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Bach, Jesu of Joy of Man's Desiring. Tears in my eyes, every time.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 7:50 AM
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And no yucking anyone's yum

Does this mean we can't argue somebody is wrong in their selection or that we can't select somebody's genitals for ours?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 7:57 AM
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Or both?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 7:57 AM
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I like that you are sharing cat pictures on the internet but, you know, keeping it classy.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:00 AM
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Way to stomp on heebie's vulnerability.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:02 AM
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2, 3: She was just yucking Ogged's yum.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:03 AM
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I should probably try to find a space in my life for not-cynicism, but in my defense the world isn't really helping me to do so.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:16 AM
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I actually love watercolor, but I hate anyone who does watercolor better than I do. Such as, for example, any accomplished watercolor artist.

Like, the person who did that cat managed to pull it off using almost entirely black paint. There is a little pink in the ears and a bit of white around the legs, but mostly the shape is conveyed by managing translucency, which is really hard to do well. I couldn't have pulled that off, and would have resorted to hiding blues and yellows in there to firm up the form a bit.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:24 AM
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I submit Arvo Pärt's setting of "My Heart's In The Highlands" that was used in Sorrentino's The Great Beauty.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:27 AM
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I'm boring, but pretty much all of J. M. W. Turner's late stuff, once he stops caring about the physical form of things. Doesn't matter what it is.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:28 AM
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8: I like watercolor with hard edges quite a lot. Watercolor with watery edges often bugs me. (But not always! c/f penovac.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:42 AM
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Looking over the terraced fields from the high points of Kodaikanal.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:55 AM
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I am very fond of Bellini's Saint Francis, which occupies a prime piece of wall estate in the Frick. I am almost equally fond of informing people of the scurrilous anti-clerical pornographic literary works of Pietro Aretino, Titian-portrayed nearby.

I am not a crackpot.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:56 AM
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I should really use the photo in 12 when teaching Cal III and contour maps and level curves.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:57 AM
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I like watercolor with hard edges quite a lot.

Yeah, a good clean edge-line that's done in one stroke is an amazing thing, because its just so easy to screw up.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:59 AM
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I would have taken me more than 20 questions to figure out 12 was in India.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 8:59 AM
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This was a disappointment, because the Met seems to have put most of it away, but I was just there to look at an exhibition of drawings and was pleased to get a chance to visit the room of Nakashima furniture. (Instead, there was a creepy horrible taxidermied deer covered with spherical bubble/lenses in the room. And one Nakashima desk shoved in the corner.)


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:03 AM
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And I apologize for my cliche-dom, but flying home to NYC in daylight at an angle that lets me really see Manhattan from the air makes my heart turn over. There are good ground-level views, but nothing that hits quite the same way.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:05 AM
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I feel like even a few years ago I would have immediately written a long list but I had a hard time thinking of things I find beautiful. Depression? 2017?

I reach back and yes, traditional Islamic art and architecture, in the Maghreb and Andalusia and in Iran and Central Asia especially. So serene and mesmerizing and beautiful.

Many scenes in films, that cabin on fire scene with the water dripping from the eaves in Tarkovsky's the Mirror, just about every frame of Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flowers of Shanghai. Others.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:06 AM
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I love this Winslow Homer for the combination of brown and turquoise. I've heard that it used to have a lot of red in it, but that pigment has since faded.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:08 AM
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OT, but here's the creepy deer. It's more upsetting when you can get close to it and see the irregularly magnified hair.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:12 AM
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17:Due to rights restrictions, this image cannot be enlarged, viewed at full screen, or downloaded.

Also disappointing. I've never seen that kind of restriction before.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:16 AM
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20: That is beautiful.

Also heebie's cat, although my first reaction was that it was kind of scary.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:19 AM
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That's the most awful piece of taxidermy I've ever seen and I've spent time on Etsy looking for the worst dead squirrel I could find.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:20 AM
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24: Moby gives the best presents.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:21 AM
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Haven't we all.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:21 AM
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David Bowie's face.


