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Hacksaw Ridge (2016)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

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WAPO 1/28 12:15 PM Former Trump chief of staff John Kelly says he believes Bolton, not Trump John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff from July 2017 through January 2019, suggested Monday that he’d take Bolton’s word over that of his former boss. Kelly was asked about Bolton’s claim in a ye...

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Finally a readable poetic translation into contemporary English that captures the range of tone and style of this transcendent work. I've always wanted to read this book and now, thanks to Professor Stelzig (SUNY Geneseo), I can.

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My third Wharton big book, following House of Mirth and Age of Innocence : every one of them is way better than her over-assigned-in-high-school Ethan Frome . From the get-go, The Custom of the Country grabbed me. Wharton is sharply funny, witty, urbane. She writes transcendentally--she relentlessly...

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1917 (2019) by Sam Mendes. A cinematic tour de force. If I had to make the case that the movies are the great art form of our time, this would be one of the flicks I would show. In wide release right now. Won't be available on DVD and Blu-ray till March 24. https://i.insider.com/5e2b3487b6d52d380879...

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Double Feature

Much Ado About Nothing, dir by Kenneth Branagh (1993).

Les Miserables, dir by Billie August (1998).

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Obvious influence in this story collection is Joyce's Dubliners and Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio. The tales are very good, but do not, perhaps could not, even begin to approach the power, sweep and emotional impact of Ngozi Adichie's novels.

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Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun, and Purple Hibiscus -- I read them all over the past week.

These novels immerse the reader into their fictional worlds. Ms. Ngozi Adichie is a contemporary master of the first rank.

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I devoured this book. Farrow, among his strengths as a journalist, also has the eye of a naturalist who tallies up animal behavior with one devastating word, as when he classifies Harvey Weinstein's threat displays as deimatic.

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Little Women (2019) Splendid. Loved it. Now I must read the book. Two New Yorker reviews helped explain for me what director Greta Gerwig was up to. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-compromises-of-greta-gerwigs-little-women/amp https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/greta-g...

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Almost as involving as her previous novel, Conversations with Friends (2017). Read it straight thru w/o a break.

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Little Women (1994) with Winona Ryder

Age of Innocence ((1993)

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Frieder Weissmann in Italy 1957-1969 1 WAGNER: Tannhäuser – O du meiner holder Abendstern (sung in Italian) Giuseppe Taddei (baritone) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI/Frieder Weissmann 16.12.1957 2 MAHLER: Kindertotenlieder Lucrezia West (contralto) Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI/Fr...

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Despotic Donald was to the manner born. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and...

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Arturo Toscanini NBC Symphony July 18, 1943 Studio 8H Bond Concert SUPPE: Poet & Peasant Overture (Dichter & Bauer) MASSENET: Scenes Alsaciennes Dimanche Matin Au Cabaret Sous les tilleuls Dimanche Soir BOLZONI: Al Castello Medioevale No. 1 (Medieval Castle Serenade) J. STRAUSS II: Voci di Primavera...

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Has it all: characterization, narrative, style and an unconventional treatment of a love triangle. In my view, this is one of the great novels in the English language. Wharton is a stunning artist and for me reading her book was an education.

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Krips Wiener Philharmoniker - Johann Strauss II London CS 6007

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Nikolai Peiko, String Quartets 1-3

from Melodiya C10-13037 GOST 5289-73 (1979)

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Oedipus Rex: Pears Modl Stravinsky WDR 1951 Peter Pears (Oedipus) Martha Mödl (Jocasta) Heinz Rehfuss (Creon, Messenger) Otto von Rohr (Tiresias) Jean Cocteau (narrator) Helmut Krebs (Shepherd) Kölner Rundfunkchor, Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Igor Stravinsky 08. October 1951, live, mono, Funk...

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What could a rich fishmonger ( Louis Kemp's Crab Delights ) have to say about the legendary Nobel laureate Bob Dylan? Plenty if the best man at your wedding and the godfather to two of your kids happens to be named Bobby Zimmerman. This is the most unpretentious, fun book about Bob Dylan I have ever...

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Sony's new 17-CD Gyorgy Sandor box https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Album-C ... B07Z761RMM

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Mercury Olympian MG 50037
Schubert “Unfinished” Symphony
Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet Fantasy-Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati

Never reissued on CD, afaik.

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WASHINGTON POST MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — This small heartland city, situated almost halfway between Dayton and Cincinnati, has long had a heart. In good times and bad, it has offered a generous network of privately funded homeless shelters, drug rehabilitation facilities and soup kitchens, plus a library...

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Theory of Everything (2014)

Inspired me to borrow and read Hawking's Brief History of Time.

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12 different narrative perspectives plus the author's own take on the plight of urban Natives. One of my colleagues assigned this to his 10th graders so I thought I might as well read it too. Glad I did. Certainly puts Oakland on the map. There's a there there now. The California Dream as nightmare:...

