🎥 Scarface (1932) ★ ★ ★ ★
Apart from enjoying a great classic gangster movie, I also got intrigued by the opening statement. The makers directly addressed their audience to take action against their government. I wonder if that would still work today, it would sure make sense.?
🎵My week in music (week #26 2020)
Listened a lot to Alva Noto this week. Bleep.com:
”Much like William Basinski’s famous Disintegration Loops, the Xerrox releases find Alva Noto (…) copying and re-copying samples until they have morphed into something entirely different.”
🎵 My week in music (week #25 2020)
📚 Currently reading On the happy life / On the shortness of life by Seneca. A great book with a lot of useful material for Stoic meditation.
🎵 My week in music (week #24 2020)
📚 Currently reading Space and Place - The perspective of Experience (1977) by Yi-Fu Tuan, as part of my research for an upcoming project based on the history of the typical Dutch polder landscape.
🎵 My week in music (week #23 2020)
Enjoyed this new issue of Bach’s Concertos for Harpsichord and Strings by (Dutch-born) Masato Suzuki & Bach Collegium Japan.
🌱 Explosion of white roses in our garden.
🎥 🎵 My week in music (week #22 2020)
I very much enjoyed watching the classic “Live in Siracuse” concert from 1985 by Prince and the Revolution. Streamed for a limited time on YouTube, in support of the Covid-19 Solidarity Response Fund for the WHO.
🌱🐸Today, our tadpole-raising-mission came successfully to an end! We released the tiny little frogs next to a beautiful blooming yellow iris.
🎵 My week in music (week #21 2020)
It would have been a quiet week music wise, but the death of Mory Kanté made me listen to most of his work the last couple of days. His latest album Cocorico! Balade d’un Griot (made for children!) is pure enjoyment!
“American money is very well-designed, really. I like it better than any other kind of money. I’ve thrown it in the East River down by the Staten Island Ferry just to see it float.”
Andy Warhol 💬
🎥 Onward (2020) ★★ ½
Just a great new Pixar feature meant to be watched by the whole family.
🎥 Hala (2019) ★★★
A solid, somewhat monotonous coming-of-age-film about Hala, a young Pakistani immigrant girl struggling to balance her modern life with her Muslim upbringing.
I was surprised to find this on Apple TV+…
🎵 R.I.P. Mory Kanté, the great griot voice of African music. Different versions of Yeke Yeke followed me throughout my life. From the original smash hit in 1984, to the Hardfloor Remix during an endless rave night on Glastonbury 1995, to the traditional Super Yeke(!) from 2017.
🎵 My week in music (week #20 2020)
Favourite handpicked playlist I listened to this week: “Early Alternative (1960 - 1980)”
”We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion.”
Anne Frank 💬
🎵 My week in music (week #19 2020)
Didn’t listen to much, but was struck by the death of two 20th century giants… RIP Little Richard and Florian Schneider. Without them, we wouldn’t have…. well, almost all of contemporary pop and alternative music..?
🌱 Mint moth on our blooming thymus
🌱 First white roses of the season in our backyard. Many more to come.
“Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you’re telling the truth.”
Anohni 💬
”We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. It’s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.”
Nadezhda Andreyevna Tolokonnikova 💬
“Dear friends, much pain has been endured in the past, and that pain is no longer designated to hopelessness. It’s time to move the process of reconciliation forward with a little more speed. That is the task. If not now, when? If not us, who?”
Faith Bandler 💬
”What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.”
Susan Sontag 💬
“I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.”
Frida Kahlo 💬