by David Foster Wallace
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This Is Water
Month: August 2022
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Went to Steve Forbert Show
Went to Rockville, Maryland to see Steve Forbert. The place, Hank Dietle’s Tavern, was sort of a throwback to the fifties. Looked like – on the outside anyway – the kind of local bars that once dotted Route 1. Inside, it was fairly nice. Very small, probably held less than 100 people.
Anway, Forbert put on his usual great show. The verison of Going Down to Laurel was especially great.
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I’ve nothing Else – to bring, You know –
by Emily Dickinson
I’ve nothing Else - to bring, You know - So I keep bringing These - Just as the Night keeps fetching Stars To our familiar eyes - Maybe, we should’nt mind them - Unless they did’nt come - Then - maybe, it would puzzle us To find our way Home -
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Your beliefs drive your perceptions, they drive your behaviors, and most of that is happening at the non-conscious level.
― JR Badian
by Dick Davis
Collection of the poems of Hafez, Jahan Khatun, and Zakani.
Your face usurps the fiery glow and hue
of roses.
Your ringlets' fragrance is so sweet, my friend,
No fragrant rose-scent could entice me to
seek roses --
Besides, the faithless roses' scent will fade,
Which is a serious drawback, in my view,
of roses;
And if the waters of eternal life
Had touched their roots, so that they bloomed anew,
these roses,
When could they ever form a bud as sweet
As your small mouth, which is more trim and true
than roses?
Jahan Khatun
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Museum trip
Went downtown to see two exhibits.
Saw the works of two Iranian photographers at the Museum of Asian Art.
Living in Two Times: Photography by Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi
August 6, 2022–January 8, 2023
Living in Two Times features the work of Bahman Jalali (1944–2010) and his wife and closest collaborator Rana Javadi (b. 1953). Noted for their sharp documentary images and haunting photomontage works, the artists are among the most influential figures in the development of late twentieth-century photography in Iran. Driven by the medium’s powerful—and fragile—relationship to memory, Jalali and Javadi created an unparalleled visual record of a tumultuous period in their homeland.
This exhibition features images by both photographers from the iconic series Days of Blood, Days of Fire, capturing events in Tehran during the 1979 Iranian Revolution, as well as images from Jalali’s Khorramshahr: A City Destroyed and Abadan Fights On, drawn from his years spent on the Iran-Iraq warfront. Throughout his career, Jalali returned continually to his project of observing the changing lives and landscapes of Iran. A third section of the exhibition presents a selection of his images of fishing communities along the northern Persian Gulf. In addition to their documentary projects, Jalali and Javadi preserved early twentieth century archives, which they used as a basis for creating vivid photomontages that explore the role of the medium in documenting history. This will be the first museum retrospective in the United States that offers a glimpse of Jalali’s extensive practice and the first to be presented together with a selection of Javadi’s evocative work from the late 1970s to the present.
and when to National Gallery East, saw “Doubles: Identity and Difference in Art from 1900s
https://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2022/the-double-identity-and-difference-in-art-since-1900.html
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
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Night Comes to the Cumberlands
by Harry Caudill
A story of how circumstance, bad government, and too powerful corporations came together to ruin lives and destroy the environment.
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You love me – you are sure –
by Emily Dickenson
You love me - you are sure - I shall not fear mistake - I shall not cheated wake - Some grinning morn - To find the Sunrise left - And Orchards - unbereft - And Dollie - gone! I need not start - you’re sure - That night will never be - When frightened - home to Thee I run - To find the windows dark - And no more Dollie - mark - Quite none? Be sure you’re sure - you know - I’ll bear it better now - If you’ll just tell me so - Than when - a little dull Balm grown - Over this pain of mine - You sting - again!
http://bloggingdickinson.blogspot.com/2012/03/you-love-me-you-are-sure.html
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Saw Lady Gaga – National’s Park
Quite the spectacle.
- “Opening Film”
- “Bad Romance”
- “Just Dance”
- “Poker Face”
- “The Operation”
- Alice
- Replay
- Monster
- Flowers
- 911
- “Sour Candy”
- Telephone
- LoveGame
- “The Birth of Freedom”
- Babylon
- “Free Woman”
- “Born This Way”
- Tamara
- Shallow
- “Always Remember Us This Way”
- “The Edge of Glory”
- “1000 Doves”
- “Fun Tonight”
- Enigma
- Sonnet
- “Stupid Love”
- “Rain on Me”
- “Hold My Hand”