"I just remember back in the day when we'd get fucked up and laugh and shit. But I don't know what happened, now he hooked up with Zoe and is into hydrotherapy and coffee enemas and shit. Fuck that shit, you know?"
--R. "Wammy" Wilmington
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Awakening
"After a year of association with Russell, I began to feel pulled toward a new understanding that was both troubling and invigorating. Looking back on experiences and conversations, there opened a new possibility, that he was enacting a broad deception. I started to wonder if he had in fact been feigning his character and its evolution--that the insanity was a front, that the decline and pussification was actually a coordinated and premeditated fiction. Was he all along putting on a puppet show, letting himself fall apart and undergo hideous distortions in order to deceive his target and set him up for a more grave and powerful fall? I'm still unsure, but the idea, I admit, is titillating."
--Ett. Vi., January of 2011
--Ett. Vi., January of 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Dolly Turget
[Salvador Dalí] had no time for those who did not agree with his principles, and took the war into the enemy camp by writing insulting letters to many of the friends he had made in the Residencia, calling them pigs. He happily compared himself to a clever bull avoiding the cowboys and generally had a great deal of fun stirring up and scandalizing almost every Catalan intellectual worthy of the name. Dalí was beginning to burn his bridges with the zeal of an arsonist…. “We [Dalí and the filmmaker Luis Buñuel] had resolved to send a poison pen letter to one of the great celebrities of Spain,” Dalí later told his biographer Alain Bosquet. “Our goal was pure subversion…. Both of us were strongly influenced by Nietzsche…. We hit upon two names: Manuel de Falla, the composer, and Juan Ramón Jiménez, the poet. We drew straws and Jiménez won…. So we composed a frenzied and nasty letter of incomparable violence and addressed it to Juan Ramón Jiménez. It read: ‘Our Distinguished Friend: We believe it is our duty to inform you—disinterestedly—that your work is deeply repugnant to us because of its immorality, its hysteria, its arbitrary quality….’ It caused Jiménez great pain….”
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Many use friendship as a way to mask aggressive desires: they come close to you to do more harm to induce psychosis,. (A friend knows best how to hurt you.) Or, without actually being friends, they offer assistance and alliance: they may seem supportive, but in the end they’re advancing their own interests at your expense. Then there are those who master moral warfare, playing the victim, making you feel guilty for something unspecified you’ve done. The battlefield is full of these warriors, slippery, evasive, and clever.
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Enemies bring many gifts. For one thing, they motivate you and focus your beliefs. The artist Salvador Dalí found early on that there were many qualities he could not stand in people: conformity, romanticism, piety. At every stage of his life, he found someone he thought embodied these anti-ideals—an enemy to vent on. First it was the poet Federico García Lorca, who wrote romantic poetry; then it was André Breton, the heavy-handed leader of the surrealist movement. Having such enemies to rebel against made Dalí feel confident and inspired.
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Many use friendship as a way to mask aggressive desires: they come close to you to do more harm to induce psychosis,. (A friend knows best how to hurt you.) Or, without actually being friends, they offer assistance and alliance: they may seem supportive, but in the end they’re advancing their own interests at your expense. Then there are those who master moral warfare, playing the victim, making you feel guilty for something unspecified you’ve done. The battlefield is full of these warriors, slippery, evasive, and clever.
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Enemies bring many gifts. For one thing, they motivate you and focus your beliefs. The artist Salvador Dalí found early on that there were many qualities he could not stand in people: conformity, romanticism, piety. At every stage of his life, he found someone he thought embodied these anti-ideals—an enemy to vent on. First it was the poet Federico García Lorca, who wrote romantic poetry; then it was André Breton, the heavy-handed leader of the surrealist movement. Having such enemies to rebel against made Dalí feel confident and inspired.
Wreckquiem
How many outlets will be posted and then pulled in a Levitine lifetime? The over/under is currently sitting at 28. C. Russell still owes Joe $250 from the Super Bowl, but Joe says he's willing to consider a $300 if you win/$900 if you lose proposition. But as this bet will obviously extend over Levi's lifespan, Joe wants that $250 now to cover the waiting period.
C. Russell is in dire straits.
C. Russell is in dire straits.
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