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The late Koho Uno in 1995 conducting the Shinsei Nihhon Symphony Orchestra: LvB Sym 2 and 6. Top-notch interpretations by a celebrated Japanese music critic turned conductor in the vein of Mengelberg, Knappertsbusch and Furtwangler. I had never heard of him in either role. Here's his Schubert 9 http...

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Viewed The House of Mirth (2000) 2 more times, just to absorb Wharton's riveting dialogue before reading her long book.

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A great novel by one of the greatest English novelists. The brilliant dialogue regularly compares with Oscar Wilde's, and Wharton's take on upper-crust society is far more caustic. One serious flaw in the narrative perspective is the shameful anti-Semitic portrayal of Simon Rosedale's character. No ...

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Utica, NY's rebound discombobulates the misconception that refugees are a drain on the local economy. Its experience suggests that quite the opposite is in fact the case. And suggests too that scapegoating immigrants for unemployment caused by other factors lies behind anti-immigrant political movem...

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Unemployment particularly among the young is huge in the southern states. In Sicily I think it's 60%, the general level is still about 30%....and yet Merkel wants even more migrants in. Who's going to pay these migrants' pensions when they age? Over time, the immigrants themselves, I assume, will h...

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Joker (2019). Missed it in the theaters. Streamed a short sample. Will catch it after Jan 7 when I buy the DVD. Pretty unrelenting so far. Taxi Driver without Cybill and Jodie to compensate.

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City of God (2002). Finally saw it.

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Germany's aim is to run Europe - this time without tanks and bombs . . . . With typical American naivete, I had thought all along that was Russia's aim, with tanks and bombs if that's what it takes. Biggest future threat to NATO is not Germany, but a nonaggression agreement between the US and Russi...

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NEWSWEEK << 41 percent of Germans feel Trump is the most dangerous of five globally important leaders, a list which included Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Chinese President Xi Jinping. >> https://www.newsweek.com/donald-t...

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CT's president and CEO defends Editor Mark Galli's editorial. The Flag in the Whirlwind: An Update from CT’s President Why our editor in chief spoke out against Trump, and why the conversation must continue. TIMOTHY DALRYMPLE DECEMBER 22, 2019 The alliance of American evangelicalism with this presid...

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THE NEW YORKER TODAY ON RELIGION WHAT IT WOULD TAKE FOR EVANGELICALS TO TURN ON PRESIDENT TRUMP By Michael Luo December 23, 2019 Christians concerned about Trumpism may need to turn their focus inward to counter the corrosive influence of Fox News and other forces permeating evangelical culture. On...

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Raises the question: Just how secure is the nuclear football from a nut job? WASHINGTON POST . . . “I never understood wind,” Trump said at the start of the lengthy tangent, days after he became the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. “You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied ...

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barney wrote: ↑
Sat Dec 28, 2019 11:10 am
Perhaps Trump is confusing himself with the Almighty?

Or dyslexically construed D-O-G assbackwards.

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Bach BWV 1001-1006 Susanne Lautenbacher 1960 Musicaphon/Bayer Records

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Sonatas-P ... 7548623697

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Rebooting the hoary American tradition of Know-Nothingism, Trump, wrapping himself in his Mantle of Office, impugns the integrity of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's Catholic faith: you are offending Americans of faith by continually saying 'I pray for the President,' when you know this statement is not true,...

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Frances Ha by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig (2012)

a beautiful film, which among many other admirable things, such as its scintillating dialogue, is a tribute to the French New Wave.

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Prequel to the His Dark Materials trilogy's first volume, The Golden Compass.

First book by Pullman I've read. I found it fascinating, even with the endless nappy changes baby Lyra undergoes.

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Zombie apocalypse in NYC a la Blade Runner. Esp. interesting if one has ever lived or worked in Manhattan. Brilliantly descriptive, at times blending the ghoulish with the hilarious.

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Epic LC 3192 Grieg c/w Rachmaninov $150 on eBay.

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Biology = superstition? Odd to hear that one. We shall never agree. Merry Christmas :) "Biology = destiny": that's superstition. Where I think we disagree is about gender being a social construct as well as biologically determined. So what the hell, to all seven genders of humanity, a merry xmas!

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Sergei RACHMANINOV (1873-1943) Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Op. 43 (1934) [22:33]
Abbey Simon (piano)
rec. 12-15 February 1955
originally on EPIC LP

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WASHINGTON POST Trump taps nostalgia in war on Earth-friendly measures PALM BEACH, Fla. — While Democratic presidential candidates have called for sweeping measures to eliminate the U.S. carbon footprint, President Trump is promising voters a world free of the everyday inconveniences associated with...

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The state has no business assigning nor altering gender. Your plumbing decides what you are, your behavior is up to you. Where I hail from, agents wielding varying degrees of State authority intuitively assign and memorialize gender every single day, which in practice, I agree, usually works out fi...

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I am not into mire playing. Vonnegut does not really express the topic well. As an American POW in WW2, a survivor of the Allied fireboming of Dresden, a trained chemist, and the author of one of the greatest imaginative works of the 20th century, Vonnegut told us via metaphor that gender may not b...

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