February 2012
20 posts
“First Idea. Best Idea.”
– Chabet
“The greatest straightness looks like crookedness. The greatest skill appears...”
– The Tao Te Ching
WatchGreg Dulli. Paper Thin Hotel.
” . . in fact a burden lifted from my soul, I learned that love was out of my control …”
Love Greg Dulli. Love this Leonard Cohen song. Love this cover. Love you. Love.
it'll end in tears: a valentine anti-love mixtape
Love is many things in pop music. Like oxygen. Thicker than water. All around. Will tear us apart. A tender trap. A battlefield. A mystery. A dog from hell. A bitch. A mix tape. A drug. But it was Roy Orbison who nailed it better than everyone else: love hurts. Regardless of permutation but maybe not so much hip-hop or death metal or hardcore punk, romantic misery is pop music’s main...
kodachrome gotham
New York 1942 , Charles Weaver Cushman
super president
I love nearly every single one of the Asylum’s cheap knockoffs, from their steampunk Sherlock Holmes to their 80s-damaged Almighty Thor , if only for how they sharpen into relief how tremendously silly the original Hollywood tentpoles they poke fun at are.
make your own uncool
Sol Lewitt’s letter to Eva Hesse.
Dear Eva,
It will be almost a month since you wrote to me and you have possibly forgotten your state of mind (I doubt it though). You seem the same as always, and being you, hate every minute of it. Don’t! Learn to say “F*** You” to the world once in a while. You have every right to. Just stop thinking, worrying, looking over your shoulder wondering,...
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
January 2012
26 posts
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
“If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner,...”
– Lin Yutang
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watt via Jonathan Carroll
armageddon hopefuls: my 2011 in music
“The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.” (Nick Hornby)
In the end, it all came down to pleasure for me. Not that there’s no melancholic surfeit here, there was the need to mope and to rant, mostly over the loose ends every year leaves you with, the ghosts I can’t give...
retromancy
This is like crack. More here. And more please. Fritz Lang’s Inception. Hell yeah, I’d watch that.
“I’m going to be alone my whole life aren’t I?”
– Carrie Mathison, Homeland
“If love is truly going out of fashion forever, which I do not believe, then...”
– Lester Bangs
stop dragging my heart around
This is not a film by Khavn. Ruined Heart!/ Pusong Wasak! just became the first Filipino entry in the Official Selection of the Berlinale International Short Film Competition. In a word, wasak.
Poster by me.
“But isn’t art for art’s sake what art is?”
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means...”
– Harry Crews via Monte Hellman
hymns to the silence
Album in rotation.
Church music, a kind of hush.
“regret for wasted time is more wasted time”
– mason cooley (via chapter-82)
“Art is what we do. Culture is what’s done to us.”
– Carl André
“The fanatic is always concealing a secret doubt.”
– John Le Carre, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
“Don’t run after poetry. It penetrates unaided through the cracks.”
– Robert Bresson
scum ad
deal?
“When the music changes, so does the dance.”
– African proverb
“Of course there are way too many lists; the trick is finding useful ones. I...”
– Will Hermes
zero degrees of separation: my 2011 at the movies
I am still, it turns out, terribly susceptible to the delirium of festival fever, and in 2011, the temperature cranked past even my own thresholds, with the demented overlap in the last quarter making matters even more grueling. At the end of that week and a half, I was down with a particularly vicious strain of influenza.
Cinemanila was still the sovereign colossus, as domestic festivals go,...
December 2011
27 posts
elements of style
When writing, remember three things.
1. You are no one and your work has no value.
2. Nobody cares.
3. Write as if the first two aren’t true.
mindbake
Album in rotation.
II, The Psychedelic Paramount.
every dog has his day
