poetry, art, Taoism, occultism, obscurantism, doing nothing, qi-manipulation, idiotism, luxury, old nobility, literate, myths, raindrop-counting, drinking, delusions (e.g. knowledge (like sciences, philosophy, recipes) and experiences of all kinds), illusionism, archaism, X-magic (latest avantgarde style), Chaos.
All. It's an unprofessional attitude torwards life to take it too seriously-yet its all serious to the death but playfully so. Same with all art. I dont exactly know why but I often get along well with people in medical professions...(of course theres the possibility of having been a surgeon in my last life- I checked that out and thats what it was- yet I'm still skeptical of reincarnation and the model of an undying soul, I mean- yeah- when I took lectures in forensics (I studied law for a time and quite disliked it) and saw many dead bodies its hard not to believe in some soul, some essence when comparing corpses to the living- but still I can never be certain...yea, its tough having been born in this unromantic age that questions everything, maybe I should "delude" myself more. If you look at it, all good art necessarily MUST be very decisive, very concrete and assertive to begin with, otherwise its not that enjoyable, whereby its unimportant whether it is actually true or not, thats philosophies problem not the one of art I would say...where was I? "Who I would like to meet?": I have already met myself it seems, now its your turn...(now that sounds like some cheesy movie finish-monologue.) or like some commercial: I bet the DADA guys- who I greatly admire- hadnt forseen how much of their philosophy would actually be integrated into public consciousness till the end of the (last) century...
Crazy drunken ramblings, visions, dreams, aphorisms and lies:
Has it ever happened to you that you came home from an all night piss-up with your friends and then posted some incredibly embarassing babble on an internet forum? Every time I did that it turned out quite bad: I posed as a demon, got banned, or merited death threats, insults and humiliations; or wrote some unbelievably bad poetry. So watch me (you 1-2 people who will read this!), because I want to get some fun out of my page....
Scanning through some "My Space" editor pages I read: "give your friends something to do on your page!"
I on the other hand do actually value my friends by showing empathy and imagining what it would be that I myself wanted to find on a page. And this wouldnt be some "game" (I can play games elsewhere) but some funny, idiotic or even tragic details about my friend's life- his strive, her great struggle with the Ineffable, his inability to open a can of tuna at 3a.m. in the morning. I will probably post some unspeakable inanities in this spot- I will rattle the cage of the Demiurge, extrapolating visions of indescribable banality or anticlimactic nonsense. Yet, maybe I wont, it all depends on my fancy...
A parvenu may be cunning and even intelligent but if there is one thing that he is immune to, it is honest and pointed critique of the thing or person he aspires to copy. Since his opinions are not his own to begin with he is forced into a relentlessly dogmatic standpoint. This is so because if he gave it up he would automatically loose the fundaments of his existence as well. That’s why he must be unforgiving to any transgressor or else he would have to admit that his life is not his own.
I can see clearly now without your I's/Ice/eyes...eyez- is it French and what does it mean?
note: geneaology, slightly invented: grandpa- field, first car, once bought a cafe. greatg.p.- gentry, 17th century- bandits, 18th century personal hunting instructor of the Emperor.Grand Prix.
Realism is the art of creating reality: Necessity to develop strategies to break out of entropic systems like solar systems or galaxies and make oneself independent of them.
Nature as a concept was invented in the 18th century and destroyed in the 21st century.
The freer human beings deem themselves, the easier it is to indoctrinate them.
Truth is necessity’s glamour.
It irritates the plebeian soul if a thing is defended by its beauty.
Mankind thinks it can correct its mistakes by repetition.
Being young means: to be afraid to be thought of as stupid. Being old means: to be afraid to be stupid.
The deeper a conviction, the more trivial is the formula of its expression.
The audience applauds a work of art if it is obviously good or obviously bad.
I don’t refute capitalism because it furthers inequality but because it facilitates the rise of cretins into positions of power.
The only gate into eternity is Immediacy!
The result of a purely aesthetic science is diversity in method and disciplines (as it obviously is in today’s world).
Postmodern art: while artists try to fulfill beauty or art in their being the artwork itself is often degraded to an embellishing life-style trinket.
True art which we will make access to has these two characteristics:
- It will be recognized as a valid tool of cognition
- It will fully manifest itself in reality and be a tool for production of reality and not merely a representation or depiction of it.
Thereby it will have a position that it hadn’t had since the archaic era of ancient Greece, yet more powerful.
The innermost chagrin of most demons is that they can know everything but cannot create anything.
