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Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project

Until anarchy is restored chaos will prevail.

About Me

Procrastinating, provoking, yearning and becoming. La otra campana and respectful irreverence. Life in all its complexity. Anti-capitalism and anti-Oedipus. Cinema, not movies...

My Interests

Music:

(in no particular order): Two Gallants, Etta James, Punch & the Apostles, Asian Dub Foundation, Prose & Concepts, Minor Threat, De La Soul, State Radio, John Coltrane, And So I Watch You From Afar, Tom Ze, The Mars Volta, Juana Molina, Sona Fariq, Gil Scott-Heron, Public Enemy, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, The Doors, Mos Def, Pearl Jam, Fugazi, Bob Marley, Metallica, Anthrax, Suicidal Tendencies, Ani Di Franco, Bob Dylan, Explosions In the Sky, Nina Simone, Beastie Boys, Neil Young, The Jam, Carter USM, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead, Sebadoh, Sonic Youth, Sage Francis, Dangerdoom, Spearhead, Ice T, Clayton Blizzard, Jorge Ben, Miles Davis, Gomez, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, The Fiery Furnaces, Little Barrie, Slayer, Kenny Burrell, The Clash, Bjork, Madonna, John Coltrane, MIA, Massive Attack, Edan, NWA, Amon Tobin, Aphex Twin, Robyn, The National, Bruce Springsteen, Gravediggaz, Laura Veirs, Willy Mason, Paul Simon, Fionn Regan, Be Your Own Pet, Her Space Holiday, Curtis Mayfield, Ice Cube, Rage Against the Machine, Boards of Canada, The Orb, Beethoven, Leftfield, Sinead O’Connor, The Beatles, Pixies, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Manu Chao, Wu Tang Clan, At the Drive In, Black Star, Mogwai, Astrud Gilberto, Eric B & Rakim, Sparklehorse, Buffalo Tom, Minor Threat, PJ Harvey

Movies:

(in no particular order): Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, Martin Scorsese, John Sayles, Chris Marker, Dusan Makavejev, Glauber Rocha, Melvin Van Peebles, Alfred Hitchcock, Nicholas Ray, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Alain Resnais, Gillo Pontecorvo, Michaelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, Ken Loach, Luchino Visconti, Takeshi Kitano, Lindsay Anderson, Nicolas Roeg, Alex Cox, Wong Kar Wai, Stanley Kubrick, Abbas Kiarostami, Mike Leigh, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Michael Reeves, Lukas Moodysson, Steven Soderbergh, Gaspar Noe, Shane Meadows, Michael Winterbottom, Abel Ferrara, Michael Haneke, Peter Watkins, Haskell Wexler, Lars Von Trier, Akira Kurosawa, Michael Powell, Samuel Fuller, Stan Brakhage, The Coen Brothers, Francis Coppola, Roberto Rossellini, Sergio Leone, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, DW Griffith, Len Lye, Lucas Belvaux, Michel Gondry, Tomas Gutierrez Alea

Television:

(in no particular order): Match of the Day, Twin Peaks, Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined), Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Books:

(in no particular order): William Burroughs, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Friedrich Nietzsche, Enersto Che Guevara Lynch, Brett Easton Ellis, Erica Jong, J.D. Salinger, George Orwell, Jack Kerouac, Sub Commandante Marcos, Jeanette Winterson, Manuel De Landa, Will Self, Nicolas Walter, Roland Barthes, Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, Bell Hooks, Lesley Stern, Lao Tzu, John Steinbeck, Ahdaf Soueif, Brian Henderson, Noam Chomsky, William Shakespeare, Gilles Deleuze, John-Paul Sartre, Milan Kundera, Pat Barker, Benjamin Hoff, Patrick Suskind, Ziauddin Sardar, Susan Hayward, Edward Said, John Holloway, Daniel Quinn, Karl Marx, Allan Watts, Andre Bazin, Ray Durgnat, David Bordwell, Janet Staiger, Kristin Thompson, Amy Taubin, Michael O'Pray

Heroes:

They don't appear on stamps.

My Blog

Last orders

The job of the media is to create and disseminate paranoia and lies. So it comes as no surprise to me when I read this morning's papers depicting scenes of chaos and despair on the Circle Line last ni...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 06:13:00 PST

Credit

In the most simplest way, money was created to facilitate credit. Which of course is another word for debt. Debt has always been a staple of human activity. Whether the debt be spiritual as it was onc...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Mon, 19 May 2008 07:49:00 PST

Its not your birthday

Today is not Israel's birthday. Like North America, a takeover is neither a discovery nor an acceptable declaration of independence. Today marks the occupation of the Palestinian Levant: the longest s...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Wed, 14 May 2008 08:46:00 PST

Plot holes 1

The Bourne UltimatumTechnically proficient yet soulless globalised Matt Damon "thriller" remains comical in its plot deliberations. Simon Ross, Guardian journalist (portrayed by the somewhat wasted Pa...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

Hoodies and haircuts

People who wear hoodies are persona non grata in the United Kingdom. If we believe the shrill scream of the red tops and patronising tone of the television news we are all at risk of some form of pers...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:35:00 PST

What is the body without organs?

The body without organs is the human body free of signification and representation. Disassociated from the snares of language, logic, ego and rigid fixed structures of identity the human body is free ...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:39:00 PST

Notes on an audience with an anarchist forum

The connective synthesis:Backlash was established in 2005 to challenge the Criminal Justice & Immigration bill and its specific attack on consumers of selective pornography. In this case the pornograp...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:38:00 PST

Ecoute

Zapatista Army of National LiberationMexicoSixth Declaration of the Selva LacandonaThis is our simple word which seeks to touch the hearts of humble and simple people like ourselves, but people who ar...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:03:00 PST

Note on further libertarian decline

Only two Members of Parliament (out of 646 constituent members) raised any concerns about the Criminal Justice & Immigration bill's proposals to penalise users of "extreme" pornography this week in pa...
Posted by Hans Lucas / The Blueprint Project on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 06:44:00 PST