I'm interested in fiction and in truth, and some other useless things (and don't be fooled at all by this--all things 'useless', methinks, are in fact the best of all)
In a world such as this my main flaws are often honesty, forebearance, faith, persistance, and generosity (and perhaps most likely a certain kind of pride)
"I want to put out the fires of Hell, and burn down the rewards of Paradise. They block the way to God. I do not want to worship from fear of punishment or for the promise of reward, but simply for the love of God."
blame it all on God, and do whatever it is that you really want.
then deal with whatever happens--that's all I have to say.
beaumont hannant, inspiral carpets, bola, afx, jeff mills, kenny larkin, bochum welt, b12, ride, my bloody valentine, slowdive, tortoise, this mortal coil, franz lizst, steve reich, chopin, skinny puppy, satie, debussy, posthuman, fluxion, aril brikha, shinichi atobe, new order, cocteau twins, theorem, speedy j, richie hawtin, philip glass, beethoven, pete namlook, bogdan raczynski, the beautiful south, squarepusher, wisp, x-asp, autechre, jega, plaid, the black dog, front 242, depeche mode, siouxsie and the banshees, dead can dance, lisa gerrard, the smiths, the stone roses, bauhaus, misfits, joy division, bill evans, max richter, etc
theatre of cruelty/machine x/spektra/metanoia
Léolo (1992)
Orphée (1950)
Blade Runner (1982)
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Highway 61 (1991)
Passion de Jeanne d'Arc, La (1928)
Metropolis (1927)
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--a global exercise in the absorption by nostalgia in the stupefied glorification of a mechanized and predictable collective memory still lingering and refusing to perish, at the cost of everything-- I don't care for this at all (nor am I bitter).
"And how could we not feel that our freedom and strength reside, not in the divine universal nor in the human personality, but in these singularities which are more us than we ourselves are, more divine than the gods, as they animate concretely poem and aphorism, permanent revolution and partial action? What is bureaucratic in these fantastic machines which are peoples and poems? It suffices that we dissipate ourselves a little, that we are able to be at the surface, that we stretch our skin like a drum, in order that the "great politics" begin. An empty square for neither man nor God; singularities which are neither general nor individual, neither personal nor universal. All of this is traversed by circulations, echoes, and events which produce more sense, more freedom, and more strength than man has ever dreamed of, or God ever conceived. Today's task is to make the empty square circulate and to make pre-individual and nonpersonal singularities speak--in short, to produce sense." - Gilles Deleuze;
Anton Chekhov
Emily Dickenson
Alain Badiou;
Stéphane Mallarmé;
Paul Valéry;
Euripides;
Friedrich Nietzsche;
Martin Heidegger;
Fernando Pessoa;
Jacques Derrida;
Johannes von Wolfgang Goethe;
Jorge-Luis Borges;
Elias Canetti;
Heinrich Heine;
Mark Twain;
Jacques Lacan;
Sigmund Freud;
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch;
Jean Baudrillard;
Slavoj Žižek;
Epicurus;
Heraclitus;
Friedrich Hölderlin;
Hans-Georg Gadamer;
Georges Bataille;
Maurice Blanchot;
Plato;
Aristotle;
Søren Kierkegaard;
Pierre Klossowski;
André Gide;
Albert Camus;
Paul Verlaine;
Walt Whitman;
Thucydides;
Leo Tolstoy;
Friedrich Schiller;
Arcesilaus;
Carneades;
Charles Baudelaire;
Harold Innis;
Sextus Empiricus;
Jean-Luc Marion;
Oscar Wilde;
Antoine de Saint Exupéry;
Theodor Adorno;
Pierre Hadot;
Hans-Christian Anderson;
Martin Buber;
Jean Nouvel;
Paul Virilio;
Marcel Duchamp;
etc