To get into the 9/11 Memorial Museum, you have to pass through a world-class security arrangement—a conveyor belt for shoes, belt buckles, cell phones; a three-second hands-above-your-head body scan—overseen by a notably grim private-security corps. “Stand...
Tiny in size but large in spirit and wit, Blossom Dearie’s voice was one of the eccentric pleasures of the cabaret scene in the seventies and eighties – though some of her best recordings date back still earlier – and now here all her essential records...
La confrontation entre l'assurance qui caractérise la promesse et l'incertitude effective du futur nous conduit dans un premier temps à voir dans la promesse une sous-estimation de la complexité des choses, une surestimation de sa propre force et sans...
“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” “And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal; you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together...
“I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music....
“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.” “It's funny how you can't ask difficult questions in a familiar place, how you have to stand back a few feet and see things in a new...