Monday 13 May 2013

Guitars Instead of God - Ross & the Realifers

Ludwig Wittgenstein


Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

John Searle on the Philosophy of Language: Section 1


Dieter Roth: Diaries at The Fruitmarket Gallery 2 August -- 14 October 2012

SHAME Steve McQueen-The Origins

Bach - Cello Suite No.1 i-Prelude

Thom Yorke - Ingenue (Live Jonathan Ross Show)

Mogwai - Scotland's Shame

Why Is That Important?: Looking at Jackson Pollock

CLAUDE DEBUSSY: CLAIRE DE LUNE

Erik Satie "Trois Gymnopédies"


Henry Miller on the Artist and individuality work and Finding oneself

Henry Miller on The Artist and individuality, Dostoevsky and Nietzsche

"melancholia," by Charles Bukowski





the history of melancholia
includes all of us.
me, I writhe in dirty sheets
while staring at blue walls
and nothing.
I have gotten so used to melancholia
that
I greet it like an old
friend.
I will now do 15 minutes of grieving
for the lost redhead,
I tell the gods.
I do it and feel quite bad
quite sad,
then I rise
CLEANSED
even though nothing
is solved.
that’s what I get for kicking
religion in the ass.
I should have kicked the redhead
in the ass
where her brains and her bread and
butter are
at …
but, no, I’ve felt sad
about everything:
the lost redhead was just another
smash in a lifelong
loss …
I listen to drums on the radio now
and grin.
there is something wrong with me
besides
melancholia.

Albert Camus on Nihilism

Charles Bukowski on Individuality




too much too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody.

laughter or
tears

haters
lovers

strangers with faces like
the backs of
thumb tacks

armies running through
streets of blood
waving winebottles
bayoneting and fucking
virgins.

an old guy in a cheap room
with a photograph of M. Monroe.

there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock

people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.

people just are not good to each other
one on one.

the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.

we are afraid.

our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners

it hasn't told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.

or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone

untouched
unspoken to

watering a plant.

people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.
people are not good to each other.

I suppose they never will be.
I don't ask them to be.

but sometimes I think about
it.

the beads will swing
the clouds will cloud
and the killer will behead the child
like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone.

too much
too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody

more haters than lovers.

people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.

meanwhile I look at young girls
stems
flowers of chance.

there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no." 

Yer a Tragedy, It's Good Like

Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73

Pete Doherty - Hired Gun

Who The F*ck Is Pete Doherty (full Documentary)

Jimmy Savile (from When Louis met Jimmy)

Ross Sinclair: The Real Life Gordons of Huntly History Song

Alasdair Roberts dir. Luke Fowler "Under No Enchantment"

Irvine Welsh: Do give up your day job

FILTH - Official Redband Trailer (NSFW)

Peter Mullan NEDS interview Vocable

My Name is Joe_Ken Loach (Part 1).flv

The Angel's Share Trailer (ken Loach - 2012)

Zidane A 21st Century Portrait - 7:25 clip

An Abstract Look at Art with Jonathan Meese

Designing Video Installations with Douglas Gordon

Douglas Gordon, The End of Civilisation, 2012

Werner Herzog on the 'Cave of Forgotten Dreams' - by Scientific American

Grizzly Man (Docudrama 2005)

Noel Fielding on Modern Masters: Dali

Damien Hirst | The First Look | Channel 4

Hide/Seek: Portraits by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and David Wojnarowicz

Oscar Peterson - C Jam Blues

John Baldessari "This Not That" Documentary

Glasgow Film Festival 2012: Son of R.D. Laing Adrian Laing talks about A...

John Cage: "Dream"

Tacita Dean au CentQuatre, Merce Cunningham performs STILLNESS, 2008