THE MERMAID AND THE MINOTAUR - DOROTHY DINNERSTEIN
A complex & provocative bedside favorite, especially for when you’re tossing and turning. This seminal radical text playfully integrates feminist theory with Kleinian psychoanalytical theory, yet at times may read as slightly out of date in terms of the authors references. Nonetheless, a poetic, raunchy, and in-your-face nonfiction classic, for any serious readers collection.
KALMUS MINIATURE ORCHESTRA SCORES
A tiny catalogue in decent shape, but won’t make a comparably impressive object to rest ones head. Featuring two unforgettable pieces, Heart-Wounds + The Last Spring (Edvard Grieg, Op34). Includes parts for Violinino, Viola, Basso, und Violoncello.
A girl on the verge of womanhood finds herself in a sensual fantasyland of vampires, witchcraft, and other threats in this eerie and mystical movie daydream. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders serves up an endlessly looping, nonlinear fairy tale, set in a quasi-medieval landscape. Ravishingly shot, enchantingly scored (featured on our previous episode), and spilling over with surreal fancies, this enticing phantasmagoria from director Jaromil Jireš is among the most beautiful oddities of the Czechoslovak New Wave.
3 Tragedies of Federico García Lorca; 1941 -New Directions Paperback. Ninth printing. Three powerful plays on motherhood, ritual, and a tale of five repressed daughters. Contains: Blood Wedding; Yerma; Bernarda Alba. Lorca's sympathy with women is notable; a connection within his own existence as a gay man in a time influenced heavily by Catholic conservatism. Prologue by the poets brother, Francisco García Lorca.
Goethe's Faust: Part One & Part Two - The absurd tale of Faust first revealed itself to Goethe in his younger years, and became his life's work -completed by the time he was 51. He was a ripe 81 years when he finished Part Two. And as Goethe once stated about his Faustian works; they form an integrated whole which "permanently preserves the period of development of a human soul." Penguin classics paperbacks.
I CHING: THE BOOK OF CHANGE
A beginner’s guide, featuring poetic explanations of each Hexagram -The Book of Change is a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, and one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe.
TONE DEAF & ALL THUMBS - FRANK R. WILSON
An invitation to music-making for procrastinators, late bloomers and non-prodigies. This blend of anecdote and scientific analysis is an absorbing study of our innate musical abilities.