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The Radical Life of Kathy Boudin | The New Yorker
The Radical Life of Kathy Boudin | The New Yorker
She spoke of her involvement with the B.L.A. as an act of self-erasure in service of a better world. “The less I would know and the more I would give up total self, the better—the more committed and the more moral I was,” she said.
The Radical Life of Kathy Boudin | The New Yorker
Kathy Boudin obituary | The Times
Kathy Boudin obituary | The Times
Kathy Boudin, of The Weathermen, was born on May 19, 1943. She died of cancer on May 1, 2022, aged 78.
“If only there were a place where the living and the dead could meet, to tell their tales, to weep, I would reach for you — not so you could forgive me, but so you would know that I have no pride for what I’ve done, only the wisdom and regret that came too late.”
#death#obituary
Kathy Boudin obituary | The Times
Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Zeldzaam mooie zwijgende film over enkele vrienden en vriendinnen die een zonnige zondag beleven in het Berlijn van eind jaren twintig. Alleen al die historische setting maakt dat over alle alledaagse gebeurtenissen een laagje weemoed hangt, terwijl de film door het naturel acteerwerk en door de losse, midden in het leven staande stijl opmerkelijk tijdloos voelt. Veel talent dat uiteindelijk van nazi-Duitsland naar Hollywood zou vluchten: Robert Siodmak en Edgar G. Ulmer regisseerden, Billy Wilder werkte aan het scenario, Fred Zinnemann was camera-assistent.
#berlin#movies
Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
SoulCycle Founders Start Peoplehood, With Workouts for the Self - NYT
SoulCycle Founders Start Peoplehood, With Workouts for the Self - NYT
SoulCycle became a phenomenon because it made its customers feel as if they were sculpting not just their bodies but their selves. The chain’s devotees wear SoulCycle gear as they pedal in unison on stationary bikes in candlelit rooms under the tutelage of guru-like instructors who shout out messages of empowerment.
#psyche
SoulCycle Founders Start Peoplehood, With Workouts for the Self - NYT
Elvis has left the building...
Elvis has left the building...
Elvis Presley leaving his hotel en route to the Nassau Coliseum with his road manager and friend, Joe Esposito, and girlfriend Diane Goodin, July 1975. Photograph by Ron Galella.
#image
Elvis has left the building...
Meanwhile in El Salvador...
Meanwhile in El Salvador...
From The Times 4-5-22 : Nayib Bukele styles himself as “The Saviour”, which is also the name in English of the country he runs, El Salvador. His supporters, who number in the millions, are still prepared to put their faith in the youthful, maverick president who has pledged to transform his troubled country into an ultra-modern state, complete with bitcoin as a national currency, but not everyone is a believer. Fears that the 40-year-old leader, who wears a baseball cap backwards and has joked that he is “the coolest dictator in the world”, is lurching towards full-blown authoritarianism have been heightened by events over the past month. In a country of 6.5 million people, 20,000 have been arrested over a period of 33 days, the government said.
#politics
Meanwhile in El Salvador...
Peter Bogdanovich's Late Anachronism
Peter Bogdanovich's Late Anachronism
"Squirrels to the Nuts," the director's cut of Peter Bogdanovich's final film, reveals the director's radical retrogradation.
Adorno’s conception of a “late style that involves a nonharmonious, nonserene tension, and above all, a sort of deliberately unproductive productiveness.”2 He admired a certain type of creatively intransigent antagonism that emerged only in an artist’s final years, “a moment when the artist who is fully in command of his medium nevertheless abandons communication with the established social order of which he is a part and achieves a contradictory, alienated relationship with it.”3
Peter Bogdanovich's Late Anachronism
addiction
addiction
illustration by Julianna Brion to accompany a NYT article about addiction 1-5-22
#drugs
addiction
Klaus Schulze (1947-2022) obituary
Klaus Schulze (1947-2022) obituary
Of all his work surely the absolute zenith was his collaborative venture with Pete Namlook, the 11 volume The Dark Side of the Moog, each one adapting a song title from Pink Floyd, featuring gems like Wish You Were There and Obscured By Klaus.
Klaus Schulze (1947-2022) obituary