Vingadores for us all
Category: music
AG2024_1034052a or nevermind
Hua Hsu in NewYorker on Nirvana’s Nevermind.
“The album would eventually go diamond, selling more than ten million copies in the U.S. alone.”
Nirvana – MTV Unplugged in New York, 1994.
Do your thing
Isaac Hayes, Shaft, Do your thing, 19:38. 1971
Soul Men, 2008.
In so returning to ourselves from the realm of projection, we are tasked with finally mapping and traversing the inner landscape of the psyche, with all its treacherous terrain and hidden abysses. Hollis writes:
“It takes courage to face one’s emotional states directly and to dialogue with them. But therein lies the key to personal integrity. In the swamplands of the soul there is meaning and the call to enlarge consciousness. To take this on is the greatest responsibility in life… And when we do, the terror is compensated by meaning, by dignity, by purpose.
[…]Our task at midlife is to be strong enough to relinquish the ego-urgencies of the first half and open ourselves to a greater wonder.”
In the remainder of The Middle Passage, Hollis goes on to illustrate … how personal complexes and projections play out in everything from parenting to creative practice to love, and how their painful renunciation swings open a portal to the deepest and most redemptive transformation.
The Marginalian
AG2024_1088626a or in the presence of such enormous, distracting absences
“It was far-reaching: this much she knew. It had layers and strata, like a landscape.”
“trying to live as best they can in the presence of such enormous, distracting absences”
(Maggie O’Farrell)
Toxic, Jeff Russo · Lisa Hannigan, Fargo Year 5 (Soundtrack from the MGM/ FXP Series)
AG2023_1078357a or lies within something of another nature
Untitled (Field Guide; “what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature”) ii, 2023. Graphite, colored pencil, gesso, enamel paint, gouache, collage, pigment print on paper. 75 x 54 cm
Denise Levertov, “Pleasures”. (I like to find/ what’s not found / at once, but lies …)
Hard luck and trouble
Been my only friend
I’ve been on my own
Ever since I was ten
[…]
You know wine and women
Is all I crave
A big legged woman
Gonna carry me to my grave
[…]
I’ve been down since I began to crawl
If it wasn’t for bad luck
I tell ya, I wouldn’t have no luck at all [Outro]Yeah, I’m a bad luck boy
Been havin’ bad luck all of my days, yes
Adrift in darkness or an unknowing
Adrift in a Stranger’s Galaxy, Dan Romer. Station Eleven (Music from the HBO Max Limited Series)
“Love is not something to do, but something to be experienced, and something to go through”
“Busyness will not disguise its lack.”
“the perennial problem of artists: time, and what to do in it.
(ZS)
The world’s light shines, shine as it will,
The world will love its darkness still.
I doubt though when the world’s in hell,
It will not love its darkness half so well.
Richard Crashaw
And hopefully “out of this hole” and “crawls” pass; enchanted.
Some tunes
It means something
“You have a place, it means something” – The Diplomat
