ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2006

Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

Monday, October 13, 2025

Reading

THE PENGUIN BOOK OF FIRST WORLD WAR POETRY
Edited with an introduction by George Walter

Friday, June 13, 2025

Daily Painting

Elsie Beiler
HAPPIER DAYS (2006)

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In memory of theWest Nickel Mines Amish School massacre.

"I don't think there's anybody here that wants to do anything but forgive and not only reach out to those who have suffered a loss in that way but to reach out to the family of the man who committed these acts"

- Jack Meyer, member of the Brethren community

Monday, May 12, 2025

Playing

Anne Sofie von Otter
I LET THE MUSIC SPEAK

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Watching

BLOOD TEA AND RED STRING
Christiane Cegavske
USA, 2006

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Reading

Peter Singer and Jim Mason
THE ETHICS OF WHAT WE EAT
Why Our Food Choices Matter

Sunday, January 5, 2025

Reading

Dilgo Khyentse and Padampa Sangye
THE HUNDRED VERSES OF ADVICE
Tibetan Buddhist Teachings on What Matters Most

Translated by Padmakara Translation Group

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Playing

Various Artists
GARAGEAHOLIC! PSYCHEDELIC! OUTSIDER MUSIC!
The Arf Arf 30-Track Audio Relic Sampler

Tuesday, October 8, 2024

EDNA O'BRIEN
The Light of Evening

Never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature’s assiduousness and human cruelty.

Saturday, September 28, 2024

Playing

John Zorn
FILMWORKS XVIII - THE TREATMENT

Saturday, August 17, 2024

Daily Painting

Kjell Nupen
SENTIMENTAL REISE (2006)

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Playing

Yo La Tengo
I'M NOT AFRAID OF YOU AND I WILL BEAT YOUR ASS

Thursday, June 20, 2024

Currently Playing

Bonnie "Prince" Billy
THE LETTING GO

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Daily Painting

Susan Lichtman
VISITORS (2006)

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Currently Playing

MONUMENTAL WORKS FOR WINDS

Michael J. Colburn
The President's Own United States Marine Band

- Giuseppe Verdi - Aida - "Triumphal March"
- Igor Stravinsky - Symphonies of Wind Instruments
- Vincent Persichetti - Symphony for Band, Op. 69
- Aaron Copland - Emblems
- Percy Grainger - Over the Hills and Far Away
- William Walton - Crown Imperial

Saturday, March 23, 2024

Daily Painting

Banksy
WELL HUNG LOVER (2006)

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Currently Playing

Nicola Porpora
ORLANDO (L'ANGELICA)

Juan Bautista Otero

Robert Expert, Olga Pitarch, Betsabée Hass

Real Conpañía Ópera de Cámara

Friday, December 29, 2023

Currently Playing

The Be Good Tanyas
SCATTERED LEAVES [EP]

Saturday, November 4, 2023

Currently Playing

The Tallest Man On Earth
THE TALLEST MAN ON EARTH [Debut EP]

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Currently Playing

Cheb i Sabbah
LA GHRIBA
La Kahena Remixed

Thursday, August 31, 2023

Daily Painting

Euan MacLeod
FIGURE LYING IN SEASCAPE (2006)

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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.