Posted by: Straight Englishman | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:22 AM
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Endorsed.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:25 AM
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Somebody who is an Englishman and not straight could comment on the tights in Labyrinth, unless 2 is right.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:29 AM
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On the back lawn of my parents' house there is often in summer a heavy dew; and looking out from my bedroom window at the right time of the early morning I could see the sunlight striking the grass sidewise, and the droplets reflecting it into my eyes, refracted so that as I moved my head I could see the tiny star made by one drop shift from arc-light blue to sodium-lamp yellow to arterial red; the most perfect colors I have seen anywhere.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:33 AM
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27, 28: Careful, there.


Posted by: Opinionated Masturbation Police | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:35 AM
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On an overnight sleeper-car train from Sofia to Istanbul, for the better part of an hour as dawn broke there were rolling hills of sunflowers in full bloom as far as the eye can sea.

Morocco, a winding mountain road traveling back to Fez through the Middle Atlas mountains in late summer, ripening wheat fields covering the sides of the mountains and hills as we hit the golden hour. Gold upon gold upon gold. Otherworldly in its beauty. It took my breath away. Not one of us said a word.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:41 AM
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The last shot in The Third Man.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:46 AM
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Oh, there is scenery that I can't describe without making it sound like a tacky postcard, but is heartbreaking in person.

If you're ever in Samoa, on Savaii, the bigger island, if you turn right from the ferry landing and go about ten miles, you walk through a cattle pasture and scramble about thirty feet down a little 'cliff', and you find yourself on the banks of a little rocky pool maybe 50 feet across, with a waterfall down into it and walled in by fern-covered banks. I've never been anyplace more beautiful in my life.

I probably couldn't find it now if I went back.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:50 AM
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I saw that recently, but don't recall that shot.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:50 AM
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32.1 sea s/b see


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:51 AM
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35 to 33.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:51 AM
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Sunrise over Cleveland, from the window of a Greyhound bus. Maybe you had to be there?


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:55 AM
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The two most beautiful words in the English language: open bar

But seriously, there's one shot in Wong Kar Wai's section of Eros , an otherwise forgettable film, of the protagonist in a brown tie that was just shockingly beautiful when I saw it in the theater.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:56 AM
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Bierstadt's Last of the Buffalo. Bierstadt's waves (Emerald, Turquoise, Seal Rock, among others). Biestadt's Yosemite (esp 1864). Bierstadt's Landers Peak.

I could go on.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:58 AM
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If a thing of beauty is a joy forever, anybody who has been unhappy has never seen a thing of beauty. That's just science.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:05 AM
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In real life, it's hard to beat the Mission Front; il Sella, especially but not exclusively from Val Gardena; Mont Blanc from Mont Fort, or Castle Rock, coming down from Vermillion Pass. I'm going skiing in Zermatt in February, so we'll see whether anything there gets onto the list.


Posted by: CharleyCarp | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:18 AM
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Allegri, Miserere. Pachelbel, Canon in D major. Mussorsky, Pictures at an Exhibition.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:20 AM
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Snowflakes falling through the light of street lamps. Waves crashing on rocks. These rock formations in Ohio of all places (Hocking Hills https://www.hockinghills.com/) but probably that's because I haven't been to any other impressive rock formations.

Paintings or other pieces of art don't seem to resonate with me. Unless there's something really human about them like when I saw there was sand embedded in a Monet painting. Churches and the associated art, on the other hand, I love.

More embarrassingly, any bagpipe song but especially Amazing Grace will make me choke back sobs. Choral music also makes me tear up but both of those almost seem to be physiological responses to the music.


Posted by: hydrobatidae | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:21 AM
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almost seem to be physiological responses to the music.

I have a definite weird tearing-up response to strongly rhythmic poetry. It's much more about the rhythm than the emotional impact or the artistic merit of the poetry, and I don't understand it.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:24 AM
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The Iliad. From the first line I just start grinning with the brilliance of it.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:27 AM
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46: Any particular translation or do you know classical (?) Greek?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:32 AM
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47: Lattimore. No Greek. I understand his isn't the most favored translation anymore, but I love it too much to care.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:35 AM
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Don't the moon look good, mama, shinin' through the trees
Don't the brakemen look good, mama, flaggin' down the "Double-E"
Don't the sun look good goin' down over the sea
But don't my gal look fine when she's comin' after me

This part of "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" - the studio version on Highway 61 Revisited.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:35 AM
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18: [Manhattan from the air] There are good ground-level views, but nothing that hits quite the same way.

