Kur-d-t My Ghost

Your Dog Wanna be My King, digital collage by A/Z available with other drawings, photographs and collages at Fine Art America; 
Kurt Cobain Journals (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002);

With Krist Novoselic, Dave Grohl & Antony Hodgkinson, Reading Festival (August 30, 1992);

From Nirvana Live! Tonight! Sold Out!! (Kevin Kerslake/Kurt Cobain, 1994);

Jean-Michel Basquiat's detail from Eroica II (1988), Image taken from Leonhard Emmerling's Basquiat;

Nirvana - Annorexorcist;

Sonic Youth - Superstar;

Sonic Youth - Mildred Pierce;
Richard Hell - Blank Generation;

Teenage Jesus - The Closet;

The Stooges - I wanna be your dog;

George Antheil's Violin Sonata n. 2 (Vahid Khadem-Missagh and Gottlieb Wallisch, 2015,Youtube); 

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Vestibule

"incesticide orphelin"

"Swiss side"

Marcel Duchamp

"Think rich. Look poor."

"Of course you can have bad manners if you know how to use them."
Andy Warhol
"All I liked to do was walk around the streets with a heart full of napalm."
Iggy Pop (Please Kill Me)

"The reason I wrote that song was out of spite for Richard Hell, because he told me he was gonna write a song better than Lou Reed's 'Heroin,' so I went home and wrote 'Chinese Rocks.'"

Dee Dee Ramones (Please Kill Me)
"Ça vous fait vomir? Alors, allez-y, vomissez-moi! Il doit bien y avoir d'autres féministes que vous."
Olga (Les Samouraïs)

"You sure to be derided by the Rambo-Liddy-Ollie North steroid gang... and the conventional-wisdom experts."

Timothy Leary

"... mais encore d'avoir eu ses premiers sentiments modelés par les plus douces des soeurs, et non par d'horribles frères toujours prêts aux coups de poing, horrid pugilistic brothers..."

Baudelaire/De Quincey

"We were just being cool, watching the band, and a bunch of fraternity guys came up and started fucking with Fred, slapping him on the back of the head and saying, 'Are you a boy or a girl?'"

Wayne Kramer (Please Kill Me)
"And there's Iggy dancing around like Waiting for Godot meets the ballet. He wasn't like Roger Daltrey..."
John Sinclair (Please Kill Me)
"I thought these people were innocent little virgin girls!"
Malcolm McLaren (Please Kill Me)

"I didn't think Teenage Jesus should mingle with the audience, even if to attack them. Don't touch those bastards, let'em just sit there in horror!"

Lydia Lunch (Rip It Up)

"... il n'y a d'homme que castré, il n'y a de père que mort."

Sylvia Leclercq (Thérèse mon amour)

"Will you be my The Soliloquist on Perfect?"
James Lee Byars (letter to Joseph Beuys)
"Junkies tend to run together into one body... You have to be careful especially in hot places."
William S. Burroughs
"When Sid was alive, he was always saying, 'When I die, bury me next to Nancy.'"
Eileen Polk (Please Kill Me)

"Other people have imaginary playmates, but Patti had imaginary playmates who were Keith Richards..."

Penny Arcade (Please  Kill Me)

"And I could identify with her because I was doing the same thing, keeping journals, writing mash notes to dead people, and here she was doing it in a much more confident way..."

Duncan Hannah (Please Kill Me)

"... une espèce de philanthropie plutôt faite de pitié que d'amour (c'est ainsi que se montre le premier germe de l'esprit satanique qui se développera d'une manière extraordinaire), mais qui va jusqu'à la crainte d'affliger qui que ce soit, on devine ce que peut devenir la sentimentalité localisée, appliquée à une personne chérie, jouant ou ayant joué un rôle important dans la vie morale du malade."

"La hideuse nature, dépouillée de son illumination de la veille, ressemble aux mélancoliques débris d'une fête. La volonté surtout est attaquée, de toutes les facultés la plus précieuse."

Baudelaire (Les Paradis artificiels)

"I alone am still born, showing no sign of life,

Like a baby that has not yet smiled.

Wearied: I have nowhere to go to...

Common folk shine; I alone am gloomy;

Common folk excel; I alone am downcast...

Everyone has good reasons; I alone have a bumpkin's stubbornness.

I long to be alone and am unlike others, for I appreciate sucking my mother's milk."

Daodejing/20 (Edmund Ryden's translation)

"... la musique et la drogue ont des traits différentiels qui les mettent du côté d'une machine de guerre nomade (la machine de guerre a pour objet, non pas la guerre, mais le tracé d'une ligne de fuit créatrice)"

"... un chormatisme élargi porte à la fois la musique et la métallurgie"

Deleuze & Guattari, Mille Plateaux

"Pure experience is an animated state with maximum freedom in which there is not the least gap between the will's demand and its fulfillment."

Kitaro Nishida
"People want their rock stars to go further out on the edge and hang out there for a bit, take a good long look at that abyss, and then transmit what they find there through their art. Ian Curtis did it. Kurt Cobain did it. So did Robert Smith, except he didn't just look at the abyss, he was on intimate terms with it..."
"... we had our introduction to some new American music in the shape of Mission of Burma, whom we immediately liked. We felt a kinship to them. To my mind they were the precursors of bands like Sonic Youth."
Lol Tolhurst (Cured: the tale of two imaginary boys)
"Others who were minor or background figures at the time went on to achieve later success in a different guise, such as Bjork, the KLF, Beastie Boys, Jane's Addiction, and Sonic Youth... There are dozens of bands who made landmark albums but never achieved more than an abiding cult status, earning the dubious consolation prize of being an influence and reference point for the '90s alt-rock megabands (Gang of Four begot Red Hot Chili Peppers, Throbbing Gristle sired Nine Inch Nails, Talking Heads even supplied Radiohead with their name...)"
Simon Reynolds 

"Warburg insiste pour dire que le séisme du temps atteint l'appareil inscripteur lui-même: lorsque surviennent — ou souviennent — les ondes du temps, le très sensible sismographe tremble sur ses bases... il transmet donc le séisme à l'extérieur comme connaissance, mais également à l'intérieur de lui-même comme expérience, où il risque de se perdre..."

