ONE NAKED FARMER (1NF): defining moments

Showing posts with label defining moments. Show all posts

Showing posts with label defining moments. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Watching

THE SEVENTH SEAL

[DET SJUNDE INSEGLET]

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden, 1957

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Playing

Kraftwerk
COMPUTERWELT

Playing

Kraftwerk
DIE MENCSH-MASCHINE

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Watching

SCARLET STREET
Fritz Lang
USA, 1945

Wednesday, February 5, 2025

Playing

Real Life
HEART LAND

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Playing

Bronski Beat
THE AGE OF CONSENT

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Watching

AFTER LIFE
[ワンダフルライフ]
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan, 1998

Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Playing

Nick Drake
BRYTER LAYTER

Playing

Nick Drake
FIVE LEAVES LEFT

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Playing

Eurythmics
TOUCH

Sunday, November 10, 2024

Reading

Margaret Atwood
SURFACING

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Watching

MY LIFE AS A DOG
[MITT LIV SOM HUND]
Lasse Hallström
Sweden, 1985

Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Playing

Nick Drake
FIVE LEAVES LEFT

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Playing

Johannes Brahms
THE PIANO QUARTETS

- Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
- Piano Quartet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 26
- Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60

Friday, August 30, 2024

Playing

Tom Waits
SMALL CHANGE

Thursday, August 8, 2024

Playing

Howard Jones
HUMAN'S LIB

Sunday, July 7, 2024

Playing

Björk
VESPERTINE

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Playing

The Human League
DARE

Sunday, June 23, 2024

Playing

Bronski Beat
AGE OF CONSENT

Friday, June 14, 2024

Currently Playing

Leonard Rosenman
THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

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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.