ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2011

Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2011. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Playing

My Morning Jacket
CIRCUITAL (2011)

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Playing

Philip Glass
IN THE PENAL COLONY

Omar Ebrahim and Michael Bennett

Michael Rafferty
Music Theatre Wales

Friday, July 11, 2025

Playing

Chris Thile and Michael Daves
SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN

Monday, March 10, 2025

Reading

Juan Gabriel Vásquez
THE SOUND OF THINGS FALLING

Translated into English by Anne McLean

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Playing

Talib Kweli
GUTTER RAINBOWS

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Playing

Anonymous 4
WOLCUM YULE
Celtic and British Songs and Carols

Sunday, October 20, 2024

Watching
HorrorFest 2024

SLEEP TIGHT
[MIENTRAS DUERMES]
Jaume Balagueró
Spain, 2011

Thursday, August 22, 2024

Daily Painting

Jansson Stegner
THE FALCONER (2011)

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Playing

Nino Rota
SYMPHONY NO. 3
Divertimento Concertante
Concerto Soirée

Gianandrea Noseda
Barry Douglas, Davide Botto
Turin Teatro Regio Orchestra

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Playing

Lady Gaga
BORN THIS WAY

Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Playing

PJ Harvey
LET ENGLAND SHAKE - DEMOS

Playing

PJ Harvey
LET ENGLAND SHAKE

Friday, June 7, 2024

Currently Playing

Kate & Anna McGarrigle
TELL MY SISTER

Saturday, May 11, 2024

Daily Painting

Orley Ypon
RELEASE (2011)

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Daily Painting

Melinda Matyas
INNER TRAVELER (2011)

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Currently Playing

Robert Fuchs
SERENADES

- Serenade No. 1 in D Major, Op. 9
- Serenade No. 2 in C Major, Op. 14
- Andante grazioso and Capriccio, Op. 63

Christian Ludwig
Cologne Chamber Orchestra

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Currently Playing

LA SUBLIME PORTE
Voix d'Istanbul 1430-1750

Jordi Savall
Gürsoy Dinçer, Montserrat Figueras, Lior Elmaleh
Hespèrion XXI

Friday, January 26, 2024

Currently Playing

I HAVE MY LIBERTY!
Gospel Sounds from Accra, Ghana

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Daily Painting

Hsin-Yao Tseng
OUTSIDE OF STUDIO (2011)

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Currently Playing

John Adams
SPLITTING ADAMS

Alarm Will Sound

- Chamber Symphony (1992)
- Son of Chamber Symphony (2011)

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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.