ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1990

Showing posts with label 1990. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1990. Show all posts

Sunday, December 21, 2025

Playing

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & Tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
GLING-GLO

Sunday, June 29, 2025

Daily Painting

Luc Tuymans
SOLITUDE (1990)

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Playing

Toad the Wet Sprocket
PALE

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Playing

Tôru Takemitsu
FROM ME FLOWS WHAT YOU CALL TIME

Carl St. Clair
Nexus
Pacific Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, February 9, 2025

Playing

Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass
PASSAGES

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Watching

WHAT'S UP CONNECTION

Masashi Yamamoto

Hong Kang/Japan, 1990

Sunday, November 3, 2024

Watching

TWILIGHT
[SZÜRKÜLET]
György Fehér
Hungary, 1990

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Playing

Johannes Brahms
THE PIANO QUARTETS

- Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
- Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
- Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

Friday, June 7, 2024

Currently Watching

CHILLERS
"Something You Have to Live With"
John Berry
France, 1990

Monday, May 20, 2024

Currently Playing

Concrete Blonde
BLOODLETTING

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Currently Playing

Björk Guðmundsdóttir & tríó Guðmundar Ingólfssonar
GLING-GLÓ

Monday, April 1, 2024

Currently Playing

A Tribe Called Quest
PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS AND THE PATHS OF RHYTHM

Monday, March 25, 2024

Currently Playing

The Turtles
TWENTY GREATEST HITS

Monday, March 4, 2024

Daily Painting

Nathan Oliveira
FIGURE [BABOON] (1990)

Saturday, February 24, 2024

My concerns are global.

For those who celebrate ...

HAPPY TWIN PEAKS DAY!

Friday, February 9, 2024

Currently Playing

a-ha
EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON

Friday, February 2, 2024

Currently Playing

Philippe le Chancelier
SCHOOL OF NOTRE DAME

Sequentia
Ensemble für Musik des Mittelalters

Monday, January 8, 2024

HERMAN MEVILLE
Moby Dick

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.

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I know I have a 12-year-old's sense of humor most of the time and I've read Moby Dick twice, but also ... I cannot see or read the words "Moby Dick" without remembering Men On Books from In Living Color (1990):

Antoine Merriweather:
Now we come to our last book, which is my personal favorite. This one is called Moby Dick.

Blaine Edwards:
Open the portholes, there's a man overboard. I get goose pimply just thinking about that big Mister Moby.

Antoine:
Uh, red light. Uh, 'scuse me. Mister Moby is a whale.

Blaine:
I bet he is.

Antoine:
You know I really got wrapped up in this story. A man out on the open sea, danger lurking around every corner, and them all snuggled up in those tiny little cabins. Just made me want to hoist my sails and shove off with them.

Well, that's our show for tonight.

Blaine:
Yes, join us next week when we'll be reviewing some of Dickins.

Antoine:
Yes, we'll be talking about the classic A Tale of Two Cities.

Blaine:
I hope one of them is San Francisco.

Antoice:
Bye, bye.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Currently Watching

DEF BY TEMPTATION
James Bond III
USA, 1990

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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.