David Redfern - Sammy Davis Jr wearing a Sgt. Pepper t-shirt at London’s Talk of the Town, 1967.

HENRI-GEORGES CLOUZOT

Perversion exists; and, to describe it in its most crushing and tragic form, I had to go as far as possible without being afraid of traumatizing the audience.

DENISE LEVERTOV - “People At Night”

A night that cuts between you and you
and you and you and you
and me : jostles us apart, a man elbowing
through a crowd.          We won’t
                  look for each other, either-
wander off, each alone, not looking
in the slow crowd. Among sideshows
                  under movie signs,
                  pictures made of a million lights,
                  giants that move and again move
                  again, above a cloud of thick smells,
                  franks, roasted nutmeats- Or going up to some apartment, yours
                  or yours, finding
someone sitting in the dark:
who is it really? So you switch the
light on to see: you know the name but
who is it ?
        But you won’t see. The fluorescent light flickers sullenly, a
pause. But you command. It grabs
each face and holds it up
by the hair for you, mask after mask.
                  You   and   you and I   repeat
                  gestures that make do when speech
                  has failed          and talk
                  and talk, laughing, saying
                  ‘I’, and ‘I’,
meaning ‘Anybody’.
                            No one.

MARILYNNE ROBINSON

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it.

KAY RYAN - “Crash”

Slip is one

law of crash

among dozens.

There is also

shift—

moving a

granite lozenge

to the left

a little,

sending down

a cliff.

Also toggles:

the idle flip

that trips

the rails

trains travel.

No act

or refusal

to act, no

special grip

or triple lock

or brake stops

crash: crash

quickens

on resistance

like a legal system

out of Dickens.

DARIAN LEADER from Stealing the Mona Lisa

How could God have created the world if He were already everywhere? One cabbalistic response is to assume that He did so by abandoning a region of Himself.

TRIOS

Johann Sebastian Bach

Yo-Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer

Nonsuch, 2017

THREE TIMES
最好的時光

Hsiao-Hsien Hou
Taiwan, 2005

KARUNA

Nawang Khechog

INNER SOUNDS OF TIBET

Nawang Khechog

NEVER FAR AWAY - MUSIC OF BRIGHT SHENG

Bright Sheng (b. 1955)

Yolanda Kondonassis

Jahja Ling, San Diego Symphony Orchestra

LA BELLE NOISEUSE

(English title: THE BEAUTIFUL TROUBLEMAKER)

Jaques Rivette

France, 1991

LEILA

ALEXANDER MERKS

"Simplicity"

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URSULA K. LE GUIN 

Always Coming Home

____________________

There’s no right answer to the wrong question. 

Now what do we do?

FANNIE LOU HAMER

If this is a Great Society, I’d hate to see a bad one.

WANG WEI - “Drifting on the Lake”

Autumn is crisp and the firmament far,
especially far from where people live.
I look at cranes on the sand
and am immersed in joy when I see mountains beyond the clouds.
Dusk inks the crystal ripples.
Leisurely the white moon comes out.
Tonight I am with my oar, alone, and can do
    everything,
yet waver, not willing to return.

EDMUND WHITE from A Boy’s Own Story

Sex now seemed a strange thing to me, a social rite that registered, even brought about shifts in the balance of power, but something that was more discussed than performed, a simple emission of fluid that somehow generated religious, social, and economic consequences.

PETER CAMERON

There are people who are uncomfortable with a silence, who rush to fill it by saying anything, thinking that anything is better than nothing, but I am not one of those people. I am not at all disquieted by silence.

DONALD WINNICOTT from On Communicating and Not Communicating

In the artist of all kinds I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found.

CHACONNERIE

BASI OSTINATI FROM THE 16th TO THE 21st CENTURY

Silvia Márquez

VIOLIN SONATAS - ELGAR, DEBUSSY, and RESPIGHI

James Ehnes, Andrew Armstrong

BALLET MUSIC

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

SHIFRIN PLAYS SCHIFRIN

Lalo Schifrin (b. 1932)

David Shifrin

Andre-Michel Schub, Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

WHILE YOU ARE ALIVE

Cantus

PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN G MINOR, OP. 16

Sergei Prokofiev (1912-13)

Beatrice Rana

Antonio Pappano, Orchestra Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia

BEETHOVEN - SCHUBERT - BRAHMS

Adolf Busch and Rudolf Serkin

RUBBER SOUL

The Beatles

CONFESIÓN

Alexander-Sergei Ramírez

NOISY LOVE SONGS

Okkyung Lee

NIHM

Okkyung Lee