Watching

L'ASSASSINO
[THE ASSASSIN]
Elio Petri
Italy, 1961

That an adult is too afraid of the NY subway to walk into Grand Central has got to be peak white christian male.

Playing

CHICAGO
Original Cast Album

JEAN GIONO
Horseman on the Roof

“Learn a little selfishness,” he said to himself, “it’s very useful and you never look like an idiot. Those two told you to get lost and they’re right. They’re dealing with a matter that concerns them and they’re handling it as they please. They don’t want you to complicate things at all. Whether the patient gets better or worse, in a quarter of an hour they won’t be crying anymore and they’ll only think about getting by. Do you think generosity is always good? Nine times out of ten it’s impolite. And it’s never manly.”

Daily Painting

Ludvig Eikaas
THE HORSE IS HARNESSED (1955)

Watching

YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER
Kate Dolan
UK Ireland, 2021

Playing

Chris Thile and Michael Daves
SLEEP WITH ONE EYE OPEN

MARY OLIVER
"How I Go To The Woods"

Ordinarily I go to the woods alone, with not a single friend, for they are all smilers and talkers and therefore unsuitable.

I don't really want to be witnessed talking to the catbirds or hugging the old black oak tree. I have my way of praying, as you no doubt have yours.

Besides, when I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.

If you have ever gone to the woods with me, I must love you very much.

Daily Painting

Lois Mailou Jones
PORTRAIT OF TWO WOMEN (c. 1949)

Reading

Jim Robbins
THE MAN WHO PLANTS TREES
A Story of Lost Groves, the Science of Trees, and a Plan to Save the Planet

Playing

Clifford Brown
BROWNIE - THE COMPLETE EMARCY RECORDINGS

Discs 5 and 6
All-Star Live Jam Session - Los Angeles, Aug 14, 1954

Featuring Dinah Washington

WASHINGTON IRVING

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

Daily Painting

Faeq Hassan
DESERT HEART (1950)

Watching

THE SEVENTH SEAL

[DET SJUNDE INSEGLET]

Ingmar Bergman

Sweden, 1957

Poor Lil' Gunther should have just kept his mouth full of tiny mushroom dick.

Every MAGA. Every republican. Every evangelical.

Christians love pedophilia and child rape (and incest).

Read their goddamned book.

Playing

The Cure
THE HEAD ON THE DOOR

Playing

The Cure
THREE IMAGINARY BOYS

JEAN GIONO
The Man Who Planted Trees

Creation seemed to come about in a sort of chain reaction. He did not worry about it; he was determinedly pursuing his task in all its simplicity; but as we went back towards the village I saw water flowing in brooks that had been dry since the memory of man. This was the most impressive result of chain reaction that I had seen. These dry streams had once, long ago, run with water.

Daily Painting

Vasudeo Gaitonde
PAINTING 4 (1962)

Priorities.

Playing

Ernest Tubb and His Texas Troubadours
MY PICK OF THE HITS

JEAN GIONO
The Man Who Planted Trees

For three years, he had been planting trees in that desolate country. He had planted one hundred thousand. Of the hundred thousand, twenty thousand had come up. Of these, he still expected to lose half, either to rodents or to any of the unpredictable things which only providence can account for. That left ten thousand oaks to grow where before there had been nothing.

Daily Painting

Alan Collier
FARMS IN THE VALLEY AT MEADOW CREEK, BC (1989)

Watching

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Season 6

Sown. Reaped.

Hate knows no gender.

Playing

Eric Burdon & The Animals
THE GREATEST HITS

Daily Painting

Worthington Whittredge
EVENING IN THE WOODS (1876)

Watching

THE HANDMAID'S TALE
Season 6

Playing

Gerry Mulligan-Chet Baker Quartet
THE ORIGINAL GERRY MULLIGAN-CHET BAKER QUARTET
COMPLETE RECORDINGS - MASTER TAKES

MARY OLIVER
"The Kitten"

More amazed than anything
I took the perfectly black
stillborn kitten
with the one large eye
in the center of its small forehead
from the house cat's bed
and buried it in a field
behind the house.

I suppose I could have given it
to a museum,
I could have called the local
newspaper.

But instead I took it out into the field
and opened the earth
and put it back
saying, it was real,
saying, life is infinitely inventive,
saying, what other amazements
lie in the dark seed of the earth, yes,

I think I did right to go out alone
and give it back peacefully, and cover the place
with the reckless blossoms of weeds.

Daily Painting

Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval
LAVA AT BESSASTADIR (1947-54)

Watching

THE SADNESS

[哭悲 / Ku bei]

Rob Jabbaz

Taiwan, 2021

Playing

CLUB MOD on allclassical.org

Hosted by Andrea Murray

"... at its christian run attached gift shop."

