i am not keen to please you

nil nimium studeo, caesar, tibi velle placere,
nec scire utrum sis albus an ater homo.

i am not particularly keen to want to please you, caesar,
nor to know whether you are white or black.

carmina 93, catullus

DVDs and Books I borrowed

Again, the borrowing list was drastically enlarged after Ojai..lol

	1 by 1 (Motion picture)	39009040396265	04/28/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Archduke Franz Ferdinand lives! : a world without World War I / by Lebow, Richard Ned	39009050767389	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	The bombers and the bombed : Allied air war over Europe, 1940-1945 / by Overy, R. J.	39009050795828	04/28/2014	05/19/2014	0
	Constellation of genius : 1922: modernism year one / by Jackson, Kevin, 1955-	39009050680731	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Danubia : a personal history of Habsburg Europe / by Winder, Simon	39009040447761	04/28/2014	05/19/2014	0
	The day of battle : the war in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 / by Atkinson, Rick	39009037329618	04/17/2014	05/10/2014	0
	Don Jon by Johansson, Scarlett, 1984-	39009040393635	04/28/2014	05/05/2014	0
	FDR and the Jews / by Breitman, Richard, 1947-	39009050543889	04/19/2014	05/10/2014	0
	Gravity by Gravity (Motion picture : 2013)	39009040396893	04/28/2014	05/05/2014	0
	The guns at last light : the war in Western Europe, 1944-1945 / by Atkinson, Rick	39009040237535	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Museum hours by Piplits, Ela, 1961-	39009040404374	04/28/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Operation Barbarossa : Hitler's invasion of Russia, 1941 / by Glantz, David M.	39009040049039	04/16/2014	05/07/2014	0
	Reaching for the moon by Reaching for the moon (Motion picture : 2013)	39009040395697	04/28/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Renoir by Desplat, Alexandre	39009040404242	04/28/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Six months in 1945 : FDR, Stalin, Churchill, and Truman-- from world war to cold war / by Dobbs, Michael, 1948-

Rock Hudson starred in North by Northwest??!

The lead character in Dallas Buyers Club says so lol.

John Crocker's caustic wit

Lietenant General John Crocker, commander of IX Corps under Anderson's First Army, belittled the American military ability like this;

"How Green is our Ally"    
                                                 
p.471, An Army at Dawn; The War in North Africa, 1942-3 by Rick Atkinson

Bear in mind you need a modicum of understanding of cinematic history to fully understand this bon mot;

Because it's a paraphrase of the title of John Ford's movie;

How Green was My Valley(1941)

Yes this is the movie famous for beating Citizen Kane to receive the Best Picture Oscar in 1942. Still, some says it's the finest Academy Best Picture, so there lol.

Amy Adams in 'American Hustle' is fantastic

Watching now(into 20 min.) but she's absolutely gorgeous lol.

And she didn't win the Oscar? How good was Cate lol.(lists from imdb)

Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

Blue Jasmine: Cate Blanchett

NOMINEES

American Hustle: Amy Adams

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Gravity: Sandra Bullock

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Philomena: Judi Dench

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August: Osage County: Meryl Streep

Well she did win the Golden Globe.

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy or Musical

WINNER

American Hustle: Amy Adams

NOMINEES

Enough Said: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

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Before Midnight: Julie Delpy

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Frances Ha: Greta Gerwig

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August: Osage County: Meryl Streep

Crave the impossible

Goethe's Faust (reading Atkinson has it's unexpected uses)

'Den lieb'ich, der unmogliches begehrt'

'I love the one who craves the impossible'

Tom Moran's book review on WSJ

My mentor Tom Moran contributes to WSJ and Chicago Tribune on book reviews!

Book Review: 'Room 1219' by Greg Merritt

I didn't know that Anna Moffo was so..

pretty lol.



Hence, this is a must buy? Haha.

Amazon upped the monetary free shipping requirement

So I thought Solti one of Tannhauser was promising...



and then noticed this;

"$4.63 & FREE Shipping on orders over $35. Details "

Amazon just upped it from $25 to $35 -_-

First tax and now this;;;;;;

Books I've borrowed

Not indicative of whether I'll finish those lol, just that I'm quite interested in the subjects(and yes, some of'em are movie dvds);

Archduke Franz Ferdinand lives! : a world without World War I / by Lebow, Richard Ned	39009050767389	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Camelot's court : inside the Kennedy White House / by Dallek, Robert	39009050695333	04/15/2014	05/06/2014	0
	Chomsky and Dershowitz : on endless war and the end of civil liberties / by Friel, Howard, 1955-	39009050786975	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Constellation of genius : 1922: modernism year one / by Jackson, Kevin, 1955-	39009050680731	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Den skaldede frisør Love is all you need / by Bier, Susanne, 1960-	39009040397016	04/15/2014	04/22/2014	0
	Diana by Jeffreys, Stephen	39009040450450	04/14/2014	04/21/2014	0
	Doctor Who. The time of the Doctor by Moffat, Steven, 1961-	39009040449262	04/15/2014	04/22/2014	0
	Ender's game by Ender's game (Motion picture)	39009040396976	04/14/2014	04/21/2014	0
	The guns at last light : the war in Western Europe, 1944-1945 / by Atkinson, Rick	39009040237535	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	The life and death of the Spanish Republic : a witness to the Spanish Civil War / by Buckley, Henry, 1904-1972, author.	39009050640925	04/14/2014	05/05/2014	0
	Richard Wagner : a life in music / by Geck, Martin	39009050796610	03/24/2014	05/05/2014	1
	The Vicomte de Bragelonne / by Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870

Now I want to listen Wagner's Tannhauser

After reading Geck's section of it; many profess of being quite overwhelmed with it, such as Albert Schweitzer and Brect. Even anti Wagnerian Schumann admitted of being impressed.

reader determine the usefulness of a book

Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli

Books succeed or fail(have their own destinies) according to the ability of the reader

Terentianus Maurus 1282ff.

Catullus on foolish smiles

Nam risu inepto res ineptior nulla set.

Carmina 39

Nothing is more foolish than foolish laughter

Berenson on anti Semitism

Alsmoted finished reading and next is Wagner bio by Martin Geck.

p. 257 Cohen

"It is notorious that whenever comfortable society in the remoter past, and capitalism in recent days, wanted to draw attention away from its own privileges, and its own exploitation of the working classes, they tried to make out it was thedoing of the Jews, gave them up to massacre ad so lately in Rumania, Holy Russia..or to contumely and contempt in less barbarous countries"

Mt. Rushmore is at South Dakota?

Bramd new 2013 quarter coin says so lol.

Berenson & Wharton on Da Vinci's Last Supper

B.B;

" What a pack of vehement, gesticulating, noisy foreigners they are, with faces far from pleasant, some positively criminal, some comspirators, and others having bo biz to be there..Bit I never dared say it out loud"

Edith Wharton's reply to B.B

"I've wanted to bash that picture's gace, and now, now, at last, the most authorized fist in the world has done the job for me! Hooray!!"

Lol.

Cohen, p. 214

'sassiety'

Bella de Costa Greene to B.B in Mar. 1914

"Your great love of people amd sassiety.."

Cohen, p. 181

Lytton Strachey on Geoffrey Scott

"He remains a confirmed sodomite, and Mrs. Berenson covers him with fur coats, editiojs of rare books, etc, of which he accepts without a word and without an erection"

Cohen, p. 171