Orchard Park Press

Paulina Wierzgacz and “The Drinking Season”

Tom Fahy — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:02:59 +0000

rem·i·nis·cence [rem-uh-nis-uhns] noun

1. the act or process of recalling past experiences, events, etc.

Reminiscence

Model: Karolina Szymczak
Directed by: Roman Ziaja
Filmed by: Krystian Forberger
Edited by: Paulina Wierzgacz
Music by: Tom Fahy (“The Drinking Season”)

The Luthier – Janos Markus-Barbarossa

Matei Plesa — Wed, 23 May 2012 00:16:34 +0000

The Luthier: János Márkus-Barbarossa → “As many wrong things that were done in the name of Lenin, still he said three good things: Learn! Learn! Learn! But from this point of view, he was not so stupid.”

Matei Plesa: “The Luthier is a short documentary about one of the most well-known luthiers. I wanted to find more details about his life, his work and his passions. I am very grateful for the chance he gave me and I hope this is a good way to say, ‘Thank you and I hope it was worth it!’”

Production Photos: The Luthier

Shot and Edited by: Matei Plesa
Second Camera: Emanuil Iova
Soundtrack: Tom Fahy (“Watchers”)

Thank you for your support: Quantuum Romania, Horatiu Curutiu, Emanuil Iova, Lucia Petrescu, Tom Fahy, and Brindusa Inocan

Motonori Sato Double Feature: Akihiro Ikeyama’s “Holey Holye” & Surfing on the Eisbach

Tom Fahy — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:07:08 +0000

“Holey Holye”

Artist: Akihiro Ikeyama
Directed and Edited by: Motonori Sato
Music by: Tom Fahy

Surfing on the Eisbach

Directed and Edited by: Motonori Sato
Music: “Letters to Allayne,” by Tom Fahy

Milan Brown: Aliwal Shoal in South Africa

Tom Fahy — Tue, 22 May 2012 17:47:05 +0000

Location: Aliwal Shoal, South Africa
Filmed by: Christine Kelbe
Edited by: Milan Brown
Music: “Op. 5, Étude No. 19” by Tom Fahy

Ratko Mladic Hunted Down and On Trial; Orchard Park Not Written in Vain…

Tom Fahy — Thu, 17 May 2012 13:55:49 +0000

Who is next? Richard Perle? Sir Michael Rose?

Follow News Related to the Trial: Trial of Ratko Mladic
Read The Beekeeper, from the book, Orchard Park and Other Works, and learn more about Ratko Mladić, Richard Perle, and others: The Beekeeper, pp. 144-198

“Justice, although very often orphaned, remains the legitimate child of knowledge and truth. But as in any union, absent knowledge, truth is prey to guile. And in a world in which guile reigns, the ruse trumps candor. This is why a gift cannot be made of justice. It must be won.” —Tom Fahy, May 2010

"If a book is flatly reviled, but the revilement preceeds a full, thoughtful and judicious appraisal, it is safe to say some nerve, somewhere, has been struck." —Eoghan Wyndham, Wyndham-Byrne Associates

ISBN: 978-0-9828673-7-2 (Black Sun Edition)
ISBN: 978-0-9828673-0-3 (Retail Edition)
Copyright: Standard Copyright License
First Edition: 2010
Third Edition: 2012
Publisher: Orchard Park Press
Language: English
Pages: 411
Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior: Ink Black & white
Weight: 1.5 lbs.
Dimensions: (inches) 6 wide x 9 tall

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Voortrekker (Andries Pretorius’ Theme)

Tom Fahy — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:08:02 +0000

Date: May 2012
Composed and Performed by: Tom Fahy
Published by: Stag Records

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“For, he who desires to build a future, dare not neglect the past. Seek, therefore, all that is good and beautiful in the past, build on it your ideal, and strive to realize that ideal for the future. It is true much of what has been built is now destroyed, despoiled and ruined; but through singleness of purpose and unity of strength what now lies shattered can still be restored.” —Paul Kruger, “Oom Paul,” (10 October 1825 – 14 July 1904)

Op. 6, Nos. 1-27

Tom Fahy — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:15:45 +0000

Date: 2011-2012
Published by: Stag Records
Cover Design: Tom Fahy
Location: Prora, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany; Skeleton Lake, Muskoka, Ontario, Canada; Lough Derravaragh, County Westmeath, Ireland

Originally released as Op. 6, Nos. 1-17 (2011) and Op. 6, Nos. 18-25 (2012), Opus 6 is now being released in its entirety as Op. 6, Nos. 1-27. Nos. 26 & 27 are previously unreleased recordings.

