ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2013

Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2013. Show all posts

Saturday, January 3, 2026

Daily Painting

Jeanie Tomanek
DEMETER'S SEARCH (2013)

Saturday, December 20, 2025

Playing

Benjamin Britten
BRITTEN SONGS

Ian Bostridge

Antonio Pappano, Xuefei Yang

Sunday, December 14, 2025

Playing

Kuniko Kuniko
CANTUS

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Arvo Pärt - FÜR ALINA
Steve Reich - NEW YORK COUNTERPOINT
Arvo Pärt - CANTUS IN MEMORY OF BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Arvo Pärt - FRATRES
Hywel Davies - PURL GROUND
Arvo Pärt - SPIEGEL IM SPIEGEL

Saturday, December 13, 2025

Playing

Manuel Ponce
COMPLETE PIANO WORKS VOL 1

Álvaro Cendoya

Friday, December 5, 2025

Playing

Antonio Meneses and Maria João Pires
THE WIGMORE HALL RECITAL

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Schubert - Sonata in A minor 'Arpeggione', D821

Brahms - Intermezzi (3), Op. 117

Mendelssohn - Song without Words for Cello and Piano in D Major, Op. 109

Brahms - Cello Sonata No. 1 In E minor, Op. 38

JS Bach - Pastoral in F Major, BWV 590

Thursday, November 27, 2025

Playing

The Dead South
GOOD COMPANY

Thursday, November 20, 2025

Playing

Iggy and The Stooges
READY TO DIE

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Playing

Ravi Shankar
THE LIVING ROOM SESSIONS - PART 2

Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Playing

Ravi Shankar
THE LIVING ROOM SESSIONS - PART 1

Sunday, October 12, 2025

Watching

JUG FACE
Chad Crawford Kinkle
USA, 2013

Friday, October 3, 2025

Watching

THE BORDERLANDS
[Stupid US title: FINAL PRAYER]
Elliot Goldner
UK, 2013

Thursday, October 2, 2025

Reading

POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR: AN ANTHOLOGY
Edited by Tim Kendall

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Playing

John Porter and The Dowland Project
NIGHT SESSIONS

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Playing

Dawn McCarthy & Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
WHAT THE BROTHERS SANG

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Playing

Alessandro Baccini
19TH CENTURY MASTERPIECES FOR OBOE & ENGLISH HORN

Giogio Fabbri
City of Adria Philharmonic Orchestra

Bellini, Rossini, Chopin, Donizetti, and Ferlendis

Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Watching
30 Days of the Gays™ 2025

IT'S ALL SO QUIET
[BOVEN IS HET STIL]
Nanouk Leopold
Netherlands, 2013

Friday, April 18, 2025

Playing

John Adams
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY

Gustavo Dudamel

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Master Chorale

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Daily Painting

Robert Janitz
COLLATERAL DAMAGE I (2013)

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Daily Painting
Celebrating Black Artists Edition

Aboudia Abdoulaye Diarrassouba
UNTITLED (2013)

Monday, February 17, 2025

Daily Painting
Celebrating Black Artists Edition

Henry Taylor
UNTITLED (2012–13)

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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.