The Will to Experience
Clint Mansell and Park Chan-Wook!
“Some of the one-paragraph stories I wrote before the novel took weeks of revision. I’d go mad with concern over semicolons. Conjunctions ruined my sleep. I wanted no needless sound in my sentences. I hated to use adverbs because of the ‘ly
’ endings. They seemed like sloopy trailers. They made the sense mushy and weak and artificial. I didn’t want to mean anything beyond what could inhere in the particular limited aural sensation. Idea and sound had to be exactly the same length, or the same density, as if a word could be flesh. That used to be my idea of real writing. Sculptural.” —Leonard Michaels
Read more of our lost interview with the American writer here.
British band Anathema’s complete 30 minute set for Spanish Radio 3. They performed Untouchable Part 1 and 2, Thin Air, Dreaming Light and Closer.
Always stay true to yourself. (via Jeremiah’s Vanishing New York blog)
Address Is Approximate (by The Theory)
A wonderful stop motion animation created around google street view. A “lonely desk toy” takes a trip…
A Jules Renard quotation on a Himank BRO sign board in the Nubra Valley, Ladakh, Northern India.
Ladakh is a region located toward the northern edge of India. It spans the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges.
“I took little snippets of text and ideas from some of my favorite authors, and let the words be a springboard for an illustration. The illustrations incorporate and interact with the text and hopefully add up to something that engages the mind as much as the eye.”
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind.”
Happy birthday, Mr. Bukowski.
Back when the English language was still young and impressionable, a London-born physician who took up the pen as a gentleman’s hobby made quite a dent, fathering a dictionary page’s worth of words we still use and tend to think of as ageless—“medical,” “suicide,” “exhaustion,” “hallucination” and “coma” among them.
The handful of books and tracts in which these words first appeared was even more remarkable than the coinages, a body of work as strange and unclassifiable as any in English literature.
That this doctor’s name—Thomas Browne—no longer keeps company, at least in America, with those of Shakespeare, Chaucer and other architects of the language would have come as a great disappointment to a multitude of other authors who revered Browne and passed his writings along, generation to generation, like a kind of formula for the philosopher’s stone.
Steven Wilson - Luminol (Live From Mexico City)
This track was taken from Steven Wilson’s Grace for Drowning tour. It has not been released as part of a studio album yet (It will feature on his upcoming, third solo album). This video was recorded in Mexico city earlier this year and will be part of his new live blu-ray Get All You Deserve.