I have the same regard for DC views coming in or out of National on a nice day.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:38 AM
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35: It's the last minute and a half or so.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:40 AM
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Scuba diving in Tobago, 30 meters down, you look up at the surface of the water and the sun is shining on it, casting columns of light through schools of brightly-colored fish circling above your head.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:41 AM
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The last scene of The Grey, when the piano comes in.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:42 AM
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Also in the urban landscape category. Nighttime view from Griffith Observatory.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:46 AM
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This Tanner at the Met.

The bas reliefs on Angkor Wat at dawn.


Posted by: foolishmortal | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:50 AM
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Also, the Internationale.


Posted by: Natilo Paennim | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:54 AM
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Crows, wrestling and tumbling in midair above a rush-hour highway sunk through the spine of a ridge.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:57 AM
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Sacramento has been pretty astonishing for a week. It was a good week for fall leaves.

(That's all understated, but there have been some really spectacular trees that I can't describe well. Enough to gasp and stop riding.)


Posted by: Megan | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 10:59 AM
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An incredibly tiny girl I taught, either much too young or with some kind of developmental problem, when she was doing an exercise and knew the answer, smiled this great big toothy smile.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 11:08 AM
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I am reminded of Zappa's measure of "quality of life:" How much of what we individually consider to be beautiful are we able to experience every day?

I like that a lot, even if I'm not sure exactly what it means.

The night sky always awes me. I see LB has already taken note of the New York skyline, but I'd add the view from across the Hudson just before the bus enters the Lincoln Tunnel.


Posted by: politicalfootball | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 11:16 AM
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Gerry Mulligan, Song for Strayhorne.


Posted by: chris y | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 11:18 AM
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The Eurpean ceramics in the collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum and how they work with the paintings collection. It's hard to single out one object, there's so many great ones, and the overall effect is glorious.


Posted by: JL | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 11:22 AM
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https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/898200325554933761


Posted by: lw | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 11:35 AM
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63: Wow!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 11:44 AM
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I love, love, love Remedios Varos. Her pieces are beautiful and often funny. I forget the exact title of the first one at the link, but it's something like "Leaving the psychoanalyst's office."

I have a print of "Vegetarian Vampires" on my wall.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:14 PM
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One time I saw Barry Bonds jack a home run into the center-right upper deck of the old RFK Stadium. I don't care much for Bonds, but that was a beautiful thing to do to a baseball.

Every time I see footage of Cal Ripken, Jr. taking his lap around Camden Yards during the middle of the fifth inning of game number 2131 in his consecutive game streak, I tear up a little bit.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:20 PM
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I dated a guy who turned out to be something of a douche, but partially redeemed himself by introducing me to Deborah Madison and Remedios Varos.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:20 PM
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67 is allowed in this thread because it is adjacent to beauty.


Posted by: Sir Kraab | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:22 PM
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's eve? Thou art more arty and better read.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:27 PM
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69: I was ready to jump on this for misquoting Shakespeare, and then I got the douche reference. Very nice. Crossposting on Standpipe's blog.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:37 PM
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I have no idea what you're talking about. It was a direct quote to the best of my knowledge.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 1:39 PM
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Music has a lot of effects on me, but sometimes it provides an overwhelming sense of pure pleasure; often enough that I couldn't count all the pieces that have done so.

Particular trout streams; lakes in forests. But I'm not sure the effect there is entirely aesthetic -- a photograph of what I see wouldn't have the same effect. The smells and the sounds are all part of it, too.

This sounds appallingly cheesy, but small children when they are really absorbed in the world.

One particular pleasure to be had from poetry, where the words just seem to fit together so well that to use any of them in other contexts feels slightly wrong. Tennyson at the moment: lots of Tennyson.

The cathedral here when the light is right.


