Sunday, January 21, 2024

I agree with the MAGAts on this one:

President Biden should absolutely have full presidential immunity ten months out from the 2024 election, even if it means he "crosses a line."

Right?

That's the argument being presented to the Supreme Court when Fuckstick says "ALL PRESIDENTS."

Right?

With me, MAGAts? Total immunity?

Right?

Good, I'm glad we can all agree. Now, does anyone have the number for the SEAL Team Six Domestic Assassination Unit handy?

GOD BLESS THE SUPREME COURT!

Currently Playing

The Klezmer Conservatory Band
A TASTE OF PARADISE


GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(1898)

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.



Daily Painting

Lizzy Ansingh
THE PERFORMANCE (1944)

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Currently Watching

BACURAU
Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles
Brazil, 2019

Currently Watching

THE FORBIDDEN ROOM
Guy Maddin and Evan Johnson
Canada, 2015

Currently Playing

César Franck
SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS, M 46

Garbriel Fauré
BALLADE IN F-SHARP MAJOR, OP. 19

Vincent D'Indy
SYMPHONY ON A FRENCH MOUNTAIN AIR, OP. 26

Antonio de Almeida
François-Joël Thiollier
Ireland National Symphony Orchestra


DRACULA as played by UDO KIER
From Paul Morrissey's Blood for Dracula (1974)

I need the blood of a virgin. The blood of these whores is killing me.



Daily Painting

Marilyn Borglum
SELF-PORTRAIT POSING AS MY MOTHER (2022)

Friday, January 19, 2024

Currently Watching

KEYHOLE
Guy Maddin
Canada, 2011

Currently Playing

Franz Schubert
STRING QUARTET IN D MINOR, D 810 "DEATH AND THJE MAIDEN"
STRING QUINTET IN C MAJOR, D 956

Pavel Haas Quartet
Danjulo Ishizaka


GEORGE ORWELL
1984

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself - that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word 'doublethink' involved the use of doublethink.



Daily Painting

Dirck van Baburen
PROMETHEUS BEING CHAINED BY VULCAN (1623)

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Currently Watching

POOR THINGS
Yorgos Lanthimos
Ireland/UK/USA, 2023

Currently Playing

Claudio Gizzi
FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


Currently Playing

Claudio Gizzi
BLOOD FOR DRACULA
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack


DOROTHY PARKER
"Sight"

Unseemly are the open eyes
That watch the midnight sheep,
That look upon the secret skies
Nor close, abashed, in sleep;

That see the dawn drag in, unbidden,
To birth another day--
Oh, better far their gaze were hidden
Below the decent clay.



Daily Painting

Euan Uglow
THE BLUE TOWEL (1982)

Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Currently Watching

BLOOD FOR DRACULA
Paul Morrissey
USA/Italy, 1974



Currently Watching

LE VOYAGE AU GROENLAND
[JOURNEY TO GREENLAND]

Sébastien Betbeder
France, 2016

Currently Watching

FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN
Paul Morrissey
USA/Italy, 1973



Peter Schickele
1935-2024
Keep talking, Bitch-Boi.

Currently Playing

"Strawberry Fields Forever"
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs featuring Debbie Harry

Currently Playing

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
REY ÁZUCAR


THE RADICAL LIBERAL

My reading of the Creation story in Genesis suggests that God never left the Garden that day; he never let the gate open by accident. No, God never left the Garden at all! The evil side of his personality showed up instead.

These poor kids were duped by a mentally-impaired maniac, hell-bent on getting his jollies on their suffering. He told Adam he would forever have to plow the fields to eat, and told Eve she would have great pain in childbirth — and submit to her husband.

Reading the Bible takes not only a lot of coffee (with a spoonful of pessimism), but it also requires a good sense of humor: the stories are simply outrageous nonsense. It is clear these stories were written by men who wanted to control others, including their wives, and they used these tall tales to try to explain the unexplainable.

In sum, the Bible might have been written by a couple of dudes sitting around smoking doobies all day. The story of the “Fall” was no doubt written by some dude whose wife didn’t want to put up the new bathroom tile the way he wanted, and so they had a fight, and she moved back in with her mother, and now he’s got to do his own damned laundry, and he hates her.

Ok, ok: the Bible is a diary for madmen. It’s called the Bible because it’s the handbook for how lunatics try to exert their crazy-assed way of life on others.

It the Cadillac of cult books.

Being in a cult, like any organized religion, requires:

The Leader to tell the followers who and what to fear

The Leader to tell the followers that he alone can save them, that he alone will fight for them, and that he alone can be trusted to protect them

The Leader closes off and shuts out any and all voices of dissent by telling followers “they lie to hurt you”

Those who have spent their lives following a religious Leader like God give their minds over to fear, false hope, and the believing of lies.