Didi-Huberman
"Eine lange lateinische Abhandlung in Einer Nachtwache niederzuschreiben und auch noch ab-zuschreiben, mit dem Ehrgeiz in der Feder, es meinem Vorbilde Sallust in Strenge und Gedrängtheit nachzuthun, und einigen Grog von schwerstem Kaliber über mein Latein zu gießen, dies stand schon, als ich Schüler der ehrwürdigen Schulpforta war, durchaus nicht im Widerspruch zu meiner Physiologie, noch vielleicht auch zu der des Sallust — wiesehr auch immer zur ehrwürdigen Schulpforta..."

"So wie ich mich immer gewöhnt habe — eine extreme Lauterkeit gegen mich ist meine Daseins-Voraussetzung, ich komme um unter unreinen Bedingungen —, schwimme und bade und plätschere ich gleichsam beständig im Wasser, in irgend einem vollkommen durchsichtigen und glänzenden Elemente."

"Dies ist die fremdartigste 'Objektivität', die es geben kann: die absolute Gewißheit darüber, was ich bin, projicirte sich auf irgend eine zufällige Realität, — die Wahrheit über mich redete aus einer schauervollen Tiefe."

Nietzsche

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Main Hall

Dale,

"fuck we were this close..."

"the overbearing dominator..."

"Seattle SCENE Luminaries..."

"ooh eeerie mystical doom..."

"thru your past experieces do you think it would be wise to demant receipts for recording, pressing costs?"

"we still make movies, the last one we did was in Tacoma at NEVER NEVERLAND... other stars included Rick Derringer and John Lennons Penis."

"determination of botanical possibilities... An infared light will simulate the sun in times of winter. A hypnotherapist will hold your hand and aid you into going back to bed."

"I can see small transparent blotches of debris on the outer shell of my eyes. (or the conjunctiva). And can only follow it as my eye moves downward. its like, watching film footage of amoeba or jelly like plankton under a microscope."

"A lot of NAive asshole kids just called her retarded because she never talked."

"... walking in the woods."

"steel SHEEP at a store near you..."

"I left a butter scotch swiss miss pudding out over night & it turned Bright flourescent green."

"munching, chewing hot stacked earth momma sitting in the open woods of nottingham early in the mornings fog."

"Dilute!"

"May I throw out my hip? I had a bad fall."

"Lolli pop up you know where."

"the art of shopping & matching outfits from the luxury of selection..."

"the mountains which will always be addicted to boredom."

"Elvis Costello — Pump it up."

"Im crosslegged, Rosary to the left..."

"stuck in the middle with you."

"All this wonderfully important deep thought hindered me from REAlizing that the entire House WAS filled with SMOKE from the Charles Bukowski Books..."

"punk rock means freedom..."

"I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own."

"If Jimmi Hendrix were alive..."

"I like girls with weird eyes."

"I like to swim."

"I lack sincerity."

"maybe vegetables will diffuse the chemicals i produce inside me."

"I feel this society has lost its sense of what art is... Art is SEriously being fuCKed with."

"Art is Sacred... expression And right to express is vital."

"I had exausted most conversation at age nine."

"Nihilism is a fine building block to construct foundation of Ideals but dont let the termites come in [tag this here]." 

"give me a leonard cohen afterworld."

"Throw eggs at your enemy. A symbolic chicken foetus AT Pro lifers."

"I am a male. age 23 and Im Lactating."

"The finest day Ive ever had WAS whem TOmorrow NEVER Came."

"My credit ran away from me."

"You said that I remind you of yourself tomorrow."

"... down by the lazy rivers of the rhone or rhine."

"we gleefully decline the opportunity to be raped by the limey Journalist... no thank you."

"geezus Christ. (repeat)"

"mistrust All Systematizers..."

"my feathers are my pussy... [page 189 probably the most precious of all]"

"being A borderline Annorexic Auzhwitz-Grunge-Boy."

"Im not nearly as concerned with or about myself or anyone as the media would have us believe..."

"... and all of his orgones and bad thoughts and desires for truth will soak into the walls of my lower intestines. [page 196 probably the most precious of all]"

"vagina medical books, the meat puppets and"

"what the fuck do they teach journalists at school anyway?"

"film adds ten pounds to A person."

"a topless dancer?"

"has gratuity been added?"

"... what we all have known for too long as shit Rock, prefabricated, incestually politically business oriented garbage..."

"Heroes my ass!"

"sadly we don't speak bird."

"sucksess"

"like a hypocrite in a hippie crypt."

"a ghost vapor comes out of his chest and groin area and enters me Body."

"he had big lips and liked peanuts."

"Ive collaborated with one of my only Idols Williams Burroughs and I couldn't feel cooler."

