Once Upon a Time in Hannover

"Half of my “doof-Deutsch” alone probably comes from repeat screenings of Once Upon a Time in the West (C’era una volt ail West, 1968), Sergio Leone’s classic epic based on a story written by Leone himself alongside Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci, and with a script by Sergio Donati. But I didn’t know it under its Italian or English title. I knew this film as Spiel mir das Lied vom Tod, which translates into “Play me the Song of Death.” And, to this day, THAT title is the one that still gives me goosebumps. Looking at all the other options, I have to say that, in my book, it wins – hands down – over all other entries. Huuliharppukostaja… ? C’mon, Finland! You can do better than that! Spain snoozes on the job with Hasta que llego su hora (“Until his time came,” yawn). Most translations just shoot for the equivalent of “It was once a western,” and let me tell you that whether you’re in Hungary (Volt egyszer egy vadnyugat) or the Netherlands (Het Gebeurde in het westen), that’s just not putting a gun to your temple and urging you to take a seat..."

Local trees

all Buster all day on TCM

via mefi excellent The Pinky Show--cat makes some good points!

Stravinsky Says

No Mozart menu chalkboard,
he wrote at the keyboard--
& orchestrated it as he went along.

Tea weak hots espresso strong,
for breakfast two eggs shot raw--
before he wrote music he'd learned how to draw.

"We need blotting paper, not echo chambers," he said
To illustrate the sludge-like texture of his blood,
or spend your life with rubber-daggered strangers

dragging your feet through the Mississippi mud
standing on your head in case of a flood--
rhythms just a reminder, the rhyme's the thing...THUD--

(Mondrian--"close the window. I can't bear trees!"--)
the thing itself, forked and folding in twos & threes,
hands fluttered like turtledoves above his knees

he was the calmest man I'd ever seen.
We'll make it back to Lubeck, Texas when we can--
it's the state capital of marzipan,

Bach, Buxtehude, bernstein (amber) &
Buddenbrooks, Hanseatic laughter &
wrapping each page in a colored ribbon after.

a successor to Gould's 1955 Goldberg Variations?

"I'm as tough a sell as any. Perhaps because of my impressionable age at the time of its release, I seem to have imprinted on Gould's '55 disk. Nothing—not Murray Periaha's refinement, not Maria Tipo's grace, not even Gould's more spacious 1981 revision, the eerie capstone and aria da capo to his career—could shake my allegiance. Until, that is, last fall..."

an old "mosses" favorite Marcel Broodthaers interviews a cat...(ps the film archives film showing in nyc is sold out they tell me)

Acme & Seattle, Wa. trees

Gonezales

"I honestly thought nothing was going to happen to Fredo as long as Barbara Bush stayed alive."

seems to be Loretta Young day on TCM...

What makes Southern sweet tea so special?

"If ice was a luxury, then putting out a pitcher of ice-cold tea must have been quite a bit of hospitality. One historian, Joe Gray Taylor, wrote in "Eating, Drinking, and Visiting in the South: An Informal History" that the rural electrification—and, consequently, refrigeration—wrought by the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s was 'probably more appreciated for the ice cubes it provided … than for any of its other services.'"

another YouTube - Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm--nasty!!

Scenes of Provincial Life: Reading Roberto Bolaño





'Reading Roberto Bolaño' 45.1MB 2:46 min

Christopher Walken makes Chicken with Pears

in sweet tea news--Cool drinks and the inevitable arrow of time

"Although we have been describing a gas, entropy works the same way for any type of material, including your icy drink. While the ice and water in your glass is relatively cold, the temperature of the air around it, especially in the hot summer months, is much warmer. The randomly moving molecules in the air will attempt to spread out to the cooler ice and water. Eventually, the entropy of the ice and water will increase, the ice will melt to water, and finally the water will warm to the same temperature of the surrounding air..."

why Stravinsky was arrested (see mugshot below)

from Shanghai correspondent "Spider"

Mike Scharf warily circles War & Peace

"I know this feeling very well--even now, I have been experiencing it lately: everything seems to be ready for writing--for fulfilling my earthly duty, what's missing is the urge to believe in myself, the belief in the importance of my task, I'm lacking the energy of delusion; an earthly, spontaneous energy that's impossible to invent. And it's impossible to begin without it."

tons of new stuff from Well-diddy

"Beer Can

vindaloo landing
hidalgo lunar
Viggo Pixies
Mortensen tapecase
Corey Datsun
Feldman timewarp
Marty swatchband
Robbins Einstein
canoe Das Boot
Canadian Chariots
feels of Fire
mountain SCTV
fresh Tony
dew Rosato
green pasta
can Margot
slurp Kidder
polar cameo
bear words
splash ups"

found at the excellent LUCIPO Anthology


"**Glossary: rede: advise graith: gear, one's member ca'd: driven sair: serve carlin: old woman koontrie: country tway: two thumb-bread: thumb-breadths sonsy: jolly, fair pintle: prick leeze me: how I love daud: hunk, lump nidge't: thrust weary fa': damn laithron: lazy doup: ass loup: jump lowse: loosen lug: pull gyvel: gable, gateway"