Veritas et Venustas

Watch George Smiley Stare Blankly While Saying Nothing, Over And Over And Over

THAT COULD BE THE TITLE OF Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Remake

Bach Around The Clock

image @ jsbach.net

WKCR, Columbia's radio station, is having their annual Bach Fest, 24/7 for 10 days. You can listen at 89.7 FM or WKCR.org - there are links for live streams in the top right corner.

It's astounding to hear SO MUCH Bach.

It only gets worse: Future BMWs

From Vanity Fair. I really would like to know who thinks these look good. And what other things they find good looking.

360° Panorama of Grand Central Terminal (Safari only)

CLICK HERE Works on Safari on the iPhone or iPad too

Words to live by, from Woody Allen

"The only thing standing between greatness and me is me," Woody Allen

From the PBS American Masters series, Woody Allen: A Documentary Part 2. There's more at the end of the documentary:

When I look back on my life I've been very lucky that I've lived out all these childhood dreams. I wanted to be a movie actor and I became one. I wanted to be a movie director, and a comedian, and I became one. I wanted to play jazz in New Orleans and I played in street parades and joints in New Orleans and played in opera houses concerts all over the world. There was nothing in my life that I aspired toward that hasn't come through for me. But despite all these lucky breaks, why do I still feel like I got screwed somehow?

Iconic Architecture Quote of the Day

"Maybe that’s what a city is: confrontation and complication. In New York, the name of the game is to have one’s own envelope." - More...

Iconic Architecture Quote of the Day

"Like other kinds of art, great buildings contradict everything else." - More...