Why I Hate the Beatles

Twins and Triplets

Jaroslaw Kaczynski stepped down today as Prime Minister of Poland. Lech Kaczynski stayed on as President.
Charles I was king of England from 1625 until the 30th of January 1649.

I don't know why I like these

Ed Ruscha

Reason Enough for Anglophobia

Anthony Van Dyck's, James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox, 1637
Charles I, 1635
George Digby, 2nd Earl of Bristol, 1638-39

Battle of Tours, Oct. 10th 732

Charles de Steuben briefly studied with Gustave Corbet.
The Battle of Tours occurred 1275 years ago.

One is weirder than the other

Pieter Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark

Copland, Cop Land, Kapell

I generally don't like much of Copland's music--though I haven't heard much of it, except in Spike Lee movies and the like--but the Piano Sonata (1941) is a great piece. HERE is a live recording made by the died-too-soon William Kapell at the Frick Collection in 1953. Also on the disk is Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, most memorable in Ravel's orchestration, or as an Emerson Lake and Palmer live album, or a Tomita album, or as the intro to Method Man's Tical. I've never seen Cop Land.

His Comics are better than His Paintings, but His Comics made me like His Paintings more

Ad Reinhardt and his comics and his paintings.

Dumb Japanese Doodles

Sengai Gibon (1750-1837) was a contemporary of Antonio Salieri (1750-1825).

Boring Dutch Squares

1658
1921

Uchida on Schoenberg

An illuminating discussion of some difficult 12-Tone music. Also, for the three people who look at this, below is an album with Uchida playing several Second Viennese School classics, including the Concerto for Piano in the clip, with Boulez keeping time instead of Tate. The disc also has some solo piano music by Schoenberg, Webern, and a Berg sonata that I've never really enjoyed.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/vefq3m

U.S.S.R.ichter

Sviatolslav Richter

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Initially I was mad, but then I thought it was really good

This one is a parody of a Beethoven Sonata.

Good Luck Segolene!

Avian Cannibals

Ambergris

A cute story about ambergris . Also this.

U.S.- Franco Relations

A Misfit Bibliophile

New York