Mid-Week Libation: Zodiac Jazz
Pour yourself a glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape, enjoy the words of Agnes Martin and Walt Whitman, feast your eyes upon the luscious art of Tetsutaro Kamatani & check out the legendary Foo Foo Lammar!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Agnes Martin (March 22, 1912 – December 16, 2004)
Wildstar’s Wednesday Wine Pick: Philippe Cambie, Les Halos de Jupiter, Châteauneuf-du-Pape (Rhone, France)
Another R&R Playlist for your listening pleasure: Zodiac Jazz
The Art of Tetsutaro Kamatani
Poem of the Week:
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Drag Performance of the Week: Foo Foo Lammar! (March 22, 1937 – November 7, 2003)
Click here to watch Manchester legend Foo Foo performing in a short BBC broadcast from 1981!
Happy Wednesday everyone! Today is the birthday of Anthony van Dyck, Katherine Jones, Anton Raphael Mengs, Caroline Norton, Stephen Pearl Andrews, Randolph Caldecott, Dorothy Tennant, G. R. S. Mead, Cécile Cauterman, Josip Račić, Margarete Depner, Louis L'Amour, Gabrielle Roy, Agnes Martin, Bernard Krigstein, Isidora Aguirre, Stewart Stern, Marcel Marceau, Alberto Beltrán, Michael Hamburger, Yayoi Kusama, Stephen Sondheim, William Shatner, Angelo Badalamenti, Jon Hassell, Foo Foo Lammar, Jorge Ben, George Benson, Max Richter and Beverley Knight!
What’s on your star chart this Wednesday?