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Eu sei que vou te amar - Elis Regina

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Nicholas Meyer, on art and the communal experience

Watching movies at home, on a screen however large and a sound system however noisy, is simply not the same thing as seeing them in a theater. My dad used to say that watching movies on TV was like getting kissed over the telephone. What’s missing in seeing a film on television is a central component of what it means to be human—the assembly. Whether it’s at a church, at a play, or at the movies, the idea of losing your identity at a gathering of others—known or unknown to you—while sharing a common experience, a journey, an event, is uniquely human, and in my opinion we abandon such practices at our peril. Gatherings are important, and certainly better than going through life with ear buds. Never mind the theology or medium in question, concentrate on the part where you rub shoulders with strangers. Cities are places you walk or ride the subway, places where you look at people, they look at you; you don’t pass them on the freeway at seventy miles an hour. At the end of a performance of Beethoven’s Third, you and the audience have shared an adventure, at once individual and collective. The experience makes you a better person. Don’t ask me how or why, but it does. There isn’t any movie shown on television that wouldn’t be better in a movie theater. Art is fragile—it can be interrupted by crying kids, the telephone, the neighbors, what have you. Gatherings, whether for music, church, plays, films, or ballets, are experiences to which you must make a commitment and in making that commitment, in leaving your home to devote yourself to that communal experience, you reaffirm your humanity.

in Meyer, The View From the Bridge: Memories of Star Trek and a Life in Hollywood, (pg. 236)

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Plaza in China City, Los Angeles, California

No you did not tell me I owed you the money but I get it from your people.  Yes I get the checks back and your letter also the card you sent, it was fine. Love, Clara

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「biobiopatata」レコーディング記（2014/1/25-26）

Keep reading

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Nicolas Wills (top) and Jazael Olguín Zapata (bottom), We Were Not Born to Illustrate Books, 2013. Courtesy of Crater Invertido.

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These awesome drawings were inspired by legendary Tropicália musician Tom Zé. Known for his pioneering role in Brazil’s Tropicália movement—a surge of iconoclastic art, music and politics during the country’s military dictatorship of the 1960s— Zé remains a significant influence for artists and musicians around the world today. Though Tropicália ended as quickly as it began, Zé’s music—a polytonal amalgam of styles including Western rock and psychedelia as well as Bossa Nova and Bahian Samba—reemerged from São Paulo’s fringes in 1989, when David Byrne signed him to his Luaka Bop record label.

Mexico City-based art collective Crater Invertido present a mix of songs by the legendary Tropicália musician Tom Zé, as part of a new publication aimed at disseminating Zé’s music and ideas to a Spanish-speaking audience. Head over to Creative Time Reports to listen to the mix! 

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Fosselman’s Ice Cream | Alhambra, CA | December 2017

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FRIENDS AGAIN

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This is so beautiful, fuck

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光輪 / テニスコーツ

あぁもう　ぜんぶやめたいな ねぇ いっしょに帰ろう いっしょに帰ろう いっしょに帰ろう いっしょに帰ろう

最終電車にのれば もう もとに戻れない もとに戻れない もとに戻れない もとに戻れない

すごい汚い川も 夜は きらきらしてる きらきらしてる きらきらしてる きらきらしてる

ねぇ　このままずっと ねぇ 時間がきても 時間がきても 時間がきても 時間がきても

あぁもう　すべてはきっと なんの 価値もないんだよ 価値もないんだよ 価値もないんだよ 価値もないんだよ

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any advice for someone who isn't really that interesting?

you weren’t put on this earth to entertain people. live your life as a boring bitch to the fullest.

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TIFFANY YOUNG as RACHEL JEONG Uncle Samsik (2024)