"O Oysters," said the Carpenter, "You've had a pleasant run! Shall we be trotting home again?' But answer came there none-- And this was scarcely odd, because They'd eaten every one.
I attempted to broker with the woman on the far left in your picture b., participation of Kurt in an art show about incest I curated in 1993, but I've told that story before in this venue.
Probbly been posted before, but in belated solidarity with the working (and non-working, and soon to be non-working) people of America, here's a wee song. Funny how history repeats itself, innit? It keeps repeating, over and over, like a stuck gear, almost as if something preternatural (as Ann Coulter loves to say, in reference to all compassionate feeling or progressive thought) was holding it back from it's natural progress.
I think this next song has some relevance to the misogyny thread (only got to page 55 so far). It does a pretty decent job of conveying the fact that misogyny is not just something that men do to women, but is also something that men do to men, constantly, all the time, and of set purpose. Unrelenting negative enforcement about femininity or any compassionate feelings we may have towards others indoctrinates us into a hugely destructive, largely unconcious, "belief system" which seems designed to make us either kill ourselves or relish the idea of dying in the service of others for their (not necessarily relevant) causes. Y'know, dominance behaviour and all that, pack mentality, and how women are used as tools in that game, while being completely disregarded as people in their own right. Patriarchy, if you will.
Good song too (by Jacques Brel originally).
"The universe is 40 billion light years across and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. That is the position of the universe with regard to human life."
. You know, Ahabs, that song ^^^ Next performed by Harvey really caught me by surprise. Here I am sitting in a quiet room, and I felt an urge to give out a long, primal scream. And, that, wrt misogyny, I'll hang my cap, for now. Oh yeah, the Alan Price, Jarrow Song vid is so sardonic (like, compared to what?, you may ask?), my jaw dropped. I love the piece, and the orchestration, too.
Port of Amsterdam | Jacques Brel < a click over to YT >
Port of Amsterdam | David Bowie
Art will be the last bastion when all else fades away. ~ Timothy White (b 1952), American rock music journalist _________________