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Autumn Morning
•October 27, 2009 • Leave a CommentJohn Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian painter best known for his night scenes, with bright moonlight, autumnal themes, and harbor and dockside scenes. I love the sense of mystery Grimshaw’s painting evoke, even bright autumn scenes such as this one. He is famous for inspiring Bram Stoker to choose Whitby as the setting for Dracula.
Autumn Morning
The Old-Hall Under Moonlight
Whitby Harbor by Moonlight (1867)
Stranger … than kindness
•October 17, 2009 • Leave a CommentThe cover: Fever Ray – Stranger Than Kindness
The original: Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Stranger Than Kindness
Autumn, Rain, Moonlight
•October 11, 2009 • Leave a Comment
Moonlight After the Rain - John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836-1893
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
~ Oscar Wilde ~
Hey Jupiter!
•September 30, 2009 • Leave a CommentDid you see Jupiter blazing like crazy under the waxing gibbous moon? Look in the southwestern sky. Magnificent. An image and a song by Tori Amos, I think.
Happy Autumn!
•September 30, 2009 • Leave a Comment“The hazy, cloudless skies of Indian Summer. Leaves scurrying down the street before the wind. The cold shiver from an arctic blast. Indian Summer. The last warmth of the sun. Chilly mornings and glorious warm afternoons. The Harvest Moon. The Hunter’s Moon. The Rainy Season. Dry corn stalks clattering in the wind. The touch of frost on grass and window pane. The smell of burning leaves.”
- Keith C. Heidorn
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
- George Eliot
Seasonal Rituals: Locally, we celebrate the beginning of fall with the annual Apple Harvest Festival. It’s a lovely chance to walk around the village, browse the displays of local artists, buy candles and crafting supplies for wreaths and other holiday displays, have fun with face painting and fortune telling, shop the local merchant tents, hit the amusement rides, regain equilibrium, shop some more, stand in line for a $5.00 serving of homemade apple crisp, eat it and shop a bit more, then join the longest line of the festival for the highly prized (and lucky!) baker’s dozen (that’s thirteen!) apple fritters. Whichever poor fool among us has the fritter duty is promptly abandoned while the others of us gather at our favorite sidewalk cafe and order frothy mugs of Heineken, remembering to toast our German friends in Bavaria. Fun is. May your village fairs and harvest festivals be wondrous and happy events. Happy Autumn!
“O Autumn, laden with fruit, and stained
With the blood of the grape, pass not, but sit
Beneath my shady roof; there thou may’st rest,
And tune thy jolly voice to my fresh pipe;
And all the daughters of the year shall dance!
Sing now the lusty song of fruit and flowers.
- William Blake, To Autumn, 1783
‘Autumn’ by John Atkinson Grimshaw
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Einstürzende Neubauten Documentary 2003
•September 22, 2009 • Leave a CommentI thought I had posted these clips a month ago. Apparently not. Sorry! Enjoy!
‘Traumfestival’ is a documentary about German band Einstürzende Neubauten by filmmakers Dichar and Ste van Holm. Filmed during mixing of their ‘Perpetuum Mobile’ album in 2003, the bandmembers, their producer and their webmaster talks about the process of making an album, having supporters and creating instruments themselves.
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'Back Talk'