ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2010

Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2010. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 2, 2025

Playing

Amira Medunjanín and Merima Ključo
ZUMRA

Friday, November 7, 2025

Playing

Magnifico
MAGNIFICATION

Monday, October 27, 2025

Playing

Karen Geoghegan
PLAYS MOZART, ROSSINI, KREUTZER, CRUSELL

Gianandrea Noseda
BBC Philharmonic

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Daily Painting

Jeff Faerber
GOLDEN SKY (2010)

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Playing

Fats Waller
PERFORMANCE - RADIO RECORDINGS FROM 1931 TO 1943

Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Daily Painting

David White-Crain
2010-0066 (2010)

Sunday, March 2, 2025

Watching

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE
[아저씨]
Lee Jeong-beom
Korea, 2010

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Playing

Anonymous 4
THE CHERRY TREE
Songs, Varols, and Ballads for Christmas

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Reading

Jenny Erpenbeck
VISITATION

Translated from the German by Susan Bernofsky

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Playing

Amira Medunjanin & Merima Ključo
ZUMRA

Sunday, November 17, 2024

Daily Painting

Kent Williams
BLONDE NATALIA IN STUDIO ARRANGEMENT (2010)

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Hitch 22: A Memoir

I had become too accustomed to the pseudo-Left new style, whereby if your opponent thought he had identified your lowest possible motive, he was quite certain that he had isolated the only real one.

This vulgar method, which is now the norm and the standard in much non-Left journalism as well, is designed to have the effect of making any noisy moron into a master analyst.

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Hitch 22: A Memoir

Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner, rather than later, he will be discovered down on his weary and well-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card having tried to pay well over the odds to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.

Friday, September 20, 2024

Playing

Antonio Caldara
IL PIÙ BEL NOME
Barcelona, 1708

María Espada, Robin Blaze, Raquel Andueza, Marianne Beate Kielland, Agustín Prunell-Friend

Emilio Moreno
El Concierto Español

Saturday, August 24, 2024

Watching

THE STRANGE CASE OF ANGELICA
Manoel de Oliveira
Portugal, 2010

Sunday, August 18, 2024

Watching

BEDEVILED
[김복남 살린사군의 전말]
Jang Cheol-soo
Korea, 2010

Sunday, August 4, 2024

Daily Painting

Derek Murphy
MARYDOODY (2010)

Tuesday, May 28, 2024

Currently Playing

Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse
DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL

Thursday, May 23, 2024

Daily Painting

Liu Xiaodong
XUZI AT HOME (2010)

Sunday, April 28, 2024

Daily Painting

Eòin David Harris
2010/066 (2010)

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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.