There’s another cult that has become popular with naïve followers, and they too are being told who to fear, who to trust, and that what others say is “fake news.”

The Cult of Trump.

Daily Painting

Louise Abbéma
ELEGANT WOMAN ON A WINTER'S WALK (ND/1880s)

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Currently Playing

Matt Haimovitz
THE 20th-CENTURY CELLO

Works for Cello Solo by Luciano Berio, Benjamin Britten, George Crumb, Claude Debussy, Mario Davidovsky, Henri Dutilleux, John Harbison, Hans Werner Henze, Paul Hindemith, Zoltán Kodály, György Ligeti, George Perle, Max Reger, Roger Sessions, and Anton Webern


GEORGE ORWELL
1984

Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.



Daily Painting

Lesser Ury
NIGHTTIME STREET SCENE (1920)

Daily Painting(s)

Jacek Malczewski
CHRIST IN EMMAUS [SELF-PORTRAIT] (1909)

Jacek Malczewski
CHRIST IN FRONT OF PILATE [SELF-PORTRAIT] (1910)


CHRIST AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN [SELF-PORTRAIT] (1909)



Monday, January 15, 2024

Currently Watching

GYEONGSEONG CREATURE
Korea, 2023

Director
Jeong Dong-yun

Writer
Kang Eun-kyung

Currently Playing

Miles Davis
BIRTH OF THE COOL


THOMAS JEFFERSON
Author of the Declaration of Independence on Donald Trum
p

If once elected and at a second or third election outvoted by one or two votes, he will pretend false votes, foul play, hold possession of the reins of government, be supported by the states voting for him.



Daily Painting

Claude Monet
THE MAGPIE (1879)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Top:
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Atlanta with sculptor Basil Watson

Bottom:
The Stone of Hope - Library of Congress in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.



Sunday, January 14, 2024

Currently Watching

GYEONGSEONG CREATURE
Korea, 2023

Director
Jeong Dong-yun

Writer
Kang Eun-kyung


Park Seo-joon, Han So-hee, Wi Ha-joon, Jo Han-chul, Kim Hae-sook, Tom Choi, Woo Ji-hyun, Hyun Bong-sik

Currently Playing

Pearl Jam
TEN

Daily Painting

Chelsea James
STUDIO B
(2009)

Saturday, January 13, 2024

Currently Watching

PARALLEL MOTHERS
[MADRES PARALELAS]

Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2021

Currently Watching

PAIN AND GLORY
[DOLOR Y GLORIA]

Pedro Almodóvar
Spain, 2019

Currently Playing

Leevi Madetoja
SYMPHONY NO. 2 (1916-1918)

John Storgårds
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra


GEORGE ORWELL
1984

It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.



Daily Painting

Tetsugoro Yorozu
SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CLOUD
(ND)

Friday, January 12, 2024

Currently Watching

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?
Mike Nichols
USA, 1966


Sandy Dennis' screentest for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

With Roddy McDowall reading the part of Nick.

Currently Reading

Claire Wahmanholm
MELTWATER

Currently Playing

Mark Eitzel
EAST







PAUL LYNCH
Prophet Song

and the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news, an echo of events that has passed into folklore



Daily Painting

Alma Thomas
RED ABSTRACTION
(1960)

Thursday, January 11, 2024

Currently Watching

EVERYTHING GOES WRONG
[SUBETE GA KURUTTERU]

Seijun Suzuki
Japan, 1960


Tamio Kawaji, Yoshiko Nezu, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Shinako Nakagawa

Currently Watching

SATURDAY FICTION
Lou Ye
China, 2019

Currently Playing

Nicola Porpora
ORLANDO
(L'ANGELICA)

Juan Bautista Otero

Robert Expert, Olga Pitarch, Betsabée Hass

Real Conpañía Ópera de Cámara


PAUL LYNCH
Prophet Song

We are both scientists, we belong to a tradition but tradition is nothing more than what everyone can agree on – the scientists, the teachers, the institutions, if you change ownership of the institutions then you can change ownership of the facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon, that is what they are doing, Eilish, it is really quite simple, the NAP is trying to change what you and I call reality, they want to muddy it like water, if you say one thing is another thing and you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true – this is an old idea, of course, it really is nothing new, but you’re watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.



Daily Painting

Euan MacLeod
FIGURE IN MOONLIT LANDSCAPE
(1991)

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Currently Watching

8 HOURS OF TERROR
[HACHIJIKAN NO JYÔFU]

Seijun Suzuki
Japan, 1957