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Everyone needs a refuge from the world.
Jacques: I don't really feel like eating an animal tonight. Can't you prepare something without a face? Like an octopus or something?
Jacques: Women can seem cute and charming on the surface, but underneath they're the same universal bitch.
Jacques: [watching April while instructing Lucas in the art of bar-tendering] You should be taking notes here, Lucas. You need to be more of a bitch yourself, you're too nice. You see, we're not here to save people, we're here to destroy them.
Psychiatrist: Why did you try suicide?::Lucas: Well, you know, when it comes to survival of the fittest, I just have to throw in the towel, I guess.::Psychiatrist: But you're not an animal, Lucas, you're a human being. You live in highly developed society that has all kinds of buffers and security nets that are designed to break your fall.::Lucas: No, I don't follow the rules of civilization anymore. I'm outside. I'm an animal.
Jacques: The closest I've come to sexual activity is brushing my teeth.
Lucas: Never remove an empty glass. It is the customer's history, a track record of his state of mind, an important documentation which should not be fixed nor falsified.
Jacques: You're doin' all right, Lucas, but you still got a lot to learn. We gotta work on your attitude. I mean, you're not a natural when it comes to hostility and arrogance but, given time, it'll come.
Doctor Lipinski: So, how are you feeling these days?::Jacques: Doubt. Fear. Pain. Anxiety. Distraction. Nervousness. Horror, fright, panic, dread, terror. Trepidation. I feel like a goddamn thesaurus.
Doctor Lipinski: There's a reason we call you a patient, you know, and that's because you have to be patient.
Jacques: This is a bar, and by definition the capacity of a bar cannot exceed 13 people. Think Jesus and his apostles.
Actors Naeem Uzimann (actor), Nicolas Bro (actor), Sigurjon Sighvatsson (producer), Bo Ehrhardt (producer), Jonathan Gray (miscellaneous crew), Nicole Compas (miscellaneous crew), Isild Le Besco (actress), Larry Pine (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Patrick Sobelman (producer), Peter Nadermann (producer), Paul Dano (actor), Damian Young (actor), Michael K. Reynolds (miscellaneous crew), Gene Michael Smith (miscellaneous crew),
Actors Ken'yû Horiuchi (actor), Ichirô Nagai (actor), Chikao Ohtsuka (actor), Kaneto Shiozawa (actor), Osamu Tezuka (writer), Osamu Tezuka (producer), Yuji Ono (composer), Kôsei Tomita (actor), Minori Matsushima (actress), Junpei Takiguchi (actor), Mari Okamoto (actress), Kumiko Takizawa (actress), Takayuki Matsutani (producer), Ryôko Kinomiya (actress), Tôru Horikoshi (producer),
Jonathan Jones. As a tourist attraction, the NG sells itself, but as home visitor numbers dwindle its new director’s biggest challenge is to spark a debate with the British public. ‘It’s an easy sell. a free museum boasting masterpieces’ … Van Gogh’s Sunflowers at the National Gallery ... The National Gallery needs to prove the emotional, visceral relevance of Renaissance, baroque or rococo artists to people living their lives today ... ....
The Guardian 2015-03-18Daniel Johns, Matthew Weiner and Morrissey headline a male-dominated program for Sydney’s annual winter festival of light, music and lectures. Universal Everything will light the sails of the Sydney Opera House. Photograph. supplied ... Last year’s popular illuminated bunnies at Dawes Point will be superseded by Entitle, an oversized rococo pig with a belly full of light, while a neon installation will brighten up Martin Place ... comments ... ....
The Guardian 2015-03-18LENNIE BENNETTTampa Bay Times. Wednesday, March 18, 2015 11.49am. TAMPA Related News/Archive. Most of what can be said of Norman Rockwell as an artist we have heard ... I realized two things then that I still believe ... "American Chronicles ... But how much truth is there in a 17th century Rococo painting by Fragonard of always young and gorgeous aristocrats? We know that Rockwell was a commercial artist who painted for paid commissions ... ....
Tampabay.com 2015-03-18The finest eggs and bunnies tasted and rated for Observer Food Monthly. Hélène Darroz at the Connaught Hotel, London. Photograph. Joseph Ford for Observer Food Monthly. Hélène Darroze. Monday 16 March 2015 11.00 GMT. Small, filled eggs. Ocado. Montezuma’s Milk Chocolate Mini Eggs with Salted Peanut Butter. 150g, £5.49, ocado.com. The salt is a good balance with the sweet chocolate. ★★★★. Rococo. Salted Caramel Superior Seagull Eggs ... ★★★ ... ★★★....
The Guardian 2015-03-16Most people would recognize actor Stephen Tobolowsky. He's played everything from the head of the Ku Klux Klan to a holistic healer. He's made more than 200 movies and as many TV shows, but few people know his name ... It was like magical ... E! may find itself crowned for its very first original series, "The Royals," which airs Sunday nights and tempts us to peer behind those rococo wrought-iron gates to see what really goes on ... ... ....
The Charlotte Observer 2015-03-16By Oliver Berry. 12.40PM GMT 16 Mar 2015. Comments. Autumn is a special time of year in the Lake District. The fells and and forests blaze with colour, the summer crowds have left for home, and the weather provides plenty of atmosphere – from misty mornings to crisp, blue-sky days ... Read more ... I particularly like Robin Goodfellow, with its A-frame beams and oak bed, and Willy Goodwaller, with free-standing tub and rococo furniture ... ....
