6.30.2003
"experts in ancient greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. when ancient greek's had a thought, it occured to them as a god or goddess giving an order. apollo was telling them to be brave. athena was telling them to fall in love.
now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
atleast the ancient greeks were being honest." chuck palahniuk (lullaby)
now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will.
atleast the ancient greeks were being honest." chuck palahniuk (lullaby)
6.28.2003
yeah, shromm's gonna get bitchslapped in hville! we want him back TONS! eat boners!'
6.24.2003
July 4
because my country has sold its soul to corporate power,
because consumerism has become our national religion,
because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom and justice,
because we went to war in defiance of the world,
and because patriotism now means agreeing with the president
I'm going to unbrand my country... take it back.
unbrandamerica.org
because my country has sold its soul to corporate power,
because consumerism has become our national religion,
because we've forgotten the true meaning of freedom and justice,
because we went to war in defiance of the world,
and because patriotism now means agreeing with the president
I'm going to unbrand my country... take it back.
unbrandamerica.org
6.23.2003
"These colors do not run!" says America's sweet white Christian patriot, David Cross
6.11.2003
i walk past that jeep on every visit to cub foods.
massed idiots and their no words.
first great album of the year.
"backdrifts" made my body shiver
"backdrifts" made my body shiver
6.09.2003
The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new
material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest, as the lowest, form of critiscism is a mode of
autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things
are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the
artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an
imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even
things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in
an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of
the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft
is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is
new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does
not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one
admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
~Oscar Wilde
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new
material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest, as the lowest, form of critiscism is a mode of
autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without
being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things
are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book.
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the
artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an
imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even
things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in
an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of
the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft
is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is
new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does
not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one
admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
~Oscar Wilde
6.07.2003
how much does everyone else use music to keep their sanity?
without music I'd probably go insane...
music is a wonderful tool to keep the thoughts (both good and bad) from overrunning the rest of my mind and making me go totally insane. Without music, the only thing I'd hear are people talking. And verbal communication (input and output) just isn't my thing...
without music I'd probably go insane...
music is a wonderful tool to keep the thoughts (both good and bad) from overrunning the rest of my mind and making me go totally insane. Without music, the only thing I'd hear are people talking. And verbal communication (input and output) just isn't my thing...
6.05.2003
So I was driving home last night, listening to my Division Bell CD, when I got tired of it and was going to put in something else. I ejected the CD, which switched on the radio, which was set on 107.5. As i was searching for another CD, I was listening to the song that happened to be on. I thought "what's the deal? Here is a band that wants to be a metallica soundalike band, but still be all new-rock and chaotic and messy. How sad". I listened for a while and I realized during the chorus (if you could call it that) that this WAS metallica. I was just reading about their newly released St. Anger record, and thought it would be interesting to hear, what with the new bass player and all. SoReLY DiSApPoiNtEd. It was just simply a mess. It sounded horrible.
But there are going to be a whole new batch of high school rockers who are going to be all \""/ ST ANGER ROCKS!!!
^^^<- little 80's demon fist thing
Indeed, how sad.
But there are going to be a whole new batch of high school rockers who are going to be all \""/ ST ANGER ROCKS!!!
^^^<- little 80's demon fist thing
Indeed, how sad.
6.03.2003
thumbs in pockets right now for uncle e.
i vividly enjoy the mc honky record and whatever work he put forth to put it in my ears.
and i personally hold his instrumental and solo record that is the levity soundtrack as one of my most treasured and sublime records.
but i wonder if the heart that you usually find in an eels album was all used up this time by the time he got to it.
i do not like the new record very much at all.
it is the first time the eels have dissapointed me.
nevertheless i have not lost my faith in e or his creativity because of the abundance of it i feel from his other offerings.
he is still one of my heroes.
i vividly enjoy the mc honky record and whatever work he put forth to put it in my ears.
and i personally hold his instrumental and solo record that is the levity soundtrack as one of my most treasured and sublime records.
but i wonder if the heart that you usually find in an eels album was all used up this time by the time he got to it.
i do not like the new record very much at all.
it is the first time the eels have dissapointed me.
nevertheless i have not lost my faith in e or his creativity because of the abundance of it i feel from his other offerings.
he is still one of my heroes.
Thumbs up to E and friends for creating another album of beauty.
6.01.2003
mmmmm....
