Hilarity. My former manager at my previous job, who's been out of work since april, is working on a scheme to crack the stock market. He is still in the research phase but he says that even though 98% of those who try it fail, some succeed and he will be one of those who succeed ( Read more... )

"Art is vacuous unless it is describing as well as described" - Art & Language.

Art and Language's "art" may have been horrible (I guess their "language" was marginally better) and the above may not be true in any particular scale of comparison, but it provides a nice stick with which to beat the vast majority of the modern art.

I remember in my twenties reading plays by Strindberg, a novel by Max Frisch, Rilke's poetry, listening all night to music by Bartók, watching a tv special on the Sistine Chapel and Michelangelo and feeling in each case that my life had to change after these experiences, it couldn't help but be affected by these experiences and changed. There was ( Read more... )