David M Rubin
Stories, poems, essays, photos. Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Akerman, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dead, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, H.D., Jameses, +. Love the bits of discourse. www.six18sfoundry.com
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- Donna Usher painting hanging in Kimmel Center Philly
- George Eliot on whether you will fall stupid in love: Pros: *native dullness *addiction to low prose Cons: *viewed eyes in a dish *inspected macerated muscle *been involved in other incidents of scientific inquiry
- Just delay communication of adverse resolve until it’s too late (Middlemarch Mr. Vincy)
- Trappings of woe in Middlemarch means what you wear to a funeral
- Frozen canal
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- Who thought Black Throated Wind Bob Weir was saying launching like scones from a slingshot on Mars?
- Reposted by David M RubinNational Gallery of art in Washington acquires a key Mary Magdalene by Artemisia Gentileschi (until recently on long-term loan to the Palazzo Ducale in Venice)
- Me & Loki sure miss napping with Dexter the Snow Dog
- Reposted by David M RubinA finely embroidered silk kimono once worn by Kanehime, the wife of Tokugawa Yoshikatsu. Tokugawa Yoshikatsu was a daimyo that early in the Meiji era from the late Edo period in Japan. About 1820’s, Japan.
- My attempt to shoot an Opeth video failed as Parks & Rec didn’t clear the ice for my path & you do need 2 free hands to walk on ice.
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- Morandi shooting an Oban ad
- Well, I’ll be damned, here comes your ghost again Diamonds and Rust. Joan Baez (he who said her poetry was lousy could f right off) #poetrysunday -4
- Team 20 got my vote
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- Reposted by David M RubinCoptic Textile Fragment late 3rd–5th century, The Met
- A Woman is a Woman 1961 Godard. Karina, Belmondo, Brialy. Silly almost insufferable but Karina & enough heart & cool ideas & effects to make one hang in
- After further review the shot is ruled a legitimate homage with a smiling Jeanne Moreau cameo
- Appalling faux pas by Belmondo in Godard’s A Woman is a Woman
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- Bhagavad Gita tr Mitchell. #poetrysunday -5
- I still don’t know what to make of Fitzcarraldo. Not inclined to give Herzog the benefit of the doubt on this one but plenty of non-didactic mystery to work out
- Post poetry Sunday & w your TV set to off. Shall shift massive market share #poetrysunday The Right Thing. Roethke
- “In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole.” A sentence buried in page 286 of Middlemarch, George Eliot. Wonderfully phrased & true enough Yogi Berra math but so oddly placed
- Reposted by David M RubinTimeline Cleanser: Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra, Leader of the Walk for Peace Monks and Aloka, the rescued Indian Pariah dog. Śānti (शान्ति) 🪷🫶
- Reposted by David M RubinDay 100. Near Richmond City Hall, thousands fell into step with venerable monks walking for peace. Footsteps became prayer. Silence became resolve. Onward to Washington, DC, they carry calm like a flame against the dark. If peace had a face, it walked today.
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- Reposted by David M RubinPairing the patterns in a close-up of a stone found on the shore, and the trees in the mist over the lake, mid-winter. #pairing
- We’re losing time and we’re not getting anywhere.
- Ivar the Boneless pulls his ships over a mountain to launch surprise attack on Kattegat
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- Judas Priest has been doing Joan Baez’s Diamonds & Rust since 1977. (If only they could edit out the Maiden Run to the Hills giddyap bassline. Though really wouldn’t help as it’s a total mess… but so what go sue them (& DnD)). Unleashed in the East
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- Legend has it that Kinoshita gave Tanaka a tennis racket & asked her to just look pretty. Resulting shot:
- Note to Bunuel: if you show a tennis racket the actor must hit a ball
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- Bob Weir w My Morning Jacket. Ouch but wow outstanding youtu.be/wBbY7Q2lehQ?...
- Reposted by David M RubinJe découvre l'architecte Freddy Mamani et je suis fan. Apparemment ça s'appelle le mouvement néo-andean et c'est trop beau.
- Our world with so much suffering and cruelty still has a Peace Dog
- Heimdall absolutely prohibits bike riding on the Bifrost
- Peter & the Wolf oddity
- Yannick & first trumpet Vaughen wearing what look like Ice Out buttons today at PSO! (Apologies if I’m wrong) Our orchestra is a gorgeous melting pot, full of love, intelligence & passion
- Yannick & Philly Symphony Orchestra rocks Ravel, Shostakovich, & Stravinsky. Cho on piano & Vaughen on trumpet. Shosti rasslin in to my top 3
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- When the competition is densely ignorant of humoral pathology. Middlemarch. Eliot’s narration omniscient & credited, mixed, or neither. An American pluralism(!) & she sure seems to enjoy owning these views along with her characters
