"the girl who talked with her eyes.

do you see what i'm saying?"

Blanchot thought and wrote a lot about what happens when you’re alone. As did Levinas. Literally alone. About the forces rising like a slow, heavy mist over harrowing experiences and claiming your existence as soon as daytime distractions fade away. It’s then that the fine threads of the night are woven through your body, the threads so delicate ( Read more... )

--i grew up in boston. well, actually, i grew up in books.
--there’s things you can’t get in books.
--there are things you can’t get anywhere. but we dream they can be found in other people.

"you never think of it, but the truth may turn out to be sad"

"i count as friends those who disapprove of my actions but not of my existence"

(c) godard

"My writings are supposed to be so difficult. I was supposed to think that everybody in distress understands me. But where are those who are in distress?" (c) Nietzsche, cited by Benjamin.

if only i could find a means of expression for the real intellectual understanding that i have with [...]. if only i could stay up all night, stay vigilant, and think of nothing but the times when we’re both speaking of violence, and the body, and suffering, and justice, and ethics, and commitment, and wars, and responsibility, and resistance, and ( Read more... )

If we refuse to conflate the conditions of knowledge with the conditions of reality, then the question is not, “Why do I do evil?” and not, “Why do you do evil?” but rather, “Why are there the conditions under which people do evil?” (c)

For Nietzsche, society is the problem. For Adorno, society is not the problem. This society is the problem. (c)

Kirlian Camera - Nightglory
VNV Nation - Automatic 
The Frozen Autumn - Chirality 
Miserylab - Void of Life
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake 
This Morn' Omina - L'Unifications Des Forces Opposantes 
Siva Six - The Twin Moons 
Aïboforcen - Dédale 
IAMX - Volatile Times 
Acretongue - Strange Cargo 
Mirko Hirsch - Obsession
Cold In May - Gone Away With The Memories

"no one loved nico and nico loved no one".

as this one reviewer said, melancholia, cronenberg’s crash, bergman’s persona, and fight club are the only films that have succeeded in capturing the feeling of genuine clinical depression. i’d add the piano teacher to that.

it’s what chills you to the bone, it’s when the winter strikes roots in your bones. it’s the cold that re-crystallizes your ( Read more... )