The Daily Telegraph 2015-03-16Eighteenth century subversion meets Larry David lunacy in “Figaro” at A Noise Within ... 8 ... (Robert Cahen) ... Above ... Director Michael Michetti’s innate sense of creative anachronism, which went slightly askew with “The Importance of Being Earnest” earlier in the season, here neatly dovetails with Morey’s witty, rococo text, which makes the political irreverence and farcical character business crackle ... 0 ... ....
The Los Angeles Times 2015-03-13A BBC Breakfast interview with ninety-five-year-old Dresden firebombing survivor Victor Gregg aired last month in the UK on the 70th anniversary of the attacks ... But, no, no ... With its medieval town center and its magnificent rococo architect that made abundant use of wood, Allied command knew that the small city would burn quickly, that it would become a “furnace” as Gregg put it in his account of the Dresden atrocities ... S....
CounterPunch 2015-03-13A metal vendor sits in his shop in Old Dhaka, the historic core of Bangadesh’s capital city. Photograph ... Tansy Hoskins ... Convincing the local police of the danger, Islam secured a 24-hour police guard for the 200-year-old French rococo building, to protect it until the government offices reopened ... Baro Bari, with its rococo pillars and ornate balconies, stands in a graceful dignity marred by the imminent danger of a lethal collapse ... ....
The Guardian 2015-03-11Amy Liebster for Architectural Digest. (photo. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation). On March 2, 1965--50 years ago today--the film adaptation of The Sound of Music premiered in New York City ... Five decades later, it continues to bring inspiration and joy to audiences ... (photo. Tourismus Salzburg GMBH) ... Named Schloss Leopoldskron, this large rococo estate overlooking the pond Leopoldskroner Weiher is never actually glimpsed in the film....
Huffington Post 2015-03-10Race on canvas ... “I know how young black men are seen,” he said. “They’re boys, scared little boys oftentimes. I was one of them ... He is known for vibrant, photo-based portraits of young black men (and occasionally women) who are the opposite of scared — they gaze out at us coolly, their images mashed up with rococo-style frills and empowering poses culled from art history ... Gaining ground ... His posture is regal ... ....
Deccan Herald 2015-03-07From yuppies to Harvey Milk via Jack London, here is your essential reading list for San Francisco travels – real or imaginary ... Photograph. Neale Clarke/Corbis. Marta Bausells. @martabausells ... 1 ... With a new green ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... In the words of Dave Eggers, “the architecture of residential San Francisco is about detail, wilful eccentricity, an almost rococo approach to line, and a steadfast devotion to art for its own sake, beauty as its own reward....
The Guardian 2015-03-07The Baroque period began in the early 1600's in Rome ... It lasted until about 1725. The Rococo period would come onto the scene during the late Baroque period ... In this documentary British Art critic Waldemar Januszczak takes us on a journey throughout Europe tracing the history of the Baroque and Rococo periods of art ... From there you will be in France and later on to England for Rococo at its very best ... ....
The Examiner 2015-03-06Rococo (/rəˈkoʊkoʊ/ or /roʊkəˈkoʊ/), less commonly roccoco, also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre. The Rococo developed in the early part of the 18th century in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially that of the Palace of Versailles. In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture. Rococo art and architecture in such a way was ornate and made strong usage of creamy, pastel-like colours, asymmetrical designs, curves and gold. Unlike the more politically focused Baroque, the Rococo had more playful and often witty artistic themes. With regards to interior decoration, Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings. The Rococo additionally played an important role in theatre. In the book The Rococo, it is written that there was no other culture which "has produced a wittier, more elegant, and teasing dialogue full of elusive and camouflaging language and gestures, refined feelings and subtle criticism" than Rococo theatre, especially that of France.
Yo-Yo Ma (born October 7, 1955) is an American cellist, virtuoso, and orchestral composer. He has received multiple Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts in 2001 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011. Ma is regarded by some as the most famous cellist of the modern age.
Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris on October 7, 1955, to Chinese parents and had a musical upbringing. His mother, Marina Lu, was a singer, and his father, Hiao-Tsiun Ma, was a violinist and professor of music at Nanjing National Central University. His family moved to New York when he was five years old.
At a very young age, Ma began studying violin, and later viola, before settling on the cello in 1960 at age four. According to Ma, his first choice was the double bass due to its large size, but he compromised and took up cello instead. The child prodigy began performing before audiences at age five, and performed for Presidents John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower when he was seven. At age eight, he appeared on American television with his sister, Yeou-Cheng Ma, in a concert conducted by Leonard Bernstein. Ma attended Trinity School in New York but transferred to the Professional Children's School which he graduated at fifteen years of age. He appeared as a soloist with the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra in a performance of the Tchaikovsky Rococo Variations.
Let's go downtown and watch the modern kids
Let's go downtown and talk to the modern kids
They will eat right out of your hand
Using great big words that they don't understand
They say
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
They build it up just to burn it back down
They build it up just to burn it back down
The wind is blowing all the ashes around
Oh my dear god what is that horrible song they're singing
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo, rococo!
Rococo!
They seem wild but they are so tame
They seem wild but they are so tame
They're moving towards you with their colors all the same
They want to own you but they don't know what game they're playing
Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo
Rococo!
Rococo!
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(Rococo)
Rococo!
Rococo!
(Rococo)
(Rococo)