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 2:28 PM
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The first time I heard the song "Astral Weeks", by Van Morrison, I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever heard. I listened to it 50 times in one week, and then I was never able to recreate the feeling again.


Posted by: Walt Someguy | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 2:49 PM
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Correction to 34: I meant turn left. If you turn right you end up at Tuasivi, which is a perfectly nice secondary school but not that pretty.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:01 PM
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74: That came right on the nick of time. Ferry is about to land.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:08 PM
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God fucking damn it if you keep fucking up this blog will be worth less than shit. Now how the fuck do I get to Lalomanu?


Posted by: ANGRY SAMOAN | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:15 PM
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And now I'm googling Samoa tourist information. The goofy little bar in the beach village near my school is now 'famously luxurious':

Dive Savaii is located in Fagamolo village opposite the famously luxurious "Le Lagoto Resort & Spa" which offers a wide range of accommodation to suit every budget.

I guess they were pretty luxurious even when I was there -- they had four little rental one-room huts with hot water. And a three-option menu: fish and chips, chicken and chips, or sausage and chips.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:17 PM
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76: Sole, you're on the wrong island. Stay on the ferry or start swimming.


Posted by: LizardBreath | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:18 PM
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Mother fuck cock ASS


Posted by: ANGRY SAMOAN | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:26 PM
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Mother fuck cock ASS


Posted by: ANGRY SAMOAN | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:26 PM
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That is one angry Samoan.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:29 PM
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Any well done live reading of Molly Bloom's soliloquy in Ulysses will make me tear up. It hits all of my buttons at once.


Posted by: Psychoceramicist | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:47 PM
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I have a goodly number of beautiful images burned into my head, but a recurring one I particularly cherish is looking south along Chaunigan Lake, BC, early on clear mornings at the end of vacation trips. Still lake, often with a little mist, bare Konni Mountain at the south end, and Mt. Tatlow standing gloriously in the distance.


Posted by: DaveLHI | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 3:58 PM
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This is a lovely thread to return to after a long, tiring day.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:05 PM
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73 reminds me that I used to not know Morrissey was somebody different from Jim Morrison of the Doors or Van Morrison wasn't either of them. Fortunately, people just assumed I was making jokes and not stupid.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:09 PM
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84: If you had a tiring day, imagine how much praise your male colleague doing the same thing got for his day of doing the same thing.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:10 PM
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Crows, wrestling and tumbling in midair above a rush-hour highway sunk through the spine of a ridge.

I sometimes get a flying scarf of 1000s of grackles in the sky on my drive home at sunset, and it's mesmerizing.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:12 PM
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86: Heh/sob.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:12 PM
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TBC, I viewed said crows from a pedestrian bridge over the highway. Drive safe now!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:14 PM
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I once saw two orioles fight an iguana. That was cool.


Posted by: Spike | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:26 PM
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87: I sometimes get a flying scarf of 1000s of grackles in the sky on my drive home at sunset, and it's mesmerizing.

From my one place in Houston we'd get the same for starlings coming in to roost at Rice University. I had a 2nd floor balcony which had great view.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 4:47 PM
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Are the birds that flocked into Oakland and covered the sidewalks in so much shit that you couldn't step around it crows or grackles?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 5:02 PM
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Crows roost in huge numbers in various parts of Pittsburgh. Assume it is them in Oakland as well.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 5:10 PM
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I hate them.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 5:11 PM
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But not on aesthetic grounds, so I'm still in line with the rules.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 5:14 PM
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Magic's Pawn, right after the frozen dream, as Vanyel professes his love. It's crazy powerful.


Posted by: Mooseking | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 5:15 PM
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This remains my favorite art exhibition. I love many of the individual pieces but it's the common theme that really set it apart for me.


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:35 PM
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I saw huge flocks of crows over Regent Square last weekend just before dusk. Beautiful.

Starlings are pretty, but extremely annoying when they land on your roof.


Posted by: dalriata | Link to this comment | 12- 1-17 9:56 PM
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82 Yes


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 12- 2-17 1:50 AM
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98: At Rice they made umbrellas available during the worst of it.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 2-17 2:32 AM
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99 By which I mean I feel very much the same of course.


