ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2001

Showing posts with label 2001. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2001. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Playing

Hem
RABBIT SONGS

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Watching

GYPSY 83
Todd Stephens
USA, 2001

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Playing

Björk
VESPERTINE

Thursday, May 15, 2025

Watching

WARM WATER UNDER A RED BRIDGE
[赤い橋の下のぬるい水]
Shohei Imamura
Japan, 2001

Sunday, April 20, 2025

Playing

Warsaw Village Band
PEOPLE'S SPRING

Monday, April 7, 2025

Playing

Ali Farka Touré
THE SOURCE

Thursday, December 12, 2024

Playing

Isaac Albéniz
IBERIA

Jesús López-Cobos
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, October 17, 2024

Watching
HorrorFest 2024

PULSE
[回路]
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan, 2001

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Reading

Fredric Brown
FROM THESE ASHES
The Complete Short SF of Fredric Brown

Friday, August 16, 2024

Playing

Anton Webern
COMPLETE WORKS FOR STRING QUARTET AND STRING TRIO

Artis Quartett Wien

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Daily Painting

Ganesh Pyne
THE LAUGHING ANIMAL (2001)

Sunday, July 14, 2024

Playing

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
THE FINAL STUDIO RECORDINGS

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Reading

Cherie Y. Hamilton
CUISINES OF PORTUGUESE ENCOUNTERS
Recipes From Portugal, Madeira/Azores, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, Angola, Mozambique, Goa, Brazil, Malacca, East Timor, and Macao

Thursday, May 30, 2024

Currently Playing

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
SONATAS & RONDOS

Mikhail Pletnev

Keyboard Sonata in A Major, Wq. 65/32

Friday, April 26, 2024

Daily Painting

Liu Xiaodong
FAT WHITE BOY WITH HIS FATHER (2001)

Friday, March 15, 2024

Currently Playing

Helen Forrest
THE COMPLETE HELEN FORREST AND BENNY GOODMAN

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Currently Playing

Leonard Cohen
TEN NEW SONGS

Friday, January 12, 2024

Currently Playing

Mark Eitzel
EAST

Saturday, December 23, 2023

Daily Painting

Su Xinping
MORNING II (2001)

Monday, December 18, 2023

Currently Playing

Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
ECSTASY

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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.