The Free Life by Alan Parker paired with a scene from Sex and Fury.

And what is it, the heart?

It is the sound of the pine breeze in the ink painting.

- Ikkyu

Picture: "Hunlu Tu" (A picture/essay concerning the Daoist cosmological concept of Primordial Chaos) by Zhu Derun (1349)

Mimi & Richard Farina - V.

Sun Ra - Dance of the Cosmo Aliens.

"Indeed, a man's library is a sort of harem, and I observe that tender readers have a great prudencey in showing their books to a stranger." 

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 3, January, 1858)

Picture: "Aphrodite" - photo collage by an anonymous artist (1930s)

"It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own. But how easy and how hopeless to teach these fine things! Of erections, how few are domed like St. Peter's! of creatures, how few vast as the whale!"

- Herman Melville (Moby Dick)

Picture: Illustration from "Whales, Dolphins and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic: A Guide to their Identification" by Stephen Leatherwood, David K. Caldwell, and Howard E. Winn (1976)

Black Classical's History of Spiritual Jazz 1955-2012.

Epic.

To One Unnamed V

There are many curtains in your care-free house, 

Where rapture lasts the whole night long. 

...What are the lives of angels but dreams

If they take no lovers into their rooms?

...Storms are ravishing the nut-horns,

Moon-dew sweetening cinnamon-leaves

I know well enough naught can come of this union,

Yet how it serves to ease my heart!

- Li Shangyin

Picture: "Interior With Woman in Red" by Felix Vallotton (1903).

Bigg Jus - Advanced Lightbody Activation.

Essential.

"All at first was the fremitus of things, the jigger of gnats, drum of the blood, fidget of leaves, shiver of light, boom of the wind. The tremor of my cry may have had something to do with choosing this threshold. There are other sills, empty places with intolerable glare, presences, noon quiet, lonely desperate desert wastes. I have died again in them. Those who go to the inhuman to place their hopes upon its alien rhythms, its bitter familiarity with nothing, its constant retreat from all that we can love, are hostages to vastation."

- Guy Davenport (C. Musonius Rufus)

Picture: Illustration from the Saturday Evening Post, unknown artist.

CrizzleMac - Wits.

Ah! strongest potions stir me

Less than your idleness,

And you can make the dead

Revive with your caress!

- Charles Baudelaire (Song of the Afternoon)

Picture: "Ibi Dabo Tibi" by Eric Gill (1925)

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Lucille Bogan - Shave 'em Dry.

Book 7, Epigram 42

Our vice runs beyond all that old men saw,

And far authentically above our laws,

And scorning virtues safe and golden mean,

Sits uncontrolled upon the high extreme.

Circes, thy monsters painted out the hue,

Of feigned filthiness, but ours is true.

Our vice puts down all proverbs and all themes,

Our vice excels all fables and all dreams.

- Thomas Bastard

Picture: "Les Diaboliques Le Bonheur dans le Crime" (The Devilish Ones The Joy in Crime) by Felicien Rops, 1905.

Amber London - Low MF Key.

Not the Moog Google Doodle.

"All the ancient heroic virtues you unpack have lost their importance long ago, you know it yourself. Thanks for some wonderful impressions. Sleep well."

- Robert Walser (Institute Benjamenta)

Picture: From Dino Buzzati's "Poema a Fumetti" (1969)

The Independents - The First Time We Met.

"I’ll wander around the streets until I’m dead tired

I’ll learn to live alone and look every passing face

square in the eye and still stay what I am."

- Cesare Pavese (from the poem Agony)

Picture: Stills from "Blast of Silence" (1961)

Tiago Sousa - Walden Pond's Monk II

"The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person."

- P. J. O’Rourke

Picture: Still from Shûji Terayama's "Throw Away Your Books, Go Out into the Streets!" (1971)

Alan Licht - The Old Victrola.

"No one sees me changing. But who sees me? I am my own hiding place."

- Joë Bousquet (poem found in Bachelard's "The Poetics of Reverie")

Picture: Richard Henry Benson molding his face - Justice Inc #3 (1975) Jack Kirby and Mike Royer.

Felo Bagarza - Lagrimas Negras

"During the time of our experiment, I discovered that I liked to eat the legs and breasts of women, for as in other animals, these parts are delicacies. I also savored young women's breaded ribs. Best of all, however, I relished women's brains in vinaigrette."

- Diego Rivera

Picture: “Nieves”, Model of Diego Rivera (1943).

An Experiment In Cannibalism

Leven Signs - Carry The Torch.

The sky is sad and beautiful like a great altar

The sun is drowned in its thickened blood.
A tender heart that detests the vast and black void,
Gathering up every vestige of a luminous past!

- Charles Baudelaire (Harmonie du soir)

Picture: "Night in Black and Gold" by James Abbot McNeill Whistler (1874)

Darrell Banks - Just Because Your Love Is Gone.

There is a sacred, secret line in loving

which attraction and even passion cannot cross,—

even if lips draw near in awful silence

and love tears at the heart.

Friendship is weak and useless here,

and years of happiness, exalted and full of fire,

because the soul is free and does not know

the slow luxuries of sensual life.

Those who try to come near it are insane

and those who reach it are shaken by grief,

So now you know exactly why

my heart beats no faster under your hand.

- Anna Akhmatova

Picture: Illustration by Robert Fawcett (Cosmopolitan, 1954)

Piranesi's Carceri (1745-50)

Album of the 16 prints.

Info.

