January 2012
46 posts
“I believe that in our culture of simulation, the notion of authenticity is for...”
– Sherry Turkle, Alone Together
via caitlinwinner
(via christmasgorilla)
Ritual
” … Invoking cultural patterns going back to the Stone Age, Sophocles’ ANTIGONE, and domestic and international law, various family members of disappeared people asked the judiciary to declare a right to truth and to mourning and an obligation to respect the human body.
” … archaeologists and anthropologists recognize in the cult of the dead a sign of humanization...
“History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
– James Joyce, “Ulysses”
by Lewis Carroll, 1871
In winter, when the fields are white,
I sing this song for your delight —
In spring, when the woods are getting green,
I’ll try and tell you what I mean.
In summer, when the days are long,
Perhaps you’ll understand the song:
In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
Take pen and ink, and write it down.
—— as recited to Alice by Humpty Dumpty
VIA
D.Joseph: Impossible, beat the saint →
djoseph:
My mother cried when I was drafted.
The tears wet her cheeks and
wet my apetite to fight
for Diocletian. Scared and proud I bent and snapped
to the will of the empire.
As I left the Po River Valley
I knew it would never be seen again
by me. I’d been transplanted
to Rome. The transition…
“And she wanted to say not one thing, but everything. Little words that broke up...”
– To The Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf (via carbonaluminium)
Contempt Follows
There are two types of people in the world. The first are those who go through life recognizing immediately that Kurt Cobain’s song HEART-SHAPED BOX probably refers to a vagina. The second type are those to whom thoughts like that would never occur.
Stop Your Foolin'
Download Bessie Smith’s wonderful and rather jaw-dropping (for the recording date, 1931) I NEED A LITTLE SUGAR IN MY BOWL for free here. You’re welcome.
Non-narrative, but
“The search for actors starts from scratch with every new film and is a very time intensive process. I don’t distribute scripts and I don’t work from a set screen-play. The most important aspect about my work is building relationships based on mutual trust and gradually making actors develop a feeling for my ambition and the atmosphere of the film. If I succeed the actors (professional or...
December 2011
96 posts
