ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): Edgar Allan Poe

Showing posts with label Edgar Allan Poe. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Edgar Allan Poe. Show all posts

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Playing

Philip Glass
THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

Joseph Li

Jonas Hacker, Ben Edquist, Matthew Adam Fleischer, Nicolas Nestorak, Madison Leonard,

Wolf Trap Opera
Inscape Chamber Orchestra

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Currently Watching

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Mike Flanagan
USA, 2023

Friday, October 20, 2023

Currently Watching

THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER
Mike Flanagan
USA, 2023

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Directors:

Mike Flanagan
Michael Fimognari

Leading Cast:

Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Mary McDonnell, Henry Thomas, Rahul Kohli, Carl Lumbly, Samantha Sloyan, T'Nia Miller, Zach Gilford, Willa Fitzgerald, Michael Trucco, Kyliegh Curran, Mark Hamill, Kate Siegel, Sauriyan Sapkota, Paola Núñez, Malcolm Goodwin, Daniel Jun

Monday, August 7, 2023

Currently Watching

TOMB OF LIGEIA

Roger Corman

USA, 1964

Currently Watching

MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH

Roger Corman

USA, 1964

Sunday, August 6, 2023

Currently Watching

THE HAUNTED PALACE

Roger Corman

USA, 1963

Saturday, August 5, 2023

Currently Watching

THE RAVEN

Roger Corman

USA, 1963

Friday, August 4, 2023

Currently Watching

TALES OF TERROR

Roger Corman

USA, 1962

Currently Watching

THE PREMATURE BURIAL

Roger Corman

USA, 1962

Thursday, August 3, 2023

Currently Watching

THE PIT AND THE PENDULUM

Roger Corman

USA, 1961

Currently Watching

HOUSE OF USHER

[aka The Fall of the House of Usher]

Roger Corman

USA, 1960

Sunday, October 16, 2022

THE HAUNTED PALACE

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Roger Corman

USA, 1963

Monday, March 28, 2022

Claude Debussy
LE DIABLE DANS LE BEFFROI
[The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe]
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Christoph-Mathias Mueller

Eugene Villanueva, Lin Lin Fan, Michael Driers, Virgil Hartinger

Göttinger Symphony Orchester
Kammerchor St. Jacobi

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

Robert Florey (USA, 1932)

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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.