The human imagination has no boundaries.
♲ Lard Motel - 2024-09-28 05:58:18 GMT
I don’t understand this at all, but I still admire it. I think. #physics #math #biographyquantamagazine.org/john-wheele…
#biography
I am so excited. Call from library that this had arrived & it's raining :)
"Frontispiece: Aldous in the 1920s"
#Huxley #Bedford #photography #biography
An interesting life, and biography:
Here is the article:
Hippy, capitalist, guru, grocer: the forgotten genius who changed British food
Nicholas Saunders was a counterculture pioneer with an endless stream of quixotic schemes and a yearning to spread knowledge – but his true legacy is a total remaking of the way Britain eats
Not sure where I saw this, finally got to it, and it is a quite interesting, engaging and well-written.
Quite an impact on sectors of British life, particularly, but even without prior familiarity, his seems a unique and passionate life.
There's even a nod to his cheese/dairy venture (along with his coffee and green-grocer projects), as it inspired Monty Python.
So, finally closing the tab, but first wanted to share it. Interesting guy, good read, bit of history not widely known (in the U.S., anyway).
English Wikipedia Article of the Day
W. Somerset Maugham - Wikipedia
Sadly, my first and only experience with the man was Of Human Bondage, which I would have preferred someone prying up my fingernails than having to actually finish reading that book.
But hey... that's just my very subjective viewpoint. Many of you may love the man and his art. I may be of a different opinion if my first connection with him were one of his other stories.
#Fiction #Reading #Authors #Somerset_Maugham #Biography #Wikipedia
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Cleaning off my desktop... One more bit about #ElonMusk
A Book Review
Empathy Is Not an Asset
"Elon Musk doesn’t tell us much about Elon Musk, but it just might tell you plenty about your next boss."
Eh?
This sort of tracks with the buzz I've seen, interviews with the authors, and comments about this almost breathless "excuse" for bad behavior and elevation to near-sainthood of Lord #MuskVirus of #Muskville.
I've heard/read of his temperament, being bullied "at school" (super-prep or public?), and - worse - demeaned by Daddy.
But unlike #TrumpVirus and his evil set of influences, and lack of soul & brains, Elon may have bee highly sensitive (he says, Aspergian, the reason for his social-cue ignoring oafish presentation. Well, enough. He is what he is... scary enough fact.
A BOOK REVIEW BY NOVELIST GARY SHTEYNGART
Spoiler: ... a 'dull, insight-free doorstop of a book:'
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson review – arrested development
Walter Isaacson’s insight-free doorstop makes at least one thing clear: the richest man in the world has a lot of growing up to do
#ElonMusk #BookReview #Muskvirus #Muskville #Billionaire #narcissist #WalterIsaacson #biography
#ManlyPHall - #Biography and #How He Was #Murdered:
#history
Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=qefbUVy8AmQ
Thank you who/however this came to me...
A Look at a Slice of Frank Zappa's Life; Discussion with Moon Zappa
Perfectly in sync with the #psych #Music #biography #perspective such as seen with "Glimpses", and various memoirs and articles/interviews about the 'real-deal' of relationships and #context for some big celebrities - like #Dylan and #Band, as well as #BrianWilson and family, and some other well-known performers.
This one is very 'easy-listening', a spotlight (vicariously) on the life of #FrankZappa and #MoonZappa, in the aftermath of a 40-year anniversary of Frank's only commercial "radio song". So for teen-agers, he was upstaged by his 14-yr-old daughter! Her reflections:
Valley Girl
A 29-minute interview, where Zappa reflects very thoughtfully and soberly, reflections & responses to some very good questions.
Think you may enjoy this, @V. T. Eric Layton if you've not seen it. Another "glimpse" from someone who knows (like Densmore!)
began reading Sassy: The Life Of Sarah Vaughan by Leslie Gourse
"A deeply felt portrait of an artist whose influence on a generation of vocalists was profound." -- New York Times Book Review
Sarah Vaughan possessed the most spectacular voice in jazz history. In Sassy, Leslie Gourse, the acclaimed biographer of Nat King Cole and Joe Williams, defines and celebrates Vaughan's vital musical legacy and offers a detailed portrait of the woman as well as the singer. Revealed here is "The Divine One" as only her closest friends and musical associates knew her.
