FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS

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Cheng Cheh

Hong Kong, 1976

Eminem

THE MARSHALL MATHERS LP

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Bright Sheng

SILENT TEMPLE

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Bright Sheng

Wu Man

Shanghai Quartet

DORIS LESSING

Interview with Herbert Mitgang, “Mrs. Lessing Addresses Some of Life’s Puzzles,” The New York Times, April 22, 1984

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In the writing process, the more the story cooks, the better. The brain works for you even when you are at rest. I find dreams particularly useful. I myself think a great deal before I go to sleep and the details sometimes unfold in the dream.

MR. KLEIN

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Joseph Losey

France, 1976

MATSUO BASHŌ

"Moonlight slanting"

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Moonlight slanting

through the bamboo grove;

a cuckoo crying.

When the Holy Ghost refuses to uphold christian values and chastises you for murdering sex workers.

Chick Webb & Ella Fitzgerald

THE COMPLETE CHICK WEBB & ELLA FITZGERALD DECCA SESSIONS (1934-1941)

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EHSAN SEHGAL

"Face and Character"

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The beauty of the face and body attracts only the eyes, but the beauty of the character and talk perfumes heart, mind, and soul. That is the essential point of one's life.

CRIPPLED AVENGERS

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Chang Cheh

Hong Kong, 1978

Oh my God.

LIARMOUTH
A Feel-Bad Romance
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John Waters

TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER

“Icelandic Hurricane”

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No earth tremor, but a skyquake. Turner could have painted it, secured by ropes. A single  mitten whirled past right now, several miles from its hand. Facing the storm I am heading for that house on the other side of the field. I flutter in the hurricane. I am being x-rayed, my skeleton hands in its application for discharge. Panic grows while I tack about, I am wrecked, I am wrecked and drown on dry land! How heavy it is, all that I suddenly have to carry, how heavy it is for the butterfly to tow a barge! There at last. A final bout of wrestling with the door. And now inside. Behind the huge window-pane. What a strange and magnificent invention glass is—to be close without being stricken… Outside a horde  of transparent splinters of gigantic shapes rush across the lava plain. But I flutter no more. I sit behind the glass, still, my own portrait.

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I've read this poem a thousand times. I'm always struck by the line "What a strange and magnificent invention glass is - to be close without being stricken."

Love in the Time of Covid .....

Bonnie 'Prince' Billy

EASE DOWN THE ROAD

TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER

"National Insecurity"

The Under Secretary leans forward and draws an X

and her ear-drops dangle like swords of Damocles.

As a mottled butterfly is invisible against the ground

so the demon merges with the opened newspaper.

A helmet worn by no one has taken power.

The mother-turtle flees flying under the water.

Translated by Robin Fulton

THE FIVE VENOMS

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Chang Cheh

Hong Kong, 1978

Fleshlight .....

THE INTRIGUE

The Forgotten Films of Writer & Director Julia Crawford Ivers

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Includes:

THE INTRIGUE

Director -  Frank Lloyd

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

Photography -  James C. Van Trees

USA, 1916

Color Tinted - 64 Minutes

THE MAJESTY OF THE LAW 

(Reel 4)

Director - Julia Crawford Ivers

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

USA, 1915 

Color Tinted - 13 Minutes

A SON OF ERIN

Director - Julia Crawford Ivers

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers

USA, 1916 

Color Tinted - 56 Minutes

BEN BLAIR  

Director - William Desmond Taylor

Writer - Julia Crawford Ivers  

Photography - Homer Scott

USA, 1916 

Color Tinted - 64 Minutes

"I'm single ..."

THE SONGS OF SAPA

Stories and Recipes from Vietnam

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Luke Nguyen

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber

THE ROSARY SONATAS

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Andrew Manze

Richard Egarr

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One of the very, very few things that Ben would not let us play when he was in the room or car or whatever. 

"It's just too sad," he said.

MIGHTY PEKING MAN

[XING XING WANG]
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Ho Meng-hua

Hong Kong, 1977

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Another fun synopsis:

King Kong goes Hong Kong as a giant Himalayan beast tries to save a sexy Russia Tarzanette from a sleazy show-biz promoter.

KEXP presents DakhaBrakha performing live in the KEXP studio. 

Recorded April 15, 2022. 

These are three new, yet unreleased songs being debuted on the current US tour.

00:17 – Sonnet

06:34 – 9 nedilechok

14:22 – Rozhestov

23:01 – Interview

Nina Garenetska - Cello / Vocals
Iryna Kovalenko - Piano / Percussion / Vocals
Olena Tsybulska - Drums / Vocals
Marko Halanevych - Accordion / Vocals

Host: Miss Ashley
Audio Engineers: Iryna Gorban & Kevin Suggs
Mastering: Matt Ogaz
Cameras: Jim Beckmann, Carlos Cruz, Alaia D’Alessandro, Ettie Wahl
Editor: Jim Beckmann

Aimee Mann

BACHELOR NO. 2

Strength in numbers .....

White christians reject the notion of free speech in every fibre of their blacked souls.
 

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

OBOE CONCERTOS

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Xenia Löffler

Georg Kallweit, Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin

THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG

[MA YONG ZHEN]

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Chang Cheh

Hong Kong, 1972

A YEAR FROM MONDAY

lectures & writings

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John Cage

Another Friday afternoon at Our Lady of Perpetual Sorrow .....

"I'll stop" or just "I'll stop until the next little boys comes in."

 

I keep trying to imagine white christians making this video.

I cannot.

 

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

SIX KEYBOARD CONCERTOS, Wq. 43

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Andreas Staier 

Petra Müllejans

Freiburger Barockorchester

You don't say ....

MATSUO BASHŌ

"Awake at night"

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Awake at night--

the sound of the water jar

cracking in the cold.

KING BOXER

US title: FIVE FINGERS OF DEATH

[TIAN XIA DI YI QUAN]

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Chung Chang-wha

Hong Kong, 1972

Start living .....

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Oh my god - The crying Kleenex box.

Church vs. State

Alexander Borodin

PRINCE IGOR

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Boris Christoff

Constantin Cherkerliski, Julia Wiener, Todor Todorov, Cyril Dulguerov, Alexi Milkovsky, Luben Mihailov

Jerzy Semkow

National Opera Theatre of Sofia

LE BEAU SERGE

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Claude Chabrol

France, 1958

THE NORTHMAN

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Robert Eggers

USA, 2022

Dear Son .....

She should have demonstrated with a cigar.

A NON-VOTER says, "It hasn't happened to me, so I don't care."

Y'all non-voters are about to go through some things.

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Hillary was right ... about EVERYTHING.

Coming to a blue state theatre near you.

One in the pink, two in the happy place.

Homophobes and those who call for violence against the LGBTQ continuum are always the biggest pole-smokin' closet queens.

THE ANOMALY

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Hervé Le Tellier

Translated by Adriana Hunter

Let's shake on it ....

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Benjamin Britten

LIASONS VOL III

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Dejan Lazić

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CPE BACH

Sonata in D minor, Wq. 69

Fantasia in D Major, Wq. 117/14

Sonata in E-flat Major, Wq. 65/42

BENJAMIN BRITTEN

Five Waltzes for Piano (1923-25)

Holiday Diary for Solo Piano (1934)

Night Pieces for Piano (1963)

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

SONATAS & RONDOS

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Mikhail Pletnev

Do your part. Make the White Baby Jesus cry. Stay moisturized.