Monday, December 30, 2013
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
"Top Secret" Eggnog
Charles Mingus’ “Top Secret” Eggnog
* Separate one egg for one person. Each person gets an egg.
* Two sugars for each egg, each person.
* One shot of rum, one shot of brandy per person.
* Put all the yolks into one big pan, with some milk.
* That’s where the 151 proof rum goes. Put it in gradually or it’ll burn the eggs,
* OK. The whites are separate and the cream is separate.
* In another pot- depending on how many people- put in one shot of each, rum and brandy. (This is after you whip your whites and your cream.)
* Pour it over the top of the milk and yolks.
* One teaspoon of sugar. Brandy and rum.
* Actually you mix it all together.
* Yes, a lot of nutmeg. Fresh nutmeg. And stir it up.
* You don’t need ice cream unless you’ve got people coming and you need to keep it cold. Vanilla ice cream. You can use eggnog. I use vanilla ice cream.
* Right, taste for flavor. Bourbon? I use Jamaica Rum in there. Jamaican Rums. Or I’ll put rye in it. Scotch. It depends.
See, it depends on how drunk I get while I’m tasting it.
source
* Separate one egg for one person. Each person gets an egg.
* Two sugars for each egg, each person.
* One shot of rum, one shot of brandy per person.
* Put all the yolks into one big pan, with some milk.
* That’s where the 151 proof rum goes. Put it in gradually or it’ll burn the eggs,
* OK. The whites are separate and the cream is separate.
* In another pot- depending on how many people- put in one shot of each, rum and brandy. (This is after you whip your whites and your cream.)
* Pour it over the top of the milk and yolks.
* One teaspoon of sugar. Brandy and rum.
* Actually you mix it all together.
* Yes, a lot of nutmeg. Fresh nutmeg. And stir it up.
* You don’t need ice cream unless you’ve got people coming and you need to keep it cold. Vanilla ice cream. You can use eggnog. I use vanilla ice cream.
* Right, taste for flavor. Bourbon? I use Jamaica Rum in there. Jamaican Rums. Or I’ll put rye in it. Scotch. It depends.
See, it depends on how drunk I get while I’m tasting it.
source
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Friday, December 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Monday, December 16, 2013
Sunday, December 15, 2013
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Thursday, December 12, 2013
Violence of Photography
“Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.”
"Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood. To photograph is to appropriate the thing photographed. It means putting oneself into a certain relation to the world that feels like knowledge — and, therefore, like power."
"Images which idealize (like most fashion and animal photography) are no less aggressive than work which makes a virtue of plainness (like class pictures, still lifes of the bleaker sort, and mug shots). There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera."
"It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power."
"Like a car, a camera is sold as a predatory weapon — one that’s as automated as possible, ready to spring. Popular taste expects an easy, an invisible technology. Manufacturers reassure their customers that taking pictures demands no skill or expert knowledge, that the machine is all-knowing, and responds to the slightest pressure of the will. It’s as simple as turning the ignition key or pulling the trigger. Like guns and cars, cameras are fantasy-machines whose use is addictive."
"Photographs … help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. Thus, photography develops in tandem with one of the most characteristic of modern activities: tourism. For the first time in history, large numbers of people regularly travel out of their habitual environments for short periods of time. It seems positively unnatural to travel for pleasure without taking a camera along. Photographs will offer indisputable evidence that the trip was made, that the program was carried out, that fun was had.
[…]
A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it — by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir."
"Needing to have reality confirmed and experience enhanced by photographs is an aesthetic consumerism to which everyone is now addicted.
[...]
It would not be wrong to speak of people having a compulsion to photograph: to turn experience itself into a way of seeing. Ultimately, having an experience becomes identical with taking a photograph of it, and participating in a public event comes more and more to be equivalent to looking at it in photographed form. That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph."
All quotes by Susan Sontag
taken from an article by Brain Pickings
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Uruguay
Pieczenik discusses the background of Jose Mujica, current president of Uruguay, and his past as an oppositional force to a past government and the farce of labelling a group "terrorist" making analogies of how the "founding fathers" of the U.S. were also labeled "terrorists". This was also the case for Koreans fighting for independence from Japanese imperialism/occupation.
*interestingly around the 13:00 mark, he discusses how the marine corp has used anthropologists to better understand local cultures and reduce extremist violence. If true, it is a definite testament to the importance of anthropologists on the global stage.
Read more from the BBC: here
Brand v. Paxman
Source
More here at Dangerous Minds
and his essay: 'We No Longer Have the Luxury of Tradition' @ the New Staesman
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Jonas Mekas: As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
I have never been able, really, to figure out where my life begins and where it ends. I have never, never been able to figure it all out, what it's all about, what it all means. So when I began now to put all these rolls of film together, to string them together, the first idea was to keep them chronological. But then I gave up and I just began splicing them together by chance the way that I found them on the shelf.
Because I really don't know where any piece of my life really belongs, so let it be. Let it go. Just by pure chance, disorder.
There is some current, some kind of order in it, order of its own, which I do not really understand same as I never understood life around me.
The real life, as they say. Or the real people. I never understood them. I still do not understand them. And I do not really want to understand them.Source
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Thursday, December 5, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The Count of Monte Cristo
After watching this again (for the first time in a long time), I remembered why I don't like it. Read the book. They changed too much in this movie.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
Ask yourself
ask yourself what makes you come alive
and then go do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive"
-Howard Thurman
source
Monday, December 2, 2013
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