“The perception of beauty is a moral test”
Henry David Thoreau.
art by Leigh Wells.
Test
June 5, 2009
Rota – Fellini
May 15, 2009
Fellini’s Amarcord poster
Maybe the success on this explosive couple lied in the fact that neither Fellini nor Rota understood each other’s work. Strangely enough, Nino Rota would always fall asleep when watching Fellini’s movies and Fellini was a music analphabet to the extremes. But their results were and will always be the most astonishing musical moments in film history, as they managed to melt cinema and music like no-one ever did.
The Great Escape
May 11, 2009Patrick Watson – The Great Escape
Hey child, things are looking down.
That’s okay, you don’t need to win anyways.
Don’t be afraid, just eat up all the gray
and it will fade all away.
Don’t let yourself fall down.
I Don’t Buy It
April 30, 2009
Picture by Chema Madoz.
Don’t pretend you are an example to follow when you earn your money by playing with it in the bourse and winning out of nothing, because I don’t buy your goodness. Nor I don’t buy your capitalism anymore. You can send a useless prince to the new world to make your business look even greater, for what? To pay him more money than ordinary people get in one full year. You’ll pay him in a month.
Great, then keep helping the poor. Keep going to the suburbs for visit, and remember to make sure that in the end you’ll be back to the top, where you belong [that is a must]. They will, indeed, thank you for your act of benevolence and good manners. That will keep you thinking you are doing good. Fine, but don’t glorify your human cause. Because I don’t buy it. I don’t buy your empty palace, I don’t buy your money, and I won’t buy your help.
PS. Keep being religious. Yes, but did you ever notice that Jesus was a revolutionary man? No, he would not buy your fierce capitalism at all: he would only despise it. How sad it is that history managed to make him fit the benefits of a few, like you. Those that make the rest believe that’s just natural laws.
Only a Dream
April 25, 2009
Picture by Rosas
April 21, 2009
“Rosas danst Rosas is a prefiguration of the tensions that characterise Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s work, these being the contrast between rational structure and meaningful emotion, the dialectic between aggression and tenderness, the interaction between unison and counterpoint, and between uniformity and individuality.” /Kaaitheater.
Tule Minun Luokseni
April 20, 2009
Picture by Jon Edwards.
Yes! New Joose Keskitalo music came to my hands!
‘Death finnish folk’, someone else defined.
Joose Keskitalo – Pimeydesta Pimeytta Vastaan
‘Tule Minun Luokseni’ is bitter, grotesque, ironic, cool, sweet. His voice can walk in opposite directions, but never lose its core.
Oh, how I love Finland, and the sound of their tongue.
Mihály Víg
April 18, 2009Werckmeister Harmonies (Opening Sequence). Film by Béla Tarr.
The music in Bela Tarr’s movies turn the darkness and rudeness of its world into light and peace. A momentary light that will make it easier to cope with all the asphyxia that may come next.
The Angels in Your Palm
April 15, 2009
Art by William Anastasi.
The angels in your palm
Sing gentle worried songs
The sweetness of our dreams
Like mountains made of steam.
Silver Mt. Zion – Mountains Made Of Steam
When I was a kid, my mom used to tell me how she knew her angel was by her side. She believed it was her father, dead, watching out all the way from the skies. If there was ever one, my guardian angel went missing too long ago. The strength of my mom is not written in my palm.
