kunst und kaprize.
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[…]'the cow is mother to the milk,-
and grandma both to cheese and butter.
the cheese is cousin to the marmelade.
isn't it strange?
– it is.'¬ fragment of 'Perhaps Strange' by Kurt Schwitters.
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a tea party with George Brummell · Barbey D' Aurevilly · James Mc Neil Whistler · Lord Henry Wotton · Oscar Wilde · Lord Byron · George Moore · Ron O' Sullivan · David Bowie · Elisabeth I of England · Buster Keaton · Theda Bara and of course; Hannah Hoech.
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mostly late 70s early 80s british post punk/goth punk, cold/new wave artists...
plus some completely insane lunatics. per example ¬
Joy Division · Die Unbekannten · The Cramps · Gang Of Four · Cure · Chameleons · Cold Dance · Anne Clark · Nico · Velvet Underground · Bone Orchard · The Glove · Wire · Bauhaus · Dali..s Car · Beast · Iggy And The Stooges · 13th Chime · Cinema Strange · Bowie · Rorschach Garden · The Vanishing · Autonervous · Adult. · Le Tigre · Tuxedomoon · X Mal Deutschland · Einstürzende Neubauten · Fad Gadget · Devo · Ramones · Art Brut · Comsat Angels · Dresden Dolls · The Birthday Party · Collapsing New People · Ausgang · Gun Club · Beatles · The Smiths · Grauzone · Depeche Mode · The Sound · Calvin Harris · The Fall · Scritti Politti · Siouxsuie And The Banshees · Siouxsie Sioux · The Smiths · Empress Of Fur · Ideal · Katzenjammer Kabarett · Sex Gang Children · Andy Sex Gang · Virgin Prunes · Feud · Cold · Snowy Red · Chales De Goal · No More · Jon Spencer Blues Explosion · Adam And The Ants · KAS Product · A Certain Ratio · Specimen · Lou Reed · Blondie · Echo And The Bunnymen · Bloc Party · Good Shoes · Red Zebra · DAF · Digitalism · Arctic Monkeys · Led Zeppein · Modern English · The Raincoats · Bjork · Lene Lovich · Taraf · Bartók · Jamiroquai · Ma Rainey · John Lee Hooker · Zara Leander · die Piaf · die Dietrich, and so on. Also some romantic composers and baroque cantata-music by Porpora, Haydn or Bach...And I keenly enjoy folkloristic 'Unterhaltungsmusik' from eastern european countries or/and the british isles).¬ current top four: Calvin Harris. Colors · Bone Orchard. Dumb Poet · The Smiths. London · Liaisons Dangereuses. Myste're Dans Le Brouillard · Taraf de Haïdouks. A Gypsy Had A House.
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The Piano · Keetje Tippel · Ragin · Blow Up · Festen · Models · Muttertag · Dancer In The Dark · Trainspotting · Der Letzte Mann · Das Kabinett Des Dr. Caligari · One Week · Gadjo Dilo · Barry Lyndon · Mephisto · Farinelli · My Summer Of Love · La Reine Margot · Camille Claudel · Oliver Twist · Bitter Moon · The Jungle Book · Delicatessen · 8 1/2 · Grande DaDa propaganda Films · And all the sexy Lynch films.
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Wickie und die starken Männer.
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faves are ¬ Wilde..s 'Salomé' · 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray' · 'Lady Windermere's Fan' and 'Pen, Pencil and Poison' · Barbey..s 'Les Diaboliques' · Baudelaire..s 'Les Paradis Artificielles' · Djuna Barnes.. 'Nightwood' · J. K. Huysmans.. 'Against Nature' · Dostojewskij..s 'Rodjon Raskolnikov' · Tristan Tzara..s DaDa manifestos · Lord Byron..s Poetry · Rainer Maria Rilke..s Poetry · and most of all; Novalis.. text 'Monolog' from 1798. –
Facteur Cheval · Poison Ivy Rorschach · Chrissy McGee.
[...] The painter, the true painter for whom we are looking will be he who can snatch its epic quality from the life of today, and can make us see and understand, with brush or with pencil, how great and poetic we are in our cravats and our patent-leather boots.' ¬ On The Heroism Of Modern Life by Charles P. Baudelaire
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I hope they keep down the price of whiskey.
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'but is it true, kind sir, that the poor king was wearing a frock when his head was cut off?' ¬ George Bryan Brummell
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'rumor has it, sire, that her britannic majesty has purchased cindy's mouche on ebay'
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