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Peanuts for September 22, 1963

Charles M Schulz drew nearly 18,000 strips over 50 years of his career; while he claimed they were ‘about nothing’, and made up only of ‘little incidents’, “Peanuts’ influence on culture and society is nothing short of seismic,” says Claire Catterall, curator of a new exhibition dedicated to Schulz’s work at @somersethouse. At its peak, Peanuts was syndicated in 75 countries, translated into 21 languages, and had a notional total readership of 355 million.

The Stranger Song

It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
Who said they were through with dealing
Every time you gave them shelter
I know that kind of man
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone
Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
Who is reaching for the sky just to surrender

 

And then sweeping up the jokers that he left behind
You find he did not leave you very much not even laughter
Like any dealer he was watching for the card
That is so high and wild
He'll never need to deal another
He was just some...

Martín Espada - Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper

At sixteen, I worked after high school hours
at a printing plant
that manufactured legal pads:
Yellow paper
stacked seven feet high
and leaning
as I slipped cardboard
between the pages,
then brushed red glue
up and down the stack.
No gloves: fingertips required
for the perfection of paper,
smoothing the exact rectangle.
Sluggish by 9 PM, the hands
would slide along suddenly sharp paper,
and gather slits thinner than the crevices
of the skin, hidden.
Then the glue would sting,
hands oozing
till both palms burned...

The Saxophones - Picture (Live in Paris)

Filmed and edited by Raphaël Vinchon with assistance from Auguste Bas.

Silent Mode

From Adam Wilkoszarski's site:

To say that Asia is far away and different is to say the most shallow thing; but it doesn’t mean that it’s not true. In Silent Mode continent of billions is empty and uninhabited. The perspective is focused on the shape of the world itself, crafted by humans, on the mark left by Japanese, who orbit between almost non-existent private sphere and omnipresent public - all seen by an observer from the outside, who’s not claiming a right to understand all of...

Life During Wartime

Extrato de "Stop Making Sense" de Jonathan Demme (1984), a partir de imagens de concertos de Talking Heads no Hollywood's Pantages Theater, LA, em Dezembro de 1983.

Jericho Brown - Duplex (I Begin With Love)

I begin with love, hoping to end there.

I don’t want to leave a messy corpse.

 

       I don’t want to leave a messy corpse

       Full of medicines that turn in the sun.

 

Some of my medicines turn in the sun.

Some of us don’t need hell to be good.

 

       Those who need least, need hell to be good.

       What are the symptoms of your sickness?

 

Here is one symptom of my sickness:

Men who love me are men who miss me.

 

       Men who leave me are men who miss me

       In the dream where...

Lisboetas

Autores/Authors - Gaspar Varela/Sebastião Varela

Guitarra Portuguesa/Portuguese Guitar - Gaspar Varela
Viola de Fado/Classic Guitar - André Ramos
Baixo/Bass - Francisco Gaspar

 

Realização/Directed - Sebastião Varela
Direcção de Arte/Art -Nani Campos
Operador/Camera - Rafael Matos

Uma Produção/A Production by EGEAC/ MUSEU DO FADO

Produção Executiva/Executive Production – Hot Chilli Films

Produtor Musical/Producer - Paulo Parreira

Produtor Executivo/Executive Producer – Diogo Varela Silva

Eng.º d...

Martín Espada - Rules for Captain Ahab’s Provincetown Poetry Workshop

1.   Ye shall be free to write a poem on any subject, as long as it’s the White Whale.
2.   A gold doubloon shall be granted to the first among ye who in a poem sights the White Whale.
3.   The Call Me Ishmael Award shall be given to the best poem about the White Whale, with publication in The White Whale Review.
4.   The Herman Melville Memorial Picnic and Softball Game shall be open to whosoever of ye writes a poem about following thy Captain into the maw of hell to kill the White Whale.
5....

After Season

From Adam Wilkoszarski's site:

Leisure consists of both equally time and place, as well as some idea. Along with the late modernity space and time blurred, and the structure of organized labor forced to create an equally organized structure of free time and getaway.

After season focuses on the backstage of this structure, which produces places suspended in a time. The structured free time industry stops at the end of vacations, emptying. The people had their holidays and for a while all...