ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): John Adams

Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts

Showing posts with label John Adams. Show all posts

Saturday, May 24, 2025

Playing

John Adams
ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

John Adams

Julia Bullock, Gerald Finley, Paul Appleby, Elizabeth DeShong

New Production/Met Premiere - Recorded May 2025

Friday, April 18, 2025

Playing

John Adams
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY

Gustavo Dudamel

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Master Chorale

Thursday, April 17, 2025

JOHN ADAMS
Second US President

You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.

Saturday, July 13, 2024

JOHN ADAMS
Second US President
Signer of the Declaration of Independence

l almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another pope, because of suspected heresy? Remember the Index Expurgato-rius, the Inquisition, the stake, the axe, the halter, and the guillotine; and, oh! horrible, the rack! This is as bad, if not worse, than a slow fire. Nor should the Lion's Mouth be forgotten. Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years.

Sunday, May 12, 2024

Currently Watching

WHERE THE DEVIL ROAMS
John Adams - Zelda Adams - Toby Poser
USA, 2023

Sunday, November 12, 2023

Currently Playing

John Adams
SPLITTING ADAMS

Alarm Will Sound

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

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Currently Playing

John Adams
NIXON IN CHINA
Libretto by Alice Goodman

Edo De Waart

Orchestra of St. Luke's

Wednesday, May 10, 2023

WALKING IN THE DARK

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Julia Bullock

Christian Reif, Philharmonia Orchestra

Friday, January 6, 2023

HELLBENDER

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Adams Family

USA, 2021

Saturday, July 30, 2022

JOHN ADAMS

"Thoughts on Government’" (1776)

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Fear is the foundation of most governments.

Saturday, November 20, 2021

THE DEEPER YOU DIG

John Adams and Toby Poser
USA, 2019

Rare that I comment here on the films I watch - generally assume I don't watch too much shit - but this is REALLY a good one. Husband, wife, daughter filmmaking team who have given us a current horror film that, if not 110 percent original, has a style AND ending that will blow you away. So refreshing.

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

John Adams
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY

Gustavo Dudamel

Los Angeles Philharmonic
Los Angeles Master Chorale

Saturday, February 9, 2019

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THE OTHER MARY

John Adams, 2012

Gustavo Dudamel

Kelley O'Connor, Tamara Mumford, Russell Thomas, Daniel Bubeck

Los Angeles Philharmonic, Los Angeles Master Chorale

Deutsche Grammophon, 2013

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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.