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Daily Painting
James Downie
FIGURE AND DOG ON A RURAL LANE (ND/2010s)
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FIGURE AND DOG ON A RURAL LANE (ND/2010s)
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
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PHILLIS LEVIN
"Dandelion"
Ferocious flower
Cast out
Dent de lion
Wily traveler
Rooted in ruthlessness
Dent de lion
Dreaded survivor
Poisoned hunted speared
Dent de lion
Exile returning to rule
Legions of grass
Dent de lion
On a spur of the moment
Marrying the wind
Dent de lion
Settling in
To make a new broadcast
Dent de lion
Broaching the dream-gate
Tail swaying
Dent de lion
Jagged leaf for a tooth
Bearing the bite of your name
Dent de lion
Your mane a nebula
Born of galaxies of gold
Dent de lion
A gray pincushion
Holding numberless stars
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
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Currently Playing
Arvo Pärt
FRATRES
- Fratres for Strings and Percussion
- Fratres for Violin, Strings, and Percussion
- Festina Lente
- Fratres for String Quartet
- Fratres for Cello and Piano
- Summa for Solo Cello
- Fratres for Eight Cellos
- Fratres for Wind Octet and Percussion
- Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
Tamás Benedek
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Béla Nagy, Márta Haraszti, Judit Kis Domonkos, Rezső Hajna, Katalin Schneider, Tibor Párkányi, Sándor Falvai, Béla Melis, Eszter Kendi, Judit Faludi, Katalin Aldobólyi Nagy, Péter Arató, Tibor Wambach, Ágnes Fodor, István Hartenstein, László Hunyadi, Géza Bánhegyi, László Kiss Gy, Antal Szuromi, Károly Ambrus, József Erős
ANNE CARSON
"My Show"
I was born in the circus. I play the flat man.
My voice is flat, my walk is flat, my ironies
move flatly out to sock you in the eye.
Hands, feet, vowels, hair, shadow, feelings of community,
strings (you do not see) all flat.
The epic model I guess I’ll
pass over. Homer likening stalemate in war to a carpenter’s
chalkline. My flat world cost only $2 to view
at first, later this price like others went up.
Brute natures and angles in transparent draperies all alike
enjoyed the show. Flowers fell
transparently off them as they entered my tent
where air was of course planar. In some other world they
could have stayed organized but something about me
cast their placards down (flat, yes):
Brechtian. See a flat rat escape that one-dimensional skull.
And then, and then, what whispers there.
Your agony, mine, in the fully consensual design
of this play of light—you crowd of missing ones,
return the ball to me! whispers, whispers and her voice
(she never arrives) froze on the knock.
Flat thunder, all my heart, you might use Brahms behind it.
Dull, whitish, deadly as a carpenter’s chalkline.
Not Beethoven—Beethoven I cannot flatten.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Currently Watching - 101 Shorts Edition
85. CERAMICS FROM ILZA
[CERAMIKA ILZECKA]
Andrzej Wajda
Poland, 1951
84. THE LAMP
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1959
83. WHEN ANGELS FALL
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1959
82. THE MUSICIANS
Kazimierz Karabasz
Poland, 1960
81. THE FAT AND THE LEAN
Roman Polanski
France, 1961
80. MAMMALS
Roman Polanski
Poland, 1962
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A woman came up to me and said
"I'd like to poison your mind
With wrong ideas that appeal to you
Though I am not unkind"
She looked at me, I looked at something
Written across her scalp
And these are the words that it faintly said
As I tried to call for help:
There's only one thing that I know how to do well
And I've often been told that you only can do
What you know how to do well
And that's be you
Be what you're like
Be like yourself
And so I'm having a wonderful time
But I'd rather be whistling in the dark
DAVID GRAEBER
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape.
Until such time as Homo Sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
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Saturday, April 6, 2024
DAVID GRAEBER
Money has always been a particular problem for revolutionaries and anti-capitalists. What will money look like 'after the revolution'? How will it function? Will it exist at all? It's hard to answer the question if you don't know what money actually is. Proposing to eliminate it entirely seems utopian and naive.
Friday, April 5, 2024
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JUNOT DIAZ
Books are surviving in this intense, fragmented, hyper-accelerated present, and my sense and hope is that things will slow down again and people will want more time for a contemplative life. There is no way people can keep up this pace. No one is happy. Two or three hours to read should not be an unattainable thing, although I hope we get to that stage without needing a corporate sponsored app to hold our hand. The utopian in me has my fingers crossed that we haven't quite figured out the digital future just yet. After all, the one thing we know about people: they always surprise.
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Thursday, April 4, 2024
Currently Watching - 101 Shorts Edition
92. THE RUNNING, JUMPING, AND STANDING STILL FILM
Richard Lester
UK, 1960
91. BOROM SARRET
Ousmane Sembène
Senegal, 1963
89. SHADOW ANIMALS
Jerry Carlsson
Sweden, 2017
88. CALL YOUR FATHER
Jordan Firstman
USA, 2016
87. SIERRA
Sander Joon
Estonia, 2022
86. WREN BOYS
Harry Lighton
Ireland, 2017
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Currently Playing
Carlos Chávez
COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC VOL. 3
Jeff von der Schmidt
Southwest Chamber Music
Tambuco Percussion Ensemble
- Toccata for Percussion Instruments
- 4 Melodías Tradicionales Indias del Ecuador for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
- Tambuco for 6 Percussion Players
- Lamentaciónes for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
- Cantos de México
- 3 Exágonos for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
- Otros Tres Exágonos for Soprano and Chamber Ensemble
- Partita for Solo Timpani
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
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Currently Watching - 101 Shorts Edition
98. ORNAMENT OF THE LOVESTRUCK HEART
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1919
97. THE SECRET OF THE MARQUISE
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1922
96. CINDERELLA
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1922
95. GALATHEA: THE LIVING MARBLE STATUE
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935
94. HUNT FOR LUCK
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935
93. PAPAGENO
Lotte Reiniger
Germany, 1935
HENRY WALLACE
“The Danger of American Fascism” (1944)
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends. The supreme god of a fascist, to which his ends are directed, may be money or power; may be a race or a class; may be a military, clique or an economic group; or may be a culture, religion, or a political party ...
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice. It may be shocking to some people in this country to realize that, without meaning to do so, they hold views in common with Hitler when they preach discrimination against other religious, racial or economic groups. Likewise, many people whose patriotism is their proudest boast play Hitler's game by retailing distrust of our Allies and by giving currency to snide suspicions without foundation in fact.
The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy. They use isolationism as a slogan to conceal their own selfish imperialism. They cultivate hate and distrust. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest.
Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.
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Henry Wallace was FDR’s vice president from 1941-1945
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
SUSAN SONTAG
In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics - physical perfection, identity as a biological given - implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.
Monday, April 1, 2024
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DEAN KOONTZ
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder. But - until and if it destroyed itself - it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.
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