He had led the survivors out of the wreckage, lost his fear, and lost his feelings. The final scene of Peter Weir’s 1993 Fearless, starring Isabella Rossellini and the great Jeff Bridges, who finally got his due this year. Music: Henryk Górecki, from his Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs.
Owning Culture: Indigenous Rights and the Elgin Marbles
Michael Kimmelman, the New York Times art critic, offered yesterday in his Abroad column a remarkably ill-argued defense of the British Museum’s continued possession of the Elgin marbles, which, two hundred years ago, were taken from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to Constantinople. The marbles are only among the more […]
New York, New York
So I’m reading along, minding my own business, downing some crumpets and coffee (don’t even start) with my morning Goldberg, attending to what his journalistic eminence has to say about the latest loser with “My life has been a waste of organic material” written across his forehead, who thought he would honor his God by […]
Eating Poetry* (XIII) – “Address”
*Ink runs from the corners of my mouth There is no happiness like mine. I have been eating poetry. ~Mark Strand, “Eating Poetry,” Reasons for Moving, 1968
Jazz Is 1
Composition: Egzekutor Tomasz Stanko – trumpet Justyna Steczkowska – vocalise Janusz Skowron – synthesizer Slawomir Kurkiewicz – bass Michal Miskiewicz – percussion Zbigniew Brysiak – drums Recorded: in Warsaw, Poland 2001