July12009
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June292009
is it just me or is google almost unusable at the moment? i’m thinking of getting a hotmail account :p
June272009
Modest Mouse - Autumn Beds [2009] »
Download [Sharebee]
Password: nodata.tv
argh god how much they suck. (and how much i used to love them… and still do … their old stuff.)
June252009
Theodor Adorno: Commitment »
“…A work of art that is committed strips the magic from a work of art that is content to be a fetish, an idle past-time for those who would like to sleep through the deluge that threatens them…”
Angelus Novus
At various points in my artistic, and now it seems my professional, life I have been drawn drawn to Paul Klee’s image Angelus Novus “…the machine angel, who, though he no longer bears any emblem of caricature or commitment, flies far beyond both. The machine angel’s enigmatic eyes force the onlooker to try to decide whether he is announcing the culmination of disaster or salvation hidden within it. But, as Walter Benjamin, who owned the drawing, said, he is the angel who does not give but takes.” (Adorno - Commitment (1962) Tr. Francis McDonagh New Left Review I/87-88, September-December 1974 accessed 24.6.09 - )
Indeed, Benjamin saw it as depicting “the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage.” (Theses on the Philosophy of History 249)
And now. How cruel. How apt.
June242009
Dana Stevens doesn't like the new Woody Allen film »
Imagine if Annie Hall had been forgotten in a Ziploc bag under your couch cushions and left there for 30 years. By the time you pulled out the bag, Alvy Singer’s endearing misanthropy would have…June232009
The Art of BLEEP! (PBS 106.7FM) »
ah the beauty of records. the wonders of the work of art in the age of digital (re)production! somewhere someone is or could be listening to something you let go of long ago…June222009
