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WHY?
Why create a blog?
What moves us to reach out to others with our thoughts, opinions- our suppositions? For me- I have been continually inspired by one particular blog all year- An Aesthete's Lament. Thank you.
I also begin with an ending of sorts- a dear friend and sometimes mentor died on December 15th and I made a promise to keep just a bit of his wit and wisdom alive by sharing it whenever possible. Hopefully this Little Augury will do that and more. Surely it will evolve- follow along if you'd like to see just how.
a toast to S.Peele and you...
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne? ~rabbie burns (1759-96)
ridin' high podcast 12.30.08: cavalier
Night Plane - Chinese Shadows
Bruno S: A Spell of Songs
NYT - "From Berlin's Hole of Forgottenness, a Spell of Songs"
"he occupied the roles of damaged characters so completely and genuinely, so uncannily, that it was never quite clear how much he actually understood about what use was being made of him by the director. His performances were riveting, but he was obviously not well mentally, and even as he came across in his own way as knowing, he was at the same time simply being himself, and the question hovered: How much was fiction, how much reality?"
"He has been working on the same painting at least since the late summer, protecting it under layers of newspapers, towels, pens and paint, which he peels away, as one doffs heavy clothing.
The picture shows a vast conflagration. A vase falls from a tottering column, which Bruno explains is the incident that started the fire, a recurring dream he has about Berlin. A man flees; another screams. Above it all the symbol of the city, the Berlin bear, wears a golden crown, surrounded by a rain of black crosses.
“I gave the Berlin bear a solemn crown, but when your mother town is estranged from you, death can’t be far away,” Bruno said, cryptically as usual.
“I wish she could see it," he said, now talking about his mother. “If she did, she would die straightaway of a heart attack because she would see her son’s death.”
He calls her Mrs. Bremse, which translates both as “brake” and “horse fly.” It turns out that he had been playing all those months ago near the church up the street from us because his brother, long dead, used to live in the neighborhood."
Woolfy vs. Projections - Invisible Conga People Remix
Ridin' High Podcast 12.23.08: Night Plane
Edit Credits 4/4: DJ Still Life
Edit Credits: 3/4: Excellent Swoon
Edit Credits 2/4: First Choice
Edit Credits, 1/4: Edit of the Year
Tonight: Your Invitation
Ridin' High Podcast 12.16.08: Night Plane
Natural Fashion. Tribal decoration from Africa by Hans Silvester
Scanno by Mario Giacomelli and Henri Cartier-Bresson
Mario Giacomelli
Mario Giacomelli
A.R.E. Weapons - F What You Like
A.R.E. Weapons "F What You Like" from THE FEAR on Vimeo.
Legends of Grift
Endless Grift - Lost in the Open / Lady Day (Live from Prenzlauer Berg)
DJ Still Life: The Raw & The Crooked vol. 6: Psych Mix
Albert Hoffmann at home
"The new edition of The Raw & The Crooked is a run through 60's and 70's psychedelic jams that seem to fit the brisk temperature outside right now. Smashed together mixtape style, of course."
DJ Still Life- The Raw and the Crooked 006 (psych mix)
Sleeping Giant Podcast
grab it here
Biggie Smalls Live - "Warning" 1995
Bush & Beach: Axes to the Frozen Sea
Sabine Weiss at the MEP
Sabine Weiss is the female counterpart to Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and the Werner Bischofs. Sabine Weiss has been photographing people with the same unflaggingly tender curiosity for the past 45 years. A member of the Rapho agency since 1953, she has become associated with a line of so-called 'humanist' photographers who played a key role in the history of the 1950s and 60s. She has produced many fashion pieces and portraits of celebrities and artists for Vogue magazine, and in addition to her commissioned work she has always made pictures 'for herself'. She has gradually turned almost exclusively to black and white reportage, a medium that expresses the relationship between Man and his world more 'calmly and simply' and which captures the 'plenitude of light' that has been her obsession. If you are in Paris in January Half a Century of Photography is a touching exhibition at La Maison Europeene de la Photographie devoted to Sabine Weiss.
Christmas rue Castiglione
RH Podcast 12/09/08: Night Plane
The Mob - Witch Hunt (JD Twitch Re-edit)
Mi Ami - African Rhythms
The Temptations - Smiling Faces Sometimes
One of the most grand productions by Normal Whitfield (1940-2008), the high priest of long-form psychedelic soul, one of Motown's legendary greats, also responsible for such testaments to human creativity as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Papa Was a Rolling Stone."
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