ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1983

Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1983. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Playing

The Police
SYNCHRONICITY

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

Playing

Astor Piazzolla
CONCIERTO DE NÁCAR

Monday, March 10, 2025

Daily Painting

Loïs Mailou Jones
INITIATION, LIBERIA (1983)

Monday, March 3, 2025

ITALO CALVINO
The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 130 (1983)

The knowledge of foreign cultures is a vital element of any culture; I don’t believe we can ever have enough of it. A culture must be open to foreign influences if it wants to keep its own creative power alive.

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The full interview is here.

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Playing

Real Life
HEART LAND

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Playing

Eurythmics
TOUCH

Thursday, September 12, 2024

Watching

EL SUR
Víctor Erice
Spain, 1983

Playing

Nandu Muley and Anindo Chatterjee
RAGA AHIR-BHAIRAV / RAGA RAGESREE

Monday, August 26, 2024

Playing

The B-52s
WHAMMY!

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Playing

Howard Devoto
JERKY VERSIONS OF THE DREAM

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Playing

Howard Devoto
JERKY VERSIONS OF THE DREAM

Sunday, June 9, 2024

Currently Playing

Yazoo
UPSTAIRS AT ERIC'S

Yazoo
YOU AND ME BOTH

Saturday, April 13, 2024

Currently Playing

ZZ Top
ELIMINATOR

Monday, March 4, 2024

Currently Playing

Thompson Twins
SIDE KICKS

Friday, February 23, 2024

Currently Playing

JS Bach
THREE OBOE CONCERTOS

Oboe Concerto in F Major, BWV 1053r
Oboe Concerto in A Major, BWV 1055r
Oboe Concerto in D minor, BWV 1059r

Heinz Holliger

Iona Brown
Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE

"Every Sperm is Sacred"

There are Jews in the world

There are Buddhists

There are Hindus and Mormons, and then

There are those that follow Mohammed, but

I've never been one of them

I'm a Roman Catholic,

And have been since before I was born,

And the one thing they say about Catholics is:

They'll take you as soon as you're warm

You don't have to be a six-footer

You don't have to have a great brain

You don't have to have any clothes on You're

A Catholic the moment Dad came,

Because ...

Every sperm is sacred

Every sperm is great

If a sperm is wasted,

God gets quite irate

Let the heathen spill theirs

On the dusty ground

God shall make them pay for

Each sperm that can't be found

Every sperm is wanted

Every sperm is good

Every sperm is needed

In your neighborhood

Hindu, Taoist, Mormon,

Spill theirs just anywhere,

But God loves those who treat their

Semen with more care

Every sperm is useful

Every sperm is fine

God needs everybody's

Mine!

And mine!

And mine!

Let the Pagan spill theirs

O'er mountain, hill, and plain

God shall strike them down for

Each sperm that's spilt in vain

Every sperm is sacred

Every sperm is good

Every sperm is needed

In your neighborhood

Every sperm is sacred

Every sperm is great

If a sperm is wasted,

God gets quite irate

Written by Andre Jacquemin, David Alan Howman, Michael Palin, Terry Jones

Friday, December 29, 2023

Currently Watching

SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Jack Clayton
USA, 1983

Tuesday, December 26, 2023

Currently Watching

BRAINSTORM
Douglas Trumbull
USA, 1983

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Currently Playing

Duran Duran

RIO

Currently Playing

Duran Duran

SEVEN AND THE RAGGED TIGER

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Currently Watching

VIDEODROME
David Cronenberg
Canada, 1983

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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.