Sunday, January 28, 2024
Dex
The richest character ever played by the greatest movie actor of all time ~ in The Philadelphia Story (1940), C.K. Dexter-Haven embodies everything: weakness, sympathy, anger, tension, joy, sorrow, addiction, fear, freedom, elegance, bravery, secrets and remarkable openness. Above all, naturalness. He has been destroyed by the woman he loves, to the point of collapse and alcohol sickness. In a movie of astonishing self-aborption, Dexter-Haven absorbs all. He is always listening and watching, off the edge of the frame, humanizing all around him with his generous-hearted presence. He is never not sorrowful in the picture, while bringing the only joy into this otherwise arch and joyless romp. Everything is elevated by his broken ardor. His physical grace and attraction are immense, yet he uses his powers to put others at ease, to relinquish control. Grant's love comes at us slowly, like a slow dark wave. Yet always in perfect isolated darkness, outside the world.
Here are Dex's 46 minutes, with all the rest of The Philadelphia Story cut out.
Friday, January 26, 2024
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Word
This morning, the Palestinian liberation group known as Hamas released a (beautifully formatted) statement regarding October 7th and the genocidal, Nazi State of Israel (and its people).
Monday, January 22, 2024
Nowhere Land
Five years ago, Chris Hedges gave a lecture regarding the near-total atomization of U.S. "society" -- before COVID, before Woke, before the spreading of the TransCancer, before the Trump/Biden shitpile. . .
Now it is total.
Friday, January 19, 2024
Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Of the Golden Age of jazz pianists, he was the most elegant, the most professional. And the most heartbroken.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Monday, January 15, 2024
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Impressions
Dave Brubeck, piano
Paul Desmond, alto sax
Norman Bates, bass
Joe Morello, drums
"Plain Song"
"Curtain Time"
"Sounds of the Loop"
"Home at Last"
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Monday, January 1, 2024
Beyond Grace
2023 was the darkest year for the world since 1945, almost entirely caused by the ghouls, vampires, and Satanists in control of the United States. Perhaps the most heartbreaking darkness was the obviousness of the cultural, emotional, economic, and political destruction of Europe.
Let us remember, since that is all we have left.