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Three hithers 27 May 09
Section: article
Categories: Webpoems
- Title: Three hithers
- Further details: Recorded May 24, 2009
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Caravaggio in Holland 24 May 09
Section: article
Categories: Exhibition / museum
Caravaggio → was never in Holland, but a number of Utrecht painters travelled to Rome in the early 17th century to study and be inspired by his work (music and genre paintings). Some of their work is shown here, next to some of Caravaggio’s.
The exhibition disappointed me somehow, though the paintings were good. But the juxtaposition of Caravaggio’s work and that of the Utrecht painters weakened them for me. This is certainly unfair of me and has more to do with the powerful impressions I have of Caravaggio’s work in my mind. I will go to the Städel &rarr sometime to see the exhibition again.
- Title: Caravaggio in Holland
- Venue: Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
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Amrei breathing in Tschierv 24 May 09
Section: article
Categories: Travels
Images taken around Easter.
But Amrei is there again now.
- Title: Amrei breathing in Tschierv
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Noam Chomsky interviews 23 May 09
Section: article
Categories: Mention
Below is a passage from the beginning of the first interview in the book Noam Chomsky: What We Say Goes – interviews with David Barsamian (see below for Amazon link).
[DB] James Traub, in the New York Times Magazine, writes: “Of course, treaties and norms don’t restrain the outlaws. The prohibition on territorial aggression enshrined in the UN Charter didn’t faze Saddam Hussein when he decided to forcibly annex Kuwait.” Then he adds, “When it comes to military force, the United States can, and will, act alone. But diplomacy depends on a united front.”
[NC] As Traub knows very well, the United States is a leading outlaw state, totally unconstrained by international law, and it openly says so. What we say goes. The United States invaded Iraq, even though that’s a radical violation of the United Nations Charter.
[DB] If he knows that, why doesn’t he write it in the article?
[NC] If he wrote that, then he wouldn’t be writing for the New York Times. There is a certain discipline that you have to meet. In a well-run society, you don’t say things you know. You say things that are required for service to power.
- Title: Noam Chomsky interviews
- Further details: Interviews with David Barsamian
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Star Trek 23 May 09
Section: article
Categories: distraction / in-a-cinema
Well done. The first Star Trek movie I’ve seen. (Young Spock, Zachary Quinto, was familiar: he played Adam Kaufman in 24 Day 3.)
- Title: Star Trek
- Directed by: J. J. Abrams
- Writing credits: Roberto Orci, Alex Kurtzman, Based on Gene Roddenberry's series
- Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, Bruce Greenwood, Karl Urban, Zoe Saldana, and more of course
- Cinematography: Daniel Mindel
- Year: 2009
- Cinema: Turm Palast Kino, Frankfurt, Germany
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Playing with words / Klangkunst Festival 22 May 09
Section: article
Categories: Concert
Sianed Jones (Welsh) and Jaap Blonk (Dutch) were brilliant.
Sianed Jones performed an epic piece with her voice and a violin with non-word sounds of an incredible breadth and richness. Feelings and areas of the brain, at least my brain, were touched deeply, atavistically. It got me thinking of how tens of thousands of years, and more, were involved in our evolved ability to speak, and she completely circumvented that, or rose out of it, to avail herself of all of the remarkable nuances of our voicebox, so to speak (!), to express so much, so shatteringly, without pretense. Good for her.
Jaap Blonk was powerful, entertaining, and plain amusing. One piece was called Homage a A. A., which when spoken in German repeats three “ahh” sounds: Homage ahh ahh ahh. The A. A. is Antonin Artaud.
Links
→www.jaapblonk.com/Pages/biography.html
→en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonin_Artaud
- Title: Playing with words / Klangkunst Festival
- Venue: Gallus Theatre, Frankfurt
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