TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER - “November”

When the hangman’s bored he turns dangerous.
The burning sky rolls up.
Tapping sounds can be heard from cell to cell
and space streams up from the ground-frost.
A few stones shine like full moons.

WHEN A STRANGER CALLS
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Fred Walton
USA, 1978

EZRA POUND - "Sennin Poem By Kakuhaku"

The red and green kingfishers
flash between the orchids and clover,
One bird casts its gleam on another.
Green vines hang through the high forest,
They weave a whole roof to the mountain,
The lone man sits with shut speech,
He purrs and pats the clear strings.
He throws his heart up through the sky,
He bites through the flower pistil
and brings up a fine fountain.
The red-pine-tree god looks at him and wonders.
He rides through the purple smoke to visit the sennin,
He takes 'Floating Hill' by the sleeve,
He claps his hand on the back of the great water sennin.

But you, you dam'd crowd of gnats,
Can you even tell the age of a turtle?

Growing Answers on YouTube.

ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN

Charles Barton
USA, 1948

HOUSE OF DRACULA

Erle C. Kenton
USA, 1945

HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN

Erle C. Kenton
USA, 1944

FRANKENSTEIN MEETS THE WOLFMAN

Roy William Neill
USA, 1943

THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN

Erle C. Kenton,
USA, 1942

SON OF FRANKENSTEIN

Roland V. Lee
USA, 1939

YATAO
"Eagle Eye"

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From YouTube:

For this one we made a short stop in Czech Republic while driving from Prague to Vienna on our PATH OF INTEGRITY album release tour.

The song came up to our mind after a very intense part of our last tourblock. Sometimes it`s good to step back a bit, calm your mind, and watch the thoughts from a higher level.

THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

James Whale
USA, 1935

FRANKENSTEIN

James Whale
USA, 1931

In this episode we take a tour of Richard and Kunie’s property, Abdallah House, in Seymour, Australia. On this 1/7th of an acre property, the owners have made the most of the available space through thoughtful design of the garden, house, and marginal spaces. 

---> abdallahhouse.com

---> happenfilms.com 

THE COLUMBIA BOOK OF CHINESE POETRY
Early Times to the Thirteenth Century

Burton Watson

Now that was some funny shit.

WALLACE SHAWN
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If Dick Cheney had been obsessed by the poetry of John Ashbery, there would be a lot of people alive today who are now dead.

PANDEMONIUM

George Grosz
1914

YATAO

"Metamorphosis" [Live]

18th September 2018

Peniche Anako, Paris

Happy Frank Mills Day.

Thank you, Allison.

HANNAH ARENDT

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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

ALEXANDER MERKS
"Crossing Borders"

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From YouTube:

I recorded this video when I was traveling in The Swiss mountains, being in awe with and inspired by the ancient rocks.

Played on a beautiful Ayasa in D Harmonic Minor. Notes are: D (E) (F) (G) A Bb C# D E F G A (C#) D (E) (F)

Burt Lahr in Waiting for Godot

Richard Avedon, 1957

So, how does the inside of Vladimir Putin's ass taste?

Ah, the leadership on display.

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#DementiaDon

Nothing says you're an true American patriot like wrapping the flag around your sweaty dick and balls and pouring liquor all over yourself.

No sons of bitches here.

My Independence Day Message To Gun Nuts Everywhere

I'm tired of hearing about how carrying guns in public is some declaration of our rights. It's just a way to make people more afraid and used to living in their self-made prison.

By Karoli Kuns — July 2, 2014

Independence Day: When we celebrate the nation's independence by shooting projectiles into the air intended to resemble 'bombs bursting in air.' Or something.

Wouldn't it be great to celebrate the nation's independence by actually living in a society that cared about liberty for everyone instead of just white, gun-toting Christian conservatives?

Let's be honest. States that glorify guns as implements of liberty aren't promoting freedom; they're promoting fear. The best we can hope in their vision of liberty is not to be in the line of fire when someone unloads a few rounds into someone else they're pissed at.

How twisted is it to define liberty as having the right to inflict fear, harm and possible death on someone else?

A life free of paranoia and fear feels much more like independence. Living afraid to go to the movies, the mall, or even out to a fast food restaurant feels much more like prison.

The open carry whackos driven by their need to sport their penises guns in public aren't proclaiming liberty. They're claiming their right to intimidate other people and minimize others' rights in favor of their own. Desensitize everyone, and no one will notice when they start using them to bully people of color, women, and other groups they conquer, right?

News flash: It's not liberty to sacrifice 20 children for one insane person's right to carry a weapon of mass death. It's not liberty for college students to be dead because an entitled, bitter student decided to go out in a blaze of glory. That's not liberty and it's sure as hell not freedom.

They want us all to believe we have to have guns to be free. I don't believe that. I never have, and I never will.

This Independence Day, I'm declaring mine. I won't visit states with laws permitting open carry and I won't patronize national businesses that permit it. We don't have to live by their rules, even if they have guns and I don't. But I'm not stopping there. If they want liberty, they can start by being responsible and considerate of others.

They can leave their guns at home, locked up with the key in their pocket. Liberty is choosing to respect other people, not trampling all over them.

Resting Buddha in the garden of the Nezu Museum, Tokyo