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About Lou Reed’s Words & Music: May 1965
About Lou Reed’s Words & Music: May 1965
After the death of the Velvet Underground front man, two archivists and his widow, Laurie Anderson, discovered a mysterious sealed package from 1965. Inside was treasure: never-before-heard, folky versions of “Heroin” and other classics.
About Lou Reed’s Words & Music: May 1965
Stoicism : 10 tools of ancient philosophy that improved my life
Stoicism : 10 tools of ancient philosophy that improved my life
This is quite an annoying article, or make that 'advertisement for a book', from The Guardian 20-9-22. It is hard to imagine how you could fill up a whole book with this drivel. The fad of Stoicism will pass just like the fad of Zen and dare I say it, Catholicism, and like all of those it can pretty much be summed up with : Try to not want what you want — what a revelation! But the Stoics might add : try to not not want that which you have to have.
Stoicism : 10 tools of ancient philosophy that improved my life
‘She has been the one and only stable female in my life’: Jeanette Winterson on mourning the Queen
‘She has been the one and only stable female in my life’: Jeanette Winterson on mourning the Queen
‘When I realised there was going to be an announcement about her death, I changed into black and waited. She deserved that. Part of us goes with her’
I will miss the Queen. As an adopted person, she has been the one and only stable female in my life. Her portrait (Beaton) hung over our coal fire above the brass flying ducks. When Mrs Winterson was at her most volatile, taking my dad’s service (there’s that word again) revolver out of the duster and fiddling with the bullets embedded in a tin of Pledge, I looked to the Queen for help. She was better than Jesus because she was alive, as well as possessing special powers.
‘She has been the one and only stable female in my life’: Jeanette Winterson on mourning the Queen
Albert Woodfox obituary | Register | The Times
Albert Woodfox obituary | Register | The Times
Albert Woodfox endured 43 years in solitary confinement, believed to be more than any other inmate in the history of the United States. He was locked in a 6ft by 9ft cell for 23 hours a day. For the remaining hour he was permitted to walk around a fenced-in concrete yard while shackled. He was mocked, beaten and tear-gassed by guards who subjected him to invasive daily strip searches. To bring the smallest semblance of variety into his days, Woodfox alternated between eating breakfast standing up or sitting down.
Albert Woodfox obituary | Register | The Times
Maxim Februari NRC 10-9-22
Maxim Februari NRC 10-9-22
Het gaat goed in Nederland, en voor zover het niet goed gaat, wordt gelukkig overwogen wetten te maken, al kunnen die helaas niet worden gehandhaafd. 😄
Maxim Februari NRC 10-9-22
vertraagtaal - NRC 30-8-22
vertraagtaal - NRC 30-8-22
Lieke Marsman bedacht het woord ‘vertraagtaal’, volgens Sophie van der Stap een neologisme waarin de tragiek van dit tijdsgewricht is samengevat.
vertraagtaal - NRC 30-8-22
Interesting piece on Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal.
Interesting piece on Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal.
“If this were real, you would have some sort of emotion instead of standing there like a rock. Do you want to feel something? Do you want to feel something real? That’s sad. You never will.”
Interesting piece on Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal.