John, late afternoons

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 A Rainy Day In New York, Paul Cornoyer (ca. 1905)

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Idyllle (Idyll) by Francis Picabia (1927)

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The Annual Glasgow Art Club Picnic At Blairquhan by Norman Edgar

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Rene Magritte | The Empire Of Lights (1954)

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Clive McCartney - The Grand Cafe, Oxford (2020)

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A Young Man Reading by Albert Ranney Chewett

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Pina Bausch, "Barbe Bleue", 1977

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Merry-go-round by Moon Hyeongtae (2019)

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Highgate Cemetary by Noel Cousins (1963)

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We don't need any more warmongering. We need exhaustive peace talks and deals. We need to bring our greatest diplomatic minds together to solve this. We are not doing enough.

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The Girl Runs On The Meadow by Marina Kalabukhova

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It would be advisable to think of progress in the crudest, most basic terms: that no one should go hungry anymore, that there should be no more torture, no more Auschwitz. Only then will the idea of progress be free from lies.

Theodor Adorno

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I had the pleasure of seeing the late Mark Lanegan just once, with the Screaming Trees, at the Roseland Ballroom in NYC in 1992. Alice In Chains and Gruntruck were also on the bill. The lead singers of all 3 bands are now deceased.

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Window to the Pastoral Life, Montauk, 1971 by Hideoki Hagiwara

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Claude Cahun - Aveux non Avenus, 1930

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A few of my favorite albums are somewhat front-loaded, Wild Life by Paul McCartney and Wings is quite the opposite of that. The first three tracks are execrable, but what follows are a series of gems that have largely gone unsung. Here's one...