The House that Jack Built's simple equation, metainfinity abyss & parallel topics (or how me once became a total scoundrel three times)

 

from Kurt Cobain Journals (New York: Riverhead books, 2002);

from Augusto de Campos' Poesia 1949-1979 (Ateliê Editorial, 2014);

1280 Almas de Jim Thompson (Policiales de Colleccion, Silvia Hopenhayn, 2011); 

The Jim Thompson History  (The Grifters 1990, DVD extra); 

Melancholia: La Fin du Monde e L'Ultime Fin du Film (Pacôme Thiellement/Bast);

George Sluizer on The Vanishing (Criterion/Youtube); 

I Work on Wall Street (by the treshorrificque American Psycho of Mary Harron, 2000); 

Brian Ferneyhough's Terrain (1992) (Youtube); 

Brian Ferneyhough's La Terre est un Homme (Youtube); 

Galina Ustvolskaya's Grand Duet for cello and piano (Tobias Moster & Ingrid Karlen, Youtube);

Galina Ustvolskaya's 12 preludes (David Arden, Youtube);

Galina Ustvolskaya's Sonata No. 6 (Alexei Lubimov, 1988, Youtube);

Excerpts de beaulx livres de haulte gresse: 

"[Philip Adrian] Wright also had a fascination with celebrity culture, says [Philip] Oakey, 'people who manipulated the media to their own advantage. He was absolutely fascinated by the Kennedys and Hitler, to the point where some people thought he was fascist. But in fact he was just interested in their use of image and propaganda."

Simon Reynolds (Rip It Up)
"... there's a certain kind of poetry that's performance poetry. It's like the American Indians weren't writing conscious poetry. They were making chants, they were making ritual language—and the language of ritual is the language of the moment... I mean, Billy Graham is a great performer, even though he is a hunk of shit. Adolf Hitler was a fantastic performer. He was a black magician. And I learned from that. You can seduce people into mass consciousness. So I write to have somebody... The other thing is that through performance, I reach such states, in which my brain feels so open—so full of light, it feels huge, it feels as big as the Empire State Building..."

Patti Smith (Please Kill Me, livre seigneurial)
"Richard Hell had designed a T-shirt for himself that said Please Kill Me, but he wouldn't wear it. I was like, 'I'll wear it.' So I wore it when we played upstair at Max's Kansas City, and afterwards these kids came up to me. These fans gave me this really psychotic look..."
Richard Lloyd (Please Kill Me)
"The fluorescent Day-Go colors don't seem very natural, even though the colors do exist in nature—there are some fishes and some birds that are kind of fluorescent, but to me the colors represented this man-made madness. Then when you mix Nazism with fluorescent colors, it's even more man-made madness... The people that act so defensively are always the people who are closet fascists."
Arturo Vega (Please Kill Me)
"In the hippie days, styles of dress or symbols were used unironically... and suddenly a movement comes along, and they were using swastikas and it's not about that; it's a costume and an assault. It's about something completely different—it's about gesture, and shock tactic."
Mary Harron (Please Kill Me)

"I have a real problem with  ignorant people—particularly ignorant people that embrace fascism. And David Bowie has a streak of ignorance which is as wide as it is long..."
Angela Bowie (Please Kill Me)
"I did have this whole feeling of that once all the discussion was done, basically I don't care... I would always take the opposite view of the person who was trying to analyze it, so I was deliberately giving as much latitude as possible: 'I belong to the ____ generation.' How can you misinterpret that? Anything you think is correct, ha ha ha."
Richard Hell, abstracteur de quinte essence (Please Kill Me)

"Everyone's telling Debbie she's gonna be the next Farrah Fawcett, and she was saying that she didn't want to be Farrah Fawcett. All she wanted to do was sing."
James Sliman (Please Kill Me)
"They give this stuff to us just to keep us stoned, I don't even want it. You fucking take it. They just keep giving it to us! That's all the fucking guys give us! They want, they want, they want, and for that they give us this shit! James, this is for you, I don't even want it, my hotel room is full of it."
Blondie/James Sliman (Please Kill Me)