By her early twenties Sarah Vaughan was singining with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and Billy Eckstine, helping them invent bebop. For forty-five years thereafter, she reigned supreme in both pop and jazz, with several million-selling hits (among them "Broken Hearted Melody," "Make Yourself Comfortable," and "Misty").
But life offstage was never smooth for Sarah Vaughan. Her voluptuous voice was matched by her exuberant appetite for excess: three failed marriages, financial difficulties through many changes in management, late-night jam sessions, liquor, and cocaine. In Sassy, though, we also see the feisty and unpretentious woman who worked hard all her life to support her parents and adopted daughter, and who came to savor the hard-won independence and worldwide acclaim she achieved as the greatest jazz singer of her generation.
I think it is more than 40 years ago that I read Dagfinn Grønosets biography Anna i ødemarka (1972) in German. And up till now I treasure this book more than others... really worth reading... there's an English version.
Jeg ble solgt til Haugsetvolden. Mannen min fikk 300 kroner for meg..Slik begynner Dagfinn Grønosets bok om Anna ‒ en livshistorie utenom det vanlige , en slitets beretning fra Utkant-Norge
I was sold to Haugsetvolden. My husband got 300 kroner for me...This is how Dagfinn Grønoset's book about Anna begins - a life story out of the ordinary, a weary account from the outskirts of Norway.
Haugsetvolden. Gård/seter. [+]
It is amazing that only now I stumble upon this wonderful 2 videos about Anna.
Anna på Haugsetvolden / Anna i ødemarken (1/2)
Anna på Haugsetvolden / Anna i ødemarken (2/2)
It does not matter to me that they talk Norwegian, I love this language I know from my 2 times working in Norge.
ha! finally finished Scriabin, a Biography.. His last words before he died were, "Who is there?"
Scriabin - Deux danses op.73 - Richter
Alexander Scriabin
Deux danses op.73
n°1 Guirlandes
n°2 Flammes sombresSviatoslav Richter
Live recording, Seesen, 6.XI.1992
Teenagers often say they could “just die” when acne takes over their faces, but in Scriabin’s case this is precisely what happened. The Russian composer-pianist made his last public appearance in St Petersburg on April 2, 1915. Just a few days later he noticed a pimple on his upper lip. On April 7 the furuncle was infected and Scriabin was bedridden and febrile. By the 11th, well-wishers crowded the staircase of his flat, for two types of blood poisoning had set in. Scriabin died a few days later, with his manuscript containing sketches for the Misteriya open on the piano. [+]
#AlexanderScriabin #biography #book #music #SviatoslavRichter
Here comes the best of the prophecies, from the greatest #prophet of our #time, who was only a child! Listening to the prophecies of this boy, to what he had said and connecting to his spirit was and is, in my experience, the most profound experience the internet has brought me! His messages, I believe, as also does Sylvia, are brought directly from "heaven". What a statement to make!
In this first part, I will only talk about his life, and on another I will go into his prophetic words and his explanation of the world we live in.
He was born to a very modest religious orthodox Christians near the mountain chain Ural in Russia in 1982. Because of some health problems in his early childhood, he received only 1 vaccine. At an early age he talked like an adult. The knowledge that came from his mouth was overwhelming. His parents who were ordinary and simple people found it hard and confusing to follow along.
The family had numerous visitors in their home. Many miraculous healings took place in his presence. Even after his death many people are mysteriously healed at his graveyard tomb stone.
Once his mother asked him who his soul was or where it came from. He did not want to give the information up, but added that one time in the future some literature will be found and they will find out who he really was and that he will become very famous, so that even the Germans will be proud because he lived there practicly the first half of his life.
At one time his mother proposed that they write down all the information about the future and all that he was talking about. They did that but very soon after his death the notes were mysteriously stolen. The information that is available today is a result of his mother's memory.
His death or rather transformation was not unexpected. He knew it all along and told his parents he would leave this plane just 2 or 3 months before it actually happened.
There have been many pushes to canonize him in Russia, but the authorities have, understandably, with lame explanations held it back. Non the less, many have canonized him in their hearts.
