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costumes_1972.jpg (image)

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:23:34 +1000

costumes_1972.jpg (image):

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is it just me or is google almost unusable at the moment?...

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:47:58 +1000

is it just me or is google almost unusable at the moment? i’m thinking of getting a hotmail account :p

Modest Mouse - Autumn Beds [2009]

Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:41:00 +1000

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.)

Theodor Adorno: Commitment

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:44:00 +1000

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...

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:50:00 +1000

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.

tofu-magazine, Lost and Found

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:44:49 +1000

tofu-magazine, Lost and Found

Make Your Extensions Work with the Firefox 3 Beta

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:44:03 +1000

Make Your Extensions Work with the Firefox 3 Beta

Dana Stevens doesn't like the new Woody Allen film

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:08 +1000

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…

The Art of BLEEP! (PBS 106.7FM)

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:24:24 +1000

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…

Frank Moorhouse TEXT Special Issue No 4

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:54:48 +1000

Frank Moorhouse TEXT Special Issue No 4

Dealing with old discontents - Eureka Street

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:54:00 +1000

Dealing with old discontents - Eureka Street: Erin Gough’s Jump and i.j. oog’s the american dream will appeal to those who relish rich prose. Gough writes of ‘salt and chips air’ that is ‘thicker than pub smoke’, while oog places his seething protagonist in a derelict house in the middle of nowhere.

forgotten australian haiku

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:32:15 +1000

the first cool breeze for weeks
stirs the trees; full moon rising
behind the hills hoist

…

i.j.oog 2001?

Howard Jacobson

Sat, 20 Jun 2009 07:30:49 +1000

Howard Jacobson: Walked out of Waiting For Godot at the Theatre Royal last week. Nothing to do with the production. Simply my way of responding to the play’s evocation of the tedium of existence. If anything, the…

sit: this is the stone bench in the garden in woodend where i...

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 19:15:19 +1000

sit:

this is the stone bench in the garden in woodend where i sat after i heard about marcel’s death the day we came back from europe.

The Beaches of Agnes (Les plages d'Agnes)

Wed, 17 Jun 2009 08:33:09 +1000

The Beaches of Agnes (Les plages d'Agnes): Yay Agnes Varda has made a new film. It is about herself of course, but also not as she explains in this Interview.