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infinite deferral
King Stitt. An art of deferred meaning, and in its way a kind of sacred sadness. A belief that the present is by nature fundamentally awake and responsive, open-ended to the risk of new meaning. What is defined is really … Continue reading
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Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde
Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Bernanke, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Griffith, don knotts, federal reserve board, Gov. Rick Perry, Humphrey Bogart, Jim Rickards, John Heartfield, michael oher, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud rat man, the blind side movie, W.C. Fields, Walter Benjamin
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chopin of dissonance: nocturnes on renunciations of reality
For sixteen prolific years in France prior to splitting with George Sand, Chopin had produced an uninterrupted stream of masterpieces on such a consistently brilliant level of craftsmanship and invention that it is well-nigh impossible to talk of a bell … Continue reading
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Tagged Andre Gide, Bach, Chopin, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Liszt, Frederic Chopin, George Sand, Hannelore Mundt, Heinrich Heine, Jane Birkin, Oscar Wilde, Pauer, Radek Sikorski, Richard Wagner, Robert Schumann, Schumann, Serge Gainsbourg, Thomas Mann
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GUYS and PUPPETS and DOLLS
Poupee de Cire, Poupee de Son was the winning entry in the 1965 Eurovision song contest sung by France Gall. The song was filled with Gainsbourg’s trademark double entendres and clever word-play and arrangements. Ironically, Gainsbourg is somewhat hitting the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Jarry, Charles Baudelaire, Felix Feneon, France Gall, Jane Birkin, Joann Sfar, Kat Gardiner, Pablo Picasso, Pink Martini, Pupulus Mordicus, Serge Gainsbourg, Serge Gainsbourg Melody Nelson
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