==================dali

Atmospheric Skull Sodomizing a Grand Piano, 1934.
Salvador Dali

" The obsession, accordingly to which the jaws are the most philosophic instruments that man possesses. The lyricism of the piano is brutally possessed by the jaws of a fossil skull. This vision is a retinian product, a hypnogogic image of pre-sleep, occurring in the course of a siesta, contrary to the images resulting from the effects of mescalin, which can never reproduce instantaneous memories."

Pet Shop Boys "Flambouyant" 2003

"You live in a world of excess
where more is more and less is much less
A day without fame is a waste
and a question of need is a question of taste

You're so flamboyant
the way you look
It gets you so much attention
Your sole employment
is getting more
You want police intervention
You're so flamboyant
the way you live
You really care that they stare
And the press deployment
is always there
It's what you do for enjoyment

You live in a time of decay
when the worth of a man
is how much he can play
Every day
all the public must know
where you are, what you do
'cause your life is a show and

You're so flamboyant
the way you live
and it's not even demeaning
You're so flamboyant
It's like a drug
you use to give your life meaning
You're so flamboyant
The way you look
It gets you so much attention
Your sole employment
Is getting more
You want police intervention

Every actor needs an audience
Every action is a performance
It all takes courage
You know it
Just crossing the street
well, it's almost heroic
You're so flamboyant...

There you are at another preview
In a pose the artist and you
To look so loud
may be considered tacky
Collectors wear black clothes by Issey Miyake

You're so flamboyant
the way you look
It gets you so much attention
Your sole employment
is getting more
You want police intervention
You're so flamboyant
The way you live
You really care that they stare
And the press deployment
is always there
It's what you do for enjoyment

You're so flamboyant
You're so flamboyant"

Fingerless Gloves: Ultimate Urban Accessory & Harpsichordist Requirement

From: Nicholas Bunning, Highly Esteemed Harpsichord Collector
Re: fingerless gloves and related topics:

".... Apparently a
>> VERY cool urban accessory in any case."

One can never go wrong with correct London accessories of the Victorian &
Edwardian periods.
Always smart and very practical.
Originally it was women at the thread-work and the pickpockets of the
streets that wore them, but the practicality
caused the whole of society to use them, in some form or another.

My cat Phyllis bites at them when I am close to her with them on my hands.

1925 Calendar=Kitchen Moderne

Europe & the Economic Crisis

Europe can solve the financial crisis it is dealing with much more easily due to:

1. Unlike U.S it is NOT fighting two wars (except U.K).
2. Also, unlike U.S, Europe does not consume 25% of world's energy.
3. European governments have taken many pro-active decisions and are acting on those.
4. People in Europe are more amenable to reason and not deeply divided on ideological lines as in U.S

June 1722= Ruckers 1643

Harpsichord by Andreas Ruckers, Antwerp, 1643.
Ex coll.: Sheridan Germann, Boston.
Margaret L. Sletwold Estate and Arne B. and Jeanne F. Larson Fund, 2000.
National Music Museum.

Pop Tarts in Holiday Packaging

Kellogg has announced that in packages of Pop Tarts the two-packaged foil inserts will be in a holiday style and printed so that thoughtful individuals will be able to sign the printed label and give the tarts as Christmas, or possibly Hanukkah, gifts.

Such a lavish gift will sure to please all this Holiday Season 2008.

"This Week" with George Stephanopoulos

David Brooks Round-table Discussion Member speaking of the Democratic Team coming to the White House in January 2009:

"....have them fund an "Hall of Fame for Tiddlywinks" and they'll Do It !"

1925 Calendar== Typing Man at his Desk

Trends in Depression Making 1929--1933

The Great Depression was not a sudden total collapse. The stock market turned upward in early 1930, returning to early 1929 levels by April, though still almost 30 percent below the peak of September 1929. Together, government and business actually spent more in the first half of 1930 than in the corresponding period of the previous year. But consumers, many of whom had suffered severe losses in the stock market the previous year, cut back their expenditures by ten percent, and a severe drought ravaged the agricultural heartland of the USA beginning in the northern summer of 1930.
In early 1930, credit was ample and available at low rates, but people were reluctant to add new debt by borrowing. By May 1930, auto sales had declined to below the levels of 1928. Prices in general began to decline, but wages held steady in 1930, then began to drop in 1931. Conditions were worst in farming areas, where commodity prices plunged, and in mining and logging areas, where unemployment was high and there were few other jobs. The decline in the American economy was the factor that pulled down most other countries at first, then internal weaknesses or strengths in each country made conditions worse or better. Frantic attempts to shore up the economies of individual nations through protectionist policies, such as the 1930 U.S. Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and retaliatory tariffs in other countries, exacerbated the collapse in global trade. By late in 1930, a steady decline set in which reached bottom by March 1933.