"Stay Gay all the way and wipe your Ass with USA today."
All quotations from Kurt Cobain Journals (New York: Riverhead Books, 2002);

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***To raise the dead— &/or evidence for the villainous affair, the tale of family disonour, Romish church's pact with the devil (considered the greatest outrage against sense and decency, to be plagued and pestered, though solemnly ratified, à Dieu rien n'est impossible, menteur avéré, nom d'un chien):

"Although Greek names were sometimes applied to the church modes and the principle of diatonic octave scales is found in both systems, certain significant discrepancies seem to belie any direct historical connection. Most conspicuous is the different meaning attributed to the names of the Greek octave species and of the church modes. Comparing the two systems provides a plausible explanation: medieval theorists apparently assumed wrongly that the Greek octave species were named in ascending rather than descending order. The Greek octave species Dorian (E–E), Phrygian (D–D), Lydian (C–C), and Mixolydian (B–B) thus appeared in the church modes as Dorian (D–D), Phrygian (E–E), Lydian (F–F), and Mixolydian (G–G)," (from "Mode," entry in Brittanica, by Mieczyslaw Kolinski);

See also:

- Kitsch, Neo-Kitsch, Anti-Kitsch;

- Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs & Ney Matogrosso;

- défi du non-circoncis;

- Audrey Hempburnt Haunted by A/Z;

- faire ce qu'il faut, parler au spectre;
- Genug! Manifesto;
- Land of the Southern Lapwing;
- Joyce in a Toadstool;
- God Save the Queen (Blake's Palace of Wisdom);
- who is afraid of Sylvia Plath?

- Série, presque à genoux with thread;
- souvenirs de soleils (2);
- souvenirs de soleils (1);

- Godard's Sympathy for the Devil;

- Darkwaves beyond the 80's;
- High or Middle Culture (electronic and others)?

- Call me Helium;

- movies about musicians;

- Icons of Romanticism (Brazil);

***#MeToo Clipping on the White Elite Supreme Degenerate Scumbag STR8 Hypocrite Trashes of all sorts &  More: 

- 'For me, poetry is photography and poetry can be virtually anything—painting, sculpture, video/audio piece, installation, performance, etc… As Allen Ginsberg told me when we first met, “Poetry is like a radio station that broadcasts long after you’re dead.” I started out as a poet and journalist and I think now more than ever is a good time for both poetry and journalism, through all means and mediums necessary.' (Why Slava Mogutin is Russia’s greatest art rebel, Dazed); 

- 'Even as dogs have become beloved pets in the U.S., treated as members of the family, with harsh punishments for those who abuse them, the behavior of corporate and academic entities that subject dogs to gruesome experimentations has barely changed. It’s a strange hypocrisy: Individuals may not abuse these animals, but corporations can...' (Bred do Suffer: Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation, The Intercept);

- 'On a hot Friday evening in France last month, Jean-Luc Brunel was revelling in his natural habitat: a lavish party packed with the rich and beautiful... Thysia Huisman, then an 18-year-old Dutch model staying at the apartment, alleged that one such evening in September 1991, she began feeling woozy after being given a drink by Brunel, and was taken to his bedroom. "I recall him lying on top of me, me trying to push him off,' she said in an interview. 'I remember trying to move, but not really being able to. Like almost being paralysed..."' (Jean-Luc Brunel: three former models say they were sexually assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein friend,  The Guardian);

- Private jets, parties and eugenics: Jeffrey Epstein's bizarre world of scientists (The Guardian); 

- ‘We live with scars’: accusers demand Epstein’s death not derail investigatio (The Guardian); 

- Who were the rich and powerful people in Jeffrey Epstein's circle? (The Guardian); 

- You Were Never Really Here review (Peter Bradshaw/The Guardian); 

- Director Lynne Ramsay: ‘I've got a reputation for being difficult – it's bullshit’ (The Guardian); 

God Save the Queen (Blake's Palace of Wisdom)

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Warhol with Camera (A/Z Instagram post); 

John Lydon & Sex Pistols;
Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, Nico & The Velvet Underground;
Kurt Cobain;
Pictures taken from the Internet (montage A/Z);
Me from Mommy Dearest Photo Album;
Presuming Ed from Bruce Robinson's Whitnail and I (1987);
Anselm Kiefer's Unternehmen Seelöwe (1975),
picture taken from Daniel Arasse's Anselm Kiefer;
The Sex Pistols In Brazil (The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle, 1980);
Devenir Musicien &  Pillage (videos by A/Z) [I took these videos out of Youtube, because I wanted to change them];

George Antheil's Violin Sonata n. 2 (Vahid Khadem-Missagh and Gottlieb Wallisch/2015, Youtube); 

"Pure experience is an animated state with maximum freedom in which there is not the least gap between the will's demand and its fulfilment."

Kitaro Nishida
"La main se crispe dans une sorte de contraction impudique..."
Canteloube (Grand Journal, 21 mai)
"Eine lange lateinische Abhandlung in Einer Nachtwache niederzuschreiben und auch noch ab-zuschreiben, mit dem Ehrgeiz in der Feder, es meinem Vorbilde Sallust in Strenge und Gedrängtheit nachzuthun, und einigen Grog von schwerstem Kaliber über mein Latein zu gießen, dies stand schon, als ich Schüler der ehrwürdigen Schulpforta war, durchaus nicht im Widerspruch zu meiner Physiologie, noch vielleicht auch zu der des Sallust—wiesehr auch immer zur ehrwürdigen Schulpforta..."
Nietzsche

"... e, uma vez, apaguei de repente, caí com a cabeça em cima dos pratos e elas me ajudaram, com massagens, estímulos e mais drogas, é lógico."
Júpiter Maçã, A Odisséia

"Ultrasonic sounds on records to cause frontal lobotomies."
"Rock & Roll is so great, people should start dying for it. You don't understand. The  music gave you back your beat so you could dream."
Lou Reed (Please Kill Me)

"Then of course Nico walked out with this gorgeous face and voice and stood absolutely motionless."
"Lou was a double-faced, insincere, grasping type."
Paul Morrissey  (Please Kill Me)
"Nico was really  odd. She was very  icy and reserved on one level, and then annoyingly insecure on another... Beautiful, but a weirdo. You didn't have a relationship with Nico."
Ronnie Cutrone (Please Kill Me)

"I just thought Richard Hell was incredible. Here was a guy all deconstructed, torn down, looking like he'd just crawled out of a drain hole, looking like he was covered in slime, looking like he hadn't slept in years, looking like he hadn't washed in years, and looking like no one gave a fuck about him. And looking like he didn't really give a fuck about you!"
Malcolm McLaren (Please Kill Me)
"I liked Malcolm because he liked me... There weren't that many people who gave us any respect, you know?"
Richard Hell (Please Kill Me)
"The first song that the Sex Pistols played was I Wanna Be Your Dog, the greatest punk song ever written to this day."

