ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2008

Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2008. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Playing

Fretwork
BIRDS ON FIRE
Jewish Music for Viols from the Tudor Court

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Playing

Savina Yannatou & Primavera en Salonico
SONGS ON AN OTHER

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Watching

STILL WALKING
[歩いても歩いても]
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 2008

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Playing

Fleet Foxes
FLEET FOXES

Friday, June 6, 2025

Playing

Punch Brothers
PUNCH

Saturday, May 10, 2025

Daily Painting

Rimi Yang
NUDE IN A BLUE FIELD (2008)

Thursday, January 23, 2025

Playing

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ARIAS FOR ALOYSIA WEBER

Cyndia Sieden

Frans Brüggen
Orchestra of the 18th Century

Friday, January 10, 2025

URSULA K. LE GUIN
“Staying Awake: Notes on the alleged decline of reading”
Harper’s Magazine, February 2008

The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and handle, that can last decades, even centuries. It doesn’t have to be plugged in, activated, or performed by a machine; all it needs is light, a human eye, and a human mind. It is not one of a kind, and it is not ephemeral. It lasts. It is reliable. If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell it to you again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Watching

TOKYO
Michel Gondry, Léos Carax, Bong Joon-ho
France-Japan-Korea, 2008

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Daily Painting

Addie Shevlin
WHY BLUE (2008)

Thursday, October 24, 2024

Watching
HorrorFest 2024

LAKE MUNGO
Joel Anderson
Australia, 2008

Monday, September 9, 2024

Playing

Dmitri Shostakovich
SYMPHONY NO. 5 IN D MINOR, OP. 47
SYMPHONY NO. 10 in E MINOR, OP. 93

Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Hallé Orchestra

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Reading

Gregory Crewdson
BENEATH THE ROSES

Friday, August 2, 2024

Daily Painting

Zhang Xiaogang
SMALL BATHTUB (2008)

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

Daily Painting

Stuart Shils
THE FARM HOUSE AGAIN, LATE SUMMER, STRONG SUN (2008)

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Daily Painting

Lynette Yiadom-Boakye
HIGHPOWER (2008)

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Daily Painting

Sigrun Gunnarsdóttir
THE RAVEN (2008)

Wednesday, April 17, 2024

Currently Playing

Jóhann Jóhannsson
FORDLANDIA

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Currently Playing

Fleet Foxes
FLEET FOXES

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Currently Playing

Pēteris Vasks
CONCERTO FOR FLUTE AND ORCHESTRA (2008)
SYMPHONY NO. 3 (2005)

Dita Krenberga

Atvars Lakstīgala
Liepāja Symphony Orchestra

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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.