ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 1998

Showing posts with label 1998. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 1998. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Playing

Tina Brooks
BACK TO THE TRACKS

Thursday, December 25, 2025

Playing

ELIZABETHAN CONSORT MUSIC 1558-1603

Jordi Savall
Hespèrion XXI

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Reading

Hanif Kureishi
INTIMACY

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Playing

Thomas Hume
THE SPIRIT OF GAMBO

Emma Kirby
Paolo Pandolfo
Labyrinto

Friday, July 25, 2025

Playing

Kruder & Dorfmeister
THE K & D SESSIONS

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Playing

Lucinda Williams
CAR WHEELS ON A GRAVEL ROAD

Monday, May 26, 2025

Playing

Air
MOON SAFARI
25th Anniversary Edition

Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Daily Painting

Lucian Freud
LARGE INTERIOR, NOTTING HILL (1998)

Saturday, April 19, 2025

Daily Painting

Jenny Saville
HYPHEN (1998-99)

Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Playing

Tôru Takemitsu
FROM ME FLOWS WHAT YOU CALL TIME

Carl St. Clair
Nexus
Pacific Symphony Orchestra

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Watching

AFTER LIFE
[ワンダフルライフ]
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 1998

Saturday, November 9, 2024

Daily Painting

Seppo Tamminen
SPRING IN THE CITY (1998)

Sunday, October 13, 2024

LEON WIESELTIER
Kaddish

Surely it is foolish to hate facts. The struggle against the past is a futile struggle. Acceptance seems so much more like wisdom. I know all this. And yet there are some facts that one must never, never accept. This is not merely an emotional matter. The reason that one must hate certain facts is that one must prepare for the possibility of their return.

If the past were really past, then one might permit oneself an attitude of acceptance, and come away from the study of history with a feeling of serenity. But the past is often only an earlier instantiation of the evil in our hearts. It is not precisely the case that history repeats itself. We repeat history—or we do not repeat it, if we choose to stand in the way of its repetition. For this reason, it is one of the purposes of the study of history that we learn to oppose it.

Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Playing

Outkast
AQUEMINI

Saturday, August 3, 2024

Playing

Elvis Costello with Burt Bacharach
PAINTED FROM MEMORY

Friday, December 29, 2023

Currently Watching

THE FACULTY
Robert Rodriguez
USA, 1998

Friday, September 29, 2023

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

Tuesday, September 26, 2023

Franz Ackermann
UNTITLED (PACIFIC NO. 22 - MR PIGMAN, YOU ARE NOTHING) (1998)

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

Friday, September 22, 2023

Currently Watching
[Hal Hartley Retrospective]

THE BOOK OF LIFE
Hal Hartley
USA, 1998

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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.