With the help of his messages and his spirit, I believe, humanity has been given a almost perfect instruction on how to navigate as well as a clear understanding of these "end times".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J7N6tbjMbOE
The #Prophecies of #OtrokVyacheslav, p 8 - #Biography
I began reading Scriabin, a Biography by Faubion Bowers
I do love all of Alexander Scriabin's music since late seventies, most of all his "Verse la flamme"
currently I read...
Anna Achmatowa : ein Leben im Unbehausten
A Life in the Unhoused by Jelena Kusmina
For Osip Mandelstam
by Anna Akhmatova [+]
And the town is frozen solid in a vice,
Trees, walls, snow, beneath a glass.
Over crystal, on slippery tracks of ice,
the painted sleighs and I, together, pass.
And over St Peter’s there are poplars, crows
there’s a pale green dome there that glows,
dim in the sun-shrouded dust.
The field of heroes lingers in my thought,
Kulikovo’s barbarian battleground.
The frozen poplars, like glasses for a toast,
clash now, more noisily, overhead.
As though it was our wedding, and the crowd
were drinking to our health and happiness.
But Fear and the Muse take turns to guard
the room where the exiled poet is banished,
and the night, marching at full pace,
of the coming dawn, has no knowledge.
England's Hidden Reverse, Second Edition
A Secret History of the Esoteric Underground
By David Keenan
Obsessively researched biographies of the three seminal music groups Coil, Current 93, and Nurse With Wound that also illuminates the history of the English underground scene.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781907222177/
#england #esoteric #undeground #coil #current93 #nurseWithWound #music #book #literature #biography
It's very rare I see something pop up on Twitter (to which I'm not often glued) from the realm of golden oldie music.
This caught my eye, and even rarer, I replied. Tweet tweet!_ I'm ba-a-ad!_
Where have I heard that before? Sam the Sham, MJ, Billie Eilish...) I have not heard his name nor music in a long time. Wow.
He was... 'bad to the bone', this...
Bad Boy Leroy Brown
Well, here's one movie, with his song. The one about him, point taken, is largely unsung. Ripe for a #movie / #biography
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LYRICS:
Well the south side of chicago
Is the baddest part of town
And if you go down there
You better just beware
Of a man named leroy brown
Now leroy more than trouble
You see he stand 'bout six foot four
All the downtown ladies call him "treetop lover"
All the mens just call him "sir"
And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
Now leroy he a gambler
And he like his fancy clothes
And he like to wave his diamond rings
In front of everybody's nose
He got a custom continental
He got an eldorado too
He got a 32 gun in his pocket for fun
He got a razor in his shoe
And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
Well friday bout a week ago
Leroy shootin' dice
And at the edge of the bar
Sat a girl named doris
And ooh that girl looked nice
Well he cast his eyes upon her
And the trouble soon began
And leroy brown learned a lesson
'bout messin' with the wife of a jealous man
And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damned town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog,
Well the two men took to fightin'
And when they pulled them from the floor
Leroy looked like a jigsaw puzzle
With a couple of pieces gone
And it's bad, bad leroy brown
The baddest man in the whole damn town
Badder than old king kong
And meaner than a junkyard dog
#film #music #JimCroce #LeroyBrown #musica #musique #1973 #ClassicRock
#Skin | Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906, — April 12, 1975)
"Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul, when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood." ~ Josephine Baker, (brainyquote.com)
#1906 #1975 #adoption #amor #amour #april #april12 #art #bio
"During the German occupation of France, Baker worked with the Red Cross and the Résistance, and as a member of the Free French forces she entertained troops in Africa and the Middle East. She was later awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honour with the rosette of the Résistance. After the war much of her energy was devoted to Les Milandes, her estate in southwestern France, from which she began in 1950 to adopt babies of all nationalities in the cause of what she defined as “an experiment in brotherhood” and her “rainbow tribe.” She adopted a total of 12 children."
#biography #birthday #brotherhood #CasinoDeParis #color #colour #couleur #egalité #equality #france #fraternité #fraternity #freedom #gaudin #june #june3 #justice #happybirthday #harmony #hbd #hero #heroine #liberty #liberté #LouisGaudin #love #paris #peace #racism #racisme #racismo #rainbow #RainbowTribe #rainbow_tribe #sisterhood #unity
Image Source: Josephine Baker, "Casino de Paris," by Louis Gaudin (Wikipedia)