Ain't No Cure For The Frida Kahlo Blues

Fig. 1. Frida Kahlo - My Nurse and I, 1937

'I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.'

Frida Kahlo

Your Ears Will Orgasm #14: Ain't No Cure For The Frida Kahlo Blues (MixPod Player)

1. Katia Guerreiro - Ser Tudo Ou Nada
2. Katia Guerreiro - Disse-te Adeus À Partida, O Mar Acaba Ao Teu Lado
3. Christina Branco - Um Fado, Palavres Minhas
4. Christina Branco - Fados das Sedes
5. Amalia Rodrigues - Triste Sina
6. Amalia Rodrigues - Fado Final

Une Semaine De Simplicité Avancée

Fig. 1. Michael Hutak - Dead Aphorism, 1991 - 2006

Fig. 2. Tracey Emin - It’s Not the Way I Want to Die, 2005

Fig. 3. Julius Popp - bit.fall, 2006

Fig. 4. Oliver van den Berg - Cameras, 2007

Fig. 5. Sophie Calle - Breast Cancer, 2008

Fig. 6. Anish Kapoor - Memory, 2008

Fig. 7. Diana Larrea - Electrocosmos 2, 2008

'Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.'

Antoine de Saint Exupéry

Addendum: Is this a case of irreverent one-upmanship or simply a humorous homage? Either way, it's amusing, and I thank Elise for having made and posted it (on the quiet).

If You Want To Change A Lightglobe, Ask A Cubist

Fig. 1. Pablo Picasso - Still Life With Biscuits, 1924


'Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.'

Pablo Picasso

The Girl With The Jadeite Teeth

Fig. 1. Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette in a publicity still for Rêve d'Égypte, 1907 (Moulin Rouge)


‘One aspect of Colette’s life is how modern it sounds to today’s reader. She ate sushi at the turn of the century, had a facelift in the 1920s, hired an acupuncturist, kept her wild hair permed all her life, rejected religion, flouted most of society’s rules – and ate with such relish and so little guilt that she ended up weighing 180 pounds. (Once, recovering from food poisoning, Colette soothed her stomach by downing a stuffed cabbage and a currant tart.) She announced that slimness was dangerously “masculinizing” women. She loved perfumes and sprayed each room with a different scent, attuned to its décor. She was one of the first serious writers to turn to the silent movies and devise scenarios that were neither novelistic nor theatrical but purely cinematic. She was obviously open to anything and everything; once when she had some painful dental work she asked, “Why can’t one simply have one’s teeth pulled and replace them with green jade?”’

Edmund White (The Flâneur)

Addendum: Dogs Are Human, Cats Are Gods*

Fig. 2. Full-length studio portrait of Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, c. 1885

'On this narrow planet, we have only the choice between two unknown worlds. One of them tempts us - ah! what a dream, to live in that! - the other stifles us at the first breath.' (S-GC)

Fig. 3. Réunion de famille au chalet des Sapins (Colette au premier plan à gauche)

'I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.' (S-GC)

Fig. 4. Walter Limot - The Hand of Colette, 1934

'The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.' (S-GC)

Fig. 5. Ammi Phillips - Girl in Red Dress with Cat and Dog, 1830-1835

'Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.' (S-GC)

Fig. 6. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

'You must not pity me because my sixtieth year finds me still astonished. To be astonished is one of the surest ways of not growing old too quickly.' (S-GC)

Fig. 7. Colette receives the Gold Medal of Paris from René Moatti, 1953

'What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.' (S-GC)

* 'Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God.' (S-GC)

The Brotherhood Of Men And Cabbages

Fig. 1. René Magritte - Les merveilles de la nature, 1953


'In the goodness of things, the sea-shell is related to the stone.'

Jules Renard

The Sunday Six: Part Two (Relatively Eclectic)

Fig. 1. Ivan Moudov - Fragments, 2003 - 2004

Fig. 2. Raymond Pettibon - No title (I've often lamented), 2004

Fig. 3. Bill Viola - Without A Shore (still), 2007

Fig. 4. Johanna Calle - Tejido Foliar (detail), 2008

Fig. 5. Phillip Adams (choreographer) - Axeman's Lullaby, 2008 (photo by Jeff Busby)

Fig. 6. Peter Fischli & David Weiss - Parts of a Film with Rat and a Bear, 2008.

'Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought.'

Henri Bergson

A Book Is A Portable Treasury Of Paper Tongues

Fig. 1. Exhibition Preview Card, 2008 (Arnolfini)

'Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.'

Samuel Johnson

Your Ears Will Orgasm #13: These Pleasant Machines (MixPod Player)

1. Little Richard - Rip It Up
2. Nina Simone - Feeling Good
3. Blondie - Rapture
4. David Byrne & Brian Eno - I Feel My Stuff
5. Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine
6. Goldfrapp - Happiness