Luis Soares's Blog, page 314

The Yellow Scale

František Kupka, The Yellow Scale, c. 1907, oil on canvas, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Audrey Jones Beck. 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris

Governed by Contagions

From the NPR site:

Here we are at the end of 2016, a year fraught with national strife and general WTF-ery. What better way to soundtrack the fraying of nerves of America than the first At The Drive-In song in 16 years?

Sonically, "Governed By Contagions" picks right up where 2000's Relationship Of Command left of, with a nervous and noisy shot of heavy post-hardcore. But like At The Drive-In's most memorable songs, there's a meat hook of a shout-along. "How many bites do you think it takes...

No Visitors After Midnight

Tom Waits live in London 1979 & Live in Chicago 1975

Live at BBC 1979 For TV Show "Live In Person"
- With a suitcase
- Never talk to strangers
- Step right up
- On the nickel
- Red shoes by the drugstore
- Burma
- Kentucky avenue
- Small change
- Closing time

Live in Chicago at PBS Soundstage 1975
- Eggs sausage
- Semi suite
- Diamonds on my windsheld
- Drunk on the moon
- Better off without a wife
- Nightwalk postcards
- The heart of saturday night
- San Diego Serenade

Bonobo - Break Apart (feat. Rhye)

'Break Apart featuring Rhye' – the second track taken from Bonobo’s new album 'Migration', released 13th January 2017 on Ninja Tune.

The Circle

From the USA Today:

Dustin Hoffman's college graduate BenBraddockstruggled with his future prospects in the 1967 classic The Graduate.

Fifty years later, it's Emma Watson as new gradMae Hollandwho grappleswith her destinyin The Circle(in theaters April 28), seen here in an exclusive trailer and sneak-peek photos.

"Mae asks many of thesame questions. She’s struggling, living with her parents, looking for meaning andfrustrated," says Circle director James Ponsoldt."She landsherdream job. Then...

Craig Morgan Teicher - New Jersey

I was afraid the past would catch up with me,
would find this new house too like the scarred
old childhood home. But it hasn’t yet. A tree
casts soft and gentle shade over our green yard.
I feel forgiven all the sins I didn’t commit
for long minutes at a time. What were they?
I can’t now think of anything wrong with me—I fit
in these rooms, can mostly agree to each day.
For long minutes I don’t even blame my mother
for dying, my father for spending years in bed.
My little traumas are just souvenirs of...

Austra - Future Politics

Produced by: Partizan
Director: Allie Avital
Executive Producer: Laura Jones
Producer: Cailin Lowry
DP: Martim Vian
VFX: b.art.vfx
Color: Company 3
Editors: Allie Avital and Jojo King
Production Designer: Anthony Ruff
Stylist: Lisa Madonna
Produced by: Partizan
Director: Allie Avital
Executive Producer: Laura Jones
Producer: Cailin Lowry
DP: Martim Vian
VFX: b.art.vfx
Color: Jaime OBradovich @ Company 3
Editors: Allie Avital and Jojo King
Production Designer: Anthony Ruff
Stylist: Lisa Madonna
"Future Politics...

Helen Marten wins Turner prize

From The Guardian:

Helen Marten has sealed her position as one of the UK’s most exciting young artists after being named the winner of the 2016 Turner prize, her second big award in the space of a month.

The 31-year-old artist, who was born in Macclesfield, was presented with her 25,000 prize by the writer Ben Okri at a ceremony at London’s Tate Britain gallery.

It comes only weeks after she won the 30,000 Hepworth Prize for Sculpture. On that occasion Marten announced from the stage that s...

Concerning Westworld

SCENE VI. Friar Laurence's cell.

Enter FRIAR LAURENCE and ROMEO

FRIAR LAURENCE

So smile the heavens upon this holy act,
That after hours with sorrow chide us not!

ROMEO

Amen, amen! but come what sorrow can,
It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
That one short minute gives me in her sight:
Do thou but close our hands with holy words,
Then love-devouring death do what he dare;
It is enough I may but call her mine.

FRIAR LAURENCE

These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die...

Robin Richardson - The Most Expensive

Figured marry for money the stainlessness of it
thermostatic shower simulates but isn’t rain
I simulate rain too. I do lines off a photo
of the lunar landing he says is make-believe
I don’t know the difference most of the things
most of the time are as if our Brooklyn Bridge
selfies aren’t faked to goad our favorite exes
as if my diet of carrots and cayenne is ’cause
nothing tastes as good as skinny makes money
makes the bed and stands beside us like a parent
with poor boundaries who just wants us
to be...