A Fool Among Men

that Brian Eno quote about how whatever you find most repulsive about a medium (film grain, record scratches/fuzz, CDs skipping) will be the first thing you try and emulate once that medium is obsolete because it's "the sign of a moment too powerful for the medium assigned to contain it".... man.......

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.” -Brian Eno

When I am king, we will valorize sanitation workers the way we currently valorize the military

still fuckin hate that “bee-free honey” that’s made from……… apples. bitch who you think sexed up those apples

A farmer, by hand and with love and care

wild bees still sexin em up when he’s not looking

old mccuckhold had a farm it seems

I can't watch a television show until a demon possesses me and compels me to do it

maybe orpheus always looks back because his very effort to reverse death means that he can't look forward. if he could look forward, he could accept eurydice's death, grieve, and keep moving in life. his refusal to accept her death is looking back. his going down to the underworld, asking hades and persephone for her life, trying to lead her out... it's all 'looking back'. he does nothing for the entire story except look back. orpheus! looks! back! it's his entire thing! the story ends the same way it begins: orpheus looked back.

AUGHHHHHH

Listening to an audiobook of Faust. Specifically the Martin Greenberg translation. Barely 25% into part 1 and it's already goated. I keep expecting Mephistopheles to break out into a jaunty big band jazz number.

Okay I got part 1. Part 2 was a lot harder. Maybe I am stupid.

You’re not stupid. The general literary consensus on Part 2 seems to be that it’s a heap of wacky bullshit interesting only to Goethe scholars. In Part 2 he wanders away from the precepts of effective drama and just writes whatever his fevered little philosophical heart desires—and not even in the fun Joycean way, but in a way that gets very hard to read. My first translation of Faust, the Walter Kaufmann, doesn’t even bother to translate Part 2 in full; Kaufmann just does a general summary of the whole play with interspersed excerpts, then translates the final scene in full because that’s got the most exciting part (Faust actually dying, being redeemed, Mephisto being gay for the angels of the Lord)

I gotta say I was not expecting Faust to get redeemed because Mephisto was distracted looking at cute male angels.

you look like the kinda girl who'd open up ms paint back in the day select the spray paint tool and click and hold to watch it slowly turn into a perfect circle