RIP

João Gilberto & Stan Getz

Philippe Halsman, The Versatile Jean Cocteau, 1949

Charles Mingus, A Colloquial Dream

J Mascis, Fade Into You

This album cover!

Thelonious Monk, Ugly Beauty

Raymond Depardon, Glasgow, 1980

Recorded in July 1946 and Parker was so drunk he had to be kept upright by the producer. This version was released against his wishes.

Charlie Parker, Lover Man

Jean Delville, The Mothers, 1919

Modern Jazz Quartet, Django

Bobby Vinton, Mr Lonely

Maurice de Vlaminck, The Sea, 1908

Abner Jay, St. James Infirmary Blues

Bruce Springsteen, The Wayfarer

Wifredo Lam, Zambezia, Zambezia, 1950

Flies on Shit by Frank Stanford

To the gentlemen from the south   
to the tourists from the north
who write poems about the south   
to the dumb-ass students
I’d like to ask one lousy question
have you ever seen a regatta of flies
sail around a pile of shit
and then come back and picnic on the shit
just once in your life have you heard
flies on shit
because I cut my eye teeth on flies
floating in shit

Pablo Picasso, Las Meninas, 1957

Bob Dylan, Love Sick

I'm walking,
Through streets that are dead
Walking,
Walking with you in my head
My feet are so tired
My brain is so wired
And the clouds are weeping
Did I,
Hear someone tell a lie
Did I,
Hear someone's distant cry
I spoke like a child
You destroyed me with a smile
While I was sleeping
I'm sick of love
That I'm in the thick of it
This kind of love
I'm so sick of it
I see,
I see lovers in the meadow
I see,
I see silhouettes in the window
I watch them 'til they're gone
And they leave me hangin' on
To a shadow
I'm sick of love
I hear the clock tick
This kind of love
I'm lovesick
Sometimes
The silence can be like thunder
Sometimes
I want to take to the road of plunder
Could you ever be true?
I think of you and I wonder
I'm sick of love
I wish I'd never met you
I'm sick of love
I'm tryin' to forget you
Just don't know what to do
I'd give anything to be with you

Julio Romero De Torres, María Teresa de las Mercedes Wilms Montt, 1920

"I am a cage in search of a bird." ~ Franz Kafka

"I am free and that is why I am lost." ~ Franz Kafka

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. " ~ Franz Kafka

Ratso, I Want Everything (feat. Yasmine Hamdan)