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CocoRosie - “Werewolf”
10:20 am • 17 December 2009
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Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 ‘Moonlight’, 1st Mov. Really quite creepy.
8:58 pm • 11 November 2009
OH MY GOD IT’S AGYNESS DEYN AND ALEXA CHUNG!
5:27 pm • 11 November 2009
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The Science Of Selling Yourself Short - Less Than Jake (externally hosted)
7:55 pm • 9 November 2009
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Spanish Bombs - The Clash
7:53 pm • 9 November 2009
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David Tennant (as Edgar aka “Poor Tom”) & some other people doing King Lear
7:05 pm • 8 October 2009
A chrome Lamborghini Murcielago!!! (by jaspersimons)
8:55 pm • 9 August 2009
"What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity’s basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears; the collective humiliations, vulnerabilities, slights, grievances, sensitivities, and imagined insults, and the nationalist boasts and inflations that are their next of kin … Whenever I am confronted by such sentiments, and by the irrational, overstated language in which they are usually expressed, I know they touch on a darkness inside me. We have often witnessed peoples, societies and nations outside the Western world–and I can identify with them easily–succumbing to fears that sometimes lead them to commit stupidities, all because of their fears of humiliation and their sensitivities. I also know that in the West–a world with which I can identify with the same ease–nations and peoples taking an excessive pride in their wealth, and in their having brought us the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Modernism, have, from time to time, succumbed to a self-satisfaction that is almost as stupid."
— Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Lecture
2:25 pm • 5 August 2009
William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, 1953 (via predatorywaspobserver)
10:03 pm • 3 August 2009
"For we can find no common term to apply to the mimes of Sophron and Xenarchus and to the Socratic dialogues: nor again supposing a poet were to make his representation in iambics or elegiacs or any other such metre—except that people attach the word poet (maker) to the name of the metre and speak of elegiac poets and of others as epic poets. Thus they do not call them poets in virtue of their representation but apply the name indiscriminately in virtue of the metre. For if people publish medical or scientific treatises in metre the custom is to call them poets. But Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except the metre, so that it would be proper to call the one a poet and the other not a poet but a scientist. … On this point the distinctions thus made may suffice."
— Aristotle, Poetics 1447b, distinguishing poetry from prose. Empedocles wrote philosophy in hexameter verse.
11:57 am • 31 July 2009
"Epic poetry, then, and the poetry of tragic drama, and, moreover, comedy and dithyrambic poetry, and most flute-playing and harp-playing, these, speaking generally, may all be said to be “representations of life”."
— Aristotle, Poetics 1447a, designates lyric poetry, drama, epic poetry, dancing, painting and other forms as mimesis.
11:43 am • 31 July 2009