Danny Field (Please Kill Me)

"The profanity hooked me first (I was fourteen), Johnny Rotten's 'fuck this and fuck that/Fuck it all and fuck her fucking brat.' More than the naughty words themselves, it was the vehemence and virulence of Rotten's delivery—those percussive 'fucks,' the demonic glee of the rolled rs in 'brrrrrrrat.'"
"From that point onward, McLaren decided that Rotten was at heart 'a constructive sissy rather than a destructive lunatic,' and focused his energy on molding the more suggestible Sid Vicious into the Pistol's true star, a cartoon psychopath, wanton and self-destructive."
"Although they found nothing, Lydon was taken to the local police station and had to walk home in his pijamas."
Simon Reynolds

"Andy said to me, 'Don't... don't... don't make me laugh. I hurts too much."
Billy Name (Please Kill Me)
"In a desperate plea for the attention of her idol, she snatched Andy Warhol's wig."
James St. James (Party Monster)

"... et du chaos d'un sommeil plein de songes tu évoques à la lumière du soleil les visages des beautés depuis longtemps ensevelies, et les physionomies familières et bénies, nettoyées des outrages de la tombe. Toi seul, tu donnes à l'homme ces trésors, et tu possèdes les clefs du paradis, ô juste, subtil et puissant opium!"

Baudelaire/De Quincey (Les Paradis artificiels)

"... virei mentor dum garoto judeu e gay... Eu dizia, você não acredita em nada? Marilyn Monroe? Elvis Presley, George Harrison?"

Júpiter Maçã, A Odisséia
"What's wrong with tits? The queen's got'em."
Geri Miller (Please Kill Me)

"After the gig we were visited in our dressing room by none other than Lady Helen Windsor, a minor royal and great-granddaughter of King George V. Seems she was a mad Cure fan, too! Truth is stranger than fiction, truly."

Lol Tolhurst (Cured: the tale of two imaginary boys)

"The society ladies who appear to Bloom, Mrs. Yelverton Barry (a name modified from that of a suspected transvestist) and Mrs. Bellingham (an actual name) are as fond of wearing furs as Wanda."

Richard Ellmann

"Dr. Spock personalizes quantum psychology: 'Treat your kids as individuals, as singularities.' Here was the most radical, subversive social doctrine ever proposed, and it was directed to the only groups that can bring about enduring change: parents, pediatricians, teachers."
Timothy Leary

"In India, many people visit holy men and women for their darshan, literally their look, which is believed to confer great blessings. Perhaps an unconscious survival of the same kind of belief is involved in the popular desire to see in person the Queen of England, the President of the United Sates, the Pope, pop stars, or other luminaries."

Rupert Sheldrake

"When Queen Elizabeth came here and President Eisenhower bought her a hot dog I'm sure he felt confident that she couldn't have had delivered to Buckingham Palace a better hot dog than that one he bought her for maybe twenty cents at the ballpark... Not for a dollar, not for ten dollars, not for a hundred thousand dollars."
"Think rich. Look poor."
Andy Warhol

"Giving up Beethoven, the emotional climaxes and all, is fairly  simple for an American. But giving Bach is more difficult. Bach's music suggest order and glorifies for those who hear it their regard for order, which in their lives is expressed by daily jobs nine to five and the appliances with which they surround themselves and which, when plugged in, God willing, work... Jazz is equivalent to Bach (steady beat, dependable motor), and the love of Bach is generally coupled with the love of jazz. Jazz is more seductive, less moralistic than Bach. It popularizes the pleasures and pains of the physical life, whereas Bach is close to church and all that. Knowing as we do that so many jazz musicians stay up to all hours and even take dope, we permit ourselves to become sympathetically at least, junkies and night owls ourselves: by participation mystique. Giving up Bach, jazz, and order is difficult. Patsy Davenport is right."

"Ten years ago the New York painters were for the most part poor as church mice. Did they then or do they now have a place in American society?"

John Cage (Indeterminacy)

"In Washington DC, we experienced the sharper side of American life. We were shocked when we pulled into town and realized it was divided into the haves and have-nots, ghettoized in a way we had not experienced before... In London it appeared to us that all the races mixed together..."

"In the United Kingdom, punk was more of a cultural/political movement—it had to be, given the circumstances—whereas in the United States it felt more like a social/fashion happening... this being New York, we had our first brush with the celebrity circuit. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein of Blondie, along with David Johansen of The New York Dolls, turned up to our first-night gig at Hurrah's..."
Lol Tolhurst (Cured: the tale of two imaginary boys)

"Not that I'm especially patriotic or anything, but it's also striking how both the sixties and the postpunk movement were periods during which Britannia ruled the pop waves..."
"The No Wave scene in New York was virtually wall-to-wall painters, filmmakers, poets, and performance artists. Gang of Four, Cabaret Voltaire, Wire, and the Raincoats are just a handful of the U.K. bands that were started by fine-art or design graduates. Especially in Britain, art schools have long functioned as a state-subsidized bohemia, where working-class youths too unruly for a life of labor mingle with slumming bourgeois kids too wayward for a middle-management career."

