Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Alfred Schnittke: Clowns und Kinder (1976)

“What this world needs is truth, not consolation. It must find itself in its ordeal and by way of its restlessness, not in the solace of edifying discourses that do nothing but pile on more testimony to its misery.” 
― Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel: The Restlessness Of The Negative

Saturday, October 15, 2016

“Even in Auschwitz, some of the enslaved musicians must have thought that Schubert's writing for strings would melt Dr. Mengele's heart, as it had always melted theirs. And it did melt his heart. It just didn't change his mind.”
Remember: the more important we become to culture, the more we are resented.

side B(atty) - 04 - Rastatroll Battyboy Soundsystem - Its Raining BattyMen by Rastatroll Battyboy SS

side B(atty) - 04 - Rastatroll Battyboy Soundsystem - Its Raining BattyMen by Rastatroll Battyboy SS

Friday, October 7, 2016

from PECULIAR YOU




The twilight sad. Untitled #27. Untitled #28
Walking for two hours. I'm taking the train home

Forget the night ahead. Seven years of letters
Made to disappear. Reflection of the television
Scissors. The neighbours can't breathe. That room
That birthday present. Interrupted. At the burnside

Cold days from the birdhouse. Fourteen Autumns and fifteen
Winters. The weather is bad. I was hoping the winter was
Over. That summer, at home I had become the invisible boy
The wrong car. Throw yourself into the water again
And she would darken the memory. I became a prostitute

Last year's rain didn't fall quite so hard. Mapped
By what surrounded themselves. Talking with
Fireworks/ Here, it never snowed. Afterwards it did





Now he was sitting on the limb of a tree and he said, “You, go get it!”
One leg of a journey might be shaped.
To double.
Like women.
Diary
As soon as the stuff is solidly attached, it begins to bud.
He left his wife and that's the end of it.
Folding paper wastebaskets.
An aim, object, purpose, or intention.
No smoking.
None of that other stuff.
Or would have if we had done the right thing.
A container for papers.
This may take you know what I mean in many of those things, dividing at this thing or budding from that or those things, till the main thing is surrounded by a something or other of things like itself, of which the something or other, and which now begin to bud in their thing, each one surrounding itself with something numerous, all remaining, however, attached to the main thing.
An outcome, result, upshot or consequence.
Nickel ash trays or nut dishes.
.
The something-shaped thing of the little ones crowded upon that other thing of these marks the whatever it marks of each more or less isolated or the other in such a thing as we have here.




Bernadette Mayer, Story

Monday, October 3, 2016

Sunday, October 2, 2016




What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?
Nay, nay, mistress!

I promised you,
And you promised me,
To be as true 
As I would be.
But since I see
Your double heart,
Farewell my part!

Though for to take
It is not my mind,
But to forsake 
[One so unkind]
And as I find,
So will I trust:
Farewell, unjust!

Can ye say nay?
But you said
That I alway
Should be obeyed?
And thus betrayed
Or that I wiste --
Farewell, unkissed.



-- Sir Thomas Wyatt


What should I say,
Since faith is dead,
And truth away
From you is fled?
Should I be led
With doubleness?
Nay, nay, mistress!

I promised you,
And you promised me,
To be as true 
As I would be.
But since I see
Your double heart,
Farewell my part!

Though for to take
It is not my mind,
But to forsake 
[One so unkind]
And as I find,
So will I trust:
Farewell, unjust!

Can ye say nay?
But you said
That I alway
Should be obeyed?
And thus betrayed
Or that I wiste --
Farewell, unkissed.




-- Sir Thomas Wyatt

Saturday, October 1, 2016