Playing

Frédéric Chopin
ÉTUDES, OP. 10 and OP. 25

Murray Perahia

PAUL DURCAN
"Staring Out the Window Three Weeks after His Death"

On the last day of his life as he lay comatose in the hospital bed
I saw that his soul was a hare which was poised
In the long grass of his body, ears pricked.
It sprang toward me and halted and I wondered if it
Could hear me breathing
Or if it could smell my own fear, which was,
Could he but have known it, greater than his
For plainly he was a just and playful man
And just and playful men are as brave as they are rare.
Then his cancer-eroded body appeared to shudder
As if a gust of wind blew through the long grass
And the hare of his soul made a U-turn
And began bounding away from me
Until it disappeared from sight into a dark wood
And I thought - that is the end of that,
I will not be seeing him again.
He died in front of me; no one else was in the room.
My eyes teemed with tears; I could not damp them down.
I stood up to walk around his bed
Only to catch sight again of the hare of his soul
Springing out of the wood into a beachy cove of sunlight
And I thought: Yes, that's how it is going to be from now on.
The hare of his soul always there, when I least expect it;
Popping up out of nowhere, sitting still.

Daily Painting

Jasper Johns
EVIAN (1972)

Watching

THE MONKEY
Osgood Perkins
USA, 2025

DONNIE D-CUPS
Iowa Nazi Rally - July 3, 2025

You know, when I did the 250, there was nothing I could do. It was 250. It was 250. So I can't see, that was my baby. The country happened to be 250 years old. But what I did do is during my first term, l got the Olympics, and I got the Great Soccer. You know that whole deal, right? I got. We call it soccer. They call it football. I got them both. I got the Olympics. First, I got the Olympics, and I got it. I was president. And I said, you know, it's a shame. It's a shame. I got the World Cup, and I have the Olympics, and I did it. And you have no idea. President Obama didn't want to make a call to the Olympics. You know why? Because he went to Switzerland or wherever, and he said, you know, if a president goes to get the Olympics, you have to have a deal. You have to be chosen. He went there, and he came in fourth, so he hated them, I guess. And he was unwilling to make a call, and they called me up. The Democrats called me up, actually, from Los Angeles, and I. said, I'll do it. I made the call, and I couldn't get the people off the phone because they were so starved for love, because nobody would call them from. Anyway, we made a deal. I got the Olympics. Then we got the World Cup with Johnny. We got the World Cup, and I got them both, and I looked at my people. I said, isn't it a shame? I got these two, but it wasn't in the next four years. It was right after that, and the one after that. And I got the Olympics, and I got the World Cup, and we also have 250, so that's a pretty wild term. But I got these two things that are incredible. Nobody else could have done it. I'm telling you, everybody wanted it. Nobody could have done it. And I said, and I won't be president, because I'll be president for four more years, but it won't be and then they cheated and rigged the election. They rigged, you know, they don't even turn off the cameras when I say that now, because now they know it's true, too. But they knew it was true before. Remember, the cameras used to immediately turn off.You see all those beautiful red lights go off. Now I can say whatever I want, because then they know it's true. But they knew it was true before. It's fake news. That's why they call it. But you know what? This term is much more consequential than if I had done it the more traditional way. This was slightly harder, believe me. It's slightly more dangerous, because they're criminals on the other side that tried to put your president in jail and went after him, just like they do in third-world countries. And we all beat em together. We beat em because our level of popularity was so high.

ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ

I don't think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA, & others combined.

It is setting up to make what's happening now look like child's play. And people are disappearing.

Christianity defined by a one-word tweet by a sitting member of Congress.

Playing

Ren
SICK BOI

SAMUEL BECKETT
"Texts For Nothing"

Yes, I was my father and I was my son, I asked myself questions and answered as best I could, I had it told to me evening after evening, the same old story I knew by heart and couldn’t believe, or we walked together, hand in hand, silent, sunk in our worlds, each in his worlds, the hands forgotten in each other. That’s how I’ve held out till now.

And this evening again it seems to be working, I’m in my arms, I’m holding myself in my arms, without much tenderness, but faithfully, faithfully. Sleep now, as under that ancient lamp, all twined together, tired out with so much talking, so much listening, so much toil and play.

Daily Painting

Bernard Buffet
GREAT OWL AND LITTLE OWL (1988)

Laura Loomer might ought to remember that the last time Nazis were in charge collaborators went into the ovens, too.

Playing

Chet Baker
CHET BAKER IN MILAN

STEPHEN GRAHAM
The Gentle Art of Tramping

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

Daily Painting

Milton Avery
DUNES AND SEA II (1960) 

Daily Painting

Camille Pissarro
WANDERER NEAR THE WOOD (1887)

Sometimes, for a moment, one can truly wish hell is a real place. Just for evil cunts like Swaggart.
 

Every MAGAt.

Every non-voter.

Every third-party voter.

EXACTLY what you wanted.

Playing

Alessandro Baccini
19TH CENTURY MASTERPIECES FOR OBOE & ENGLISH HORN

Giogio Fabbri
City of Adria Philharmonic Orchestra

Bellini, Rossini, Chopin, Donizetti, and Ferlendis

LI BAI

The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.

We sit together, the mountain and me,
until only the mountain remains.

Daily Painting

Oleksandr Bohomazov
SHARPENING THE SAWS (1927)