"I always say when the music moves from the music section to the front page of the newspaper, you're in trouble."
Danny Fields (Please Kill Me)
"It wasn't only the band who were crazy—the people who were supporting them were worse."
Bob Gruen (Please Kill Me)
"I just shit in her mouth... Well, her boyfriend said he wanted her to have an experience she wouldn't forget."
Sid Vicius/Bob Gruen (Please Kill Me)
"'Don't we get a kiss first?' one of the girls asked."
Legs McNeil (Please Kill Me)

"Artists will confuse sending with creation. They will camp around screeching 'A new medium!' until their rating drops off..."
William S. Burroughs

"Así que ese es el Fantasma con el que te comunicás?"

Mauricio Rosencof

"... and I just couldn't stop looking at her, because I was so fascinated-but-horrified. Her hands kept crawling, they couldn't sleep, they couldn't stay still..."

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

"Descendez, descendez, lamentables victimes,
Descendez le chemin de l'enfer éternel!"
Baudelaire

"Die Behandlung, die ich von Seiten meiner Mutter und Schwester erfahre, bis auf diesen Augenblick, flösst mir ein unsägliches Grauen ein: hier arbeitet eine vollkommene Höllenmaschine, mit unfehlbarer Sicherheit über den Augenblick, wo man mich blutig verwunden kann — in meinen höchsten Augenblicken… denn da fehlt jede Kraft, sich gegen giftiges Gewürm zu wehren… Die physiologische Contiguität ermöglicht eine solche disharmonia praestabilita. Aber ich bekenne, dass der tiefste Einwand gegen die 'ewige Wiederkunft', mein eigentlich abgründlicher Gedanke, immer Mutter und Schwester sind."

Nietzsche

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Treshaulltz sacrements et mystères horrificques:

1) The Simple Equation:

What's the material? 

Corpses, but corpses resulting from atrocity, and from atrocity not punished.

Where does the material take us?

Hell.

Conclusion:

Only hell can punish unpunished atrocity.

2) Metainfinity Abyss (le fondament nous echappe!):

But does hell exist?

If it does exist, we deserve it.

If it doesn't, we get it the same way, or actually, we might get it even worse.

[Moon of Alabama's secret: Don't trust the dwarf, Gauguin's
glorious love for the Danish fabulous society]

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Parallel topics (des haultes matières et sciences profondes):

Art:

- icons: in principle they demand some kind of transcendence (even if it is not attainable: finis les pieds plats, est-ce qu'il n'aime pas Isou?) (Glenn Gould is an icon, as much as Picasso, Bowie, Jim Morrison and Debord, and Hitler);

- tigers fearful symmetries (or how I once became a total scoundrel by joining Blake to humble Augustus);

- Virgil and the circles of Hell (we all start from inferno, the Dantes alone ascend to heaven; but isn't Virgil here Kafka's Türhüter?);

- Goethe: usually taken as a humanist, he is actually the Nietzschean voice of the demonic (the fact that he stays as an oak in the middle of German atrocities, redime German culture or reviles him?) (the very essence of the demonic principle is that not all questions have an answer) (Faust, zweiter Teil; Die Wahlverwandtschaften) (two times total scoundrel);

Popular Culture:

- fame (vs. icon);

- whisky bars all closed...

Religion:

- Hell is a vagina [die Scheide(n)], a cosmic crack (against which white straight men are all victims of their own defensive mechanisms) (three times total scoundrel: but me who?);

Philosophy:
- Zarathustra's dwarf (the devil of noon, spirit without shadow);

***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;
- the only three types of ingenuity when the parameter is infinity;
- pan doron &/ou la boîte vidée dehors;

- Mommy-Momo (Dolan); 
- Amat Escalante (& Werner Herzog): Basilisk's Cinema;
- Faceboockers, Pokemongoers & Francophonie;

- Godard's Sympathy for the Devil;

- Sonatine (Takeshi Kitano, 1993), Masahiro Shinoda & the tyranny of evil men;

- Bellocchio &/or Eye of (Dreadful) Beauty;

- who is afraid of Sylvia Plath?