"... it was a particular kind of 'art rock' that postpunk pledged allegiance to... the minimal-is-maximal lineage that runs from the Velvet Underground through Krautrock and the more intellectual Bowie/Roxy end of glam. For a certain breed of hipster, the music that sustained them through the 'wasteland' of the seventies was made by a cluster of kindred spirits—Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Brian Eno..."
"For those prepared to live somewhere that looked almost as bombed-out as Beirut, and where heroin was easier to buy than groceries, the Lower East Side was a paradise... 'We didn't have someone like Mayor Giuliani breathing down our necks. It was a very loose time. There wasn't much to fight against, except tradition, where you came from, what your parents were. It was like you'd been thrown into this adolescent adult fun fair and left to figure it out' [Lydia Lunch]."
"By the late seventies, French thinkers of the sort Green [of Scritti Politti] had been devouring were flirting with the once unthinkable (for the Left) notion that American capitalism, despite its faults, offered a lot of space for doing it yourself and bending the law."
"Early MTV was a curious animal, almost inadvertently radical. Because videos from domestic major labels acts were scarce, the channel depended on promos from the U.K. and Europe, where the pop video was already well established. Artists such as Queen, David Bowie, Abba, and Boomtown Rats had specialized in striking promo clips."

Simon Reynolds (Rip It Up)

"When David said in Melody Maker that he was gay—then he changed it, and said he was bisexual, which was what he really meant—he never would have had the balls to do that unless he'd been hanging around with Iggy and Lou."
"... Iggy actually read, you know, Dostoevsky and all that kinda crap..."
Angela Bowie (Please Kill Me)
"Johnny  Rotten asked me, 'If they don't like me will they beat me up?' He thought the Ramones were a real gang, ha ha ha."
Arturo Vega (Please Kill Me)
"I felt that what we had done as a joke in New York had been taken for real in England by a younger and more violent audience."
Mary Harron (Please Kill Me)
"By the end of the seventies, the philosophy was that you couldn't do anything without a lot of money... the anger was simply  about money, that the culture had become corporate, that we no longer owned it and everybody was desperate to fucking get it back."
Malcolm McLaren

"Nous sommes invités, Rose et moi, à Boston, la semaine prochaine pour un banquet — nous commençons à en prendre l'habitude! et même je n'ai plus de trac quand il faut parler devant 200 personnes. C'est la vie américaine. J'aime  ce pays de plus en plus: j'aurais d'ailleurs mauvaise grâce à ne pas m'y plaire car nous y avons été reçus avec chaleur et compréhension."

André Masson (Lettre à Daniel-Henry Kahnweilver, 2 December, 1941)

"Il fait un drôle de temps ici: le pays a l'air d'être retouché par Turner — brumes et brouillard, sans doute pour ne pas trop dépayser les Anglais qui sont ici."

André Masson (Lettre à Georges Bataille, 2 Juillet 1936)

"Pour ce qui est de l'Angleterre, je ne saurais vraiment rien vous dire, car il s'agit d'un pays cagot, livré aux femmes, ce qui signifie autant qu'une totale décadence."
Strindberg à Nietzsche (Klossowski's translation)
"En effet, je retrouve bien dans Hogarth ce je ne sais quoi de sinistre, de violent et de résolu, qui respire dans presque toutes les oeuvres du pays du spleen."
Baudelaire (Quelques caricaturistes étrangers)

"Lui et ses trois soeurs étaient fort jeunes quand leur père mourut, laissant à leur mère une abondante fortune, une véritable fortune de négociant anglais."

Baudelaire (Les Paradis artificiels)

"La marca de fábrica, en la culata, saltaba a la vista: Liverpool, 1891."

Mario Vargas Llosa (La guerra del fin del mundo)

"This danger was more real in London under the Blitz, which dominated everyday life in 1940-1, as Britain alone opposed Germany."
Matthew Gale

"É o sentimento que os ingleses chamam de spleen, e que não tem correspondente na língua portuguesa. Em noites assim, a nossa realidade interior se mistura à atmosfera que o fog torna ainda mais densa, apagando os contornos da vida. O silêncio ao redor de nós como que se materializa. Os movimentos se fazem em câmera lenta, de peixes no mundo das águas. Ectoplasmas de nós mesmos, flutuamos no ar, integrados à eternidade do nada."

Fernando Sabino (A Morte Vista de Perto)

"Now, Sir, if I conduct you home again into this warmer and more luxuriant island, where you perceive the spring tide of our blood and humours runs high,—where we have more ambition, and pride, and envy, and lechery, and other whoreson passions upon our hands to govern and subject to reason,—the height of our wit and the depth of our judgment, you see, are exactly proportioned to the length and breadth of our necessities,—and accordingly, we have them sent down amongst us in such a flowing kind of decent and creditable plenty, that no one thinks he has any cause to complain. It must however be confessed on this head, that, as our air blows hot and could,—wet and dry, ten times in a day, we have them in no regular and settled way;—so that sometimes for near half a century together, tehre shall be very little wit or judgment, either to be seen or heard of amongst us..."

Tristram Shandy

"The fashions which Charles II brought with him and which were adopted by his Court were among the strangest male garments ever worn. Subsequent historians have regarded them with an unfavourable eye. 'Taste  and elegance', says F. W. Fairholt, 'were abandoned for extravagance and folly.'"

"In essence the change consisted of a decreasing emphasis on the French Court style and an increasing adoption of English country clothes. There was, in short, a trend towards practicality and simplicity. Coats were plain, had narrower cuffs and the skirts were sometimes cut away in front for ease on horseback."

