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R A L P H

I HATE MYSPACE

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

im no longer in europe isnt that right young lady? i would like to meet a meal i didn't like.

Music:

"If we add to this awe the blissful ecstasy which rises from the innermost depths of man, aye, of nature, at this very collapse of the principium individuationis, we shall gain an insight into the nature of the Dionysian, which is brought home to us most intimately perhaps by the analogy of drunkeness. It is either under the influence of the narcotic draught, which we hear of in the songs of all primitive men and peoples, or with the potent coming of spring penetrating all nature with joy, that these Dionysian emotions awake, which, as they intensify, cause the subjective to vanish into complete self-forgetfulness" "Under the charm of the Dionysian not only is the union between man and man reaffirmed, but Nature which has become estranged, hostile, or subjugated, celebrates once more her reconciliation with her prodigal son, man. Freely earth proffers her gifts, and peacefully the beasts of prey approach from desert and mountain. The chariot of Dionysus is bedecked with flowers and garlands; panthers and tigers pass beneath his yoke. Transform Beethoven's "Hymm to Joy" into a painting; let your imagination conceive the multitudes bowing to the dust, awestruck - then you will be able to appreciate the Dionysian. Now the slave is free; now all the stubborn, hostile barriers, which necessity, caprice or "shameless fashion" have erected between man and man, are broken down. Now, with the gospel of universal harmony, each one feels himself not only united, reconciled, blended with his neighbor, but as one with him; he feels as if the veil of Maya had been torn aside and were now merely fluttering in tatters before the mysterious Primordial Unity. In song and dance man expresses himself as a member of a higher community; he has forgotten how to walk and speak; he is about to take a dancing flight into the air. His very gestures bespeak enchantment. Just as the animals now talk, just as the earth yields milk and honey, so from him emanate supernatural sounds. He feels himself a god, he himself now walks about enchanted, in ecstasy, like to the gods whom he saw walking about in his dremas. He is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art: in these paroxysms of intoxication the artistic power of all nature reveals itself to the highest gratification of the Primordial Unity. The noblest clay, the most costly marble, man, is here kneaded and cut, and to the sound of the chisel strokes of the Dionysian world-artist rings out the cry of the Eleusinian mysteries: "Do ye bow in the dust, O millions? Do you divine your creator, O world?""

Movies:

fun and thought provoking flicks that do not remind me too much of my own life or how pathetic people can be, unless it is very funny.

Television:

heroes, jeopardy, mythbusters, ugly betty. and por supuesto i must mention... PLANET EARTH

Books:

whatever. not too picky about literature. not a snob, maybe ignorant if anything.

Heroes:

Zidane. Hiro Nakamura not Peter Petreli

My Blog

world cup final

the game was crazy wasnt it, the world cup final (france vs. italy). we were watching it in circus aurelius, that is where they had the chariot races back in ancient rome. there are no ruins in t...
Posted by R A L P H on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 07:43:00 PST