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last updated 05/28/08
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Nox
(blog entry)
[Image: 'Istar' par Fernand Khnopff, 1888].
The experience of the brothel is dependent upon 2 forces being in equilibrium:
1. The gullibility of the male customer (or his 'desire for illusion/fantasy', to put it a little more poetically).
2...
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Beside the Little (Opium) Lamp.
(blog entry)
[Image: 'Awakening from the Opium', A. Matignon, 1911]
The author of the poem appearing below had always idolized Oscar Wilde, but regretted never having made his acquaintance. The fact that the two men never met was probably for the best, sinc...
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Of Beasts and Men...
(blog entry)
[Image: ‘Porc’ from a series of Animals and Equivalent Men by Charles LeBrun (1619 – 1690)]
As mentioned before, it is the province of the adept ‘Flâneur’ to perceive not only a person’s general character (hopes, fears, vices, virtues, etc.) th...
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Dark German Expressionist Poetry (1913)
(blog entry)
Image: 'The Dead Mother': Egon Schiele, 1910.
Mutter (1913)
Ich trage dich wie eine Wunde
auf meiner Stirn, die sich nicht schließt.
Sie schmerzt nicht immer. Und es fließt
das Herz sich nicht draus tot.
Nur manchmal plötzlich ...
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The dark-winged swallows will return... (Spanish translation: Romantic era).
(blog entry)
* Image: Romantic monument to local poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in Parque de María Luisa, Seville, Spain.
* Photographer: Javier Mediavilla Ezquibela
* Post-Production PhotoShop: Sardonique Schadenfreude Rictus / Dr. Bathybius, 2008....
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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...
[Image: 'Istar' par Fernand Khnopff, 1888].
The experience of the brothel is dependent upon 2 forces being in equilibrium:
1. The gullibility of the male customer (or his 'desire for illusion/fantasy', to put it a little more poetically).
2. The craft and skill-in-seduction of the courtesan.
The courtesan must 'read' her customer; his desires, fears, hopes, idiosyncrasies. The more skillfully she does this, the more that he succumbs to this contrived illusion; built with the bricks ...
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[Image: 'Awakening from the Opium', A. Matignon, 1911]
The author of the poem appearing below had always idolized Oscar Wilde, but regretted never having made his acquaintance. The fact that the two men never met was probably for the best, since the Baron Jacques d’Adelswärd-Fersen, would have shocked and scandalized Mr. Wilde to the point of fatal apoplexy (not unlike another royal personage who actually had met Wilde (and with similar results); Count Eric von Stenbock, but more of him in...
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[Image: ‘Porc’ from a series of Animals and Equivalent Men by Charles LeBrun (1619 – 1690)]
As mentioned before, it is the province of the adept ‘Flâneur’ to perceive not only a person’s general character (hopes, fears, vices, virtues, etc.) through careful observation while strolling the metropolitan trottoirs, but to actually dig even deeper into the fundamental bestial undercurrents that each passer-by would rather conceal than confront. Which animal would you be, by the way?
ANATOMI...
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Image: 'The Dead Mother': Egon Schiele, 1910.
Mutter (1913)
Ich trage dich wie eine Wunde
auf meiner Stirn, die sich nicht schließt.
Sie schmerzt nicht immer. Und es fließt
das Herz sich nicht draus tot.
Nur manchmal plötzlich bin ich blind und spüre
Blut im Munde.
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Mother (1913)
I carry you like a wound
on my forehead, a wound that never closes.
It doesn't always hurt. And it flows
not from som...
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* Image: Romantic monument to local poet Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer in Parque de María Luisa, Seville, Spain.
* Photographer: Javier Mediavilla Ezquibela
* Post-Production PhotoShop: Sardonique Schadenfreude Rictus / Dr. Bathybius, 2008.
Rima LII. Volverán las oscuras golondrinas...
Volverán las oscuras golondrinas
de tu balcón sus nidos a colgar,
y otra vez con el ala a sus cristales
jugando llamarán.
Pero aquellas que el vuelo refrenaban
tu hermosura y mi dicha a co...
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*Kingfish and Eddie's Hubba Hubba Revue*,
*Symbolism* symbolist art,
4AD,
@>-'->-'-EXQUISITE CORPSE,
Absinthe Connoisseurs,
Art Deco,
Art Nouveau,
BAERS and the English Regency,
Bustle! 1870's and 1880's Costume & Life,
Butoh,
Ceci n'est pas une Tribe,
Dada,
dandies,
Dandyism!,
Dark Garden Windows,
David Lynch,
Dead Can Dance,
Death Guild,
death in june,
Dickens Fair Folk,
...
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