"This was due in no small degree to the  superior skill of London tailors, trained to work in wool broadcloth. Such cloth, unlike light silk and other flimsy materials, can be stretched and moulded to the body. The clothes of the eighteenth-century aristocrat were in general very badly made and did not fit at all snugly to the body. Such snug fitting was the very essence of dandyism, and George Brummell prided himself on the fact that his clothes did not show a single wrinkle and that his breeches fitted his legs like a natural skin. Dandyism does not imply gorgeousness in male attire; the exact  opposite is the case."

"The dandy was shown not only by the cut of his clothes and the snugness of his breeches but by the elaboration of his neckwear. The collar of the shirt was worn upright; the two points projected on to the cheeks and were kept in place by a neckcloth, either in the form of a cravat or a stock. Some dandies were alleged to spend a whole morning in the arrangement of their cravats... There is the well-known story of a caller visiting Brummell in the middle of the morning and finding his valet arranging his cravat. On the floor was a large heap of discarded cravats, and when the visitor inquired what they were, the valet replied, 'Sir, those are our failures.'"

"Of course the dandies, who still persisted into the 1840s, spent very much more than this. They were regarded as relics of a former, dissipated age. The dominant figure in English life was now a respectable bourgeois, who had no desire to make himself conspicuous but wished merely to present a gentlemanly appearance..." 

"Like the King [Edward] himself it favoured the mature woman, cool and commanding with a rather heavy bust, the effect of which was further emphasized by the so-called 'health' corsets which, in a laudable effort to prevent a downward pressure on the abdomen, made the body rigidly straight in front by throwing forward the bust and throwing back the hips. This produced the peculiar S-shaped stance so characteristic of the period."

"As a commentator of the time remarked, 'the angular English woman, over whose lack of embonpoint papers like La Vie Parisienne have been making merry for two generations, now became accepted type of beauty."

"Young people around the globe danced to the new American rock 'n' roll music, and it was from this date that the fashion and music-industries became inextricably linked."

"The chief fashion story of the period was the miniskirt. Hemlines rose just above the knee in 1961 and had reached the upper thighs by 1966.... It was a style best suited to a skinny, pre-pubescent physique, epitomized by the schoolgirl model Lesley Hornby, known as Twiggy... The designer most often credited with introducing the 'mini' was Mary Quant..."

"The anarchic Punk style, which appeared on the streets of London during the mid-1970's, and which spread in diluted form throughout Europe and North America, was to have an enormous impact on both streetwear and high fashion. It was a style which consciously sought to shock, combining—for both sexes—black tight trousers and striped mohair sweaters with customized leather jackets and heavy-duty Doctor Marten boots. Some female Punks wore miniskirts, fishnet tights and high stiletto-heeled shoes. Fetishistic leather and rubber were an integral part of the Punk look, as were trousers with bondage straps from knee to knee, and bondage collars. Clothes were slashed and ripped, embellished with safety  pins, zips and studs. T-shirts were printed with aggressive, anarchistic slogans. The most famous retail outlet for Punk garments and accessories was the shop Seditionaries in London's King's Road, run by Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren..."

"American retailer The Gap, founded in San Francisco in 1969, universalized the popularity of garments such as the hooded sweatshirt and cargo pant (the latter contributing to a massive downsizing in teh denim market), making once-basic items a wardrobe staple for all generations." 

James Laver (Costume and Fashion)

***To raise the dead— &/or evidence for the villainous affair, the tale of family disonour, Romish church's pact with the devil (considered the greatest outrage against sense and decency, to be plagued and pestered, though solemnly ratified, à Dieu rien n'est impossible, menteur avéré, nom d'un chien):

"Although Greek names were sometimes applied to the church modes and the principle of diatonic octave scales is found in both systems, certain significant discrepancies seem to belie any direct historical connection. Most conspicuous is the different meaning attributed to the names of the Greek octave species and of the church modes. Comparing the two systems provides a plausible explanation: medieval theorists apparently assumed wrongly that the Greek octave species were named in ascending rather than descending order. The Greek octave species Dorian (E–E), Phrygian (D–D), Lydian (C–C), and Mixolydian (B–B) thus appeared in the church modes as Dorian (D–D), Phrygian (E–E), Lydian (F–F), and Mixolydian (G–G)," (from "Mode," entry in Brittanica, by Mieczyslaw Kolinski);

See also:

- Kur-d-t My Ghost;
- Alice in Chains (Moore Theatre, Seattle, 1990);
And also: 

- Kitsch, Neo-Kitsch, Anti-Kitsch;

- Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs & Ney Matogrosso;

- Joyce in a Toadstool & the Southern Lapwing;
- who is afraid of Sylvia Plath? (& e. e. cummings);

- Audrey Hempburnt Haunted by A/Z;
- Genug! Manifesto;

- liste des déclencheurs;

- Darkwaves beyond the 80's;
- High or Middle Culture (electronic and others)?

- Warszawa;

- Godard's Sympathy for the Devil;

- movies about musicians;
- Série, presque à genoux with thread; 

- Brazil in the 80's;

- Cordiais Saudações;
- Call me Helium;
- Tropicalismo: Brazil by the early 1970's;

- "Beyond Major and Minor? The Tonality of Popular Music after 1960" (Martin Pfleiderer, Samples 2019);

Excerpts from Aleister Crowley's Confessions:

"There is nothing to warn a fishmonger's wife that such sublime devotion to etiquette is in any way ridiculous. English society is impregnated from top to bottom with this spirit. The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbour, and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell."

"Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much harder stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them."

"[My father's] integrity was absolute... It was horrifying thought to him that he might be caught by the Second Advent at a moment when he was not actively and intensely engaged on the work which God had sent him into the world to do. This sense of the importance of the slightest act, of the value of every moment, has been a tragically intense factor in my life."

