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Of Dreams, Statues and Shadows...
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[Image: René Magritte, ‘The Lovers’, 1928 ]
Life is an unrehearsed process. One is placed within it with little instruction. At every moment, choices are made out of necessity. Often, the results of those choices are both unfortunate and irre...
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Of Sunlight, Irony and Pranks...
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[Image: The Egyptian God Aten (Aton): the benevolent aspect of the Sun]
Pétrus Borel d’Hauterive (or simply Pétrus Borel: 1809 - 1859) was a writer of the ‘Frénétique’ school of French Literature. Born the same year as Edgar Allan Poe, he was a...
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Of Clowns, Betrayal and Wine...
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[Image: Le Mime Debureau : 'Pierrot Voleur', par Nadar, 1854]
The character of Pierrot comes to us from antiquity. Some sources trace his existence back 4000 years to present day Turkey in Asia Minor. He is, perhaps, most well-known as a st...
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Cogito
photo posted 03/11
Of Serpents, Mirrors and Blades...
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[Image: ‘Tête de Méduse’, 1618: Peter-Paul Rubens]
I have always regarded the myth of Perseus slaying the Medusa as an allegory of facing one’s own worst fears; of taking a leap of faith and destroying or overcoming that which is inconceivably ...
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about me
Proud, Greedy, Envious, Wrathful, Lusty, Gluttonous, Slothful, Furtive, Nocturnal, Prehensile Tail (located approx. 6” below navel), Maniacal Ascetic, Crapulous Excessive, Iconoclast, Inveterate Vertebrate, Sisyphaen toiler, Arch-Radiator of Cognitive Dissonance, Obscurantist, Gadfly, Cur.
Ethnicity: Normano-Franco-Iberian.
Who I'd like to meet:
DEAD: Lautreamont/Ducasse, Baudelaire, Bataille, Eluard, Mishima, Petrus Borel, Man Ray, Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, Kiki de Montparnasse, Peter Lorre, Archimboldo, Artaud, Jarry, Jean Lorrain, Butoh dancers, Lord Buckley, Lenny Bruce, Bosse-de-Nage. ALIVE: The people who turned me into the “authorities” last time (I’d really, REALLY like to meet them!), Wieslav Walkuski, Eiko Ishioka, Eiko Hosoe, Dmitrije Popovic, Yoshitaka Amano, Yoshifumi Hayashi, Sibylle Ruppert, Kaitlin Ashley, Butoh dancers. Women who abhor the abomination of their hirsute pubic covering and have the wisdom to shave their redolent mounds into proud, smooth promontories, ready to receive glitter merkins cemented with Smuckers™ butterscotch topping. Women who can ejaculate (with pride) hard enough to dislodge the late Sammy Davis, Jr.'s Glass Eye from its Socket.
Heroes/Heroines: Lautréamont, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Nerval, Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Jarry, Éluard, Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, Kiki de Montparnasse (Alice Prin), Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, Frank Booth, Malcolm X, Eldridge Cleaver (for his special "Cleaver" pants for men only) Jean Lorrain, Xavier Forneret, Yukio Mishima (Kimitake Hiraoka), Jonathan Swift, D.A.F. de Sade, Heckle and Jeckle (airborne Death from Above), Heckler und Koch (airborne death from a tower, à la J.P.Sartre's "Erostratus"), Todo los Pachucos Viejos, "El Ququy", "La Llorona", Jodorowsky, Situationists, Sociopathic Power-Mimes, SRL, SLA, LS/MFT, Jacques Rigaut, The "Cowboy" in "Mulholland Drive", Dalí, Buñuel, Lorca, Culture Jammers, Peter Lorre, Petrus Borel "Le Lycanthrope", "Les Bousingots", "Les Hydropathes" (comme Goudeau, et al.), Marcel Janco &; other DaDA-istes, anti-DaDa-istes, apathetics, autistics, neurasthenics, those falsely assumed dead, those who lie in Flanders field beneath the Poppies...
L'Égrégore: (Musical Project): www.myspace.com/legregore
[Image: René Magritte, ‘The Lovers’, 1928 ]
Life is an unrehearsed process. One is placed within it with little instruction. At every moment, choices are made out of necessity. Often, the results of those choices are both unfortunate and irrevocable. Only in dreams can we hope to go back to the very moment when Fate took away our Love, or our Hope, or our Faith. But dreams are made not of marble, but of sand. The remnants of the fleeting dream pour through our grasping fingers at dawn’s ...
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[Image: The Egyptian God Aten (Aton): the benevolent aspect of the Sun]
Pétrus Borel d’Hauterive (or simply Pétrus Borel: 1809 - 1859) was a writer of the ‘Frénétique’ school of French Literature. Born the same year as Edgar Allan Poe, he was a bit more of a deliberate provocateur than his American counterpart, though they both shared very similar perspectives on a number of different aesthetic and literary fronts. Baiting and frightening the petite bourgeoisie was the stock in trade of Bo...
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[Image: Le Mime Debureau : 'Pierrot Voleur', par Nadar, 1854]
The character of Pierrot comes to us from antiquity. Some sources trace his existence back 4000 years to present day Turkey in Asia Minor. He is, perhaps, most well-known as a stock character from the Italian Commedia dell’arte. He is the ‘son of the moon’; a white-faced, sad clown, eternally hopeful, but doomed by Love and Fate. Among the various characters of the Commedia dell’arte, he is the only monochrome character, whi...
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Thu, April 30, 2009 - 4:33 AM
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[Image: ‘Tête de Méduse’, 1618: Peter-Paul Rubens]
I have always regarded the myth of Perseus slaying the Medusa as an allegory of facing one’s own worst fears; of taking a leap of faith and destroying or overcoming that which is inconceivably horrific. One must vanquish such a terrible foe, or perish in the attempt. The fear itself has a momentum, a palpable quality that is indeed an additional threat, taken in concert with the original object of that fear. To end this runaway panic, one ...
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[Image: ‘A Visit to the Slaughterhouse’, circa 1880: artist unknown.]
It has been said that the only difference between a parasite and a predator is its scale. The objective of either organism is the same: each must profit from consuming the host/prey; whole, or in part. In this way, the leech and the vampire are essentially ‘siblings’ (hats off to Isidore Lucien Ducasse, of course, for pointing the way in this matter in multiple instances); each creature is prodigious in its own way. Bu...
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Sat, November 8, 2008 - 2:00 AM
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