Luis Soares's Blog, page 143

Sam Sax - On Alcohol

my first drink was in my mother
my next, my bris. doctor spread red
wine across my lips. took my foreskin
 
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every time i drink i lose something
 
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no one knows the origins of alcohol. tho surely an accident
before sacrament. agricultural apocrypha. enough grain stored up
for it to get weird in the cistern. rot gospel. god water
 
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brandy was used to treat everything
from colds to pneumonia
frostbite to snake bites
 
tb patients were placed on ethanol drips
tonics & cough medicines
spooned into the cr...

Mapplethorpe

A look at the life of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe from his rise to fame in the 1970s to his untimely death in 1989.

Joan Murray - “The hour like a child runs down the angle of star and rests at the bottom”

The hour like a child runs down the angle of star and rests at the bottom

It is a strange woman that may hold that child in its arms

But women prefer to see the hours slip from their fingers

For they are dancing an old earth constituency

 

I am a little beyond the river and stare from my particular casement

I am slender as the stalk and have my own flowering

I don’t draw from women but I prefer the truth and not the trick of living

 

Therefore I walk by women as the sea ponders by the shore

I...

Distillation

Gillian Ayres OBE - Distillation (1957)

 

'Distillation' was painted partly in Ripolin household enamel paint and partly in artist's oil colour. Ayres applied the paint with rags and brushes; it was also poured from the can and squirted from the tube. Influenced by photographs of Jackson Pollock working on his drip paintings, Ayres worked on this painting while it was flat on the floor. During its execution, she kept the surface fluid with turps so that she could manipulate the paint rapidly...

Leoš Janáček

Leoš Janáček: On an Overgrown Path - Series 1 / Misuzu Tanaka, piano

Live from Britton Recital Hall. / Piano: The Steinway & Sons Model D

 

0:18 Naše večery - Our Evenings
3:42 Lístek odvanutý - Blown Away Leaf
6:01 Pojďte s námi! - Come With Us!
7:10 Frýdecká panna Maria - The Madonna of Frydek
10:26 Štěbetaly jak laštovičky - They Chattered Like Swallows
12:23 Nelze domluvit! - Words Fail!
14:20 Dobrou noc! - Good Night!
17:26 Tak neskonale úzko - Unutterable Anguish
20:01 V pláči - In Tears
22...

MAIN STRƎƎT: The Lost Dream of Route 66

Nailya Alexander Gallery, in conjunction with Contact Press Images presents MAIN STRƎƎT: The Lost Dream of Route 66, an exhibition of photographs by Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer Edward Keating. The exhibition is accompanied by the release of Keating’s eponymous book of 84 photographs (Damiani, 2018).

Edward Keating has served as a photojournalist for nearly 40 years for such publications as New York Times, Forbes and Business Week. In 2001, Keating received the Pulitzer Prize fo...

Natalie Scenters-Zapico - Notes on My Present: A Contrapuntal

              With statements by President Donald Trump
 
I write my body, as border between
We have some bad hombres here
this rock & the absence of water.
& we’re going to get them out.
I cut myself with a scimitar,
When Mexico sends its people,
as political documentation.
they’re not sending their best.
How do you write about the violence
They’re not sending you.
of every man you’ve ever loved?
They’re sending people
Macho, you
that have lots of problems
breathe bright in the neocolony,
& they’...

I Need You

When you're feeling like a lover

Nothing really matters anymore

I saw you standing there in the supermarket

With your red dress falling and your eyes are to the ground

Nothing really matters

Nothing really matters when the one you love is gone

 

You're still in me, baby

I need you

In my heart, I need you

 

Cause nothing really matters

I'm standing in the doorway

You're walking 'round my place

In your red dress, hair hanging down

With your eyes on one, we love the ones we can

Cause nothing re...

Hotel Império

HOTEL IMPÉRIO [Trailer ENG] from O SOM E A FÚRIA on Vimeo.

A casa de Maria sempre foi o Hotel Império, situado nos bairros tradicionais de Macau, onde há roupa pendurada nos lugares mais improváveis, como o emaranhado de fios eléctricos que invade as ruas cheias de vapores. Recentemente o fardo de manter o hotel em funcionamento, com todos os seus habitantes que continuam com as suas vidas como antes, recaiu sobre os ombros de Maria. São a sua família, cresceu com eles e o hotel é a sua casa...

Little Love

Gabriel Kahane's "Little Love," from his album Book of Travelers, out now on Nonesuch Records: http://smarturl.it/bookoftravelers // Video by Robert Edridge-Waks