NOTE::: if you do not know me, do not send me a friend request, whether you are a person or a band. if you are a person, message me first. if you are a band/musician, add my music profile, myspace.com/scutopus because i'll befriend any musician with that profile.
never fail to get distracted, never fail to become immersed.
survivor of two hernias.
scutopus.com is where all your dreams come true! or maybe some dreams will be elicted by my music. and, to be honest, maybe some nightmares...
The Curious Sofa - You are quite sensual and love a
good romp in every sense of the word! People
are drawn to you and always want you to sit in
their laps!
Which Edward Gorey Book Are You?
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You will be smothered under a rug. You're a little
anti-social, and may want to start gaining new
social skills by making prank phone calls.
What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
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i usually don't like these quizzes, but when i searched to remind myself of the date of EG's death, i found that there were some EG quizzes. now, they still bear the ridiculous pigeonholing that all quizzes on that particular site have, but since it was EG, i made a very rare exception. now, if i could just reconcile the two quiz results....
"People talk about happening. They say that art is headed towards that direction, that happening is assimilating the arts. I don't believe in collectivism of art nor in having only one direction in anything. I think it is nice to return to having many different arts, including happening, just as having many flowers. In fact, we could have more arts "smell", "weight", "taste", "cry", "anger" (competition of anger, that sort of thing), etc. People might say, that we never experience things separately, they are always in fusion, and that is why "the happening", which is a fusion of all sensory perceptions. Yes, I agree, but if that is so, it is all the more reason and challenge to create a sensory experience isolated from other sensory experiences, which is something rare in daily life. Art is not merely a duplication of life. To assimilate art in life, is different from art duplicating life.
"But returning to having various divisions of art, does not mean, for instance, that one must use only sounds as means to create music. One may give instructions to watch the fire for 10 days in order to create a vision in ones mind."
--Yoko Ono, from her book "Grapefruit", Simon & Schuster
the MOST powerful, profound and succint close to any book is in W.E.B. Du Bois' "Souls of Black Folk," first published in 1903. If you haven't read this and you are American (I don't give a fuck what tone your skin is), seek it out and take your time with it. Here is "The Afterthought":::
Hear my cry, O God the Reader; vouchsafe that this my book fall not still-born into the world wilderness. Let there spring, Gentle One, from out its leaves vigor of thought and thoughtful deed to reap the harvest wonderful. Let the ears of a guilty people tingle with truth, and seventy millions sigh for the righteousness which exalteth nations, in this drear day when human brotherhood is mockery and a snare. Thus in Thy good time may infinite reason turn the tangle straight, and these crooked marks on a fragile leaf be not indeed
THE END