Monday 29 August 2016
Monday 22 August 2016
Film quotes, #7: The Motorcycle Diaries
SILVIA: You are wasting your time.
ERNESTO: Why?
SILVIA: This life is hell.
ERNESTO: Yes, it is really fucked up, but we have to fight for every breath and tell Death to fuck off.
Friday 19 August 2016
Tuesday 16 August 2016
Friday 12 August 2016
Living innocently in a doom town: Wipers
Can one win by living innocently, as in no pretentious stunts and supposedly cunning managers, and no top-ten hits either? Wipers' archetypical punk ethos set the terms of reference because it never required such gimmicks; and, furthermore, because their musically adventurous path defied classification and broke away from convention, rather than cashed in on it. It may be the case that one can never win by living innocently, not least of all in a doom town, but perhaps this is the very reason it is so worth it; Greg Sage's combination of stellar musicianship and uncompromising integrity certainly is.
Sunday 7 August 2016
A day in the life: Jackson Pollock
Important art by Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five | The Art Story
Its surface is clotted with an assortment of detritus, from cigarette butts to coins and a key. While the top-most layers were created by pouring lines of black and shiny silver house paint, a large part of the paint's crust was applied by brush and palette knife, creating an angular counterpoint to the weaving lines.
Jackson Pollock, Full Fathom Five | MoMA
The title, suggested by Pollock's neighbor, quotes from Shakespeare's The Tempest, wherein Ariel describes a death by shipwreck: "Full fathom five thy father lies / Of his bones are coral made / Those are pearls that were his eyes."
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