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David M Rubin
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Stories, poems, essays, photos. Posts & pics on my peeps: Piero, Fra A, Nabokov, Ozu, Tanaka, Pasolini, Sirk, Varda, Demy, Dickinson, Rilke, Loy, H.D., Jameses. Love the friendly connecting with everyone. www.six18sfoundry.com
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David M Rubin @six18sfoundry.bsky.social · Dec 21
My collection of previously published stories, Junk Birds and other stories has become!

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3 birds (myna pigeon sparrow) in silhouette on border between olive brown & cream color fields. Junk Birds and other stories by David M. Rubin
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Wilco performing "Radio Cure" live circa 2001. Footage from the DVD bonus disc from the documentary I AM TRYING TO BREAK YOUR HEART. The song can be found on the Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album. m.youtube.com/watch?v=BY5s...
Wilco - Radio Cure (live)
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November 29, 2025 at 3:38 AM
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Canal plus
Wintry canal drifts through trees and Refracted trees . A little abandoned wood dock on far side
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Nakadai & Takamine
Man w cane on matt sitting across from woman in supplicating kneel-sit pose B&W in fancy Japanese room Immortal love Kinoshita
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence 1983 Oshima w David Bowie
Bowie w blonde hair as soldier Two men without shirts being roughed up by Japanese soldiers in Java Bowie sits alone behind wood desk and carpet is red beautiful pattern Japanese soldier chats a British Pow as guard looks on. In front of white church
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Canal plus
Wintry canal drifts through trees and Refracted trees . A little abandoned wood dock on far side
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Nakadai & Takamine
Man w cane on matt sitting across from woman in supplicating kneel-sit pose B&W in fancy Japanese room Immortal love Kinoshita
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Hail! Eat Tofu Bahn Mi, play Neutral Milk Hotel, no NFL
Cover of NMH in the aero plane over the sea. Crazy cool painting like a Balthus. Boat sinking. Mirror head girl waving w thin neck scarf and sleeveless red dress w stars. Sea wrecked boys in green bathing outfit waves too.
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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2 gorgeous wide shots in Kinoshita’s Immortal Love. Bike rides to think while covering long distances & tiny characters vs nature (likely influenced Sergio Leone?)
Character stops his bike to look at plain mountains and billowing clouds An estate in country w fence and mountains behind. 2 tiny characters on the path. Tall grass in foreground
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Immortal Love 1961 Kinoshita. Teaming up w Takamine (!) again after masterpiece 24 Eyes, who teams up w Nakadai (!) again post Woman Ascends
Town Procession cutting diagonal through empty plain w mountain behind Soldier in white w crutches in back seat of horse drawn cart w black suit white glove guy Takamine!!! Close up looking calmly disturbed B&W Epic kneeling Takamine serving sake to Nakadai on his matt
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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We ride rollercoasters into the ocean
We feel no emotions as we spiral down to the world

