::ORTEGACY::

I'd like to meet:

a loaf of bread, a container of milk and a stick of butter

Music:

Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, David Bowie, Josephine Foster, Devendra Barnhard, Django Reinhardt, The Smiths, Odetta, Wooden Wand, Sonic Youth, Antony and the Johnsons, Neil Young, Hot Chip, Radiohead, Alice Coltrane, Danger Mouse, The Shins, more, more, more

Movies:

Tony Conrad, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Stan Brakhage, Peter Kubelka, Michael Snow, Luther Price, Kenneth Anger; Nights of Cabiria, Night of the Hunter, Down by Law, The Sweet Smell of Success, Fantasia, The Decameron, Bande à part, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Fritz the Cat, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Russian Ark, Storytelling, Akira, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, American Psycho, Withnail and I, Yojimbo, The Thief and the Cobbler, 1930's animation, more, more, more

Books:

"Perhaps history this century, thought Eigenvalue, is rippled with gathers in its fabric such that if we are situated, as Stencil seemed to be, at the bottom of a fold, it's impossible to determine warp, woof, or pattern anywhere else. By virtue, however, of existing in one gather it is assumed there are others, compartmented off into sinuous cycles each of which come to assume greater importance than the weave itself and destroy any continuity. Thus it is that we are charmed by funny looking automobiles of the '30's, the curious fashions of the '20's, the peculiar moral habits of our grandparents. We produce and attend musical comedies about them and are conned into a false memory, a phony nostolgia about what they were. We are accordingly lost to any sense of continuous tradition. Perhaps if we lived on a crest, things would be different. We could at least see." -Thomas Pynchon

"With time, I've come to realize that very few theives are opposed to property; on the contrary, they reaffirm it. Theft in their case is but an act of acquisition, a lone act committed for social acceptance...I was the child that circled the playground like a caged animal; and behind me was another, and another. And so we followed each other as if guided by the stars above. It is from such a prison that freedom flowed; like some centrifugal force that holds the spheres around the head, with the heavens and the stars." - Mounsi"Nothing extraordinary would be allowed to happen here, and if it did, we owned nothing so precious or unique that it could not be replaced with a credit card number and a phone call." -Jennifer Shreve"The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another." Quentin Crisp

Heroes:

, We Don't Need Another