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Jul-10-09
 | | Domdaniel: Or maybe not. Breton helped to treat shellshock victims during the Great War, and the experience marked him. |
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| Jul-10-09 | | mack: ...is the point. ‘Symbolic’ wrote Alistair Horne in his so-so book 'The Seven Ages of Paris', ‘was the spectacle of Braque returning from the war with a turban of bandages covering his head wound. It was the horror of trenches which made many like [the surrealists] recoil from the traditional world… embracing instead an idealist fantasy’. Conflict generates abstraction upon abstraction in the real-world source material of the real world. As such never underestimate the ability of war to accelerate developments in three areas: medicine, machinery of government and the avant garde. Cf. The Goons, right? I didn't realise that the Duchamp doc had been removed. I'm fuming. Je suis fumer. |
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| Jul-10-09 | | mack: Oh bollocks, where did that punchline go? |
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Jul-10-09
 | | jessicafischerqueen: <youtube> removals are inconsistent and mysterious. <WMG> has prompted the most- But <youtube> is likely to make a copyright deal with them sooner rather than later- <Google> is on the rise and <youtube> is slowly growing into a giant archive of pop culture history. Almost every TV series from the 1970s to the present is now archived there- And so far, although copyright is still held by the producers in most of these cases, no deletions. In the case of documentaries it's even more inconsistent. And mysterious. I find it very difficult to believe that whomever might hold copyright on that <Duchamp> documentary would object to its dissemination on <youtube>. It's possible that the person who uploaded it in the first place took it down himself for some reason- though I can't think of a reason that makes sense since he uploaded it in the first place. Also, I know for a fact that the <youtube> administrators can only look at a tiny fraction of all the uploaded content. There is no full frontal nudity allowed on <youtube> but believe me there is plenty of it if you know how to look for it. Not that I do of course.
Just saying.
Most of the copyrighted content that goes on <youtube> is ripped directly from a TV broadcast, a DVD, or a torrent file. <youtube> has also bought a raft of films which they show "in full length" instead of in 10 minute chunks. One of which is the truly brilliant <Enigma of Kaspar Hauser> by Herzog. Herzog afficianados will likely prefer the original German title- Which translates as
"Every Man for Himself and God against all"
I suppose <youtube> bought the rights to show art films to host their own film archive project because they are cheaper because nobody watches them except eggheads. Anyway here's the <Kaspar the Friendly Hauser> youtube link- full length- but you have to sign in with your youtube user name or register if you haven't got one. Takes about three minutes to register a user name on <youtube>. I don't know why they have listed this film as "restricted to 18 years or over". I think people are very, very thick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8y7...
Seriously though folks this is one of the most beautiful films I've ever seen in my life. The opening sequence is a field of rippling wheat- and an intertitle taken from the short story "Lenz" by the brilliant, but ill-fated <Georg Buchner>, who was maybe Herzog's favorite writer: "What is this terrible screaming that men generally call silence"? Mrs. Shell
Bolton |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Here's what you get when you click on the <Kaspar> link I just gave - <The video you have requested has been rated:
No drug reference
No strong language
N: Brief or partial nudity
No sexual conduct
V: Mildly violent or disturbing
(Learn more)
Click "Continue" to affirm you are 19 or older and wish to view this content.> So if you have a <youtube> registration just sign in and "click." And like I said if you don't already have one it takes 3 minutes tops to register. All they want is your email etc. And your little dog.
It's well worth registering though. There is absolutely no censorship of any kind in the "comments" sections of <youtube> videos. None.
You can find and read the most shocking outrageous rants full of the most heinous obscenities in every language on the planet here. Well Ok most of those are probably written by me, but you get the point- No censorship. Absolutely none at all.
The posted comments on the <Kaspar Hauser> page are quite civilized and literate, however. Oddly enough... |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Oh, what sorry times we live in etc. etc. when people like me are allowed to post on the internet... |
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Jul-10-09
| | Domdaniel: This is not the internet. It's part of a fake 'shell' web put up by the Antarctican government to confuse climate change dissidents. The 'real' internet is over there ---> somewhere. |
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Jul-10-09
| | Domdaniel: Great God, this is an awful place. |
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Jul-10-09
 | | Stonehenge: At least there are no boorish peasants on Antartica. Or are they called Polish peasants over there? |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Stony>
The whole story is even more sordid than you might imagine. <Dom> has moved from the North, citing it as "too Butch" for his tastes. Who can blame him?
Unfortunately, <Antarctica> is the home of the Butchest life form of all- <Kurt Russell> in John Carpenter's remake of <The Thing>. (In which he is beaten by a talking female chess computer, and then kills her by pouring a glass of Jack Daniels all over her keyboard) |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Bloody peasants |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>
More bad news, I'm afraid.
You may want to inspect my new forum banner. |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Here is <Kurt Russell> killing the uppity female chess engine with his drink, accusing her of "cheating" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iv_X... |
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Jul-10-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> Impressive, and your ontology can't be faulted. Others may confuse the Real, the Surreal and the Irreal, but not you. I can only reply with the opening (and closing) words of John Cale's 'Antarctica Starts Here' ... "The paranoid great movie queen
Sits idly, fully armed
Powder and mascara here
A warning light for charm...
