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Ive never believed the new night club story .

I would like to see a video about Virginia Woolf.

Thank you for your excellent musical biography. I can't count how many films and TV shows I have seen that one musical theme performed in. I was a pretty serious amateur ballet dancer in Oxnard California in the mid 80s, and the Madame who led the studio there always said she performed with the ballet Russes. She was older, but I think too young to have performed in Satie's gala.

Excellent portrait of Erik Satie. He's quite popular amongst the classical pianists at the piano meet-up group I attend once a month. He was clearly full of ideas but perhaps found it hard to direct his creative energies, and there was so much going on around him in Paris that would have pulled him in different directions. You'd have to think he was on the autistic spectrum. I play jazz piano and compose pieces too, and there is something wonderful about creating a piece, the way a melody just pops into your head sometimes. Many creative people struggle to promote their work and are not pushy by nature. Perhaps Satie could have done with a Clara Schumann-type woman in his life, who could have helped him direct his creative energies, and ensured more of his works could get performed and appreciated.

What a great portrait painting shown in the first 30 seconds. Wonder who did it! Fab!!

You might have mentioned Blood, Sweat and Tears' including variations on a theme on their 1968 album. I suspect millions of people would be totally unaware of Satie were it not for this recording.

I'm just finishing up Jackson Benson's highly excellent biography of this amazing person. It's 1000+ pages but I've read it 3 times and still love the biography.

I think his daughter died in her teens or twenty

On The Road had a big impact on me as a young man. That, along with Camus and Satre, all added to a very free wheelin', live for the moment approach, that, in fact, worked out well for me. At around 35 I found that the alcohol was taking too much out of me for the days after. I sort of thank my body's extreme hangovers otherwise I'd probably be a 45 year old mess. I have a baby now, and I've settled, and have become somewhat conservative. But I have to watch myself; given the chance the Kerouac comes out, and he doesn't care about tomorrow's hangovers.

According to the MAGA revised History, not only was he gay, he also ate dogs and gave bread to refugees.

Its always been known that Ceasar was ac/dc. I am surprised it was considered scandalous. Apparently the Romans attitude to male with male sex was it was OK to be on top but not assuming a feminine posture. Maybe that was the salacious issue. They did not make gender identity a major platform to grab power like some politicians do today.

Fascinating analysis and I tend to agree with your conclusion. Goya’s work appears to document trauma and seems like an unflinching stare at the horror of the world around him... Hence, the contemporary appeal!?

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I had heard that it may have been to do with the double life gay men had to live in victorian England as was also the case of the portrait of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and possibly Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson

In current Norwegian, to be "boneless" means to be very unsteady on the feet, like really drunk people that keep placing their weight where no legs can support it. I believe English has s similar idiom: legless. Norwegian uses the same word, bein, for both bone and leg, so it is easy to see how anglophones mistranslated what should have been a very easy expression. So what would have made Ivar legless? The obvious suggestion is alcohol, since it goes with the lifestyle, but as a person suffering from ear crystals that keep getting dislodged, I have to offer that as an alternative theory.

This story left out the fact that the FBI was investigating him and the shadow figures were really there. 😢 They finally admitted it because they thought he was a communist.

Satie is one of my favourite composers, too, but I knew nothing about him and his life. Having watched (and listened to) this, I strongly suspect that he could have fit in as "2e" today, being both gifted and suffering from a mental disability such as ADHD. Such people are rare, and tend to be recognized as fitting in just one of the groups after using the cognitive abilities to counteract the motivational challenges that ADHD really ought to be named for. I wonder if Leo Delibes could be one of us, too, or is he "just" a "normal" genius?

.. alcohol doesn't inhance creativity although you may Think so, while you're under it's spell, you cannot be objective.

..he should've stayed out of her orbit when she rejected him when he didn't have money no matter how much he loved her and needed her to love him; big mistake. Zeldacouldn'tloveanybodybutherself. 🎉😂😢

Little Suzy was adorable, and her mom was naturally beautiful, RIP.

Joe Kennedy was an ambitious bigot. He was ashamed of his daughter who could not keep up with the highly competitive clan. When she had her sleepwalking episodes, Joe feared she would embarrass her family with a sexual scandal. The unilateral decision by the patriarch to subject his beautiful 23 yo daughter to a procedure to render her docile speaks to his character. He is the villain of this story. I am an obstetrician and you are quite correct that no nurse would have forcibly held the baby in the birth canal for 2 hours. Home births were the norm and many multiparous women deliver quickly and nurses or female relatives at the birth would have known how to care for a newborn whilst the doctor was en route.

This is first rate. Thank you.

Being different is a great thing. There are far too many human lemmings in this world.

if the problem was him being a bottom why didn't he just say he was the top....or would that have started a war? he could have said he wore the pants in the relationship, but i've heard that was frowned upon too :-)

She was valuable when she was young and ignorant but as she become older an Wiser she was cast out !

