U2
THE JOSHUA TREE

 

BUSTER KEATON
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Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.

PARADOX HOTEL
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Rob Hart

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From the Penguin/Random House page:

"An impossible crime. A detective on the edge of madness. The future of time travel at stake. An engrossing and thought-provoking sci-fi mystery that is also an achingly beautiful meditation on grief and the pain of lost love."

 

Ma Rainey
COMPLETE RECORDED WORKS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
VOL. 2 - OCT 1924 TO AUG 1925

 

OGDEN NASH

"The Terrible People"

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People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it,

And I wish I could afford to gather all such people into a gloomy castle on the Danube and hire half a dozen capable Draculas to haunt it.

I don't' mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it,

But I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it.

But no, they insist on being stealthy

About the pleasures of being wealthy,

And the possession of a handsome annuity

Makes them think that to say how hard it is to make both ends meet is their bounden duty.

You cannot conceive of an occasion

Which will find them without some suitable evasion.

Yes indeed, with arguments they are very fecund;

Their first point is that money isn't everything, and that they have no money anyhow is their second.

Some people's money is merited,

And other people's is inherited,

But wherever it comes from,

They talk about it as if it were something you got pink gums from.

Perhaps indeed the possession of wealth is constantly distressing,

But I should be quite willing to assume every curse of wealth if I could at the same time assume every blessing.

The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure,

Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor.

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny -

Have you ever tried to buy them without money?

Could these losers be any more pathetic? Can their embarrassment to America in the face of the entire world reach any lower?

- Can't go out in the rain because they're just too big of pussies?

- Begging for money on the streets instead of going to work and taking care of their families?

- Getting lost driving in a circle?

- Bragging about the most ridiculous and easily demonstrable lie the country has heard since Fuckstick Trump had to stop talking for seven seconds to stuff four Big Macs into his mouth at one time?

Just fucking pathetic. So much shame being an American when we share the same air with these fucking losers and free-loaders.

BLM was on the streets for months being brutalized and murdered for defending actual human rights and resisting systematic police brutality and systematic murder of black men by police. Brian "He Man" Brase quit after three days to panhandle enough working people's money to afford powdering his vagina because of ... mist.

Having other people pay for his spa day is the best win he's ever gonna have. 

Enjoy those fluffy clouds of lavender, Brandon.

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE
Obsidian Stele for Alioune Diop
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                     Brother for you I have examined your bird aspects
African sand grouse to traverse intact the hottest sands of the desert
           African mousebird to foil the ruses of the bush and to confront the
laughter of the forest
           overleaper of ergs
           crest raised from sudden pride
           you knew how to fly high
                                   major migrant

you knew how to fly far
high above all
taking in with a single glimpse the most distant parcel of
the hereditary patrimony
inspector of lost inheritances
tester of fidelities
agreeing to daily commerce
only with unperceived hopes and vast memories
whose fervor nielloed in the hollow or gilded on the obverse
the legendary delicacy of your every gesture

obsidian of memory
man of the rescript
                     man of the recado

                                   the Message
through the dust of the confines
and the belly of the wave
you kept it always above your head
at arm’s length from mud
at heart’s length
                     from fear

faithful to the intimate order.

20 April 1983

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Translation by A James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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In the end, oh I know, never, in my haggard passion, have I ever been such a cadaver as now as I take again in hand my tables of the present - if reality's real, but after it's been destroyed in the eternal and the moment by the obsessive idea of a shining nothingness.

PORCILE
[PIGSTY]

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1969

 

TEOREMA
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1968
 

Putumayo Presents
ARABIC BEAT
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Anthology featuring:
Djamel Laroussi, Lirah, Nour, Jalal El Hamdaoui, Samira Saeid, Watcha Clan, Ahmed Soultan, Choubene, Zein Al-Jundi, and Cheb Amar

 

Great. About fucking time.

Now when do we start the executions, like we would for any other terrorist who attacked our nation at any other moment in American History? We could even re-purpose the gallows the Trump-sucking cop-killing terrorists like Guy Wesley Reffitt brought to the Capitol to assassinate Mike Pence.

And Guy - if you're listening ... Donald Trump is NEVER going to fuck you or grab your pussy, no many how many acts of treason against our nation you commit and no matter how much he loves the poorly educated.

 

DOROTHY PARKER

"A Very Short Song"

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Once, when I was young and true,

Someone left me sad-

Broke my brittle heart in two;

And that is very bad.

Love is for unlucky folk,

Love is but a curse.

Once there was a heart I broke;

And that, I think, is worse.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

"The Earth Seen From the Moon" 
From THE WITCHES 
[LE STREGHE]

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1967 

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The Witches also includes:

"The Witch Burned Alive"
Luchino Visconti

"Civic Spirit"
Mauro Bolognini

"The Sicilian Belle"

Franco Rossi

"An Evening Like the Others"

Vittorio De Sica

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Trivia: 

De Sica's "An Evening Like Others" was shot as Clint Eastwood was riding high from his Man With No Name trilogy and becoming a superstar. United Artists brought the distribution rights and then refused to release it in the US. Specifically, UA hid the film from American audiences whom they thought would be turned off by Eastwood's participation and would consequently hurt the box office receipts of his upcoming pictures.

OEDIPUS REX

[EDIPO RE]

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italy, 1967

EHSAN SEHGAL

"I Don't Regret"

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It is the Divine's blessing

I have strong courage

I have great patience

And magnificent confiscation

You can say

It is unfaithfulness

Or unsensational of me

If I can't get

If I can't find

My desires

My dreams

My love

I don't mourn that

I don't regret that

What doesn't immediately fill

I never thought I would compromise.

BJÖRK

"Unison"

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One hand loves the other

So much on me

Born stubborn me

Will always be

Before you count

One two three

I will have grown my own private branch

Of this tree

You, gardener

You, discipliner

Domestically

I can obey all of your rules

And still be, be

I never thought I would compromise

I never thought I would compromise

I never thought I would compromise

Let's unite tonight

We shouldn't fight

Embrace you tight

Let's unite tonight

I thrive best hermit style

With a beard and a pipe

And a parrot on each side

But now I can't do this without you

I never thought I would compromise

I never thought I would compromise

I never thought I would compromise

Let's unite tonight

We shouldn't fight

Embrace you tight

Let's unite tonight

One hand loves the other

So much on me

Let's unite tonight

We shouldn't fight

Embrace you tight

Let's unite tonight

Let's unite tonight

We shouldn't fight

Embrace you tight

Let's

Ooh ooh

Unison

Unison

Unison

 

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO BOTTLENECK BLUES

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Anthology featuring:

Sylvester Weaver, Fred McDowell, Blind Willie Johnson, Furry Lewis, Pete Harris , Allen Shaw, Stefan Grossman, Son House, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Bukka White, Jim & Bob (The Genial Hawaiians), Blind Willie McTell, John Fahey, Charley Patton, Willie Harris, Hambone Willie Newbern, Kokomo Arnold, Martin Simpson, Bob Brozman, Casey Bill Weldon, and Dan Pickett

EHSAN SEHGAL

"Love and Ego"

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If someone reads

My writings, and asks me

You seem to very sad,

And offers help

To share all my sorrows,

But I hurt myself

For my the ego

Lie that

It is just the poetry

The illusion

No any reality of it

I know, I write the truth

In which my all feelings

Reflect and shine

If I kill my ego

I kill myself

If I don't

I kill my love

The dilemma

Between love and the ego

Force me to lie

So that I don't lose the love

And the ego.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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Nothing remains but to hope the end will come to extinguish the unrelenting pain of waiting for it.

BJÖRK
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As far as I was concerned, 
I was in an orgy with the sky 
and the ocean, 
and with nature.
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. 

THE HAWKS AND THE SPARROWS
[UCCELLACCI E UCCELLINI]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1966
 

 

H. P. LOVECRAFT

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The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.

LOVE MEETINGS
[COMIZI D'AMORE]
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1965

 

VIGIL

____________________

Vincent Ward
New Zealand, 1984

Hey, you fucking moron MAGAts ....

Here's your boy ROGER STONE

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On the terrorist attack attempting a coup d'etat against the United States by MAGAts:

It’s really bad for the movement. It hurts, it doesn’t help. I’m not sure what they thought they were going to achieve. Any claim, assertion or implication that I knew about, was involved in or condoned the illegal acts at the Capitol on Jan 6 is categorically false and there is no witness or document that proves otherwise."

On Jared Kushner:

"He’s going to get a beating. He needs to have a beating. And needs to be told, ‘This time we’re just beating you. Next time we’re killing you. No, no, it isn’t joking. Not joking. It’s not a joke." And then, "Obviously, If you use any of that, I will murder you."

On Donald Trump:

" ... Single greatest mistake in American history. I'm done with this president. I'm going to go public supporting impeachment. I have no choice. He has to go. He has to go. Run again! You'll get your fucking brains beat in."

 

 

Pier Paolo Pasolini
March 5, 1922 - November 2, 1975

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Photographed in New York by Richard Avedon, 1966

 

FRANK O'HARA
"Three Poems"

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Dante

I could guide you into depravity but I’m not sure I could lead either of us back out.

Masturbation

It’s a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the children’s hour.

Telephone (to Patsy Southgate)

I sometimes wonder how we all get through this soap opera that is our life.

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

The revolution is now just a sentiment.

WE ARE THE FLESH
[TENEMOS LA CARNE]

____________________

Emiliano Rocha Minter
Mexico, 2017
 

...

Andrew Todd
Birth.Movies.Death.

"We Are The Flesh is either unwatchable or unmissable, depending on your attitude towards unconventional filmmaking and weird sex cults."

