I've been watching her career ever since she was in theaudience.
Saturday, July 2, 2011
New Stuff: The Residents
Remarkably, this classic Residents album has been missing in my collection. Since I'm onto a similar project compiling a faux '25 All Time Family favourites' album, I needed to get this for inspiration.
New Stuff: The Notwist
A Bavarian band at home home not far from where I live this album has been ranked by critics of one of the best albums of the decade, so I thought I'll check out what the hype is all about.
First Lines: Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
(art: Joseph Kosuth)
In principle, the work of art has always been reproducible.
Friday, July 1, 2011
William S. Burroughs: My Education. A Book of Dreams
So here P am in the Land of the Dead with Mikey Portman. We are sharing an apartment which consists of two rooms with a bathroom between them. Mikey's room is also provided with a sleeping porch. There are two beds side by side and touching each other, lumpy-looking mattresses, throw rugs, eiderdowns, cushions covered in tattered, frayed yellow and gold velvet. Looks like the madam's room in a whorehouse, lacking only an asthmatic Pekingnese. It seems an old German lady with tight lace collar and high-button, black shoes has been billeted on us for the night.
Mikey is on the sleeping porch wrapped up in a pink blanket. I tell him he should let her sleep on one of the beds. After all, he can retire to the sleeping porch. And I have assurances she will not even remove her clothes.
"No, I don't want her in here."
"Well, you can stay on the porch. There are two beds."
"I might want to sleep in here."
No use. Death hasn't changed him a bit; the same selfish, self-centered, spoiled, petulant, weak Mikey Portman.
Now I see a small black dog peeking out of the bathroom door, which is ajar...dog all black, shiny black...with a long pointed muzzle quivering like a dowser wand.
"Where did that door dog come from? What is it doing here?"
"Does it matter?" Distilled concentrate of petulant Portman.
"Door man...door dog," I say.
He doesn't answer. Obviously I will have to billet the old German lady in my room, which is a duplicate of his room except the beds are smaller.
The Movies I Watched in June
Beauty Shop (2005) 5
Catch Me If You Can (2002) 7
Dirty Harry (1971) 7
Dune (1984) 7
Giant (1956) 6
Hostage (2005) 6
The Big Blue (1988) 7
Magnum Force (1973) 6
Pane e tulipani (200) 5
Saw IV (2007) 6
The Assignment (1997) 5
The Great Raid (2005) 6
The Missing (2003) 6
The Order (2003) 3
The Postman (1997) 5
Tomahawk (1955) 6
Catch Me If You Can (2002) 7
Dirty Harry (1971) 7
Dune (1984) 7
Giant (1956) 6
Hostage (2005) 6
The Big Blue (1988) 7
Magnum Force (1973) 6
Pane e tulipani (200) 5
Saw IV (2007) 6
The Assignment (1997) 5
The Great Raid (2005) 6
The Missing (2003) 6
The Order (2003) 3
The Postman (1997) 5
Tomahawk (1955) 6
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
First Lines: Guy Debord - Society of the Spectacle
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
First Lines: Theodor W. Adorno - Negative Dialectics
(art: Jasper Morello)
Philosophy, which once seemed obsolete, lives on because the moment to realize it was missed.
