In Hiding

Shame, art, and hope in 2018 for my particular age group.

https://www.thecut.com/2018/11/im-broke-and-friendless-and-ive-wasted-my-whole-life.html?fbclid=IwAR3Eo3rjhV1lwgouxRrOokyYCcu4HdwWRL1KSp-rZ6-0eUvZg9HFt0I1NS8

A Star Is Born (Again)

A Star Is Born

Smoke Break (Mayor & Bozo)

Circumcision (Pollock, 1946)

Exodus (Wojciech Kilar, 1981)

Mara/Phoenix

Roger Ebert (on Tree Of Life)

Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life's experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer "to" anyone or anything, but prayer "about" everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.

Boat Landing, Dinnard (Maurice Prendergast, 1914)

NYC Underground 80s

Lady Bird by Jason Polan

Inspired by Malika Favre

Inspired by Takashi Murakami

PTA's Phantom Thread Pre-Show Playlist (70mm Screenings)

1. “Blue Sands” – The Chico Hamilton Quintet
2. “Portrait of My Love” – Cyril Ornadel & Starlight Symphony
3. “You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon
4. “Dolly Suite, Op. 56: I. Berceuse” – Gabriel Fauré, Katia Labèque
5. “I’ll Always Be in Love with You” – Helen Forrest
6. “I’m Making Believe” – Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots
7. “Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” – Roberta Flack
8. “Nobody Does It Better” – Carly Simon
9. “Impression of a Princess” – Danish State Radio Orchestra & Robert Farnon
10. “My Ship” – Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
11. “Razor Love” – Neil Young
12. “Suspicions” – Bernard Herrmann
13. “Thirteen (Alternate Mix)” – Big Star
14. “Coming Around Again” – Carly Simon
15. “Portrait of Jenny” – Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
16. “Two Blind Loves” – Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra, Kitty Kallen
17. “I’m On Fire” – Bruce Springsteen
18. “Three Little Words” – Jack Teagarden and his Orchestra
19. “Stay (feat. Mikky Ekko)” – Rihanna
20. “Lord of the Manor” – The Everly Brothers
21. “Come Sunday” – Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle
22. “XO” – Beyoncé
23. “Farewell (from the film The Constant Nymph)” – Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Altman in 2018/1975

I think Altman is, like F. Scott Fitzgerald, one of the great poets of failure. His real attraction is to that secret underside of the American dream: humiliation, embarrassment, loss of status, and the abiding anxiety the fear of these produces. 
-- Molly Haskell on NASHVILLE

David Hockney at Home

Three Musicians (Pablo Picasso)

USA Today Baseball Weekly

Cat Watching a Spider by Ôide Tôkô (Japanese, 1841–1905) (album leaf; ink and colour on silk)