And woman is the same as horses
“‘And woman is the same as horses: two wills act in opposition inside her. With one will, she wants to subject herself utterly. With the other she wants to bolt, and pitch her rider to perdition.’”...
View ArticleI don’t want to see you, I want a woman I don’t see
“‘I don’t want to see you. I’ve seen plenty of women, I’m sick and weary of seeing them. I want a woman I don’t see.’” Women in Love, D. H. Lawrence.
View ArticleThe fertility of sound
“I believe in the fertility of sound.” The Plumed Serpent, D. H. Lawrence.
View ArticleThe insidious modern disease of tolerance
“…he had the insidious modern disease of tolerance. He must tolerate everything, even a thing that revolted him. He would call it Life! He would feel he had lived this afternoon. Greedy even for the...
View ArticleBolshevism vs Americanism
“He said there are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your...
View ArticleThe instinct for chaos had entered
“Even in the machine, there should be equality. No part should be subordinate to any other part: all should be equal. The instinct for chaos had entered. Mystic equality lies in being, not in having or...
View ArticleOtherwise he would collapse inwards upon the great dark void
“…life was a hollow shell all round him, roaring and clattering like the sound of the sea, a noise in which he participated externally, and inside this hollow shell was all the darkness and fearful...
View ArticleWe’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music
The Paris Review: Don DeLillo, The Art of Fiction No. 135
View ArticleIn structural film sound does exactly the opposite
“If one of the main functions of sound in traditional filmic mimesis is to ‘naturalize’ the image and anchor it in the real, in structural film sound does exactly the opposite. It openly contradicts...
View ArticleThe interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static
“Before a message comes on, there is the interminable murmur of the world and the hiss of static; at once no sound and (potentially) all-sounds, murmur and static indicate that the channels are open,...
View ArticleSo sublime, hand me a cigarette and a towel
It’s that time of the year in which everybody writes best-of-the-year lists, all I have to say this year is this, paraphrasing Matt Zoller Seitz: “Other series were more comprehensible, and nearly all...
View ArticleBut this will be the end of our civilisation
“But this will be the end of our civilisation, when people will not work because work has become so intolerable to their senses, it nauseates them too much, they would rather starve. Then we shall see...
View ArticleAngular. Volumen 01 en Otros Cines Europa
En Otros Cines Europa han publicado una reseña muy bonita de Angular. Volumen 01. Además, dicen cosas que me gustan sobre mi película, así que agradezco sus palabras por partida doble, como enamorada...
View ArticleCreativity today
“Far more creativity, today, goes into the marketing of products than into the products themselves, athletic shoes or feature films.” Pattern Recognition, William Gibson.
View ArticleThe creative process is no longer contained within an individual skull
“Musicians, today, if they’re clever, put new compositions out on the web, like pies set to cool on a window ledge, and wait for other people to anonymously rework them. Ten will be all wrong, but the...
View ArticleInfrasound
“This weapon is fully described in The Job, published by Grove Press of New York. So much for the commercial. Infrasound is sound at a frequency below the level of human hearing which sets up...
View ArticleInto each life some rain must fall
“…it seems to me that rain is a mirror of one of our key emotional states: not a negative one at all, but deeply necessary – just as necessary as joy. Water, after all, both reflects us, and brings...
View ArticleRain is essential to my sense of identity
In the first page of Rain: Four Walks in English Weather, Melissa Harrison writes: “…rain is as essential to our sense of identity as it is to our soil.” She is writing about the English countryside,...
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