ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): 2023

Showing posts with label 2023. Show all posts

Showing posts with label 2023. Show all posts

Saturday, February 28, 2026

Playing

Sampha
LAHAI

Friday, January 9, 2026

Playing

Jeff Beal
THE PAPER LINED SHACK

Leonard Slatkin

Hila Plitmann
The Eastman Philharmonia
The New Hollywood String Quartet

Friday, January 2, 2026

Playing

John Cale
MERCY

Sunday, December 28, 2025

Playing

Elgan Llŷr Thomas
UNVEILED

Iain Burside
Craig Ogden

Monday, November 24, 2025

Playing

Jeff Scott
PASSION FOR BACH AND COLTRANE

Imani Winds
Harlem Quartet
A.B. Spellman, Alex Brown, Edward Perez, Neal Smith

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Playing

Ludwig Thuille
COMPLETE MUSIC FOR VIOLIN AND PIANO

Marco Rogliano
Gianluca Luisi

Daily Painting

Stanislav Brusilov
JUST WAITING FOR HIS BOY (2023)

Monday, October 27, 2025

Watching

THE VOURDALAK
Adrien Beau
France, 2023

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Watching

ABRUPTIO
Evan Marlowe
USA, 2023

Thursday, October 16, 2025

Watching

THE THING BEHIND THE DOOR
Fabrice Blin
France, 2020

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Daily Painting

John Lurie
THE SPIRITS ARE TRYING TO TELL ME SOMETHINGS BUT IT IS REALLY FUCKING VAGUE (2023)

Monday, October 13, 2025

Playing

Skrillex
QUEST FOR FIRE

Watching

STARVE ACRE
Daniel Kokotajlo
UK, 2023)

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Playing

Thomas Hume
THE SPIRIT OF GAMBO

Emma Kirby
Paolo Pandolfo
Labyrinto

Tuesday, September 16, 2025

Daily Painting

Nick Alm
BEDROOM (2023)

Tuesday, September 9, 2025

Playing

Henrik Ødegaard
MUSIC BY HENRIK ØDEGAARD

Jaan-Eik Tulve
Vox Clamantis

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Watching

THE TOXIC AVENGER
Macon Blair
USA, 2023/2025

Thursday, September 4, 2025

Reading

Richard Mirabella
BROTHER AND SISTER ENTER THE FOREST

Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Playing

The National
LAUGH TRACK

Tuesday, September 2, 2025

Playing

Gorillaz
CRACKER ISLAND

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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.