“The blossom is out in full now, it’s plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white. It’s the whitest, frothiest blossomest blossom that ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn’t seem to matter. But the now-ness of everything is absolutely wondrous.”
Quotes
“I….Sleeping (being a dream journal and parenthetical explication)”
“I am running down a street.
I am wearing a silvered business suit.
It is not I.
The figure is stopped mid-stride, one arm flung out.
The street vanishes.
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The word ‘title’ is flung at me off five white gloved fingers backed by a vague clown face.
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Something of dead leaves… a rustling.
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a waiting – expectancy.
a sea-scape.
large people with smashed faces bending over.——-
A paw print – one toe bent in cashew curl… So that it reminds me of a flower petal.
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A quarter-turn clockwise of multicolored basket shapes merry-go-rounding – reds, blues, yellows, and more distant blurs of other shades. Dusty-yellowed browns for ground, and a pale blue clouded sky. A very few still silhouettes of people shape.”
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Some of Stan Brakhage’s 1975 dreams as remembered upon waking, from “I….Sleeping (being a dream journal and parenthetical explication)”, published 1988 by Island Cinema Resources (via Airform Archives)(via elettra)
Save us from the saviours
“There are two main stories about the Greek crisis in the media: the German-European story (the Greeks are irresponsible, lazy, free-spending, tax-dodging etc, and have to be brought under control and taught financial discipline) and the Greek story (our national sovereignty is threatened by the neoliberal technocracy imposed by Brussels). When it became impossible to ignore the plight of the Greek people, a third story emerged: the Greeks are now presented as humanitarian victims in need of help, as if a war or natural catastrophe had hit the country. While all three stories are false, the third is arguably the most disgusting. The Greeks are not passive victims: they are at war with the European economic establishment, and what they need is solidarity in their struggle, because it is our struggle too.
Greece is not an exception. It is one of the main testing grounds for a new socio-economic model of potentially unlimited application: a depoliticised technocracy in which bankers and other experts are allowed to demolish democracy. By saving Greece from its so-called saviours, we also save Europe itself.”
– Slavoj Žižek (via jhnbrssndn)
“Please apologize to your friend for me.”
“Likable characters are for weak-minded narcissists.”
Remembering 2000AD
“Can you imagine a time when your favourite comics creators and stories were published together in the same comic every week?”
Master of Animation
“But rubber is like humans. It’s fine material, but it will rot.”
One of many pearls of wisdom in this excellent interview.
Has he seen Avatar?
No, he hasn’t.
In Wonderland
“Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them otherwise.”
— Duchess
Return of the audio cassette
“It was kind of cool how each tape sounded different depending on what cassette deck you used.” Bjornaa even reuses old cassettes as well as fresh blanks. “You can sometimes still hear the original music playing behind the new tracks. It adds a certain something that makes each cassette unique.”
William James
“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”
Paul Greer 