By way of Vladamir Odoevsky's short story, "Opere del Cavaliere Giambattista Piranesi" (1844)

Fantastic Mr.Fox - Speak Nuh.

Gesellschaft Zur Emanzipation Des Samples - Es Vermirreln: Lautsprecher.

"What great evil has man committed that he deserves this terrifying partner called woman? It seems to me that with such violently contradictory thoughts and so clearly opposed impulses, the only possible relationship between the sexes is that of victor and vanquished."

- Vallotton (from his posthumously-published novel, "La Vie Meurtriere").

Picture: "The Kiss" by Felix Vallotton (1898).

Glenn Gould 1969 Telescope Documentary.

How To Be A Protest Onanist.

It was a face which darkness could kill

in an instant

a face as easily hurt

by laughter or light

‘We think differently at night’

she told me once

lying back languidly

And she would quote Cocteau

‘I feel there is an angel in me’ she’d say

‘whom I am constantly shocking’

Then she would smile and look away 

light a cigarette for me

sigh and rise

and stretch                                          

her sweet anatomy                                              

let fall a stocking                                              

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Number 8”                                            

Picture: Still of Klaus Kinski from "Five For Hell" (1966)

                                   

Kettenkarussell - You and Me.

Philip Schultz - Failure.

"It is really incredible how meaningless and void of significance when looked at from without, how dull and unenlightened by intellect when felt from within, is the course of the life of the great majority of men. It is a weary longing and complaining, a dreamlike staggering through the four ages of life to death, accompanied by a series of trivial thoughts. Such men are like clockwork, which is wound up, and goes it knows not why; and every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew, to repeat the same old piece it has played innumerable times before, passage after passage, measure after measure, with insignificant variations."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will and Representation)

Picture: "Cry of the Masses" by Josef Váchal (c.1900)

The Trilogy Tapes - Chip I Mix

Awakened by Toby Lurie.

"Consider first the scene without the two dark figures, hiding them, say, with a finger. We see a scene late in the day. We, however, do not feel late; indeed we have arrived in time to see the sun's afterglow. The landscape is present to us and the day, though it has passed, has given birth to a beautiful moment... Now we lift our finger from the two halted travellers, and the structure of the landscape suddenly shifted, turning away from us to surround them... What we saw becomes what they had already been seeing in a past long before our arrival. Their anteriority, expressed as our view of their backs, deepened our sense of 'evening' It enabled the canvas not only to depict a late time of day but also to elicit within us an experience of our own lateness as subjects of landscape"

- Joseph Leo Koerner discussing "Rückenfigur" with reference to Friedrich's "Evening" in his book, "Caspar David Friedrich and the Subject of Landscape".

Picture: "Evening" by Caspar David Friedrich (1821).

The Irradiance Cache Radio Show (Episode 1)

1-Excerpt from BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS Doc 
2- JOHN ROCCA Englishman in NY 12'' 
3- GENE FARRIS I Wanna Love You LP 
4- BILL WITHERS Railroad Man LP 
5- 2 LIVE CREW Get The Fuck Out Of My House (Nasty Acid Mix) 12'' 
6- VARIOUS ARTISTS Tk 6 LP 
7- RUUDE It's Hot (Summertime) 12'' 
8- Ø – Lasi (LP, SAHKO) 
9- MENTAL OVERDRIVE About Jazz (About EROT Tore Fra Singapores Usikker Musiker Mix) 
10- MIDNIGHT STAR Freak-a-Zoid LP 
11- EVELYN 'CHAMPAGNE' KING Shake Down LP 
12- TANK Bite Before U Bark 12'' 
13- THIRD WORLD Sense of Purpose (SHEP PETTIBONE 12'' Mix) 
14- SUN Radiation Level LP 
15- DJ SOTOFETT Presents BHaKTI CREW Sunrise Mix 12'' 
16- DEBBIE ALLEN More Than A Man LP 
17- STOP MODERNISTS Feat CHRIS LOWE Subculture

Anal Massaker - 694 Songs

Ernst Jandl - Pain Through Friction

The Book of Hours and Constellations by Eugene Gomringer

I've put on Bach

uprooted I am /

horrifically god-lost, the cloud with

a rose-mouth, ice-clump-shaped my heart what

for heaven's sake has happened to me / lonely

the frond of the palm I'd like on

my grave etc., alas this stigma these

May these June days how heart-rending, dew-fall

and frenzy a thousand times sorrow

dissolve in tears / no one

gives me their hand no eye consolingly

passes into my soul / buried

alive in my warm blood : ditched dissolute distraught damned done-in

deadly the daybreak and late evening / torn out

I've torn myself out of

human society .. see

Glenn Gould squatting crooked humming furious

howling and hotting - (and we have

crying 1 light-ray and 1 poison)

- Friederike Mayröcker

Picture: "Friederike Mayröcker, Wien" by Joseph Gallus Rittenberg

Glenn Gould

Ozu Pillow Shots (possibly my favourite video on YouTube)

God Speed You! Black Emperor by Mitsuo Yanagimachi (1976)

"Kako, languid from sleeping pills she takes, is lost in a world of her own in a jazz shop in Tokyo"

Life Magazine - Teenage Wasteland: Japanese Youth in Revolt 1964.

Deathprod - Recording The Jürg Mager Trio: A Shortcut to the Stars

Put 'em Down, Take 'em Out! Knife Fighting Techniques From Folsom Prison - Don Pentecost

Jan Steele and John Cage - All Day