February 2012
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allthatglittered:
A Street In Bombay - Amancio...
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“I have been loving this book. It reads smoothly, and takes on great issues such...”
– Mondo Dave reviews Nicholas of Cusa’s Of Learned Ignorance.
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Go on, fat boy. Dance.
‘Watch!’, says W. It’s the famous sequence of the chicken dancing in an amusement arcade booth, from Herzog’s film Stroszek. Bruno, the film’s protagonist, puts a few quarters in the slot and wanders off to shoot himself. The chicken dances, bobbing on its claws. The chicken dances, its comb wobbling, its wattle swinging, its black eyes manic…
Bruno and the...
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ihardlyknewer:
Yo sometimes when I am in life and I hear somebody say “what the fuck!” my brain then provides auditory hallucinations where a girl says “GRADY!” and then like dr. dre says “Alright, calm down, relax, start breathing.” and dateline is doing a special about it where I get an mri and they show stock footage of a brain .gif and it is just becoming such a media circus and I want my...
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“I am now earning £2 10s a week for sitting in an office from 9.15 to 5 with...”
– T.S. Eliot
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“I’ll kill myself!” he notified me when his misery seemed too great to bear. And...”
– Celine, Journey to the End of the Night (via revdrpeepers)
Wittgenstein, in a letter to Engelmann:
I am in a state of mind that is terrible to me. I have been through it several times before: it is the state of not being able to get over a particular fact. It is a pitiable state, I know. But...
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underthechinaberrytree:
We waited for somebody to approach us and start a conversation. It was a party and we didn’t want to talk to each other. The whole point was to separate for the evening and find exciting people to talk to and then at the very end to meet again and tell each other how terrible it had been and how glad we were to be together again. This is the essence of Western...
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"Bengalee baboo" →
kaash:
by Dave Carson
I very good Bengalee Baboo
In Calcutta I long time stop ;
Ramchand Tun da Ghosh my name,
Radha Bazar I keep my shop.
Very good Hindu, smoke my hooka.
Eat my dal bhat every day ;
Night come I make plenty pooja
Here is the nautchwalla tom tom play.
Kooch parwa nahi good time coming
Babu never make islave (slave).
Dave Carson came to Bombay with a small...
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“Today, when ‘Westernization’ has become a pejorative word, there...”
– Ashis Nandy, The Intimate Enemy: Loss and Recovery of Self Under Colonialism, 1983.
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“I know of nothing more difficult than knowing who you are, and having the...”
– William Gass (via invisiblestories)
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Dial-up modem sounds slowed down by 700%
(via...
Anonymous asked: Have you checked out the LSD cinema movement ? It's main film is called 'Black Biscuit' check out the trailer on youtube you'll understand. See ya
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“[Jarry’s] first play, “Ubu Roi,” which opened in December 1896...”
– Another piece of riveting cultural history by Gabriel Josipovici
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Russia Is Everything. Everything Else Is Nothing. →
A must read for all those who love Limonov, for those who don’t know Limonov, for those who’ve lived through the Bush years, for those who’ve lived through the Occupy days, for those who scoff at the state of Russian politics; a must read for all damn it.
Kiki has also alerted me to Mark Ames’ response to the Curtis blog post. I blogged about the Surkov LRB article a few...
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i go online for two mins
caliselena4: hey.
me: heyo
caliselena4: hey whats up? 23 FemaIe here. you?
me: um do i know you?
caliselena4: hmmmm. have we chattded beforre?
me: no
caliselena4: oh oook. i wasn't surue. anyways.... whatt's up?
me: i dunno man
caliselena4: im Iike so borededddd.... therer's nothinggggggg to do
me: think about the universe
it's infinite
caliselena4: ohhh waiat! i have a GREAT iddea. have you evevr watched a hot woman Iikke me strip Iive on a webcaam before?
me: did the chicken come before the egg?
caliselena4: weIlIIIlI.... you couIld watch me iffff you want to?
me: i;m blind
January 2012
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“The problem is actually seeing, being there,” he said. “What else is there to...”
– Sharmistha Mohanty recalls Mani Kaul.
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Leela and Priya wanted to be rescued through romantic love, even though they had chosen bar dancing for the independence it allowed them to enjoy; independence, in particular, from men. This was one of the great contradictions of the line and of bar dancers themselves.
And so love was the constant in every conversation, an audience to every silence. Thoughts of love filled the emptiness of...
“I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there’s a feeling of not...”
– Jessica Hagedorn (via madlangbayan)
From this interview.
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