Luis Soares's Blog, page 208

Julian Barnes reads from The Only Story

Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question.

First love has lifelong consequences, but Paul doesn’t know anything about that at nineteen. At nineteen, he’s proud of the fact his relationship flies in the face of social convention.

As he grows older, the demands placed on Paul by love become far greater than he could possibly have foreseen.

Nicanor Parra - La Poesía Terminó Conmigo

Yo no digo que ponga fin a nada
No me hago ilusiones al respecto
Yo quería seguir poetizando
Pero se terminó la inspiración.
La poesía se ha portado bien
Yo me he portado horriblemente mal.

Qué gano con decir
Yo me he portado bien
La poesía se ha portado mal
Cuando saben que yo soy el culpable.
¡Está bien que me pase por imbécil!

La poesía se ha portado bien
Yo me he portado horriblemente mal
La poesía terminó conmigo.

Drink I'm Sippin On

Yaeji - Drink I'm Sippin On (Official Music Video) // Directed by Anthony Sylvester

Laura Pannack - Purity

From the British Journal of Photography:

London-based documentary photographer Laura Pannack has won the Women Seen By Women award with her series Purity. This special award marked the 10th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers, and attracted 720 entries from 42 countries.

The Water Rises / Our Street Is a Black River

Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet perform "The Water Rises" and "Our Street Is a Black River" from the 2018 album Landfall.

Grand Piano, Tiny Desk

Jan. 12, 2018 | Tom Huizenga -- When we invited Russian pianist Daniil Trifonov to play a Tiny Desk concert, we rolled out the big guns. In place of the trusty upright, we wedged a 7-foot grand piano behind Bob Boilen's desk in preparation for the artist who The Times of London called "without question the most astounding pianist of our age."

That's a pretty lofty claim, but watch and judge for yourself. His performance here is extraordinary. Still in his 20s, Trifonov seems to have it all:...

Marianne Boruch - There Ought to Be a Law Against Henry

given his showing up to teach at the U

disheveled, jittery cigarette and cigarette and probably

the drink, losing the very way there

over river, river of all song, all American story

which starts way north of St. Paul quiet or undone

wandering south, not

enraged mostly, something stranger.

That’s one epic shard of John Berryman anyway.

 

Notorious. And par for the course in a classroom

destined, struck-by-lightning

in sacred retrospect, the kind those long-ago students

now can’t believe thems...

Call Me By Your Name

SCENE 57

EXT. TOWN SQUARE – DAY

 

They arrive on their bikes at the little town square. OLIVER buys a pack of cigarettes, Gauloises. He lights one up, then offers one to ELIO.

 

OLIVER

You want to try one?

 

ELIO nods and OLIVER cups his hands very near Elio’s face and lights his cigarette.

 

OLIVER (CONT’D)

Not bad, right?

 

ELIO

(drawing on it)

Not bad at all. I thought you didn’t smoke.

 

OLIVER

I don’t.

(taking another drag)

 

They walk their bikes towards the little World War I memorial...

Une barque sur l'ocean

Vitaly Pisarenko, 1st Prize winner of the 8th International Franz Liszt Piano Competition 2008 plays Ravel - Une barque sur l'Ocean.

Winter's Watch

“You have to be at peace with the fact that something might happen, and you might not make it through,” says Alexandra de Steiguer, the caretaker for the Oceanic Hotel, in Brian Bolster’s short documentary, "Winter’s Watch." De Steiguer has spent the past 19 winters tending to the 43-acre grounds of the hotel, on Star Island, which sits 10 miles off the coast of New England. In the long, wintry off-season, she is the island’s sole inhabitant.

For more information on the film, visit The Atlan...