Hey teach! My favorite so far.. I would love to see a video on another 19thC hippie Walt Whitman..and/or Sergei Rachmaninoff (both artists finding a home and inspiration on Long Island..specifically the north shore where I am from ) ..others.. Gustav Mahler , Dimitri Shostakovich , Bernard Maybeck , John Muir Thank you!

Thank you! I'm currently reading his short stories.

I don’t understand the contradiction in the commentary when questioning whether Fitzgerald could have ever been as creative if he hadn’t had drink. Yet earlier stating that it was the drink that made him dull and unable to write. Could you explain?

Germanicus should have listened to his missus, and seized power, with his legions, on the Rhine. His sheer popularity made him a threat, and I think his uncle had him killed, in Antioch. Tiberius reminds me of Stalin, with his ambiguous behaviour, paranoia, purges and flair for using the state legal apparatus to crush rivals, eg his old friend, Piso, when it suited him. As he, himself said, being Emperor, and wielding such power, was like 'holding a wolf by the ears', hence the fact he never relinquished it, and managed to die, of old age, something Caligula and Claudius were unable to do...

Fanx for that nice documentary. I read On the road and then listen jazz and made a band. Then Bukowski and later W.S. Burroughs. Difficult to find in France.

What happened to their daughter?

I grew up in Twain Heart California. I wish to retire there soon.

Every alcoholic has a charlie phase.

Bukowski rocks! I love his writing! 🎉

A good writer but NOT GREAT.

I am not a musical expert but the 3rd gnosienne seems inspired by gregorian music. Like Gregorian it is modal music as opposed to tonal music and there are no bar lines placed across the stave to show where the divisions come.

I wonder what his sister-in-law said at his funeral 6 mos later.

Your videos are so informative. I really appreciate how you seem to understand so many artists. Louis really suffered so much. He was clearly a genius. Amazing output. As a long-time artist myself, all that I now create goes through Christ's approval which has calmed me down immensely. Just because an artist can create most anything, it helps to be discerning. The Jesus Whom I know is very funny and enables me to simplify what I create. He has saved my brain and my whole body many times. I had a 2nd grade crazy teacher years ago who beat we students about our heads with heavy textbooks. Eventually after I called upon Jesus at 30 years old, I asked Him to repair the damage to my mind. He did - I could feel His electrifying-healing-energy many times as He repaired the damaged parts. Incredible. Due to all of His 'repairs' on me over many years, I am a walking miracle. Thank you so much for all of your videos. Your voice is calm and easy to listen to. USA

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Thoroughly enjoyed your storytelling. I listened while enduring a bout of insomnia, lying in the darkness with earphones, as if enjoying an old radio broadcast.

Dear professor, I think your subscribers' comments about creativity and drug ('alcohol') are not completely wrong and your own rejection of the idea is too black and white. First of all, everybody romanticizes this creativity far too much to such an extent that creativity has become an excuse worth celebrating suffering and pain which I find perverted and even exploitative. It is as if both you and your subscribers making such comments are saying that had Van Gough not been in so much pain and not suffered a lifetime of unhappiness we wouldn't have gotten to see such magnificent paintings. As Martin Heidegger put it, both sides keep valuing everything in terms of their benefit. You wish that Van Gough hadn't been a drunk so that he could live and suffer longer and make even greater painters. Neither of you is prepared to say: Screw the painings, it would have been best if Van Gough didn't go through life like this even if it meant he never painted at all. This romanticization of pathology and its consequential pain and suffering is the sickness of our society and another left over from that most performative exhibition of a man dragging a cross on his back to the top of hill and bleed for our sins. That view of creativeity is not only sick and cruel but scientifically totally idiotic. Even these primitive LLM AI systems have unexpectedly proven that the first type of work currently done by humans are the so-called creative work that is obvious to those of us who suffer from mental health and self-medicate to simply dull the pain which inevitably or at least initially relaxes the mind allowing to contemplate more irritations without preconceived social judgements and Losens the muscles that often prevent free movements in any craft. Unfortunately, life everything else in life, this state of free from pain is transient and ephemeral and like the interminable destiny of Sisyphus thing never stay optimum and either rolls over the peak or back down into the depth of pain and darkness.

Still a lot saner than what's entering the white house in Jan.

One thing is certain he is buried in Arcueil Cachan so he was considered as living there.

The Roman Statesman Gaius Curio who noted Caesar's "Proclivities" said of him that Caesar was " Every woman's man and every man's woman".

I wish I had his early life of adventures. But I'm making up for it mimicking his later life of drinking it into oblivion.

Just when I thought I’d watched all the Kerouac biographies, I find another one. This was very well done!

As always, wonderful listening and so informative. Thank you

Thank you for this amazing research, highly enjoyed it. THANK YOU!!!!

This is so sad😢