Cat sized luxury penthouses in Tokyo! (Unless you’re a feline with a big ego…)
Worth watching Michel Legrand’s Salle Pleyel Paris concert and realize what a superb jazz musician was he. A label ‘light music’ is rather impertinent to Legrand’s skills. His score for Losey’s The Go-Between is pure genius. (See all Losey’s films! [Bit of trivia: initially Losey thought of Stockhausen. And Kubrick paid and ditched Alex North’s 2001 Space Odyssey score for Ligeti and Strauss J. & R.] ç plus changé, kittens. There was a great UK region Losey boxed set.) Sure The Go-Between is Bach re-invented. Legrand, though, was Mozart to many other film composers. Will there be some Legrand in Melissa Errico’s Feinsteins 54 Below show? Lucky gal to star in his 2004 Broadway musical Amour. Really hope 54 Below continue offering selected LiveStream concerts. Only $28.50 with service charge. BYO ice-cream and beverage:) For the ‘cheap-cats’ you can’t see a live show there for under $70 (including the food & beverage minimum). So a great internet deal!
[P.S. Sept 27- what an amazing show Melissa, what a lotta lotta work to make it ‘all so simple’. ‘Naturally’, was timed out at 8.17. mid ice-cream scoop. Guess t’was an Andrew thing from the gods….don’t mind me, always repenting;) but I’ve heard you’at song before….]
Photoville is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Dozens of free online Zoom events now until end October.
Madison Avenue invites the public to shop with their dog on September 25 to benefit The Humane Society of New York.
ANIMAL HOUSE at L. Parker Stephenson Photographs
Makes one think. Again. Watching some of Photoville’s interviews. This morning, Joel Meyerowitz and one of his former students Melissa O’Shaughnessy. Street photography is legal in America (though there have been some notable law suits against photographers i.e. Philip-Lorca diCorcia) and not so in some European countries: what legally constitutes a ‘close-up’ photo in the larger context? Now that certain photos are being sold as NFT’s do the subject/s have any legal monitory rights? Not a mine-field for photographers yet as such but ironic that now everyone has a camera in their pocket but few actually take what one could call ‘photographs’. Are they glorified CCTV images? Documentary? Or will that moment of the camera phone be worthy of an NFT?
I can think of many great well-known photographers exhibited in A-list galleries whose large format work is fantastic. But does it ever excite me as much as street photography? Is, say Gursky, somewhat repetitious or always fascinating for his eyes? Not hard to go to exotic locations or indeed war zones and return with some award winning pics. Not slagging off anybody by saying that as you all must well know. Musing, though, is therapeutic.
As Joel Meyerowitz noted about this morning, when he was mentoring Melissa O’Shaughnessy, an incredible energy of wanting to know about the world was palpable.
I first saw Vivian Maier’s work roughly a year after two major New York galleries starting sharing the unknown estate (hitherto rejected by most including MoMA). Her passion and energy instantly choreographic. That’s a great photographer. Now, how, where, why she could/did that? Her negatives’ discoverer made the best and bravest attempt in answering that.
All about how you look at the world. John Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’. There’s beauty in a discarded coffee cup on the street in sunrise light. Perhaps in the blaze of summer. But maybe not always. It’s one’s own eyes to see. Allowing that to be beautiful in and of itself. For you. Then, perhaps, for the many.
©Nichole Sobecki
Wish this was my photo, but as I can’t possibly see myself in Somalia anytime even in the distant future: it is ©Nichole Sobecki.
Global Citizen Live is still streaming live NOW! (Is that gal Rachel single, asks KITTY?). Stop that! Kitty. (ANDREW...not that I'd say no to some of that 'special Camel juice'!)
Look at all those happy humans in Central Park for Global Citizens Live! [as the sun's gone down] Fuck Covid, let's dance! Let's believe. If one creature believes then maybe all will follow. "Shawn's very pretty," KITTY. "Shut up Kit. Human and way too old for you;)" Let's see what's was up in Paris.
Meow: J-Lo and Cool-Cat. Raccoons in awe!
Andrew: Head turned? Only the ' ' cats comet at night....let the good times rrrrrroll....plus meow çhange...Kitty from the block!
Watched this afternoon a livestream lecture by geneticist Mark Daly. [Will share the link if it’s uploaded.] His research is cited in journals around the world roughly once every hour of every day of every year. How good does it get. Instantly when Covid-19 hit he spearheaded a global research project. Started me thinking, how relevant to theater and film this all was. Stanislavski technique is basically that of a scientist. Whoever/whatever created this world wasn’t wishy/washy: oh- we need a bit more rouge here, or that creature would be fun with more legs. Give the spider a moustache! The precision of creation is endlessly fascinating. Not dissing method acting, per se. Perhaps the curiosity of a scientist digging creation. But without the precision of observation that’s next to useless, ‘feeling’ something is all so totally relative.
It’s unfair to demand Covid vaccination in my opinion. Sure, what choice does any commercial or indeed non-profit venture have at the moment? It seems to work but still early days. Most folk will indeed take that option. What though of those, for perhaps religious reasons [the vaccines have been tested on aborted human fetuses- not a fact much publicized] wish against vaccination. I’d certainly demand proof of a negative test and a mask. All would most certainly comply with that.
No wish to throw doubt upon vaccination that has brought life back to living with others throughout the globe. Yet doubt can be the only thing driving a scientist. There have been so many recorded accounts of self-delusion in that community. Needless to say their desperate need to get published.
Was rather surprised how strong a grass-roots community there was in America against mandatory vaccination. Agreed. It can all too easily be conflated with ideas of government control. Oppression. Wishy washy thinking. Chomsky would not approve:)! Though not by all.
Dr. Vladimir Zelenko has now treated 699 coronavirus patients with 100% success using Hydroxychloroquine Sulfate, Zinc and Vitamin-C. Everyone’s body is different. But not so. So. Not taking sides. Not advertising. Simply urging folk to ask questions. Maybe there isn’t an answer. Great physicist Richard Feynman was disappointed that he excelled his father. Glad, though, he was his father. Later on in his life he realized that the answer was in the question. Not the answer.
Meow….”cat is the question…”
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Maybe should there be some footnotes to each sometimes post in case the ‘unenlightened’ stumble upon and fear they are lost. Heaven forfend!
1. Ms. Kitty Litter is a talking, singing, dancing, thinking cat. In her own words “in-cor-rigible”. “Handful” would be impolite and in-accurate.
2. She hums a lot (far more accurately than pianist Glenn Gould) but in the same vein.
3. Kitty’s been taken under Andrew (her manager and friend’s) wing during the pandemic, carving herself a niche in his bijou cottage that is hers and hers alone.
4. Mr ‘Moo’ Mooversen was an iconic singing, acting, provocative cow among creatures great and small whose revolutionary animal ideas, arguably, caused him to be blacklisted leading to his untimely death.
5. You’re on your own with all the other characters.