1925 Calendar=Women With Hats

The Evolving 'Blog-o-sphere'

From the Blog "Rough Type"
Nicholas Carr:

While there continue to be many blogs, including a lot of very good ones, it seems to me that one would be hard pressed to make the case that there's still a "blogosphere." That vast, free-wheeling, and surprisingly intimate forum where individual writers shared their observations, thoughts, and arguments outside the bounds of the traditional media is gone. Almost all of the popular blogs today are commercial ventures with teams of writers, aggressive ad-sales operations, bloated sites, and strategies of self-linking. Some are good, some are boring, but to argue that they're part of a "blog-o-sphere" that is distinguishable from the "mainstream media" seems more and more like an act of nostalgia, if not self-delusion. And that's why there's so much angst today among the blogging set. As The Economist observes in its new issue, "Blogging has entered the mainstream, which - as with every new medium in history - looks to its pioneers suspiciously like death."

Hendrix Experience=Mitch Mitchell is Dead

July 9th, 1947--November 12th, 2008

The Stranglers "Nuclear Device" 1979

May 1722=Haward Spinet

Spinet by Charles Haward, London, 1689.
Single manual, GG/BB-c3 with divided E-flat (4+ octaves).
Tony and Bonnie Vinatieri Family Trust, 2004.
Image from the Pressler Gallery. National Music Museum.

The Glass Armonica

Perception of the Glass Armonica sound:

The somewhat disorienting quality of the ethereal sound is due in part to the way that humans perceive and locate ranges of sounds. Above 4,000 Hertz we primarily use the volume of the sound to differentiate between each ear (left and right) and thus triangulate, or locate, the source. Below 1,000 Hertz we use the 'phase differences' of sound waves arriving at our ears to identify left and right for location. The predominant timbre of the armonica is in the range from 1,000-4,000 hertz, which coincides with the sound range where the brain is 'not quite sure' and thus we have difficulty locating it in space (where it comes from), and referencing the source of the sound (the materials and techniques used to produce it).

1925 Calendar=Bronze Telephone

1925 Calendar=Picnic With a Buick

April 1722=Clavecytherium

Clevecytherium from the Estate of
Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I

Martin Kaiser
Düsseldorf
End of the 17th century
Various coniferous and deciduous woods, including ebony;
tortoiseshell and ivory
8, 8, C1-c3
H 282 cm, W 103 cm, D 51.5 cm
SAM Inv. No. 37.
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

Chris Matthews November 15th 2008

Chris:
"Bush looks retired, and the Democrats are in the Driver's Seat--

Shouldn't they Drive?"

March 1722==1780 Calisto

Harpsichord by José Calisto, Portugal, 1780. Single manual, GG-g3 (5 octaves); 2 x 8'; buff. Ex coll.: Wolfgang Ruf, Emmetten, Switzerland. Rawlins fund, 1999. National Music Museum.

Magnetic Curtains

X O A I>U E W B Y N W I S @ ^ C && Z > this is not code--
it is just a bunch of
meaningless gobble-dee-gook....

Nothing more

nothing.........less...

February 1722--1798 Kirckman

Harpsichord by Joseph Kirckman, London, 1798. Double manual, FF-f3 (5 octaves); 2 x 8', 1 x 4', lute, buff. Six hand stops. Two pedals: machine stop, Venetian swell (louvers closed in image above). Rawlins Fund, 1983--National Music Museum.

January 1722 and a Roman Harpsichord

Roman Harpsichord, Attributed to Albana, c.1628--45
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, Museum Inv. No. 45.41

=Blue Heaven=

HAPPINESS !!!

"World" Five For Fighting

Live "Back Country" DVD 2007



"Got a package full of Wishes
A Time machine, a Magic Wand
A Globe made out of Gold

No Instructions or Commandments
Laws of Gravity or
Indecisions to uphold

Printed on the box I see
A.C.M.E.'s Build-a-World-to-be
Take a chance - Grab a piece
Help me to believe it

What kind of world do you want?
Think Anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now...

Should there be people or peoples
Money, Funny pedestals for Fools who never pay
Raise your Army - Choose your Steeple
Don't be shy, the satellites can look the other way

Lose the Earthquakes - Keep the Faults
Fill the oceans without the salt
Let every Man own his own Hand

What kind of world do you want
Think Anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now...

Sunlight's on the Bridge
Sunlight's on the Way
Tomorrow's Calling

There's more to this than Love

What Kind of world do you want
What Kind of world do you want

What Kind of world do you want
Think Anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece

History Starts Now

Be careful what you wish for
Start Now"

+I Love You ALL+

"Journey Through the Past" Neil Young, live in London 1971.
He was 26.

Re-Post of an August Post

THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 2008

August 28th, 1963

45 years to the day and our Democratic President Elect accepts the nomination for President of the United States. Mister Barack Obama now just may wear the tail-coat.

Next Week I will be writing about John McCain who wants to perpetuate a war in Iraq that needed to stop a few years ago.

Times Square, New York City, November 4th 2008

The NEW Happiness in America !

Not since December 31st 1999 has the face of America, and much of the World, ever been this Happy! We and all, hope to keep this momentum and positivity, we will need the Luck.

Bill Weir of ABC TV (Good Morning America) upon reflection with two black women in Times Square, New York City, when a display of the 43 previous Presidents were shown above and then the image of the next, the 44th, the First Black Man:
Weir: "You know twelve of those men owned slaves..."
Anonymous Black Woman with her Friend: "That stain is now washed."

"Hide and Seek" & " Die Roboter"