Wednesday, November 26, 2008

drinking black tea and excreting a frightful falafel green. how was your day?

Waking up intentionally displaced - a cup of Trix contradicts childhood memories - disappointment in a skip - five hour drive - a quarter of a pumpkin pie a la freezer a la Judy - I feel sick - more time in car - the bickering in lieu of music - notification of probation - the onset of bad television hardly covered by a coat or the need for a haircut.

While bonding (or not rather):

Use Your Illusions - Slavoj Žižek

"The paradigmatic cynic tells you confidentially: ‘But don’t you see that it is all really about money/power/sex, that professions of principle or value are just empty phrases which count for nothing?’ What the cynics don’t see is their own naivety, the naivety of their cynical wisdom which ignores the power of illusions."

A rare 1978 interview with 16 year old Antoine Monnier about his experiences making Robert Bresson's 'The Devil Probably' (1977)

"Death and suffering can be terrible when they are the only way of expressing the strong feelings you have. Bresson does not show all the blood and everything, he tried to reveal beauty. So the death is very pure." Monnier on The Devil, Probably

Kroot orbits Planet Kuchar

Back to Bazin Parts 1, 2, 3

And to make myself thoroughly sick, if not amused, before bed:
80 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena

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