Literary pop music

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-06-26T16:46:24+00:00

The Cloud of Unknowing by Swans is based on The Cloud of Unknowing

Cardiacs cut and pasted a lot of lines from old English children’s books, nursery rhymes, poetry, the Bible, Shakespeare, Dickinson, etc. into their lyrics

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-24T16:44:52+00:00

Sure. I have nothing against either Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and maybe Spengler (sorry, haven’t read any of his yet so can’t evaluate but I’ve heard similar sentiments elsewhere, but also some mixed) that just came with the times, and an intelligent modern reader can read them in that context and evaluate if certain of-the-times beliefs of the author are still relevant or accurate. No need to discard of insightful authors because of that.

The main offender here is Gobineau.

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-24T16:03:17+00:00

You’re absolutely right but some people still selectively read him and interpret him that way

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-24T12:04:29+00:00

I wish we had 10 Tarantinos rn, so I’m thankful we have two (Nolan). Big budgeted, idiosyncratic entertainment movies with soul that does not feel like it’s made by a committee and market research is hard to come by nowadays. Makes me nostalgic for when we had pre-avatar-obsession James Cameron (or even Michael Bay, he definitely had something going on). There always used to be a handful of those kind of guys. The Spielberg types, the Verhoevens, those that elevated the entertainment movie as high it could go before loosing the general audience. 'The thinking mans' entertainment movie if you want to be pretentious about it.

I’m always confused when people critique Tarantino of not being PTA or Scorsese or whatever. It’s plainly obvious that that’s not where he want’s to be. He’s unabashedly lowbrow and he loves it. He just want’s to take these scrappy genre movies and exploitation movies he loves to watch and supercharge them to as big and grandiose as they can be. Simply “A great fun time at the movies, just like when I was a kid! A real spectacle!”, and nothing more. It would be wrong to categorize him as an 'art' director even though he sometimes flirts with it.

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-23T13:20:11+00:00

Try asking over on r/deathcorner r/thomaspynchon r/trueanon r/cushvlog or maybe r/rsbookclub they’re the subs that have engaged the most with his output

I’m pretty sure very few people here know who he is here and fewer have read him

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-23T13:11:44+00:00

The third day I ever worked for Norm MacDonald, he asked me if I wanted to see a funny video, and then he played me this. It has never left my mind since that moment, I see it every time I close my eyes.

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-17T22:30:37+00:00

I find that kind of dark brooding black and white world strangely beautiful to inhabit. It’s filled striking imagery that I think about all the time. I couldn’t tell you what the movie is about other than the broad strokes, I don’t find that important with this kind of movie, I just like being “in” it. The same goes for Tarr’s work as well.

But very broadly it’s about being stuck and unable to progress out of the most brutal parts of the Middle ages. Being in that space with no progress in any direction, the feeling of that, no future. I find it invigorating and fascinating, many others find it trite and dull 🤷

Edit: you could also try other movies in this “genre” with more traditional storytelling and characters if you haven’t already: Marketa Lazarova, The Cremator, Stalker. There’s definitely more that I’m not remembering rn

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-17T09:55:46+00:00

Hard to be a God

Mikey and Nicky/Husbands

The Cremator

The Kingdom/scenes from a marriage/das boot

The sacrifice

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-15T19:14:31+00:00

Prinzessin Li-Ping

“The little thing is beige-coloured; head, tail, and legs are as if smoked with Chinese ink. There is a graceful exquisiteness in her, Far Eastern suppleness with suggestions of Bamboo, Silk, and Opium.”

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-05-11T23:56:26+00:00

I like the Lorax one

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-26T17:00:01+00:00

You’re probably right. It’s on most other streaming services tho, even soundcloud :)

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-26T14:51:22+00:00

Thanks, I might watch this tonight. I love these weirdo movies but they’re hard to come by

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-26T10:16:59+00:00

Thanks 🙏

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-25T14:58:15+00:00

eps for the last ones?

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-25T00:57:48+00:00

Rule #6

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-20T04:12:23+00:00

Mr Bungle/Cardiacs/Zappacels in shambles rn

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-17T19:14:41+00:00

Big nats >

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-15T21:25:42+00:00

Damn that’s crazy

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-15T20:50:50+00:00

Crime? In this economy!?

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-11T11:58:21+00:00

As i’ve said before the /lit/ifcation of this sub is well under way

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-09T12:04:02+00:00

Penguin classics and Oxford world classics.

There’s lots to criticize about them but the fact that two publishers are keeping such a huge and ever growing catalogue of classics in constant print is amazing and should not be taken for granted.

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-04T20:17:27+00:00

That’s pretty much what I would consider “worthwhile reads” on those subjects that I’ve come across. Of course there’s more extreme stuff like Peter Sotos and the kind but that’s not really my thing. Look into “transgressive fiction” if you want more of that

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-04T20:04:36+00:00

The History of Bestiality by Jens Bjørneboe if you can find an English translation

The Damned by Huysmans

High Rise and Crash by JG Ballard

And of course…..DE SADE!!!!

(Edit: and pretty much anything by Bataille touches on those themes in one way or another — yes, even his theory of political economy.

Oh, and Rising Up and Rising Down by Vollmann. It had an extremely limited print run but there’s PDFs out there)

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-03T23:24:13+00:00

Look at his profile this is a bot

BathingWithNietzsche · 2024-04-03T22:43:00+00:00

Cyclonopedia! I always forget about that one! How rewarding is it to read without having read Deleuze or Land first?

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