Luis Soares's Blog, page 206

The Beautiful Shitholes

From David Byrne's site:

I assume I don’t have to explain where the shithole reference came from.

Sugar Mountain

Neil Young performing "Sugar Mountain" during the Rust Never Sleeps tour in 1978.

 

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain
Though you're thinking that
You're leaving there too soon,
You're leaving there too soon.

 

It's so noisy at the fair
But all your friends are there
And the candy floss you had
And your mother and your dad.

 

Oh, to live on Sugar Mountain
With the barkers and the colored balloons,
You can't be twenty on Sugar...

Hylas and the Nymphs

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Hylas and the Nymphs - John William Waterhouse (1896). From The Guardian:

Manchester Art Gallery takes down work by Waterhouse and asks public to post reactions

Helen Dunmore - Wild Strawberries

What I get, I bring home to you: 
a dark handful, sweet-edged, 
dissolving in one mouthful. 

I bother to bring them for you 
though they’re so quickly over, 
pulpless, sliding to juice 

a grainy rub on the tongue 
and the taste’s gone. If you remember 
we were in the woods at wild strawberry-time 

and I was making a basket of dock-leaves 
to hold what you’d picked, 
but the cold leaves unplaited themselves 

and slid apart, and again unplaited themselves 
until I gave up and ate wild strawberries 
out of yo...

James Greenhalgh

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From the British Journal of Photography (James Greenhalgh speaks):

I wasn’t supposed to get into photography. I was 15, doing my GCSEs, and I had to pick subjects for my AS-Levels. I had no prior background in the arts and I chose all academic subjects. I was later told that Anthropology, one of the subjects that I had picked, had been taken off the curriculum and I had to select another subject. Photography sounded the least boring so I reluctantly chose it. At that point in my life I...

I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate

Cecile McLauren Salvant is one of the best young jazz singers to appear on the scene in years. She's the prefect combination of what many think a great singer should be. She creates her own songs, allowing us to see the world through her eyes and she also combs American music history looking for semi-obscure gems to polish and present to a new audience.

Mr Quincy Jones

From GQ:

"I feel like I'm just starting," Quincy Jones explains as he slowly takes a seat in the grand living room of his hilltop Bel-Air mansion, a wide arc of nighttime Los Angeles visible through the windows in front of him. "It seems like at 84 all the things you used to wonder about come clear to you."

So he begins. He begins talking about his life. It's a life punctuated by so many disparate encounters and achievements and circumstances that it is hard to believe they are the experienc...

The Greatest

They Might Be Giants - "The Greatest"

 

Dial-A-Song Video Week 5.

Starring Nick Offerman and James Trenton
Directed by Alex Italics
Produced by John Marsaglia
Cinematography by Brody Anderson
Edited by Genevieve Hernandez
Production Design by Sarah Castro
Visual Effects by Jared Potter

 

they call me the greatest
because I’m not very good
and they’re being sarcastic
they’re being sarcastic

 

oh, I’m taking names
but I’m not doing much
with the names that I’m taking
G O A T
they’re being sarcastic
they’r...

Helen Dunmore - Litany

For the length of time it takes a bruise to fade 
for the heavy weight on getting out of bed, 
for the hair’s grey, for the skin’s tired grain, 
for the spider naevus and drinker’s nose 
for the vocabulary of palliation and Macmillan 
for friends who know the best funeral readings, 

for the everydayness of pain, for waiting patiently 
to ask the pharmacist about your medication 
for elastic bandages and ulcer dressings, 
for knowing what to say 
when your friend says how much she still misses him, 
for...

You're My Thrill

Cécile McLorin Salvant - You're My Thrill (Official Video) from the album 'Dreams and Daggers'.