post·mod·ern·ism /[pohst-mod-er-niz-uhm] (noun) any of a number of trends or movements in the arts and literature developing in the 1970s in reaction to or rejection of the dogma, principles, or practices of established modernism, esp. a movement in architecture and the decorative arts running counter to the practice and influence of the International Style and encouraging the use of elements from historical vernacular styles and often playful illusion, decoration, and complexity.
poetry manifested. The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, DESIROUS OF EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME ,the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, BURN, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." - Jack Kerouac
The Departed, Amores Perros, Little Miss Sunshine, Night on Earth, The City of Lost Children, Wings of Desire, Whalerider, House of Yes, Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Amadeus, City of God, Tarnation, American Beauty, The Science of Sleep
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" The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by a man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaniously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the eart, the more real and truthful they become. "Milan Kundera, Unbearable Lightness of Being
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