You’re a very, very naughty boy James Corden…totally ruined Dog Mountain for my inner Chi. Maybe Chong is the new thing. Though, ‘Canine Airbnb’ has totally new incense. Couldn't release the guest list...?
What’s interesting about the founders of Dog Mountain is what a tragic, uplifting, tragic, uplifting story it all was. Is. Media persistenly insists depression always has a solution. Well, it can if spirits aren’t dampened ne’re by sheer real financial needs. And they are real not imaginary. The American system is utterly useless then unless all the right boxes are ticked. Even. So easy to fall through the numerous bureaucratic cracks. We’ll mention Maid. Again. By the sheer belief by certain extraordinary individuals there but for the grace…
TANF: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Ken Loach isn’t a ‘socialist film maker’-still alive to contest that opinion;) He makes films about people’s reality. And unlike many of his fellow creatures, somehow, somewhere in the darkness, he makes you smile as you cry. That ain’t agitprop!
Give Kes a try and tell me nothing Ken has written to this day is any different. Or more passionate.
The Kind of Story We Need Right Now. Hint: has Central Park Zoo alerted the Coast Guard to be on the look-out for a beautiful pea-green boat quite possibly with a wanted felin? Happy St. Patrick’s Day.
Look on the bright side President Biden, at least Flaco the owl has got off welfare! [was that gilding the lily…?] Hopefully he doesn’t sing hip-hop rockin’ the boat. [Could Edward Lear have confused an owl for an osprey? Maybe the latter just didn’t ’bling’ so well;) Two fish eaters eloping? Sounds plausible. Never jump to conclusions…]
I’m very interested in the way we can hold our losses very dear to us, or feel that without them we might have nothing to our name or there’s something very powerful in them…but I’m also very aware of the ways that grief sort of undoes us …the popular advice to sort of keep busy after bereavement I always think is hopeless because almost everything you’ll do you’ll get wrong and you’ll have to do again…also the way grief assaults the personality. If you suddenly don’t like the things you’ve always liked what are you meant to like instead?..And there are so many things that people say or do to make grief feel disenfranchised.
..she’s [Judy Garland] singing about something that isn’t there and that was very likely never there. Not just for her but for anyone. She’s singing about a sense that we have now and then The strength of the absences in our life might count more strongly for us than what we’ve actually got. ..an unbearable feeling.- Susie Boyt (recent BBC radio interview)
You would have liked [Kitty]
Mama, you would
Mama, [she] makes things
Mama, they're good
Just as you said from the start
Children and art...
Children and art...
I know honey you don't agree, But this is our family tree
If Eugene Levy is the "reluctant traveller" then Andrew is the reluctant critic/writer/performer! The solitude of my mountain, albeit geographically challenged. Where is there to go from when, well, you've sat in the house seats at La Scala for Pavarotti? A bio degradable golf ball with fish food! Everything, everywhere all at once just entered the Oxford Dictionary!
Hey, pass me a dictionary anyday!
Spine-tingling Verdi opera choruses just out from Riccardo Chailly.
Carmen, Violetta, Aida, Norma, Manon, King Philip, …soupçon Rachmaninov dill. You can concoct too a hit opera aria!
Cat Nog-ain’t even Christmas well a while…..or Rosh Hashanah, whatever…
The final series of Succession, Sunday March 26. It’s hinted, well stated ever so briefly before, Logan Roy always felt a fighter. An adversary agin excesses of tradition. Interesting his marriages. Did/will the thing itself ultimately consume him? Moreover, Succession is so brilliantly blatant in its moral core. And yet empathy splatters everywhere if you choose to see. Its musical theme hammering cursorily incessant. A Clockwork Orange. Choice.
I’ll wait until May end. Need to binge watch within week for closure. Whatever may be said, and we know those who overly identify with created creatures, streaming is a fiction. Not a disease. The real world becomes ever more persuasive and deadly. Is art ever more the lie that makes us realize our truth? A replicant waiting to devour, or warn?
Your greatest tormentor…Kids love playing pirates…
If your toothy gaze needs bite something else, Now and Then is an 8 ep slow burn of not so bad flawed people whose veneers of certainty 20years later suddenly crack. The past may be ‘another country’ but it’s only just across an open border. The road to hell so often paved with good intentions.
Last day (well, for now) to catch the documentary, Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman’s famed concert of spirituals at Carnegie Hall, March 18, 1990. Well, Ms Kathleen still is with us. And forever welcome in my head, ears, heart and soul. Well: you call that a preacher?!;)
Here, the past is definitely not another country!
