ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1989

Showing posts with label 1989. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1989. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 16, 2025

Playing

Ludwig van Beethoven
STRING QUARTET NO. 11 IN F MINOR, OP. 95
STRING QUARTET NO. 9 IN C MAJOR, OP. 59/3

Borodin String Quartet

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Playing

Slowdive
SLOWDIVE

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Daily Painting

Alan Collier
FARMS IN THE VALLEY AT MEADOW CREEK, BC (1989)

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Watching

UNDER THE GLACIER
[KRISTNIHALD UNDIR JÖKLI]
Guðný Halldórsdóttir
Iceland, 1989

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Playing

Voice of the Turtle

FROM THE SHORES OF THE GOLDEN MOON

Music of the Spanish Jews of Turkey

Friday, August 30, 2024

Watching

GODZILLA VS BIOLLANTE
Kazuki Ômori
Japan, 1989

Monday, May 27, 2024

Daily Painting

Sandro Chia
UNTITLED (1989)

Tuesday, April 23, 2024

GABRIELLE GLANCY
"The Way the World Appears"

The water tower poses a challenge. Against
the shadows of the sky are planes of light.
There seems to be no touching, but actually
opening before him there’s a narrowing,
the way the world appears. He thinks he sees a bridge—
cables, a dusty light crossing back and forth
between them. A great geometric pine, silver green,
stretched until its needles are as thin as mist,
millions of tiny dotted lines, connecting
the continents between them. Even the dimmest
contrast of this against that, a page turning,
i. s as sharp as clouds against the sky. But
how can clouds be sharp against the sky since
the sky falls infinitely backwards and clouds are
only the center of an edgeless thought? Still,
through their slow drifting, he can see, like the hour
hand on a clock, the movement of lips in waking,
what he wants always to get himself through.

Thursday, March 7, 2024

Daily Painting

Andrew Wyeth
SNOW HILL (1989)

Friday, January 26, 2024

Daily Painting

Hugh Steers
IN THE PAPER (1989)

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Daily Painting

August Lanin
PROMETHEUS (1989)

Sunday, November 26, 2023

Currently Playing

Francesco Cavalli
GIASONE (1649)

René Jacobs

Agnès Mellon, Bernard Delétré, Catherine Dubosc, Dominique Visse, Gianpaolo Fagotto, Gloria Banditelli, Guy de Mey, Harry van der Kamp, Michael Chance, Michael Schopper, Concerto Vocale

Saturday, June 10, 2023

Currently Watching

[30 Days of The Gays™ Edition]

____________________

TONGUES UNTIED

BLACK MEN LOVING BLACK MEN

Marlon Riggs

USA, 1989

Friday, October 28, 2022

Daily Painting
[Self-portrait Edition]

Julia Kay

SELF-PORTRAIT AS DAVID'S ROOMMATE, WAIGN (1989)

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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.