April 2011
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“The Doll”by Daphne du Maurier Lost for more than 70 years, this dark story of a man’s obsessive passion for Rebecca, a mysterious violinist, hasn’t been published since it appeared in a small collection in 1937.
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Open Your Eyes to the Hidden Night. What do you...
This was the anthropic question of a year-long photographic project dubbed the Photopic Sky Survey, meant to reveal the entire night sky as if it rivalled the brightness of day. In it we see tens of millions of stars, the glowing factories of newborn ones, and a rich tapestry of dust all floating on a stage of unimaginable proportions. The Photopic Sky Survey is a 5,000 megapixel photograph of...
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Tiziano Terzani - Clic! 30 anni d’Asia. La mostra →
Roma, Palazzo Incontro, dal 23 marzo al 29 maggio 2011
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“You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else -...”
– [The Killing]
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Raymond Carver - The Art of Fiction No. 76
Interviewer: Do you regret a lot of things that happened back then when things were so bad?
Carver: I can't change anything now. I can't afford to regret. That life is simply gone now, and I can't regret its passing. I have to live in the present. The life back then is gone just as surely — it's as remote to me as if it had happened to somebody I read about in a nineteenth-century novel. I don't spend more than five minutes a month in the past. The past really is a foreign country, and they do things differently there. Things happen. I really do feel I've had two different lives.
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“I’m actually writing about Jimmy Rabbitte again, as a man in his mid-40s. I thought it’d be interesting to see how he perceived the world today: he went through the recession, married and had children during the boom, and now everything’s gone belly up. Three years ago, when the crash kicked in, I found the immediate nostalgia a bit sickening. The radio jumped...
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SpringsteenRadio →
All BOSS, All the Time!
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“For love, all love of other sights controls,
And makes one little room an...”
– [John Donne]
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I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)
Torquil MacNeil: She wouldn't see a pound note from one pensions day to another.
Joan Webster: People around here are very poor I suppose.
Torquil MacNeil: Not poor, they just haven't got money.
Joan Webster: It's the same thing.
Torquil MacNeil: Oh no, it's something quite different.
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Consuetudini #2
Il Pocket Coffee delle 4 del pomeriggio.
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I See a Darkness – Bonnie “Prince” Billy
“Did you know how much I love you, is a hope that somehow you can save me from this darkness”. It’s with these words – sung in a frayed, despondent sigh over minimal piano and distant drum splashes - that Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham, can reduce me to a quivering wreck. I first heard the song after...
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“Are there any two actors who could touch Cary Grant and Grace Kelly for sheer looks, talent and chemistry?”
Alfred Hitchcock’s “To Catch a Thief” being remade
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Want to get off the beaten path? Then here are 10 places that will stump most travel agents and reward you with original experiences. But remember, these are “no pain, no gain” destinations so you’ll need to be prepared for long transit times there and back – and you won’t be able to recover at a five star hotel after a day of walking up 300m sand dunes or climbing an active...
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“True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise,...”
– [David Foster Wallace, The Pale King]
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What's Up, Doc? (1972)
Judy: I know I'm different, but from now on I'm going to try and be the same.
Howard: The same as what?
Judy: The same as people who aren't different.
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Place in a Pint Glass: Traveling Around the World... →
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