6/30/2023 0 Comments Lorca cohen![]() ![]() ![]() He also discovered video of the sessions, that were used in the documentary. ![]() Arias has spent the last seven years working with the masters of the Omega sessions to refine the original tracks and prepare previously unheard ones for release. José Sanchez-Montes, the director of the Omega documentary, was aided in the making of the film by a diary kept by Lagartija Nick’s Antonio Arias, who detailed every day of the recording. Also present was Morente’s wife, dancer Aurora Carbonell, and his son Kiki, a singer and guitarist, who was in elementary school at the time. Estrella Morente, who has since performed on global stages including Carnegie Hall, made her impactful debut on the album, as did his younger daughter, Solea. Morente and Lagartija Nick were joined in the studio by Spanish flamenco artists who included the renowned guitarist Tomatito. Fittingly, the poems in Lorca’s work, A Poet in New York, served as a departure point for songs on Omega. Cohen, who has said he first read Lorca in 1949, named his daughter for the poet. ![]() “Leonard Cohen led me to Lorca,” Morente, who died in 2010, explains in an interview in the film. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Tomorrow and Beyond by Ian Summers![]() ![]() ![]() In rummaging about for a bit information about Alexander’s career, I also recently noticed that, in his 1978 book Tomorrow and Beyond: Masterpieces of Science Fiction Art, the famous art director Ian Summers selected twelve (!) paintings by Alexander for display, but only six by Paul Lehr, six by John Berkey, and six by the great Richard Powers second in terms of numbers was Steve Hickman with nine paintings, and third was Don Maitz with eight. Alexander is a dab hand at painting spaceships and machinery in the vein of John Berkey, he handles human figures and creatures just fine, thank you very much, and he obviously knows a thing or two about brushwork, composition, colour theory, and so on. ![]() 1937) is not an illustrator whose name carries any weight with me, but I recently noticed that I have several novels with cover art by “Alexander” in my collection, and following a bit of close inspection, I began to realize why, beginning in the early 1970s, SF publishers like Ace, Baen, Ballantine, Del Rey, and Fawcett, lined up to publish his work. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Franchise the golden arches![]() ![]() We’ve become part of the vernacular.” Black consumers may have created “Mickey D’s,” but the federal trademark rights in the term now belong to McDonald’s. Talk to anyone in the ’hood, and they talk about Mickey D’s. (Specimens submitted in connection with maintenance activities include a national full-color ad that appeared in Jet and Ebony magazines in 1982.) David Green, senior vice president for marketing at the McDonald’s Corporation, implied this, glibly, in a 1996 article in AdAge, writing that the company’s work with the Black-run advertising firm Burrell Communications gave McDonald’s “the highest share of the African-American market. The McDonald’s Corporation’s subsequent adoption and use of the mark seems to have been part of a strategy to promote the restaurant chain back to the community from which the name emerged. ![]() ![]() ![]() Research suggests, however, that the MICKEY D’S mark wasn’t the result of ad agency brainstorming but instead originated in the Black community in the United States as early as 1976. In 1984, the McDonald’s Corporation obtained a federal trademark registration for the mark MICKEY D’S for restaurant services, stating in its application that it had been using the mark since 1981. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments War of the worlds 1897![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In what ways do you see War of the Worlds as an attempt to grapple with the existential insecurity ushered in by Darwin’s theory? Reading the beginning of War of the Worlds, I couldn’t help but think of Freud’s notion that Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution dealt humanity’s ego a blow it would be difficult to recover from. Wikipedia article on Definition of science fiction with chronological history Go to 3:00 for a reading from War of the Worlds (accompanied by Holst’s “Mars” from The Planets) Early Illustrations of WotW from Open Cultureīy Artist Henrique Alvim Corrêa AssignmentsĮssay 1: What is Science Fiction? Student Essays: What is Science Fiction? ( on )Ĭarl Sagan’s Cosmos E05 – Blues for a Red Planet Wells, Accurately Predicts the World’s Very Dark Future. Things to Come, the 1936 Sci-Fi Film Written by H.G. Universal City, CA: DreamWorks Home Entertainment. (Available on Amazon and iTunes) Theory and Commentary Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds.” Larchmont, N.Y.: Longines Symphonette Society. iPad/iPhone – Kindle + Other Formats – Read Online Now. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Paul young the shack![]() ![]() The "shack" of the story was the ugly place inside him where everything awful was hidden away, a result of his history as a victim of sexual abuse, his own adultery and the ensuing shame and pain, all stuffed deep in his psyche, as Young explained. He wrote the novel for his six children to explain his own journey through pain and misery to "light, love and transformation," according to a profile in USA Today. According to the book jacket, Young was raised by missionary parents living among a Stone Age tribe in New Guinea. The glowing reviews for The Shack hail it as everything from the new Pilgrim’s Progress (theologian Eugene Peterson, translator of the Bible paraphrase The Message) to "the best novel of 2007" and "one of the rare fiction books that could change your life" (various five-star reviewers). ![]() Young, and started out being sold out of a garage. The Shack has become a publishing phenomenon, a bestseller by a first-time author that has rocketed up the sales charts and was made into a movie-not bad for a book that was self-published by the author, William P. ![]() ![]() Will Graham: I think Taylor ended the book in a really, really beautiful way on a question that speaks to both the messiness of life and the road that it takes you down. I feel like there’s a pretty satisfying conclusion, but at the same time, there are some questions that go unanswered. ![]() The ending kind of leaves the door open for a continuation. And I don’t think we know how that’s gonna go. ![]() I feel like the version of this story that ends in the most hopeful way is that they’re going to try to see what it feels like to be in the same room again, after all that time. I really don’t like happy endings, but I do really appreciate a good hopeful one. I always gravitate toward those kinds of stories. The open-endedness of it is really just so beautiful. ![]() Scott Neustadter: Everything I ever want to do in my life is to imitate the end of “The Graduate,” which is my favorite thing ever. Why was that the right ending for the series? The show takes it one step further, as we see Billy show up at Daisy’s front door. In the book, Camila’s final wish is for Billy to call Daisy. ![]() Co-showrunners Scott Neustadter and Will Graham spoke with Variety in February to unpack the finale, the changes they made from the novel and their hopes for a second season. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Hiromi kawakami parade![]() he nested dreaminess of the text-its air of rapt involution-is partly a result of this desire to transcend narrative time. We’re left with an ash-skeleton of sorts, or whatever remains after a lazy afternoon has burned away-the fibrous weave of a rotted-through leaf, say, or the hollow lambency of a cicada shell. ![]() At only seventy-nine pages, the book is an alchemical feat of miniaturization, a distillation and bottling-up of the essence of a summer afternoon her slight, subtle prose turns so casually away from excess detail that the resulting image of reality is imbued with a curious weightlessness. ![]() You often get the impression that time has been loosened somehow, as though Kawakami were stringing it up leisurely on a washing line, careful to place her clothespins just so. Time unfolds on a human scale, marked by minor intimacies. there’s a slow sensuality at the core of Parade, a product of Kawakami’s relaxed faith in the blessedness of the quotidian. ![]() You don’t really need to be aware that Parade is a loose sequel to Kawakami’s previous novel, 2017’s Strange Weather in Tokyo, to enjoy the former, since it stands on its own as an enrapturing display of writerly grace and restraint. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Erikson gardens of the moon![]() Pale finally falls when Rake withdraws his fortress following a fierce battle. Pale is holding out thanks to an alliance with the powerful Anomander Rake, Lord of Moon's Spawn (a floating fortress), leader of the non-human Tiste Andii. Under High Fist Dujek, The Malazan 2nd Army has been besieging the city of Pale, one of only two Free Cities left in the Malazans' path in Genabackis, for several years. ![]() The story opens several years into a series of wars by the Malazan Empire to conquer the continent of Genabackis. Empress Laseen now rules with the aid of the Claw, the imperial assassins. Seven years later, the Emperor and his ally, Dancer, have been assassinated and supplanted by the chief of the assassin corps. ![]() Paran wants to be a soldier when he grows older, though the veteran soldier Whiskeyjack disapproves. Ganoes Paran, age 12, witnesses the sacking of the Mouse Quarter of Malaz City. The novel opens in the 96th year of the Malazan Empire, during the final year of the rule of Emperor Kellanved. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Urn:oclc:799374593 Republisher_date 20180725141249 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 198 Scandate 20180723202800 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Tts_version v1. 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Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:16:26 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA1284821 City New York Donor ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments A year down yonder by richard peck![]() ![]() When you come to know your grandmother as a full-bodied adult, you may still love her like crab cakes, but you might, just might, know a few things about her that could make you want to throw her old relish dish across the room, too. ![]() If, on the other hand, your “Grandma” lived until you were almost 40 years old, and you spent 12 consecutive summers living with her, you might have a whole different impression of her. If the grandmother died while the grandchild was still young, this is typically something favorable: Ivory soap, rose oil, shortbread cookies, a particular perfume. If “Grandma” is perpetually frozen in time as a “dear” woman who baked batches of cookies by the dozen, I can usually surmise that the grandchild lost her at a relatively young age. I can often tell how old a person's grandmother was when she died, by the grandchild's descriptions of her. ![]() |