Posted by: Barry Freed | Link to this comment | 12- 2-17 4:07 AM
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In case it isn't obvious, let me say this thread was an excellent idea. Thanks Heebie!


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 2-17 7:40 AM
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Janet Cardiff's "40 Part Motet", now at the National Gallery. It's just 40 speakers in a large circle playing a live recording of this:

https://youtu.be/7Cn7ZW8ts3Y

With a microphone for each singer. Besides the music, two things I love are: the microphones were turned on five minutes before the singing started, so I've come to know the speaking voices of the little children making each other laugh, and the rivalrous tenors, and the weary sardonic professionals.
The second thing I love is watching people move through the space, listening. I have followed this installation around, and I can't count how many times I've been through it now. It makes me cry every time.


Posted by: Penny | Link to this comment | 12- 2-17 9:26 AM
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I listened to Townes Van Zandt's "Highway Kind" for the first time in a long time while driving earlier this evening and got all choked up with how perfect it is.


Posted by: M/tch M/lls | Link to this comment | 12- 2-17 6:42 PM
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The Blue Ridge Parkway in the fall.


Posted by: apostropher | Link to this comment | 12- 3-17 12:30 AM
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Bernini's Apollo and Daphne. In the room, it's just jaw-dropping.

Smokey Robinson (on basically everything, as singer and as writer, but this song in particular, this version, from 1m 56 or so, with bonus Aretha): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy75z0trlDk&t=1m56s
(male falsetto, kills me every time)

Bach's BWV 975 - Largo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzPhJGPpW4w

Miles Davis - Blue in Green https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoPL7BExSQU

Gil Evans - Where Flamingo's Fly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUJ8P-aeZhE

(there's something about a melancholic trombone that just presses buttons)

Helen Merrill - Born to be Blue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JB-DZbP0L8

Sandrine Piau singing Handel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZoYUHInMkw

Nick Cave's Into My Arms -- like him just fine, but not a huge fan, but the construction of this song is perfect. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnHoqHscTKE

Bettye Lavette's voice on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-whyryu8mys

Esther Phillips voice on this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvdnMzQGbEQ


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12- 3-17 1:14 PM
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I got to sit down and chat w Beto O'Rourke for 20 minuets! I saw him talking in front of a camera, so I pulled over, and they were ducking into a tiny tacqueria for lunch and asked if I wanted to pull up a chair.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 12- 3-17 2:27 PM
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Which was beautiful, the chair, the taco, or Beto?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 3-17 2:43 PM
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Those Bernini sculptures sure are something in person. Pluto and Proserpine scared the daylights out of me.

My favorite Remedios Varo is this one, first sent to me a long time ago when I was living alone with a cat.

Wu Zhen's bamboo paintings.


Posted by: lourdes kayak | Link to this comment | 12- 3-17 3:41 PM
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This pass:

https://youtu.be/ZJPoyW1NF2k?t=49


Posted by: Ignatz | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 1:23 AM
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Lovely.

I am bound by national code to post:

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


Posted by: nattarGcM ttaM | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 1:43 AM
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re: 111

It's a cliche but every time I see it I think he's going to get tackled...


Posted by: Ignatz | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 3:46 AM
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113

No, no: this pass


Posted by: NW | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 5:57 AM
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109.last: Why does everybody Instragram their food?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 5:59 AM
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114 was me.


Posted by: Opinionated Panda | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 5:59 AM
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Possibly on topic: The moon last night was huge and spectacular. They should really do that more often.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 6:46 AM
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116: Yes. And early this morning it was nicely wreathed in the light fog. Ghostly galleon indeed.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 7:15 AM
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I almost never see the moon here. If it isn't cloud it's smog, if it isn't smog it's buildings.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 8:11 AM
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We had a rare clear day last week, from the bus I could see almost the whole mountain ring around the city, with clouds just sitting on the peaks, blue above. It would be great if it weren't for all the shit in the air.


Posted by: Mossy Character | Link to this comment | 12- 4-17 8:16 AM
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