REVIEW:

“Undomesticated piano playing, urgent and sincere, without a sarcastic or satrical note. Delightfully ambiguous storytelling and a paean to the high culture offhandedly dismissed by post-modernism. Opus 6 is not only the work of a composer still laboring under the burden of his curses, but is also a resounding work against balefulness.” –Aaron Desmond, Snide Magazine

ALBUM COVER QUOTE BY XU CAIHOU:

“It is a drama, an arc, not for the sane. You only sin if you do not collaborate. Mankind is an idea; dominion is reserved for the gracious-mighty — the race with fewest reservations. The better, more determined people, with a winning collective sense of Destiny, must win.” (Op. 6, No. 11 – My Dinner with Xu Caihou)

Heroes and Hero Worship

Thomas Carlyle — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:48:48 +0000

“What in such a time as ours it requires a Prophet or Poet to teach us, namely, the stripping-off of those poor undevout wrappages, nomenclatures and scientific hearsay; this, the ancient earnest soul, as yet unencumbered with these things, did for itself.”

–Thomas Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship, c. 1840

Transcendental Fascism

Tom Fahy — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:00:58 +0000

Our system is one in which experience is conditional and contingent — conditional and contingent upon conformance to relative customs and statutory rights.

Privilege issues from coercive Powers that observe statutory rights.

It is imperative that we distinguish between privilege, which is the outcome of a transaction, and the gift, which is voluntary. While privilege is implied debt to a coercive Power, the tribute one symbolically pays in the act of gift-giving is self-reflexive: the gift cannot be brokered; the gift is immune from debt; the gift cannot be loaned at interest; the gift is neither a liability nor an obligation; the gift is not capital.

The act of gift-giving issues from natural law, and hence is inalienable, universal and incoercible.

—Tom Fahy, Transcendental Fascism and its Malcontents

Listen to The Snuggery, by Tom Fahy, from the album, Männerbund, while you read.

Tenets and Principles of Conduct Under the State

Value/s and Ethics, Part I. – Eleven Points

Many tenets follow from acknowledgment of one simple truth: The utility of paper money/currency is overstated. Hence:

1.) The gift will be a cornerstone of the Transcendental Fascist economy.

2.) Value is subjective, and thus no two transactions are alike or of equal, determinant value.

3.) No rewards or arbitrary value for equal work: If a soul is a natural producer, he will accrue to himself goods in proportion to the gifts or labor-as-gift he dispenses.

4.) Value is not a function of time. Value is only discoverable in the novel exchange between two or more parties. Value, then, cannot be standardized; it cannot be predetermined.

“While it is in the nature of men endowed with real imagination to share, the inferior always hide behind copyrights. Copyrights, and statutory laws by extension, are the only means by which inferior men may defend themselves from natural born creators.”

—Tom Fahy

5.) Only when represented by paper does degenerate art appear to possess value. Value in these instances is manufactured at auction. The value of good work/s and art is intrinsic, it is universally discoverable, and it is universally valued by a culture. Good work/s resist denomination. Good work/s can’t help but instruct technically and spiritually—it is without price, as it gives in perpetuity.

6.) Shelter is not a privilege and will not convey status.

7.) Like shelter, food is not a privilege. No man or household will accrue to himself more rations than are his natural allotment. If one participates in its production, it is one’s natural right to share or exchange for gifts whatever quantity of his foodstuffs one sees fit.

8.) Under no circumstances will food or shelter or the effects thereof be taxed. The gift is exempt from taxation.

9.) In instances when value is debased by representation with currency, which is inherently valueless, the offender is taxed through servitude to the community. The length of his service is determined by the community and is customarily proportional to the extent to which the gift-as-medium-of-exchange was displaced. A second debasement offense is a capital offense.

10.) Capital offenses are prosecuted by the State. If found guilty, the offender will be executed by Shechita.

11.) The State will intervene as a matter of course on the behalf of animals. Cruelty to animals is a capital offense and the offender will be executed by Shechita.

Richard Wagner: Parsifal, ein Bühnenweihfestspiel

Tom Fahy — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:08:48 +0000

Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival

Buch I (Gamuret of Anjon Speaks)

If unfaith in the heart find dwelling,
then the soul it shall reap but woe;
And shaming alike and honor
are his who such doubt show,

For it standeth in evil contrast
with a true man’s dauntless might,
As one seeth the magpie’s plumage,
which at one while is black and white.

And yet he may whip to blessing;
since I know well that in his heart,
Hell’s darkness, and light of Heaven,
alike have their lot and part;

But he who is unsteadiest,
he is black as the darkest night,
And the soul that hath never wavered
stainless is hue and white!

This my parable so fleeting
too swift for the dull shall be,
Ere yet they may seize its meaning
from before their face ’twill flee,

As a hare that a sound hath startled:
yea, metal behind the glass,
And a blind man’s dream yield visions
that as swift from the eye do pass,
For naught shall they have that endureth!

And at one while ’tis bright and sad,
And know of a truth that its glory
but for short space shall make ye glad.
And what man shall think to grip me,
where no hair for his grasp shall grow,
In the palm of mine hand?

The mystery of a close crop he sure doth know!

If I cry aloud in such peril,
it ‘seemeth my wisdom well
Shall I look for truth where it fleeteth?
In the fire that the stream doth quell,

Or the dew that the sun doth banish?
Ne’er knew I a man so wise.
But was fortunate to learn the wisdom my fable doth ill disguise…

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