In the “Crows” segment Akira Kurosawa’s 1990 film Dreams, Akira Terao portrays an art student. The student views the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh one minute, and the next he steps inside the canvas, into the worlds Van Gogh rendered. He finds the artist, played by Martin Scorsese, and learns from him his extreme dedication to his work: That he’s forever chasing the sun, that he drives himself “like a locomotive,” and that he had a problem with getting his left ear just so for his Self-Portrait, so he did what any reasonable person would do Continue reading Aaron Dail Interview w Fanny Curtat, June 21, re “Beyond Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience,”→
Cartoon: Teacher Leave Those Kids Alone, Ed Newman
Link: Noble Lies Are No Excuse for Ignoble Acts — Kathleen McCarthy marks the second anniversary of the January 6 debacle in Washington DC as an occasion in which Congressional committees have once again drawn and disseminated the wrong conclusions; observes the farcical House District 81 ballot-recount in Scott County; suggests the hand-counting of ballots may be worth the carpal-tunnel strain (if only to remove the suspicion of machine irregularities affecting electoral outcomes); and decries the ongoing degradation of the democratic dogmas — state and federal, personal and political — as a resistable phenomenon rather than the inevitable outcome of the Second Law of Thermodynamics.
Link: Petitioning for Redress of the Bamboozle— Todd McGreevy notes that January 6, 2021, was an historic moment, insofar as mass movements to petition the federal government for a redress of grievances have rarely been pitched in such numbers, and the one-tenth of the one-percent of potential bad actors on the scene that day shouldn’t have been the lede-line. (FYI: Did you know that, of the rights granted us in the Bill of Rights, the right to petition for a redress of grievances has never been adjudicated before the high courts?)
Link: Whiteside County Sheriff John F Booker’s Office Dispatch, January 11 — Sheriff Booker declares that he’s chosen to follow the Constitution rather than his state government’s recently-passed Protect Illinois Communities Act, which contravenes our Second-Amendment rights, and will therefore refuse to enforce PICA.
Loren Thacher speaks with the New York native blues-rock musician Joe Bonamassa about his craft and his tools as well as his spot on an upcoming fall US tour as “the weak link” — and if that’s the case, then that is one powerful chain. Bonamassa will play Davenport’s Adler Theatre on November 9.
Reader publisher Todd McGreevy talks about the importance of print news now, more than ever, as well as the cultural importance of the local small press, in this interview with Aaron Dali, GM at WQUD FM 107.7, to commemorate the Reader’s 1,000-issue milestone.
“If we don’t have press freedom, if we don’t have the freedom to whistleblow on the powers that be, on the people that are supposedly protecting our rights, like [Julian Assange] did, then it’s going to be a dark day if he goes down,” says Reader publisher Todd McGreevy in this interview with Aaron Dali, GM at WQUD FM 107.7.
“Show some courage, don’t just go with the herd every time on everything because you are afraid the herd is going to push you out if you do,” says Aaron Dali, GM at WQUD FM 107.7 in this interview with Reader publisher Todd McGreevy.