LA RICOTTA

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italy, 1963

...

ILLIBATEZZA

[CHASTITY]

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Roberto Rossellini

IL NUOVO MONDO

[THE NEW WORLD]

____________________

Jean-Luc Godard

IL POLLO RUSPANTE

[FREE RANGE CHICKEN]

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Ugo Gregoretti 

Balls intact.

THE SUN

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Issue 555
March 2022

OSCAR WILDE

____________________

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

PERRAMUS
The City and Oblivion
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Alberto Breccia and Juan Sasturain

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

 

Albert Lortzing
SZENEN AUS MOZARTS LEBEN
[SCENES FROM MOZART'S LIFE]

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Eberhard Bäumler

Michael Haake, Franz Müller-Heuser, Petra Hasse, Ingelborg Most, Markus Rührer, Klaus Häger, Wolfgang Trautwein, Hans Griepentrog, Bernhard Schneider, Romy Gehrke, Dirk Schortemeier, Susanne Bredehöft

KöIner Kurrende
KöIner Rundfunkorchester

 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

____________________

Poor as the poor I cling, like them, to humiliating hopes; like them, each day I nearly kill myself just to live.

IL VANGELO SECONDO MATTEO 

[THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW]

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Pier Paolo Pasolini

Italy, 1964

Concert "Hop Project" live in Ivano-Frankivsk Philharmonic on November 12, 2012

DakhaBrakha (UA)

Nina GARENETSKA - vocals, cello, bass drum

Iryna KOVALENKO - vocals, jambe, percussion, bass drum, strings, bagpipes, flute, bull, accordion

Olena TSYBULSKA - vocals, percussion, bass drum, accordion

Marko GALANEVICH - vocals, darbuka, tabla, didgeridoo, trombone, accordion

PortMone (BE)

Oleksiy VIANCHUK - bass guitar

Serhiy KRAVCHENKO - percussion, drama machine

Oleksiy VORSOBA - accordion

DenFilm Media Studio

Denis OVCHAR - cameras, installation

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Концерт "Хмелева Project" наживо в Івано-Франківській філармонії  12.11.2012

ДахаБраха (UA)

Ніна ГАРЕНЕЦЬКА - вокал, віолончель, басовий барабан

Ірина КОВАЛЕНКО - вокал, джамбе, перкусія, басовий барабан, жалійка, волинка, флейта, бугай, акордеон

Олена ЦИБУЛЬСЬКА - вокал, перкусія, басовий барабан, гармошка

Марко ГАЛАНЕВИЧ - вокал, дарбука, табла, діджеріду, тромбон, акордеон

PortMone (BE)

Олексій ВЯНЧУК - бас-гітара

Сергій КРАВЧЕНКО - перкусія, драм-машина

Олексій ВОРСОБА - акордеон

DenFilm media-studio

Денис ОВЧАР - камери, монтаж

 

 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.

MAMMA ROMA

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1962

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

STABAT MATER

____________________

Julia Lezhneva
Philippe Jaroussky

Diego Fasolis
I Barocchisti

Gotta get the stench of Lauren Boebert out of my house somehow before someone vomits.

President Biden was literally talking about curtailing cancer deaths in active duty military and combat veterans.

I'm not one to use the c-word unless it is fully warranted.

That said ...

This FUCKING CUNT needs to be tarred and feathered, sent back to the trailer park, and have her mouth duct taped for the rest of her miserable life.

May she never know one moment of peace or happiness for as long as that black heart struggles to beat.

SCUM OF THE EARTH.
 

GLORIA SWANSON

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I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. 

You can't divorce a book.

DakhaBrakha

NA DOBRANICH

ДахаБраха

На Добраніч

 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.

ACCATTONE

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Pier Paolo Pasolini
Italy, 1961

 

AIMÉ CÉSAIRE

"Word"
____________________

                                                Among me

from myself
to myself
outside any constellation 
clenched in my hands only

the rare hiccup of an ultimate raving spasm 
my face lost your face distraught
fused together intimate confused
every glistening thing every lapping thing 
between our bodies rocked by shipwreck
in the surge or the wind that the wave carries back 
flesh

          backlit

                              as a sandbar

                                                           burst

keep vibrating word

                              I will have luck outside the labyrinth

longer wider keep vibrating 
in tighter and tighter waves

in a lasso to catch me 
in a rope to hang me
in a rainbow
in a bow of rain
and let me be nailed by all the arrows
and their bitterest curare
to the beautiful center* pole of very cool stars

vibrate
vibrate you very essence of the dark
in a wing in a throat from so much perishing 

Translated by A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshleman

DRACULA
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Alberto Braccia

 

When nothing but evil runs through your veins ...

 

DakhaBrakha
LIGHT

MATSUO BASHŌ

"First winter rain"

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First winter rain--

even the monkey

seems to want a raincoat.

 

PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

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If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.