Saturday, November 8, 2008

Quizás, Quizás, Quizás


Yes, I know about pilars of electrolyte with copper and zinc poles, and the river in Africa... I admire her striking originality even if her Icelandic / English vocals at times grate the harp/ghettoblaster assemblies of her albums. Homogenic and Vespertine aside, I retrace my impression of the first listening.
For a year or so, I have speculated on the origin of Björk's sixth album, Volta, and then I reviewed Miró, Man and Woman in front of a Pile of Excrement, 1936 with its acid colors, and I came up with a possibility. Had she been to a leafy slope in Barcelona? I first thought of this, looking at the feet. The radioactive colors and the supposedly untrained visionary style of the painter would undoubtedly appeal to this November Sagittarius. The pattern of each of album is the tumultous drive toward the self.












9 comments:

Σφιγξ said...

Ha, funny that you should mention that, but I was contemplating viewing that this evening with a glass of wine as I finish my project on turquoise paper.

Σφιγξ said...

Lovely...By hacking a path through the cave the fragile crystal-forming ferment isn't destroyed?

Σφιγξ said...

Actually, I like Swedish massage, Reiki...by an anonymous practitioner. The offer by an intimate is so irritating, I can't bare it. It seems so contrived...

Σφιγξ said...

Would you mail in a sample of your DNA to be analyzed (in the private sector) for 300+ defects and/or markers for cancer? On the chance that it could be wrong?

I think I would, and I would take the results as reasonable as astrology.

Σφιγξ said...

resonably...and I would be modifying "take"

reasonable and I would be modifying "astrology"

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mk_rbJ4lBYM

Σφιγξ said...

https://www.zmescience.com/science/psychology-science/study-reveals-the-cognitive-superpowers-of-reading-fiction-more-than-just-words/

Σφιγξ said...

23andMe once had a higher price per share than Apple. I was contemplating increasing my FSA, and then I saw where Amazon's FSA eligible items included 23andMe's updated test and supplements that I take! Whee! The amount in taxed income withholding is necessitating this move. Just to review:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/health/what-is-flexible-spending-account

I am not slavish to this channel, but I periodically look back in the spirit of discovery of paperback gems. The reader is 35, and having the discipline to wade through space and genre fiction to find the diamond-forged SF pieces is inspiration. I look askance to Leaf by Leaf's channel for old and new literature reviews.

If I was in a bombed out house, I would still have the same anticipation to pull out of the rubble some printed matter to read in the sunlight. This is my strength in austerity, and I long to have the time to read when times are good and completely distracting. Yes, I will read more in French to work that muscle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeAnFrNOX2g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM7IF1zHC2Q

Our reading together is very important, centrally important. They mean everything we say. On that note, I have thought that the prayers that I read in translation in Hebrew (with some recognizable words and phrases) are the reason for the day with everything else because I need to be reminded every day that not having the proper intent always or the perfect time is no excuse for refocusing on the obligation. I gleaned from the Teshuva book that a generational Jew said that until he realized that until he said one sentence of the daily prayer in Israel it did not have the proper meaning; and the travel there, the practice and the experiences were the lead in to saying one passage with total conviction.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/What_the_Rabbis_Said/cK72EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Amidah%20Open%20my%20heart%20to%20Your%20teaching%2C%20and%20give%20me%20the%20will%20to%20practice%20it.&pg=PT386&printsec=frontcover

I want the full Schottenstein Mishnah Elucidated half-grand set with English and Hebrew facing pages, but I am not there yet.

I will read Rav Twerski's Commentary on the Mishnah and on the Chumash on Saturdays before Tevet is over. 29 days. When I find the texts used, it is even better.

https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/4223896/jewish/11-Facts-About-the-Month-of-Tevet-Every-Jew-Should-Know.htm

https://www.artscroll.com/Books/9781422614372.html

https://www.artscroll.com/Books/9781578193912.html

https://images.app.goo.gl/jb2xL8QsBtc6HCXk9

Σφιγξ said...

From the public library choked full of the young disabled and derelicts overspeaking and oversmelling each other:

Scott Weidensauls's A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds (2021)

Scum trapping and killing wildlife to say they did:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_World_on_the_Wing_The_Global_Odyssey_o/RTbtDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Cyprus%20black%20hole%20for%20migratory%20birds&pg=PT268&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Rise_and_Reign_of_the_Mammals/_XBBEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PT10&printsec=frontcover

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4622040/

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Food_of_a_Younger_Land/kCRVWMcNPEwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA1&printsec=frontcover

Prohibition Mississippi pear wine sounds too sweet, but it might be a good infusion over cake. Most cake tastes like dust dropped in butter to me.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Andrew_s_Brain/VY-LDQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Andrew's%20Brain%20Doctorow%20%22Martha%22&pg=PA6&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sailor_and_Fiddler/fyxyCQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PP5&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Venomous/tUsBCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Venomous%20Wilcox&pg=PT21&printsec=frontcover

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Pathogenesis/1EZ4EAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Pathogenesis%20Kennedy&pg=PT10&printsec=frontcover

"[...] bacteriophage kills between 20 and 40 percent of all bacteria per day."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W13iNp4inrc

https://www.thepenguinchap.com/main-series-1-400/p/ms46

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Living_Waters/F3qoTEJWg-cC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=naftali%20hind&pg=PA105&printsec=frontcover