"My mother was naturally a rather sensual type of woman, and there is no doubt that sexual repression had driven her as nearly as possible to the borders of insanity."

"Men and women will never behave worthily as long as current morality interferes with the legitimate satisfaction of physiological needs. Nature always avenges herself on those who insult her... society is blowing up in larger or smaller spots all over the world, because it has failed to develop a system by which all its members can be adequately nourished without conflict, and the waste products eliminated without discomfort..."

"Milton was a great poet; and the subconscious artistic self of him was therefore bitterly antagonistic to Christianity. Not only is Satan the hero, but the triumphant hero... On the Christian theory, goodness is, in fact, nothing but absence of character, for it implies complete submission to God. Satan's original fault is not pride; that is secondary. It springs from the consciousness of separateness... this is, mystically speaking, sinful... Christian theology has not had sufficient logic to see..."

"The school had a long way to go. Bullying went on unchecked, the prefects being foremost offenders... concentrating on obscenity and petty tyranny. It annoyed them particularly that my conduct was irreproachable."

"The fact is that (as my brother-in-law, Gerald Kelly, once told me, with astounding insight), I was the most religious man that he had ever met. It is the inmost truth. The instinct was masked for a long time, firstly by the abominations of the Plymouth Brethren and the Evangelicals; secondly, by the normal world... and I was a Satanist... in the spirit of St. Francis of Assisi."

"It seems as if I clung to the idea of the wickedness of love, and the belief that it entailed divine retribution, partly perhaps because of my tendency to masochism... as adding actual value to sin. Pleasure as such has never attracted me."

"It is monstrous for a man to pretend to be devoted to securing his wife's happiness and yet to wish to deprive her of a woman's supreme joy: that of bearing a child to the man whom she desires sexually, and is therefore indicated by nature as the proper father, though he may be utterly unsuitable as a husband."

"We have abolished all kinds of injustice on our attention being called to them; but the result has been that we have created an artificial doctrinaire society... All classes are complaining. We are in the condition of a man whose nerves all talk at once instead of doing their work quietly."

"Material welfare is only important as assisting men towards a consciousness of satisfaction. From the nature of things, therefore, life is a sacrament; in other words, all our acts are Magical Acts."

"It is a remarkable fact that only very exceptional men retain their normal reasoning powers in presence of mountains... A high degree of spiritual development, a romantic temperament, and a profound knowledge based on experience of mountain conditions, are the best safeguards against the insane impulses and hysterical errors which overwhelm the average man."

"I had come across Von Krafft-Ebbings' Psychopathia Sexualis. The professor tries to prove that sexual aberrations are the result of disease. I did not agree."

"Swinburne had taught me the doctrine of justification by sin. Every woman that I met enabled me to affirm magically that I had defied the tyranny of the Plymouth Brethren and the Evangelicals."

"Baudelaire and Swinburne, at their best, succeed in celebrating the victory of the human soul over its adversaries... Even James Thomson, ending with 'confirmation of the old despair,' somehow defeats that despair by the essential force of his genius. Keats, on the contrary, no matter how hard he endeavours to end on a note of optimism, always leaves an impression of failure. I well know how strangely perverse this criticism must sound, but I fell its truth in the marrow of my bones."

"Havelock Ellis and Edward Carpenter have been treated with the foulest injustice by ignorant and prejudiced people."

"Every particle of one's personality is a necessary factor in the equation, and every impulse must be turned to account in the Great Work... I had a thorough instinctive understanding of the theory of psychoanalysis. To this fact I attribute my extraordinary success in all my spiritual undertakings."

"I made a point of putting God on His honour, so to speak, to supply anything I might need by demonstrating to him that I would not keep back the least imaginable fraction of my resources."

"Acts of Will, performed by the proper person, never fall to the ground..."

"Eckenstein business in life was mathematics and science, and his one pleasure mountaineering. He was probably the best all-round man in England, but his achievements were little known because of his almost fanatical objection to publicity."

"... my limbs posses a consciousness of their own which is infallible. I am reminded of the Shetland ponies which can find their way through the most bewildering bogs and mist."

"It is useless to have strength if you don't know how to apply it."

"I must record one adventure, striking not only in itself but because it is of a type which seems almost as universal as the flying dream. It possesses the quality of the phantasmal. It strikes me as an adventure which occurs constantly in dreams and romances of the Stevensonian order... I cannot help believing that something of the kind has happened to me, though I can not say when, or remember the incidents..."

"I ask myself whether, after all, it is not conceivable that the immense number of facts which point to intelligent control of very various energies, which claim to be so, could not be in reality an accident in the true sense of the word..."

"Ireland has been badly treated, we all know; but her only salvation lay in forgetting her nonsense."

"I see no sense in violating conventions, still less in breaking laws... On the other hand, it is impossible to make positive progress by means of institutions which lead to one becoming Lord Chancellor, and Archbishop, an Admiral, or some other flower of futility."

"It seems to me no mere accident that Cambridge was able to tolerate Milton, Byron, Tennyson, and myself without turning a hair, while Oxford inevitably excreted Shelley and Swinburne. Per contra, she suited Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde perfectly. Had they been at Cambridge, the nonsense would have been knocked out of them."

"Fate familiarised me with this psychology in another form. It breaks out every time any man speaks or acts so as to awaken the frantic fear which is inherent in all but the rarest individuals, that anything new is a monstrous menace... whatever science may say,  there is such a thing as moral superiority, a spiritual strength independent of material or calculable conditions."

"The majority of old Magical Rituals are either purposely unintelligible or actually puerile nonsense... But there is one startling exception to this rule. It is the Book of the Sacred Magick of Abramelin the Mage."

