spelling, sloth watching, banana chips, crayfish, yellow cardigans, neo-marxists, french bulldogs, my friend Rmily, reading on wet days, why does coffee give people acute dysentry? modernism, NOT post-modernism, resisting consumerism and late capitalist ideology, theories of festival (Bataille) theories of mimesis (Aristotle, Girard, Benjamin), Shakespeare, epistemophilia, revolutionary female figures, pandas
Tristan Tzara and Hannah Hoc
is the best
Apocalypse Now, if im feeling fabulous. Harold and Maude, if im feeling romantic.
television is dangerous
On the Pleasures of Hating, by William Hazlitt... Hunter S. Thompson... Ovid... Ted Hughes translating Ovid... 19th century illustrated encyclopedias... The Winter's Tale, by Shakespeare... Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran - Foer... In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak... The poetry of George Herbert, John Donne, and John Milton (Paradise Lost)... The collected works of Walter Benjamin... The Dialectic of the Enlightenment, Adorno and Horkheimer... James K. Baxter... Janet Frame... Ezra Pound... Anne Sexton... Theresa Hak Kyung Cha... Saul Williams... Jack Kerouac...
ROSA LUXEMBOURG: "Marxism is a revolutionary worldview that must always struggle for new revelations. Marxism must abhor nothing so much as the possibility that it becomes congealed in its current form. It is at its best when butting heads in self-criticism, and in historical thunder and lightning, it retains its strength."