Now I am almost as wary of books as I am of people. They are also capable of hurting you, pushing you into the limbo of the forgotten ... When there are so many all saying the same thing they can shout you down and make you doubt, not only your memory, but your senses.

The Cake - P.T. 280 [US, Baroque/Pop] (1968) – influential all-girl group from NYC https://redd.it/9fixzz https://youtu.be/UXXOyjYei8o

Peter Watkins, 1935-2025 The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90 www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

🇨🇦NINETY-NINE NOVELS: NEW EPISODE🇨🇦 We're off to Canada by way of the Swinging London of the 1960s in this week's episode as we learn about COCKSURE by MORDECAI RICHLER with our guest novelist and critic Norman Ravvin. At all podcast apps and here: www.anthonyburgess.org/podcasts/nin...

Joseph Cornell Medici Slot Machine, 1942

Loved meeting Terence Stamp, hearing about his world youtube.com/watch?v=ViJ3...

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1638 - 1639.

Albert Camus on the will to live and the most important question of existence www.themarginalian.org/2016/11/07/c...

Susan - I Only Come Out At Night [Japan, Synthpop, New Wave, Electronic] (1981), written by YMO's Yukihiro Takahashi https://redd.it/1m7hho3 https://youtu.be/xk_kXxiQbCg

Flowers of Summer (1966) by John Bratby

Windows (Facade of a House), 1914 https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25687

The Siesta by Walter Sickert

Photograph by David Dawson

Hidemi Ishikawa - Love Comes Quickly [Japan, italo, cover, electronic] (1986) Cover of the Pet Shop Boy's classic https://redd.it/isyt9d https://youtu.be/8PBjlAVKsTQ

Glen Campbell's self-deprecating "Guess I'm Dumb" -- written by, and also given an incredible production, by Brian Wilson when it was rejected by his band -- was released 60 years ago on June 7, 1965. Campbell had been a session player on Beach Boys recordings and in the touring version of the band.