Nicholas Roerich, The Treasure of the World—-Chintamani (1924)
I thought this was a robot at first, but it’s obviously a horse on fire.
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John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview Complete Audio Tapes
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Rolling Stone issues # 74 & 75
(21 Jan & 4 Feb, 1971)
John Lennon: The Rolling Stone Interview, Complete Audio Tapes
Interviewed by founding editor Jann S. Wenner
This interview took place in New York City on December 8th 1970, shortly after John and Yoko finished their ‘Plastic Ono Band’ albums in England.
They came to New York to attend to the details of the release of the album, to make some films, and for a private visit.
Pagan Baby, Let me make your name.
Drive it, baby, Drive your big love game.
Until recent human colonisation that introduced rodents and cats, the only mammals found on the islands of New Zealand were three species of bat, one of which recently has become extinct. Free from terrestrial mammalian competition and predatory threat, birds occupied or dominated all major niches in the New Zealand animal ecology because there were no threats to their eggs and chicks by small terrestrial animals. Moa were grazers, functionally similar to deer or cattle in other habitats, and Haast’s Eagles were the hunters who filled the same niche as top-niche mammalian predators, such as tigers or lions. (via Haast’s Eagle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Lou Rawls on Sesame Street = Gold.
"Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different…My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage…"
This last week I’ve been listening to a couple of albums from The Books. Sort of a difficult sound to describe, something akin to field recordings, cellos, sample heavy, folk, electric, wonderfullness. Just realized I listed to this track 12 times today. A man and a woman laughing and mumbling over each other, oddly worth listening to again and again.
