The Gloomy Day (January), 1565 #pieterbruegel #northernrenaissance
"That, unfortunately, tells me only one thing...That the nature of Man, even in this day and age, hasn't altered at all..."
"Doctor Who: The Ark - The Plague" (1966). #DoctorWho
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
From prehistoric man discovering the first tool to future man exploring time and space.
The entire history of human civilisation is bypassed in the transition
#SciFi #FilmSky #MovieSky #Movies
I have some reflections on the constitutional-democratic chaos that Britain is encountering, in the age of 5+ party politics. It's hard to see how we get from this to the kind of 'bold' and 'radical' government that (consensus has it) everyone is calling for right now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
It isn’t this simple though. There is no list of things you can do get a date. Why not just be honest that dating is not a morality play and being dateless can just be undeserved tough shit? I think moralising and individualising the issue either way is the problem.
SUN - NIL.
SEA - NIL.
SEX - NIL.
The caravan is terrible. The beds are so small and hard and the pillows are lumpy. There is no tea cosy and no dishcloths, soap or mops. The plates are all chipped. The name of the site "Seaview" is not true because the sea is over the road and behind some caravans.
Extremely sexually repressed voice: our demonic sex party was "accidental"
baz luhrman’s tom bombadil the musical
Spiritualist 1973
Helen Frankenthaler
(American 1938-2011)
Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 72 x 60 x 1 1/4 in.
National Museum of Women in the Arts
#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt
The beautiful chaos of a used bookstore is unmatched.
#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic
A perfect song for background listening
AIR - La femme d'argent
Maybe it’s more total indifference.
that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates without end from God
I think there is to an extent. Some people are demarcated by circumstances not of their choosing to be despised outcasts, but that doesn’t negate human freedom. Even as an outcast there are things you can do.
Honestly, I like some absolute shit in addition to The Velvet Underground & Joy Division. I just think if you’ve come up with a tune that enlivens, you’ve succeeded. The monoculture nostalgia of ‘Summer of 69’ obvs sucks a bit but at the same time everyone likes it.
I love music in a serious High Fidelity way but in some ways my taste is totally unsophisticated. If The Spin Doctors or Deep Blue Something or something else conceptually objectionable comes on I’ll still welcome it because I like a good tune. I like Beethoven’s 6th b/c it’s got a whistleable tune.
I once became obsessed with suicide notes. Kurt Cobain etc. The saddest was from Tony Hancock, who said "Things just seemed to go too wrong too many times."
Guy Ordering Nonalcoholic Beer Has Either Seen A Ton Of Shit Or No Shit At All https://theonion.com/guy-ordering-nonalcoholic-beer-has-either-seen-a-ton-of-shit-or-no-shit-at-all/
Ah sorry to hear. My problem is my desire to be wanted a woman in tension with my abject self-loathing. If a woman even talks to me I’m pathetically grateful. Stupid really. I should be able to see through the external validation myth.
I once fell for this girl unrequitedly, years ago, and I had no desire to fuck her. It wasn’t about cumming at all. I just wanted to be with her. It was something so powerful that it wasn’t genital. That idea of ‘the one’ in a bigger sense is a fantasy I find hard to shake.
I think it’s for me that I can’t be motivated by that. I’m not a sexual person. I barely wank these days tbh. Arranging a shag with someone is just not something I could be bothered to do..
Yeah. Casual is fine. I think at least casual might lead to something meaningful. I don’t give a shit about sexual morality, or the yoof hooking up. It’s like having a morality of shopping, or conversation. Why make it a special it lol?..
I’m a romantic. I’ve never had a partner but I love love songs. The Spice Girls, the Supremes, whatever. I love the Romantic poets. I’m not against casual fucking morally, I just only get excited by that all-consuming passion that goes beyond lust. I find all that very powerful.
A bit sore.
It does contain everything good and bad, but if you are one of those condemned to suffer the bad side then affirming it presents a challenge. I should rephrase: the natural world is luck.
