Luis Soares's Blog, page 368

Thom Gunn - My Sad Captains

One by one they appear in

the darkness: a few friends, and

a few with historical

names. How late they start to shine!

but before they fade they stand

perfectly embodied, all

the past lapping them like a

cloak of chaos. They were men

who, I thought, lived only to

renew the wasteful force they

spent with each hot convulsion.

They remind me, distant now.

True, they are not at rest yet,

but now that they are indeed

apart, winnowed from failures,

they withdraw to an orbit

and turn with disintere...

Timo Andres - At The River

A home recording of At the River (2011), written and performed by Timothy Andres. Hear Timothy Andres talk about his piece here:http://youtu.be/Tg_MbNqhGcY

Radiohead - Burn The Witch

Director - Chris Hopewell

Robert Lowell - Epilogue

Those blessèd structures, plot and rhyme—
why are they no help to me now
I want to make
something imagined, not recalled?
I hear the noise of my own voice:
The painter’s vision is not a lens,
it trembles to caress the light.
But sometimes everything I write
with the threadbare art of my eye
seems a snapshot,
lurid, rapid, garish, grouped,
heightened from life,
yet paralyzed by fact.
All’s misalliance.
Yet why not say what happened?
Pray for the grace of accuracy
Vermeer gave to the sun’s illum...

eighth blackbird: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

May 2, 2016 by TOM HUIZENGA • The Chicago new-music ensemble eighth blackbird is on a roll. Just after winning its fourth Grammy in February, the group received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions; the prize came with a $400,000 grant. Hand Eye — eighth blackbird's second album in seven months — just came out, and this season the group marks its 20th anniversary. The celebration includes an extensive tour, with world premieres of music by Bryce Dessner and David T. Litt...

Thom Gunn - Lament

Your dying was a difficult enterprise.

First, petty things took up your energies,

The small but clustering duties of the sick,

Irritant as the cough’s dry rhetoric.

Those hours of waiting for pills, shot, X-ray

Or test (while you read novels two a day)

Already with a kind of clumsy stealth

Distanced you from the habits of your health.

In hope still, courteous still, but tired and thin,

You tried to stay the man that you had been,

Treating each symptom as a mere mishap

Without import. But the...

Remainder

Remainder is director Omer Fast’s adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s cult novel of the same name from 2005. The London-set film stars Tom Sturridge as an unnamed man who loses his memory in a freak accident. After awaking from a coma, he sets about trying to piece together his fractured psyche. But as he unlocks his memories, the man discovers vital information about an unsolved crime that links back to his downfall.

Derek Walcott - Love After Love

The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you

all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,

the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mir...

"Graduates, faculty, family, friends, our topic today is Star Wars."

On Sunday, May 17 [2015], Penn Law hosted its graduation ceremony in Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center. The Class of 2015 Commencement Address was delivered by Cass Sunstein. Sunstein is currently the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School, and from 2009 to 2012, he was Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which plays a key role in coordinating the review of federal regulations.

Sunstein delivered a “Star Wars” themed address about...

Diana Krall in 1998

Recorded Live: 8/15/1998 - Newport Jazz Festival (Newport, RI)

Setlist:
0:00:00 - I'm An Errand Girl For Rhythm
0:04:24 - Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby
0:15:13 - I've Got You Under My Skin
0:21:08 - You're Getting To Be A Habit With Me
0:28:23 - Lost Mind
0:33:19 - How Deep is the Ocean
0:43:50 - I Can't Give You Anything But Love
0:49:08 - Peel Me A Grape