dance, blading, arm balances; situationist tactics, j g ballard's fake ads for ambit, happenings, and other creative/parodic responses to alienation; photography, design, graffiti and ways of remaking the city, direct democracy, moments of intimacy between pedestrians, community; astanga and shower yoga; deserts, glaciers and other vast monochrome spaces; secret pockets and rumplestiltskins; wry smiles from dark-haired men; the early morning; dark alleys and artificial light; happiness; creativity in the practical arts; sassy cantonese comebacks.
detectives, situationists and late-night supermarketeers.
guided by voices, voxtrot, wolf parade, andrew bird, serge, mahler, messiaen, sufjan, interpol.
8 1/2, harold+kumar, squid+whale, donnie darko, das boot, caligari and the terrifying moment du musst caligari werden when ambient text enters set, wayne's world and its fallout in popular speech patterns, memento, kane, dolls, in the mood for love, raise the red lantern, ghost dog, last sanibroyeur at marienbad, la jetee, cache, renaissance. an approximately remembered movie about leif erikson of which i have only watched the first 40 minutes. short cuts. men leaving a dead girl in the water while they go fishing downstream: this might be one of the most perfect expressions of mutilated gender relations. obsessive light/darkness in le temps du loup. michel gondry's video for "la tour de pise." red desert. thx 1138. team america as episches theater.
fear and trembling. ones by robbe-grillet, ponge, beckett, adorno, and howard barker. baudelaire and sometimes ovid for reading aloud. spinoza, the great deadpan comedian. zizek on a good day (the parallax view, his plot summaries of butler's and laclau's essays in contingency, hegemony, universality). zizek on a bad day? still more interesting than most. "un seul ou plusieurs loups" in meal plat-oh!, who's afraid of virginia woolf and its non-bourgeois, non-redemptive mirror, heiner mueller's quartett; the watchmen; lolita; phenomenology of spirit (i would lick every page); many bits of l'ecriture et la difference; oresteia; the broken empire; chaos. the boston dig.
victor burgin's dry intonation, "as jean gabin falls, a woman in purdah rises."