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Archive for April 29th, 2009

Neither Out Far, Nor In Deep

by on Apr.29, 2009, under poetry

The people along the sand
All turn and look one way.
They turn their back on the land.
They look at the sea all day.

As long as it takes to pass
A ship keeps raising its hull;
The wetter ground like glass
Reflects a standing gull.

The land may vary more;
But wherever the truth may be—
The water comes ashore,
And the people look at the sea.

They cannot look out far.
They cannot look in deep.
But when was that ever a bar
To any watch they keep?

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

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NAFTA Swineflu

by on Apr.29, 2009, under economics, politics

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The “NAFTA Flu”: Critics Say Swine Flu Has Roots in Forcing Poor Countries to Accept Western Agribusiness

As the US reports its first known death from the global swine flu, the World Health Organization has raised its pandemic threat level. Several countries around the world have banned the import of US and Mexican pork products. We speak to professor and author Robert Wallace, who says the swine flu is partly the outcome of neoliberal policies that forced poorer countries to open their markets to poorly regulated Western agribusiness giants. [includes rush transcript]
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Miles Davis: So What x 2

by on Apr.29, 2009, under music


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So What..(1) (c. 1959)


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So What (2) (1964)

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Matisse: The Music Lesson

by on Apr.29, 2009, under art

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Art should be something like a good armchair in which to rest from physical fatigue. (Henri Matisse)

It’s been a hard day, the economy is in trouble and the future is, as ever, uncertain. So welcome M. Matisse, ready to offer you a glimpse of beauty – albeit a domestic, intimate kind of beauty. Here is a view of the bourgeois family at home.  A music lesson – and the piece is by Haydn.

Matisse has something in common with Joseph Haydn.  Both made remarks to the effect that they viewed their art as a way of bringing refreshment and renewal to the ordinary person (or ordinary bourgeois, in Matisse’s case). Pleasure to the people: one can’t think of  a less “romantic’ attitude – imagine Wagner saying anything like it. But these artists come from the epochs preceding and following what the books call the romantic period, and both often aim to please (although they can do a lot more than that).

So sit back and relax….


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