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Loving The Like…
Not that any of you will recall (why should you), waaaay back early doors, I wrote some waffley post about The Like, and how I loved them like some amazing long lost cousin you forget about the second they’re off the radar? Hop, skip and a jump - THE LIKE ARE PLAYING NEWCASTLE THIS THURSDAY and I’m fucking excited and they are the greatest and I’m gonna rush the stage and start agressively hugging Tenessee Thomas (clappy girl on the left), cos that’s just the kind of unfortunate thing I do at gigs after a swig and a toke…Although this post will not apply to many - they’re on at The Cluny, doors 8pm. Eek!!
(Sasha)
“I was bewildered and worried that my entire scale of values was untrustworthy. … I confessed that I had a burning desire to be excellent, but no faith that I could be.”
“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”
Martha Graham
“I mean talk about decadence,” he declared, “how decadent can a society get? Look at it this way. This country’s probably the psychiatric, psychoanalytical capital of the world. Old Freud himself could never’ve dreamed up a more devoted bunch of disciples than the population of the United States - isn’t that right? Our whole damn culture is geared to it; it’s the new religion; it’s everybody’s intellectual and spiritual sugar-tit. And for all that, look what happens when a man really does blow his top. Call the Troopers, get him out of sight quick, hustle him off and lock him up before he wakes the neighbors. Christ’s sake, when it comes to any kind of showdown we’re still in the Middle Ages. It’s as if everybody’d made this tacit agreement to live in a state of total self-deception. The hell with reality! Let’s have a whole bunch of cute little winding roads and cute little houses painted white and pink and baby blue; let’s all be good consumers and have a lot of Togetherness and bring our children up in a bath of sentimentality — and if old reality ever does pop out and say Boo we’ll all get busy and pretend it never happened.”
Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)
Trash Humpers by Hamony Korine
I say this like I’ve never said it before…What
the
FUCK???!!!???
TRASH HUMPERS TRAILER from Trash Humpers on Vimeo.
“Married with a kid, and now residing in his native Nashville, cinematic provocateur Harmony Korine show no signs of settling down. Hailed as “the future of American cinema” by Werner Herzog, writer/ director Korine has blazed a trail with his consistently idiosyncratic output, including KIDS, GUMMO, JULIEN DONKEY-BOY and MISTER LONELY. TRASH HUMPERS sees him return to the big screen with an excoriating attack on the American Dream.”
(More) Stills from Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Black Swan’
Sure to be the most beautiful head-fuck of a film EVERRR!!!
Stills from ‘Black Swan’, Darren Aronofsky (2010)
“A psychological thriller set in the world of New York City Ballet, Black Swan stars Natalie Portman as Nina, a featured dancer who finds herself locked in a web of competitive intrigue with a new rival at the company (Mila Kunis). Black Swan takes a thrilling and at times terrifying journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.”Black Swan by Darren Aronofsky (Pi, Requiem For A Dream) will open Venice Film Festival this Autumn.
Cannot WAIT!!!
“…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into words, but I guess it’s like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”
Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
