There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop!
We passed upon the stair
We spoke of was and when
Although I wasn't there
He said I was his friend
Which came as some surprise
I spoke into his eyes
"I thought you died alone
A long, long time ago"
Oh no, not me
I never lost control
You're face to face with
The Man Who Sold the World
4 Nov 1970
#DavidBowie
#music
Get up in the mornin'
Feelin' mighty weak
A-tossin' and a-turnin'
Well, I had ain't no sleep
Oh baby
What road's our love takin'?
To romance or heart-breakin'?
Won't you say
which way you're gonna go?
I gotta know
Gotta know
Gotta know
1 Nov 1960
#ElivsPresley
#music
50 yrs ago
We climbed and we climbed
Oh, how we climbed
My, how we climbed
Over the stars to top Tiger Mountain
Forcing the lines through the snow
#BrianEno
#music
The first successful host-to-host connection on the ARPANET was made between Stanford Research Institute and UCLA by SRI programmer Bill Duvall and UCLA student programmer Charley Kline at 10:30 pm PST on 29 Oct 1969
or 6:30 UTC on 30 Oct 1969
Kline typed the command
LOGIN
but the SDS 940 crashed
If there's somethin strange
In your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
If it's somethin' weird
& it don't look good
Who ya gonna call?
If you're seein things
Runnin thru your head
Who can you call?
An invisible man
Sleepin in your bed
Who ya gonna call?
Bob Hope & Willie Best
#movies #MusicVideo
https://youtu.be/5zq57crGtSM?si=BeZiLARkoVX_znWX
40 yrs ago
I wanna go
But I hate to leave you
You know I hate to leave you
Oh-oh, oh-oh
You
If you break my heart, I'll go
But I'll be back again
The Terminator
26 Oct 1984
#movies #MusicVideo
https://youtu.be/7ID0awY7KkI?si=7HEom4JcdVGFKhsx
60 yrs ago
I'm not content to be with you
in the daytime
Girl I want to be with you
all of the time
The only time I feel alright
is by your side
Girl I want to be with you
all of the time
All day
and all of the night
The Kinks
#music
I think that the principal and most basic spiritual need of the Russian People is the need for suffering, incessant and unslakeable suffering, everywhere and in everything.
-Dostoyevsky
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/against-pessimism-audio
"The MC5 took the cultural shifts β the Vietnam War, the race riots, the harassment of the longhairs β that were exploding in the US in the late '60s and turned them into a subversive, reckless, thuggish art form."
#music
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20241017-how-revolutionary-band-mc5-soundtracked-us-counterculture
I'm looking at myself
Reflections of my mind
It's just the kind of day
to leave myself behind
So gently swaying
through the fairy-land of love
If you'll just come with me
and see the beauty of
Tuesday Afternoon
22 Oct 1967
from Days of Future Passed
Wertheimer's version
#music
https://youtu.be/LYfuskVMYwo?si=9187x98rr6SjQCvD
To prevent the Russians from spreading their autocratic political system further, we must help the Ukrainians achieve victory, and not only for the sake of Ukraine. If there is even a small chance that military defeat could help end this horrific cult of violence in Russia, just as military defeat once brought an end to the cult of violence in Germany, we should take it.
#humanrights
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/against-pessimism
A π was made to swim in the ocean
A β΅ was made to sail on the sea
As sure as there are β¨ above
I know I know
U were made 4 me
π were made to grow on a vine
An π was made to grow on a tree
As sure as there are β¨ above
I know I know
U were made 4 me
& I made this 4U
It's not
the way you look
the way that you smile
Although there's something to them
It's not the way you have your hair
It's not that certain style
But it could be that with you
If I had a photograph of you
As something to remind me
I wouldn't spend my life just wishing
It's not the make-up
And it's not the way that you dance
It's not the evening sky
It's more the way your eyes
Are laughing as they glance
Across the great divide
A Flock of Seagulls
20 Oct 1982
#music
https://youtu.be/gXT07JBnES0
The Unanswered Question
subtitled "(a Cosmic Landscape)"
composed in 1908
revised in 1930β1935
at which time he included
a 13-bar introduction
made woodwinds more dissonant
and added further dynamic
and articulation indications
Charles Ivesπ
#music
https://youtu.be/vn1NXYlOof8?si=_1cLqyIaHCnQGt9D
Some people call me
Space Cowboy
Gangster of Love
Maurice
(cuz I speak of the pompatus of love_
I'm a
picker
grinner
lover
sinner
I play my music in the sun
I'm a
joker
smoker
midnight toker
I sure don't want to hurt no one
19 Oct 1973
#music
60 yrs ago
The people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said
"The words of the prophets
are written on the subway walls
and tenement halls
and whispered in the sound of silence"
Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M.
19 Oct 1964
#music
You consider me the young apprentice
Caught between the Scylla and Charybdis
Hypnotized by you if I should linger
Staring at the ring around your finger
I have only come here seeking knowledge
Things they would not teach me of in college
I can see that destiny you sold
Turned into a shining band of gold
I'll be wrapped around your finger
#MusicVideo #music
https://youtu.be/OXAgQ3faqF4?si=HSeg-jrcdm6GZsC5
Obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victimhood
and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which
a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.
Robert Paxton
Anatomy of Fascism
Thanks, Dave.
The feeling is conveyed that we men must stick together because there are so many villainous creatures who have to be exterminated. They lurk not only under every bed but also behind every star in the sky. Either Batman or his young boy friend or both are captured, threatened with every imaginable weapon, almost blown to bits, almost crushed to death, almost annihilated.