they joked about the dead manto demonstrate to others how well they knew himand how he would join in their joking if he were aliveor joke about them if they'd been the one dead.it was a way of switching placesa courtesydeath is a nice place to visit
Read moreactor playing a cipher
vacillating within the bubble of whom he's supposed to be.trying not to break the bubble's walls.
Read morefilm about a tibetan buddhist
who is set up by his disbelieving friend to a lunch date with an eminent disbelieving former buddhist. the crisis that ensues. short
Read moremeaning lives inside emotion, a reification?
when emotion turns, meaning hollows out. not motive energy
Read morelove others, but no longer hide behind them
the lesson of 2010.
Read morethe artist longing for the good work of doctors
the artist sees how valuable to be giving and helping people. this is what the artist aspires to. the artist who succeeds is that doctor. the artist who falls short is a miserly businessman hording the spirit of others for himself. it is dangerous path where only success is laudable, and anything less an inexcusable…
Read morethe principle of always listening to new music
or else you fall back into the past, which is a marsh of dissatisfaction bored and greedy for your companylikewise new friends the past should be like a glass of wine taken at the right timenot a bottleor litter of bottles
Read morenation of whores
i think of actors in movies panderingso happy to have snagged a commercialof young people volunteering to fighteveryone whoringand yet whoring isn't so bad, intrinsically, it's the wrong metaphor,because sex for whatever reason, if mutually enjoyed, is just emblematicof engaging the world, of being social, of living exuberant life.but literal need, to be driven to…
Read moredocumentary about wailing about
the one dead whom you abused while alive. so much easier to live with dead people. reminds me of EP mourning the wife he assisted in destroying, and countless others
Read moreinsight into the afterlife?
I challenged, crazily, when George died, ok, communicate with me, show me a sign, now that you understand me, understand everything. and of course nothing. and yet the crazy thought does enter my head that if there is any afterlife, any true metaphysics to this, that it can only be expressed through the only vehicle…
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