daily Painting

Victor Brauner
ENDOPROMENEUR (1961)

Sunday, September 8, 2024

Daily Painting

Andrew Wyeth
PERPETUAL CARE (1961)

Thursday, August 1, 2024

Playing

Ella Fitzgerald
TWELVE NIGHTS IN HOLLYWOOD

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Playing

Judy Garland
JUDY AT CARNEGIE HALL

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Watching

THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE
Val Guest
UK, 1961

Monday, April 8, 2024

Currently Watching - 101 Shorts Edition

85. CERAMICS FROM ILZA
[CERAMIKA ILZECKA]
Andrzej Wajda
Poland, 1951

84. THE LAMP
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1959

83. WHEN ANGELS FALL
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1959

82. THE MUSICIANS
Kazimierz Karabasz
Poland, 1960

81. THE FAT AND THE LEAN
Roman Polanski
France, 1961

80. MAMMALS
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1962

Saturday, March 30, 2024

Currently Playing

Brenda Lee
SINCERELY, BRENDA LEE (1961)

Brenda Lee
BRENDA THAT'S ALL (1962)

Friday, March 29, 2024

Currently Playing

Brenda Lee
EMOTIONS (1961)

Brenda Lee
ALL THE WAY (1961)

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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.