Händel, Mozart (nearly all!), some Bach, Brahms (!), Beethoven, Verdi then especially all that kitschy, orchestral theme-music from the late 19th /early 20th century- I like especially the Russians: Tschaikowsky, Borodin (!), Rachmaninov, Shostakovich, Stravinsky but also Sibelius, Mahler, Rimsky-Korsakov, Dvorak, Debussy, Bizet, Delibes, Ravel (except "Bolero"!: its intolerable, the apex of stupidity, I despise it!!) ; I love music –popular and classical- from the early 20th century- sometimes I feel "anachronistic" in today’s world: Gershwin, Porter, Korngold, Prokofiev, Ernst Krenek,…Ligetti, I also like film scores- Morricone, John Williams, Jerry Goldsmith, Eric Serra, Jarre, Horner, Polidouris- and from Anime (Yoko Kanno), some songs: Lotte Lenya, Serge Gainsbourg, Ingrid Caven, Boris Vian, sometimes Tom Waits or Nick Cave. When I was 13 I liked "metal" (Iron Maiden, Halloween, Manowar, Metallica) and still find them funny, then with 15 I was into rap (Public Enemy!, Ice T, etc or very good and more recent: Busta Rhymes: I learned much from them about verse- esp. "It takes a nation…" is top.)…; I like cool jazz, bossa nova, disco, mambo, etc; many others also, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Quincy Jones, Miles Davies, John Coltraine, seldom but still Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, The Damned (remember those? lol); then some Latin-music (Elvis Crespo, Tony Túntún etc) and arcade game music from the 80’s: both for driving, The Pogues (for drinking), Madness, The Prodigy, Massive Attack, Pulp, Robbie Williams, some Madonna, Michael Jackson (until Bad)- nowadays there are very many bands and I like to discover new ones. Music is the art-form I technically know least about- yet fortunately it’s also the most direct art, the most atmospheric one- so it is easy to be autodidactic, to "learn" to get used to it ;) (The most difficult- yet the most rewarding- is to "get used" to the fully educated and unaltered human voice on the highest level of proficiency: namely opera, both modern and classical- I like Bel Canto (Italian) best, Wagner is not my cup of tea (yet?) but the overtures are great.).
The characterization of myself via music: Boris Vian (J’suis Snob), Alphaville (Jet-Set Society), The Dandy Warhols (Bohemian Like You), Pulp (Common People), Comedian Harmonists (Florestan, 1er Prince de Monaco), Gershwin/Jackson (Tum on and Tiss me), Händel (Zadok the Priest), Public Enemy (Louder Than a Bomb), Iron Maiden (Can I Play With Madness?! [yup!] ), Cibo Matto (Working for Vacation), Faithless (Insomnia), The Prodigy (Out of Space)…
My criterium for a "good" movie is also how often I can watch it without getting bored: so while Carl Theodor Dreyer might make very good movies and Fightclub has a very good story they are best at the first viewing, also there are movies for certain moods and situations: e.g. one of the most enjoyable ways to be elegantly (!) bored is watching I.Bergman stuff in an old, near empty European cinema drinking whiskey from a flask, or visiting a Giacometti-exhibition before watching something with Max Schreck or some of Murnau's. I like DUNE (D. Lynch) most, Space Odysee2001 (a philosophical movie about the problem of consciousness)- Kubrick- Dr Strangelove, Star Wars (OT), Indiana Jones, then many by Kurosawa, Pasolini, Godards "Le Mepris" if Im in the mood, David Lynch, Miyazaki (anime), Tarantino etc. Film is primarily a visual art and many so called connaisseurs who sneer at action-films dont seem to realize that. There are many other flicks that I like but Im too lazy to think about it now. (oh yeah Kung Fu Hustle was very good, I like cheesy kung fu films too, and Yakuza-films etc)
I WATCH NOTHING BUT COMMERCIALS!
There are very many authors and books I wouldnt read but still too many that I like, to name them all. Literarily I consider myself in the succession of the Decadents, yet trying to tie the Avantgarde back to mythical (and epic!) archaism: some influences are Homer, Laozi, Poe, Dostojewsky(!), J.-K. Huysmans, Petronius, Ducasse, Dante, Petrarca, D'Aurevilly, Altenberg, Schnitzler, Gottfried Benn, Stefan George, Lasker-Schüler, Machen, HPL, Sasoon, Klarkashton,...some Hesse, Maulana Jajal al-Din, Attar, Q.Horatius Flaccus, Augustinus, Nietzsche, Feyerabend, Schopenhauer (writes a very erudite prose btw) but also Plato, Dylan Thomas, Shaw, some Twain, Tolkien, Lord Dunsany, Anne Rice, Matsuo Basho, Sei Shonagon, blah, blah-- no, its senseless to go on for ever.
Zhuangzi, Huangdi (Yellow Emperor), des Esseintes (from "A Rebours"), Odysseus, Yemaya, Apollo, Aphrodite, Nietzsche, Heraclitus, Ereshkigal, Zeus, Xi Wang Mu, Tom Bombadil, Blake, Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Selene, A.O. Spare, Elric, Rumi, John Cleese, Odin, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, Li Bai, Princess Himiko, Bakchus, Set, Hölderlin. all. poets. prophets. artists. fops. and. mystics.