Luis Soares's Blog, page 147

Free Yourself

Directors: DOM&NIC http://www.domandnic.com

Natasha Trethewey - Imperatives for Carrying On in the Aftermath

Do not hang your head or clench your fists

when even your friend, after hearing the story,

says, My mother would never put up with that.

 

Fight the urge to rattle off statistics: that,

more often, a woman who chooses to leave

is then murdered. The hundredth time

 

your father says, But she hated violence,

why would she marry a guy like that?—

don't waste your breath explaining, again,

 

how abusers wait, are patient, that they

don't beat you on the first date, sometimes

not even the first fe...

Compared to What

Les McCann's trio with guests Eddie Harris on saxophone and Benny Bailey on trumpet play the soul-jazz classic (and pop hit) "Compared to What" live in 1969 at the Montreux Jazz Festival.

 

I love the lie and lie the love
A-Hangin' on, with push and shove
Possession is the motivation
that is hangin' up the God-damn nation
Looks like we always end up in a rut (everybody now!)
Tryin' to make it real, compared to what? C'mon baby!

 

Slaughterhouse is killin' hogs
Twisted children killin' frogs
Poor du...

Springsteen on Broadway

The critically acclaimed, three times extended, Broadway phenomenon makes its global debut on Netflix. Springsteen on Broadway. Only on Netflix, December 16.

Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson was born in Canada and grew up in west Texas. He first gained recognition for his pictures in 1999 when he boarded a handmade, wooden boat with Haitian refugees trying to sail to America. The boat, named the Believe In God, sank in the Caribbean. In 2000 the images from that journey would receive the Robert Capa Gold Medal. Christopher is a member of Magnum Photos. He is the author of four monographs of photography.

boygenius

Nov. 16, 2018 | Bob Boilen -- The group is new, but all of the members of boygenius — Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers — are Tiny Desk Concert alumae. In fact, Julien has been behind my desk twice before. So when the usual nerve-racking session was over and I shouted out, "So, is it any easier the second or third time?" I had to laugh when I got a resounding "No!" from all of them. The notion of playing in broad daylight, in an office, without having your voice coming out of a PA...

I Peri N’Tera

Based in Sicily, Italy, Daniel Castro Garcia is the 2017 recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography for his project Foreigner: I Peri N’Tera—a Sicilian colloquialism that translates as “feet on the ground.” This project is a new chapter that explores the ongoing refugee crisis in Europe. This work in particular focuses on the reality of life in Sicily, Italy, for unaccompanied minors who survive the journey to Europe across the Sahara Desert and Mediterranean Se...

The National save The Bird

As part of its ongoing annual contribution to the “Bob’s Burgers” expanded universe holiday celebration, The National offered up another song for the occasion. Adding to past installments like their cover of Linda Belcher’s “Kill the Turkey” and last year’s ode to one of the show’s secret MVPs “Give It to Teddy,” 2018 saw the band put together a ballad called “Save the Bird.”

When Orpheus Sang

Henry Purcell | "When Orpheus Sang" Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano et l'Ensemble Correspondances, direction : Sébastien Daucé. Extrait de la soirée 60 ans « Harmonia Mundi » enregistrée le 29 mai 2018 à 20h au studio 105 de la Maison de la radio.

Edwin Muir - The Absent

They are not here. And we, we are the Others
Who walk by ourselves unquestioned in the sun
Which shines for us and only for us.
For They are not here.
And are made known to us in this great absence
That lies upon us and is between us
Since They are not here.
Now, in this kingdom of summer idleness
Where slowly we the sun-tranced multitudes dream and wander
In deep oblivion of brightness
And breathe ourselves out, out into the air—
It is absence that receives us;
We do not touch, our souls go out in the a...