LAO TZU

Beauty and ugliness have one origin.
Name beauty, and ugliness is.
Recognizing virtue recognizes evil.

Is and is not produce one another.
The difficult is born in the easy,
long is defined by short, the high by the low.
Instrument and voice achieve one harmony.
Before and after have places.

That is why the sage can act without effort
and teach without words,
nurture things without possessing them,
and accomplish things without expecting merit:

only one who makes no attempt to possess it
cannot lose it.

HAROLD PINTER from No Man’s Land

I have known this before. The voice unheard. A listener. The command from an upper floor.

Because my property taxes should pay for your shitty kid's shitting public education.

Right, maggots?

SAMUEL BECKETT from Molloy

I went up to my room again, drew back the curtains on a calamitous sky and lay down. I could not understand what was happening to me. I found it painful at that period not to understand. I tried to pull myself together. In vain. I might have known. My life was running out, I knew not through what breach.

Happy VD.

JOSEPHINE BAKER

Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.

THOMAS SOWELL

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Communal life in Vermont, early 1970s

Peter Simon

TACOS
75 Authentic and Inspired Recipes

Mark Miller

RAINER MARIA RILKE - “Breathe, You Invisible Poem!”

Breath, you invisible poem!
A constant interchange between our clear being
and the world space beyond our seeing
in which I rhythmically become.

Solitary wave whose
gradual sea I am.
Of all possible seas you are parsimonious,
winning the cosmos, with me one gram

in it. How many realms of space have been
inside me already! The multiple wind
is like my son.

Air, do you know me? You are full of places
once mine. A uniquely smooth rind,
a leaf of my words among roundnesses.

I REMEMBER YOU (ÉG MAN ÞIG)

Óskar Thór Axelsson

Iceland, 2017

THE TURN OF THE SCREW

Benjamin Britten, 1954

Daniel Harding

Ian Bostridge, Joan Rodgers, Vivian Tierney,

Jane Henschel, Julian Leang, Caroline Wise

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

Erato, 2002

FREDDIE MERCURY - “Don’t Stop Me Now”

Tonight I’m gonna have myself a real good time
I feel alive and the world it’s turning inside out Yeah!
I’m floating around in ecstasy
So don’t stop me now don’t stop me
‘Cause I’m having a good time having a good time

I’m a shooting star leaping through the skies
Like a tiger defying the laws of gravity
I’m a racing car passing by like Lady Godiva
I’m gonna go go go
There’s no stopping me

I’m burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I’m trav'ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Don’t stop me now
I’m having such a good time
I’m having a ball
Don’t stop me now
If you wanna have a good time
Just give me a call

Don’t stop me now ('cause I’m having a good time)
Don’t stop me now (yes I’m having a good time)
I don’t want to stop at all… yeah!

I’m a rocket ship on my way to Mars
On a collision course
I am a satellite I’m out of control
I am a sex machine ready to reload
Like an atom bomb about to
Oh oh oh oh oh explode

I’m burning through the sky Yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I’m trav'ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic woman of you

Don’t stop me
Don’t stop me
Don’t stop me
Hey hey hey!

Ooh I’m burning through the sky yeah!
Two hundred degrees
That’s why they call me Mister Fahrenheit
I’m trav'ling at the speed of light
I wanna make a supersonic man out of you

Don’t stop me now
I’m having such a good time
I’m having a ball
Don’t stop me now
If you wanna have a good time
Just give me a call

THE RAPE OF LUCRETIA

Benjamin Britten, 1946

Oliver Knussen

Angelika Kirchschlager, Ian Bostridge, Susan Gritton,  Christopher Purves,

Peter Coleman-Wright, Hilary Summers, Benjamin Russell, Claire Booth

Aldeburgh Festival Ensemble

Virgin Classics, 2013

George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
.

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

TITO MANLIO

Antoni Vivaldi, 1719

Federico Maria Sardelli

Sergio Foresti,  Nicki Kennedy,  Rosa Dominguez,  Lucia Sciannimanico

Modo Antiquo

CPO, 2006

MOTEZUMA

Antonio Vivaldi, 1733

Alan Curtis

Vito Priante, Marijana Mijanovic, Roberta Invernizzi,

Maite Beaumont, Romina Basso, Inga Kalna

Il Complesso Barocco

ATENAIDE

Antoni Vivaldi, 1728

Federico Maria Sardelli

Sandrine Piau, Vivica Genaux, Guillemette Laurens, Nathalie Stutzmann

Modo Antiquo

Naïve, 2007

DOROTHY PARKER

Razors pain you, Rivers are damp, Acids stain you, And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful, Nooses give, Gas smells awful. You might as well live.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW from Man and Superman

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

SAMUEL BECKETT from Krapp’s Last Tape

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.

RAY BRADBURY

The first thing you learn in life is that you’re a fool. The last thing you learn is that you’re the same fool. Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.

ELIJAH

Felix Mendelssohn, 1846

Paul Daniel

Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Patricia Bardon, John Mark Einsley

Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Decca, 1997

PSYCHÉ 

Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1678

Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs

Carolyn Sampson, Karina Gauvin, Amanda Forsythe, Olivier Laquerre, Colin Balzer

Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra and Chorus

CPO, 2008

FARAMONDO

George Friderik Händel, 1741

Laurence Cummings

Anna Devin, Iryna Dziashko, Emily Fons, Anna Starushkevych, Maarten Engeltjes

FestspielOrchester Göttingen

Accent Records, 2014

HỒ XUÂN HƯƠNG TRADITION - “An Unplanned Pregnancy”

My giving in yielded this mess.
Don’t you realize my anguish?
Although destiny never raised its head,
There’s a stroke across the willow tree.*
It’s a century-long bond, remember?
This loveload I’ll be lugging.
Whatever the world’s opinions,
To have child, without husband,
Is a very nice feat.

Never. Gonna. Happen. You. Asshole.

" ... lies and more lies ... gaslight ... gaslight ... fake news media ... your lying eyes and lying ears ... I am Trump ... "

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

Mike Flannigan

USA, 2018

ÉVOLUTION

Lucile Hadzihalilovic

France, 2015

ANIMA SACRA
Jakub Józef Orliński

Maxim Emelyanychev

Il Pomo d’Oro Orchestra

Erato, 2018

WHEN THE BIRD SEES THE SOLID GROUND [EP]

The Tallest Man on Earth

Dead Oceans, 2018

PARTENOPE

George Frideric Händel, 1730

Riccardo Minasi

Emöke Barath, Philippe Jaroussky, Karina Gauvin, Luca Tittoto

Il Pomo d'Oro

Erato, 2015

HENRY DAVID THOREAU

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

  

DakhaBrakha from Free Ukraine

NPR Tiny Desk Concert - Apr 25, 2015

• "Sho Z-Pod Duba" 0:00
• "Torokh" 3:43
• "Divka-Marusechka" 8:07

NINA GARENETSKA

Vokals, cello, bass drum

MARKO HALANEVYCH

Vokals, darbuka, tabla, didjeridoo, accordion, trombone

IRYNA KOVALENKO

Vokals, djembe, bass drums, accordion, percussion, bugay, zgaleyka, piano

OLENA TSYBULSKA

Vokals, bass drums, percussion, garmoshka

SAMUEL BECKETT from Footfalls

Some nights she would halt, as one frozen by some shudder of the mind, and stand stark still till she could move again. But many also were the nights when she paced without pause, up and down, up and down, before vanishing the way she came.

Burned-out wildfire in clownface.

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