07-13-2018, 04:37 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2019, 06:26 PM by Dekalb_Blues.)
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Only the finest in stimulatingly-catalytic good conversation here at B4th!
. . . Then there's the actual material thing in the real world which is the ultimate referent of all the purportedly "transcendental" half-baked metaphysicalist ideations...
R.I.P. Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956-2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzy_Mercier_Descloux
https://autre.love/this-and-that-main/20...r-descloux
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Lizzy-...oiled-Babe
There you are, living in the middle of your little world. . . such a mind -- you've been so blind!
Fire! Fire!! FIRE!! I bid you to burn! I bid you to learn!
https://genius.com/Lizzy-mercier-descloux-fire-lyrics
Patti Smith and L. M. Descloux by Michel Esteban, Paris, 1976.
R.I.P. Mary Hansen (1966-2002)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hansen
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...75985.html
Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be alive in
It doesn't call for bubble withdrawal
I've been told that it's a fact of life, men have to kill one another
Well I say that there are still things worth fighting for
La résistance!
Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be alive in
It doesn't call for bubble withdrawal
It's said human existence is pointless
Acts of rebellious solidarity can bring sense in this world
La résistance!
Life is so hard!
La résistance!
[Still unclear on last-verse lyrics]
La résistance!
Life is so hard!
La résistance!
R.I.P. Marianne Joan Elliott-Said ["Poly Styrene"] (1957-2011)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...pex-leader
Identity!
Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
Identity, identity!
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself?
Do you see yourself
On the T.V. screen?
Do you see yourself in the magazine?
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream?
Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
Identity, identity!
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick?
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists?
Did you do it for fame?
Did you do it in a fit?
Did you do it before
You read about it?
Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
Identity, identity!
Man chases after the Ideal. . . and Death chases after Man. Tempus fugit; ars longa, vita brevis -- memento mori.
LE QUATTRO STAGIONI [THE FOUR SEASONS]:
Antonio Vivaldi must be regarded as the indisputable king of the Baroque instrumental concerto.
Four concertos, known collectively as The Four Seasons, were first published in 1725 as part of
a set of twelve concerti, Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest
Between Harmony and Invention) and remains the composer's best-known and most characteristic
work. Aside from the features that have come to be associated with most of Vivaldi's music -- grace,
virtuosity, energetic motoric rhythms -- the concertos of The Four Seasons are remarkable for their
extraordinary programmatic imagination, which is counterbalanced by close attention to formal
structure. Each concerto is accompanied by a descriptive poem whose imagery becomes an essential
element of the musical fabric. The birds that greet the season "with their joyful song" in La primavera
("Spring"), for example, are colorfully depicted in the work's elaborately ornamented figuration. L'estate
("Summer") is painted in similarly vivid colors that portray both the piping of a shepherd and a gathering
storm. L'autunno ("Autumn") is marked by a folksy harvest celebration and the galloping of a hunting
party on horseback. The bleakness and dissonance of L'inverno ("Winter") create a severe but expres-
sive portrait that provides a striking summation of Vivaldi's pictorial ingenuity in these four works.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_S..._(Vivaldi) for the seasonal sonnets
published along with the music.
"Before the fire to pass peaceful,
Contented days. . ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMDoW46E5Pw
Only the finest in stimulatingly-catalytic good conversation here at B4th!
. . . Then there's the actual material thing in the real world which is the ultimate referent of all the purportedly "transcendental" half-baked metaphysicalist ideations...
R.I.P. Lizzy Mercier Descloux (1956-2004)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzy_Mercier_Descloux
https://autre.love/this-and-that-main/20...r-descloux
https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Lizzy-...oiled-Babe
There you are, living in the middle of your little world. . . such a mind -- you've been so blind!
Fire! Fire!! FIRE!! I bid you to burn! I bid you to learn!
https://genius.com/Lizzy-mercier-descloux-fire-lyrics
Patti Smith and L. M. Descloux by Michel Esteban, Paris, 1976.
R.I.P. Mary Hansen (1966-2002)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Hansen
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-enter...75985.html
Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be alive in
It doesn't call for bubble withdrawal
I've been told that it's a fact of life, men have to kill one another
Well I say that there are still things worth fighting for
La résistance!
Though this world's essentially an absurd place to be alive in
It doesn't call for bubble withdrawal
It's said human existence is pointless
Acts of rebellious solidarity can bring sense in this world
La résistance!
Life is so hard!
La résistance!
[Still unclear on last-verse lyrics]
La résistance!
Life is so hard!
La résistance!
R.I.P. Marianne Joan Elliott-Said ["Poly Styrene"] (1957-2011)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Styrene
https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...pex-leader
Identity!
Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
Identity, identity!
When you look in the mirror
Do you see yourself?
Do you see yourself
On the T.V. screen?
Do you see yourself in the magazine?
When you see yourself
Does it make you scream?
Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
Identity, identity!
When you look in the mirror
Do you smash it quick?
Do you take the glass
And slash your wrists?
Did you do it for fame?
Did you do it in a fit?
Did you do it before
You read about it?
Identity is the crisis, can't you see?
Identity, identity!
Man chases after the Ideal. . . and Death chases after Man. Tempus fugit; ars longa, vita brevis -- memento mori.
LE QUATTRO STAGIONI [THE FOUR SEASONS]:
Antonio Vivaldi must be regarded as the indisputable king of the Baroque instrumental concerto.
Four concertos, known collectively as The Four Seasons, were first published in 1725 as part of
a set of twelve concerti, Op. 8, entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest
Between Harmony and Invention) and remains the composer's best-known and most characteristic
work. Aside from the features that have come to be associated with most of Vivaldi's music -- grace,
virtuosity, energetic motoric rhythms -- the concertos of The Four Seasons are remarkable for their
extraordinary programmatic imagination, which is counterbalanced by close attention to formal
structure. Each concerto is accompanied by a descriptive poem whose imagery becomes an essential
element of the musical fabric. The birds that greet the season "with their joyful song" in La primavera
("Spring"), for example, are colorfully depicted in the work's elaborately ornamented figuration. L'estate
("Summer") is painted in similarly vivid colors that portray both the piping of a shepherd and a gathering
storm. L'autunno ("Autumn") is marked by a folksy harvest celebration and the galloping of a hunting
party on horseback. The bleakness and dissonance of L'inverno ("Winter") create a severe but expres-
sive portrait that provides a striking summation of Vivaldi's pictorial ingenuity in these four works.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_S..._(Vivaldi) for the seasonal sonnets
published along with the music.
"Before the fire to pass peaceful,
Contented days. . ."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMDoW46E5Pw