Gardenhead. Neutral Milk Hotel
#poetrysunday on Thursday
Avery Island album cover. Colorized B&W photo of amusement park w carousel w horses
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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May every bird have a hundred Toes — And flee with every one
Emily Dickinson (GOAT) She sights a bird 507
#poetrysunday no NFL Thursday edition
She sights a Bird — she chuckles — She flattens — then she crawls — She runs without the look of feet — Her eyes increase to Balls — Her Jaws stir — twitching — hungry — Her Teeth can hardly stand — She leaps, but Robin leaped the first — Ah, Pussy, of the Sand, The Hopes so juicy ripening — You almost bathed your Tongue — When Bliss disclosed a hundred Toes — And fled with every one —
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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2 gorgeous wide shots in Kinoshita’s Immortal Love. Bike rides to think while covering long distances & tiny characters vs nature (likely influenced Sergio Leone?)
Character stops his bike to look at plain mountains and billowing clouds An estate in country w fence and mountains behind. 2 tiny characters on the path. Tall grass in foreground
November 28, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Legendary Phoenix & her jolly ball 2018
Red standard in snow w blue jolly ball. Monkey level intelligence
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Immortal Love 1961 Kinoshita. Teaming up w Takamine (!) again after masterpiece 24 Eyes, who teams up w Nakadai (!) again post Woman Ascends
Town Procession cutting diagonal through empty plain w mountain behind Soldier in white w crutches in back seat of horse drawn cart w black suit white glove guy Takamine!!! Close up looking calmly disturbed B&W Epic kneeling Takamine serving sake to Nakadai on his matt
November 28, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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Murderous snow Mifune
Samurai in action brawl in the snow . Mifune faces us ready to lunge at guy w back to us B&W Sword of Doom
November 27, 2025 at 4:16 AM
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Sword of Doom (in Japan it’s called Great Bodhisattva Pass) 1966 Okamoto. Ignore complex early exposition as from serial novel… as when it gets going is great
Close on Nakadai big eyes under big straw hat w chin strap Mifune sword fight in snow vs many Samarai Woman & 2 men on tatami mats Man sipping tea on Matt and woman kneeling. Behind bamboo screens
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Hail! Eat Tofu Bahn Mi, play Neutral Milk Hotel, no NFL
Cover of NMH in the aero plane over the sea. Crazy cool painting like a Balthus. Boat sinking. Mirror head girl waving w thin neck scarf and sleeveless red dress w stars. Sea wrecked boys in green bathing outfit waves too.
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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"Every life is many days, day after day."

— James Joyce, Ulysses, 1922.

The Museum of Literature Ireland in Dublin displays Copy No. 1 of the first edition of 'Ulysses' by James Joyce.

📷 Literary Journeys | Existential Literature, Art, Music and Film
November 27, 2025 at 9:53 PM
six18sfoundry.bsky.social
We ride rollercoasters into the ocean
We feel no emotions as we spiral down to the world

Gardenhead. Neutral Milk Hotel
#poetrysunday on Thursday
Avery Island album cover. Colorized B&W photo of amusement park w carousel w horses
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 PM
six18sfoundry.bsky.social
May every bird have a hundred Toes — And flee with every one
Emily Dickinson (GOAT) She sights a bird 507
#poetrysunday no NFL Thursday edition
She sights a Bird — she chuckles — She flattens — then she crawls — She runs without the look of feet — Her eyes increase to Balls — Her Jaws stir — twitching — hungry — Her Teeth can hardly stand — She leaps, but Robin leaped the first — Ah, Pussy, of the Sand, The Hopes so juicy ripening — You almost bathed your Tongue — When Bliss disclosed a hundred Toes — And fled with every one —
November 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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egregious malversation(!) What a word. & Trollope’s laying out these 2 opposite evils. So modern
Ch 5 of his auto bio The first evil was the possession by the Church of certain funds and endowments which had been intended for charitable purposes, but which had been allowed to become incomes for idle Church dignitaries. There had been more than one such case brought to public notice at the time. in which there seemed to have been an egregious malversation of charitable purposes. The second evil was its very opposite. Though I had been much struck by the injustice above described, I had also often been angered by the undeserved severity of the newspapers towards the recipients of such incomes, who could hardly be considered to be the chief sinners in the matter. (Chapter 5)
November 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Weekend reading. Trollope’s The Warden. Cover is Turner’s The Bishop’s Palace, Salisbury
The Penguin English Library ANTHONY TROLLOPE THE WARDEN Book w cover of a big stone palace from side front and clergy talking little off to right side
November 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Sword of Doom (in Japan it’s called Great Bodhisattva Pass) 1966 Okamoto. Ignore complex early exposition as from serial novel… as when it gets going is great
Close on Nakadai big eyes under big straw hat w chin strap Mifune sword fight in snow vs many Samarai Woman & 2 men on tatami mats Man sipping tea on Matt and woman kneeling. Behind bamboo screens
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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i’m so happy for him
November 26, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Legendary Phoenix & her jolly ball 2018
Red standard in snow w blue jolly ball. Monkey level intelligence
November 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM