Jack Kerouac in a public reading of the the last page of On the Road, with pictures of Keourac and Neal Cassady (Dean Moriarity). Video: mojo4mojo the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all […]
Ten Questions for Monday
Weekend is over. Back to work. Who is right about Iran, Leon Wieseltier or Fareed Zakaria? The answer later in the week. (The Answer Man) What would be the nature of a Democratic president who was truly a Democrat, pursuing truly Democratic policies, with whom conservatives would genuinely respectfully disagree? Is a female politician who […]
Eating Poetry (XVII) – Metaphysical Darkness
1. Your Majesty, when we compare the present life of man on earth with that time of which we have no knowledge, it seems to me like the swift flight of a single sparrow through the banqueting-hall where you are sitting at dinner on a winter’s day with your thegns and counsellors. In the midst […]
Jazz Is 4 – Sing Sing Sing
My intent with this series is not simply to present the greatest hits of jazz. I’m looking for video that are visually, if possible, or at least contextually, compelling too. I think you will find this one the former. ——- Related articles by Zemanta A Love Affair with Jazz Brings Mary Talbot Fee’s New CD […]
How We Lived on It (20) – Le Feu Follet
from Le Feu Follet (The Fire Within) – directed by Louis Malle, 1963 Starring Maurice Ronet Music: Erik Satie – Gnossienne Nr1