RIP to the great Hungarian director Bela Tarr (1955-2026), a huge inspiration to me. I only recently saw “Werckmeister Harmonies” for the first time a few days ago. Old City used a still from his movie “Damnation” on our first record
“We’ll never learn,
We love to watch the cities burn
All through the night
Where there is no life
For us to lose”
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“Maldigo todo lo cierto y lo falso, con lo dudoso” - Violeta Parra
No man, she only withheld the piece because Steven Miller didn’t get to say his opinion on immigrants - since the public doesn’t know his opinion, it would have been horribly biased to report on the torture dungeon in El Salvador. Main victim here is the Trump admin and Bari Weiss’ reputation
Would love to see it on the big screen some time
This just arrived in the mail from my mom, can’t wait to read it - “Thanks to Life” by Ericka Verba
Galeano, “War Against Drugs” - Children of the Days
Some day I hope the @nytimes.com will be held accountable for their crimes
“No pierdo tiempo en cuidarme, la vida es bello peligro,
Del peligro del amor mi madre tuvo siete hijos,
Si ella se hubiese cuidado de mi padre y su fervor,
A la reunión de esta noche le faltaría un cantor” - el gran Facundo Cabral
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Photography is really perception. As with all art, the objective of photography is not the duplication of visual reality, but an investigation of the outer world and its influence on the inner world.... All of my photographs are photographs of myself.
- Ansel Adams
I have been listening to this classic record a lot recently, for some reason: The Raincoats S/T (1979)
Pure shimmering brilliance
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Post- show. Old Ciry at volume bomb fest in Portland
I loved this monologue!
If you’re not a friend to immigrants, you ain’t no friend of mine
Ya vi que es Santiago Chile
Donde es?
Just what the world needed - a new Coldplay song
“¿Que será de mi torturador?” - Mauricio Redoles
“What has become of my torturer?
Will he have won a trip to Panama?
Or to the USA on a scholarship?”
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“Ratatatata se les perdieron
Ratatatata aparecieron
Ratatatata era mentira
Que se acabaron las guerrillas.”
- Víctor Jara, “A Cochabamba me voy”
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I really want to get a copy
Yo tengo él de “Chilean New Song”
“Se levanta en el cerro
La voz doliente de la baguala
Y el camino lamenta
Ser el culpable
De la distancia”
“The colt’s anguished voice
Rises upon the hill
And the path laments
Being guilty
Of the distance”
- Atahualpa Yupanqui
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In retrospect it will not seem so funny. But I’m glad everyone’s having a laugh right now, saying “it’s not a big deal”.
Yeah I think that’s a correct analysis
They got worse after firing their coach they looked a lot better before that
In this survey of Nueva Canción, today’s entry is Victor Jara’s “Manifiesto”, in which he declares, prophetically, that “The song has meaning when it pulses in the veins of the one who will die singing…”
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“Yo pregunto a los presentes si no se han puesto a pensar que esta tierra es de nosotros y no de él que tenga más” - Daniel Viglietti
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“What horror the face of fascism creates. They carry out their plans with the precision of knives. Nothing matters to them. To them, blood equals medals. Slaughter is an act of heroism. Oh God, is this the world that you created?” - Victor Jara (1973)
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“Lunita, luna, no me dejes de alumbrar”
- Violeta Parra, “La lavandera”
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