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“She’s Love, she loves and yet she is not loved.”
[Wm. Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis]
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Ten years ago, the Magnetic Fields (a project by Stephin Merritt; the band is apparently named for Les Champs Magnetiqués, a Surrealist novel published in 1920) released 69 Love Songs, a three-part genre- (and gender-) bending collection of songs that are by [...]
This should have gone in yesterday’s post. I totally forgot that Freddie Mercury channels Nijinsky’s Faune in the video for “I Want to Break Free.” The video was banned for a long time by MTV… I only recall seeing it once or twice as a kid (but thought it was awesome, even though I hadn’t [...]
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Friedrich Nietzsche on the role/appeal of the satyr chorus in Greek tragedy:
[T]he satyr was the primordial image of man, the expression of his highest and strongest emotions, as an inspired reveller, enraptured by the approach of the god, as a sympathetic companion, in whom the suffering of the god was repeated, as a messenger bringing [...]
“How different are the prudent and formidable words of the obsessive. He delights in his discourse, touches it up, polishes it. He is the man of one single utterance, and of one unique image. He’ll serve it to you over and over, prepared or presented differently. Don’t be offended. He [...]
I dislike the “lolcats” aesthetic with some intensity… but Яolcats is pretty funny. (As posted by Gnat on the facebooks.)
More of these can be found here. Via KC/DC, in comments.
I have an EPIC blog post coming up this Saturday or so, about some dude scamming me out of 3,000 bucks and me basically going after him like a pirate*** (with help from my landlord) and getting every red cent back, despite being kind of [...]
The Schopenhauer-on-LSD-sounding title of this post is also the unlikeliest line to ever appear in a low-budget comedy film. Ninja Bachelor Party, co-written and co-starring Bill Hicks, was filmed over the course of a decade and was completed in 1991. I’d never seen it, but we have the youtubes now, so yay!
Bill Hicks is [...]