... Her schoolhouse mind
Has windows now
Where handsome creatures
Come to watch
The anaesthetic wearing off
Antarctica starts here." |
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Jul-10-09
| | Domdaniel: Obscure footnote: <Antarctica Starts Here> is also the name of a fictional documentary about the mega-rich Tessier-Ashpool family, a clan of Franco-Australian cloned zillionaires in William Gibson's <Neuromancer>. |
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Jul-10-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> well I've done it again- I've invited <lamont> to <The Phorum Phormerly Known as Phrogspawn>- He's a New Yorker and knows a great deal about literature, art, music. I've already savagely attacked him with several posts, but apparently he's having none of that. He is strongly opinionated but absolutely not inflexible, nor is he a megalomaniac. Well not any more than us anyways.
Up to now he only posts in the <Phischer Phorum>. I know you've already read many of his posts. |
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Jul-11-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom>
More bad news, I'm afraid.
You better have a look at <twinlark's> new forum banner. |
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Jul-11-09
| | Domdaniel: <Jess> He's welcome: there are some lingering whiffs of both xenophilia and philoxenia around the place, despite the frigidity of the current name-plate. I don't even mind whether he turns out to be Lamont Cranston (The Shadow ... "Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men?") or Norman Lamont (a Tory comedy Dracula figure, enmeshed in traditional Tory 'scandals' such as being landlord to a dominatrix). Saturday, 07:17am. Time for my weekly train trip to view some art. This time it's failed utopias and the Amerikanisch Traum. Traum/a ... ya gotta feel fond of a word that means 'dream' in one language and 'wound' in another. Like built-in surrealism. Lord, lord, I don't even feel like a human. |
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Jul-11-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: Built in surrealism?
Look no further than American medical emergency nomenclature. "Shock Trauma" is a triage term for people who have been shot, or had pianos dropped on their head, and the like. True story- In my last year of high school the whole grade went on a three day trip to the foggy Olympic Peninsula. Not sure why really- possibly it was a search for the rare "mountain beaver." At any rate, two of the boys in my class had gotten their official BC First Aid certification. There were two bodies that could confer this distinction: The BC Federation of Labor ("Industrial Certification") The Red Cross ("Red Cross Certification).
Needless to say, each had a different certification and they engaged in a heated argument as to which was superior, citing many case studies, most of which I suspected they made up on the spot. My good friend <Adam> put an immediate stop to the debate via a trenchant, and unexpected, query to one of the combatants: "What does "Industrial" say about getting run over by a steamroller?" This was one of the most effective conversation stoppers I have ever heard. |
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Jul-11-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: <Dom> if you keep changing the name of this place six times a day, people may start calling it "Legion." As distinct from the "American Legion," of course, where veterans drink inexpensive beer over terry-towel table cloths and smoke cigarettes because not even the police have the nerve to pester people who fought in World War II. |
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Jul-11-09
| | Domdaniel: We're stubborn as Lake Vostok
We're ice but we're still holding up
A penguin/chicken tikka
Democracy is coming
To Antarctica. |
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Jul-11-09
 | | Open Defence: you look like a penguin in bondage boy... |
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| Jul-11-09 | | twinlark: How do we kick start
That auld Antarctica's arse?
Haven't we already? |
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Jul-11-09
| | jessicafischerqueen: And if there was any doubt as to the <Butchness> of the Antarctic- Here is the proof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVc0...
SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC
(Directed by James McCretin)
Interviewer: "Have you started shooting yet?"
Director: "Yee! Greet! Greet! .... Well no. Greet!" |
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Jul-11-09
| | Domdaniel: Before we take our leave of Antarctica -- sorry, folks, but this change is mandatory according to the cruel exigencies of History - which, like Islam and Xtianity, is a device for getting other people to die for an abstraction. One of my editors has accused me of 'metaphoric density'. As in: I came up with the term, he observed that it applied to me. Why can't I just be different and original like everyone else? So another name-change is in the pipeline. I've looked up my word hoard and perused my collection of neologisms. An announcement is expected to coincide with the birth. Another option, of course, is to nick another song title. Like Cale, again ('Damn Life' and 'Guts' are the frontrunners, plus the non-titular 'Soul to Poison Soul'). Or possibly Beefheart (Dali's Car, Bat Chain Puller, Doc at the Radar Station), Dylan (Love Minus Zero/ No Limit, No Time to Think, Black Diamond Bay), Cohen (The Future, Boogie Street, Closing Time) -- I'll be seeing Lennie in a few days time and I may defer my decision till then. Utterly wonderful as Mr Pollard's titles are, I'd feel a fraud using one. That's <mack> territory. Though I have thought about dumping my 'traditional' profile/biog material (with quotes) and just penning a poem, mack-style. The pastiche is a foreign country: they do things different-ish there. Other possibilities:
Noise to Signal
Destination Calling Source
Stout Cortex
The Final Encyclopedia
The Minds of Mr Meisswerk
Neuropa
Neuropean Son
Neuropanto
Entropanto
Entropantomime
Cinderella's Dead
Blabber & Smoke
Only Smarties Have the Answer
Go to Work on an Erg
Last Tangle in Dingly Dell
Shall we?
Mein Kampf or Yours?
Devoid Media
Mick's Mixolydian Mix
Sanities
Apres Moi la Beluga
Oh, To be in April
Woman Ray
Dr Luther's Assistant
Mr Offield's Contraption
Honey Trap (for T.)
To _____, as promised.
More light.
Great Neck
Merdre
Ubu's Pion Farm
Diamond Mind
Nuke Mahone
Nimzo's Funambulists
Znosko-Borovsky & The Zees
Zoroastermas
Shaving's Behaving
Recursive Mornings
Run That By Me Again
Und So Weiter |
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