Always Avoid A Brilliant Image Of A Fuzzy Concept*

Fig. 1. Jasper Johns - Light Bulb I, 1958


'A powerful idea communicates some of its power to the man who contradicts it.'

Marcel Proust

* 'There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.' (Ansel Adams)

Builders Of Ten-Fingered Bridges To Aural Fantasias

Fig. 1. Andreas Feininger - Brooklyn Bridge by Night, 1945


'The whole of visible universe is only a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination assigns a place and a relative value; it is a kind of nourishment that the imagination must digest and transform.'

Charles Baudelaire

Your Ears Will Orgasm #48c: Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsodies 13-19, played by Michele Campanella (MixPod Player)

13. No.13 in A minor
14. No.14 in F minor
15. No.15 in A minor (Rákóczy March)
16. No.16 in A minor
17. No.17 in D minor
18. No.18 in F sharp minor
19. No.19 in D minor

Even Though The Fat Lady Has Not Stopped Singing

Fig. 1. Wilhelm Freddie - Monument, 1941


'Opera once was an important social instrument - especially in Italy. With Rossini and Verdi people were listening to opera together and having the same catharsis with the same story, the same moral dilemmas. They were holding hands in the darkness. That has gone. Now perhaps they are holding hands watching television.'

Luciano Berio

Addendum: Anonymous' (merci beaucoup!) poetry corner...

La Musique

La musique souvent me prend comme une mer!
Vers ma pâle étoile,
Sous un plafond de brume ou dans un vaste ether,
Je mets à la voile;

La poitrine en avant et les poumons
gonflés
Comme de la toile,
J'escalade le dos des flots amoncelés
Que la nuit me voile;

Je sens vibrer en moi toutes les passions
D'un vaisseau qui souffre;
Le bon vent, la tempête et ses convulsions

Sur l'immense gouffre
Me bercent. D'autres fois, calme plat, grand miroir
De mon désespoir!

Charles Baudelaire

A Book Is Paper Infected With The Virus Of Language

Fig. 1. Andreas Gursky - Bibliotek, 1999


'It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.'

Oscar Wilde

Hail The Season Of Mists And Mellow Fruitfulness*

Fig. 1. Jacob Cats - Autumn Landscape with Rainbow, 1779


'Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.'

Albert Camus

* From Ode to Autumn by John Keats

Addendum: Katie and ESVM's poetry corner...

I still have a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact that you're heading into Autumn, and I'm eagerly awaiting Spring. ESVM and I can deal with two seasons at the same time though:

Autumn Daybreak

Cold wind of autumn, blowing loud
At dawn, a fortnight overdue,
Jostling the doors, and tearing through
My bedroom to rejoin the cloud,

I know−for I can hear the hiss
And scrape of leaves along the floor−
How many boughs, lashed bare by this,
Will rake the cluttered sky once more.

Tardy, and somewhat south of east,
The sun will rise at length, made known
More by the meagre light increased
Than by a disk in splendour shown;

When, having but to turn my head,
Through the stripped maple I shall see,
Bleak and remembered, patched with red,
The hill all summer hid from me.

Yes, You Can Colour My Pleasure Night Vermillion*

Fig. 1. Takashi Murakami (click) - Army of Mushrooms, 2001


'I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.'

Hunter S. Thompson

Addendum: Click Meeee! Click Meeee!

One Point English Lesson (from Vermillion Pleasure Night) - Lesson 1: First Rate Cunt Lapping

The Fuccons (from Vermillion Pleasure Night) - Trailer

* With thanks to Dive for bringing Vermillion Pleasure Night to my attention.

M.A.E.W.I.T.C.P.Y.H.F.J.D.Q.L.K.Z.S.B.X.O.V.R.U.G.N. ...

Fig. 1. Giacomo Balla - Velocità astratta + rumore (Abstract Speed + Sound), 1913-14

'I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.'

Baruch Spinoza

Addendum:

Fig. 2. M. C. Escher - Circle Limit II, 1959

Fig. 3. Annual migration of the Golden Ray