"... even the crudest Magick eludes consciousness altogether, so that when one is able to do it, one does it without conscious comprehension, very much as one makes a good stroke at cricket or billiards. One cannot give an intellectual explanation... as one can explain the steps in the solution of a quadratic equation... [it] is rather an art than a science."

"There is always occult opposition to the publication of any important document... This is one of the facts whose cumulative effect makes it impossible to doubt the existence of spiritual forces."

"Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts... It is above all needful for the student to be armed with scientific knowledge, sympathetic apprehension, and common sense."

"Money grubbing does its best to blaspheme and destroy nature. It is useless to oppose the baseness of humanity; if one touches pitch one runs the risk of being defiled. I am perfectly content to know that the vileness of civilisation is rapidly destroying itself; that it stinks in my nostrils tells me it is rotting... wealth, the most dangerous of narcotic drugs. It creates a morbid craving..."

"I was bound up with the welfare of humanity, and could only satisfy my aspiration by becoming a perfect instrument for the regeneration of the world."

Frank Lebon's Grafeeti:

GRAFEETI from Frank Lebon on Vimeo.

Série, presque à genoux with thread

Gus Van Sant, Last Days (USA, 2005) (image distorted) + Warhol's Purple Jumping Man (also distorted by A/Z; 

Pedro Américo, Cabeça de Cristo (Ecce Homo) (1885);

Meteorango Kid (André Luiz Oliveira, 1969); 

Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire (directed by Oliver Herrmann, singed by Christine Schäfer & conducted by Pierre Boulez); 

"Il la terrasse au bord d'un gouffre séculaire,
Où, Lazare odorant déchirant son suaire,
Se meut dans son réveil le cadavre spectral
D'un vieil amour ranci, charmant et sépulcral."
Charles Baudelaire

"I mean, we didn't go to church or anything, but Patti Smith would read stuff from the Bible. People talk about 'Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine,' but to me she was always Christian... I mean, I love the rituals of Catholicism. I hate the fucking politics, and the pope and shit, but the rituals of it are magic. I mean, the mass is a magic ritual for God's sake, it's a transubstantiation, and the stations of the cross—I mean a crown of thorns? Getting whipped? It'spunk rock. I remember saying that on the Ton Snyder show one night and he said, 'Some people would—not me, but some people might think that's a blasphemous statement..."

Jim Carroll (Please Kill Me)

"... cargó desde entonces en una urna un pedazo de tela con la imagen del Buen Jesús pintada por un  muchacho de Pombal que, por piadoso, se había ganado el nombre de Beatito."

Mario Vargas Llosa (La guerra del fin del mundo)

"Toile d'araignée comme exemple d'isolement 'naturel' d'une carcasse (pseudo-géométrique) d'infra mince."
Marcel Duchamp

"La modérnité est un allégement de l'individualité... même les répétitions peuvent exprimer une sorte nouvelle d'originalité..."

Paul Klee (traduction Pierre-Henri Gonthier)

"That could be a really American invention, the best American invention—to be able to disappear."
"Noli Me Tangere"

Andy Warhol (The Philosophy of)

"Ein letzter Gesichtspunkt: der Typus... tatsächlich von einer eigentümlichen Vielheit und Widersprüchlichkeit gewesen sein: eine solche Möglichkeit is nicht völlig auszuschliessen."

Nietzsche (Der Antichrist) 

"La première image (Bild) de la manifestation divine est le symbole (Gleichniss) de Dieu. Elle fut formée d'après la Trinité divine et Dieu demeura en elle. Ce n'est autre que l'Esprit sorti du feu magique de l'âme et qui apparaît dans l'énergie de la lumière. En cette image réside le Christ, en elle il est devenu homme au sein de la Vierge éternelle... Le Christ est l'image virginale, reçue par l'image du premier Adam.."

Antoine Faivre, Exercices d'Imagination (Accès de l'ésotérisme occidental, tome II)

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"... s’il faut que par une dialectique retorse il y ait dans le Texte, destructeur de tout sujet, un sujet à aimer, ce sujet est dispersé, un peu comme les cendres que on jette au vent après la mort... ou encore un film" (: 14).

"... fantasmatiquement, sa situation est fluide, éparpillée... se déplace dans la chose, comme le fumeur de hashish tout entier ramasé dans la fumée de sa pipe et qui 'se fume'..." (: 69).

"Sa vieillesse: il s’entoure de chats et de fleurs... Sa concierge le trouva mort, en redingote, à genoux au milieu des pots de fleurs... [Il] avait lu Sade..." (: 188).

- Roland Barthes, Sade, Fourier, Loyola (Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1971);

"Un double peut fixer pour un temps l'instabilité du même, lui donner une identité provisoire, mais il creuse sourtout le même en abîme, il ouvre en lui un fond insoupçonné et insondable" (253).

- Julia Kristeva, Soleil Noir (Paris: Gallimard, 1987);

Gus Van Sant, more links:
- William Burroughs in Drugstore Cowboy (USA, 1989);
- Road scenes from My Own Private Idaho (USA, 1991);
**Essay about Paranoid Park (France/USA, 2007);

Kurt Cobain, more links:
- Aneurysm;
- Beeswax;
- Downer;
- Tourette's;

***See also:
- faire ce qu'il faut: parler au spectre;
- Audrey Hempburnt Haunted by A/Z;
- Genug! Manifesto;
- Kur-d-t My Ghost;
- Manuel Puig & la cara de Juan Carlos;
- Orlando 06/12: this is not a miracle;
- mes yeux consumés (2);
- mes yeux consumés (1);
- Pier Paolo Pasolini;
- Podem Ficar com a Realidade;
- Call me Helium;
- Conversa de etiqueta;