- El Estudiante, political movie (learning from Argentina);
- List of film directors;
- Écriture/Violence;

- Pier Paolo Pasolini;

- A Vitória de Bellocchio; 

- Nature's Horror and Grand Style in Lars von Trier's Antichrist;

- "ERRATA list" for Narrative Outbreak in Contemporary Conflict Cinema;

- Narrative Self-Deconstruction in Contemporary Cinema;

- Bases histórico-conceituais para a crítica cinematográfica não representacional;

- Woody Allen as Impossible Cassandra; 

- Non-Realism and Ontology in Gus van Sant's Paranoid Park; 

faire ce qu'il faut, parler au spectre & SAMO/N (à Dieu rien n'est impossible!)

 

Gothic Barbecue, photograph by A/Z available with other photographs and drawings at Fine Art America; 

A cat on the corner (not exactly) (1982) [piss painting technique];

Portrait (1982), private collection;
Astrological chart (Astrology for Window);
Arpad Szenes, Portrait (1944-45);
Belmiro de Almeida, Arrufos (1887);
L'Expresso (2013);
Egon Schiele, Self-Observer II (1911), For My Art (1912), Self-Portrait (1912), Self-Portrait (1910), Seated Male Nude (1910), images from Simon Wilson's Egon Schiele;
Cindy Sherman, two untitled film stills, Original images from October files 6;
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Self-Portrait) (1983), detail from Notary (1983), images from Leonhard Emmerling's Basquiat;

Detail from Edvard Munch's The Village Street (1905/08) & others, images from Ulrich Bischoff's Munch;
Edgar Degas, La Chanson du Chien (1878), Autoportrait (1895), Edgard Degas, study for Mary Cassatt dans le Louvre (1879-80), detail from Mary Cassatt's Femme dans un loge (1880), detail from Paul Cézanne, A Modern Olympia (1873), images from James H. Rubin's Impressionism;

Philippe Sollers Autoportrait (1977, Youtube);

Raymond Roussel (avec François Caradec, La Voix au chapitre/RTS, 1973); 

Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero, 1968/Youtube);

Radiohead's Paranoid Android; 

Tommy Cash's Winaloto; 

Marilyn Manson's This is the New Shit;
Rita Lee's Maria Mole (Antigo Desbunde do Vale do Descalabro); 

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

Code Morel & One Hundred Forty Nine Inches [I took this video out of Youtube, because I wanted to change it];

Crows in Berg (Inter) View & Pillaje [I took this video out of Youtube, because I wanted to change it];

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Avertissement trouvé en un monument anticque (Dieu merci):

"L'être le plus prostitué, c'est l'être par excellence, c'est Dieu, puisqu'il est l'ami suprême pour chaque individu, puisqu'il est le réservoir commun, inépuisable de l'amour."

"PRIÈRE: Ne me châtiez pas dans ma mère et ne châtiez pas ma mère à cause de moi. — Je vous recommande les âmes de mon père et de Mariette. — Donnez-moi la force de faire immédiatement mon devoir tous les jours et de devenir ainsi un héros et un saint."

Baudelaire, menteur avéré ou parfois dit tel (Mon coeur mis à nu)

Propositions mammallement scandaleuses, offensives aux pitoyables aureilles et sentant de loin l'hérésie (entre les pudicques matrones):

"Il s'y rendra dès lors de plus en plus souvent, pour y humer les pigments. Une si douce sensation a quelque chose d'inaltérable..."

(Pierre Assouline)

"la verdadera ciencia (escribe el 18 de julio de 1942) está entre la superstición y el libertinaje"

Sarduy/Lezama Lima

"tout érotisme est sacré... l'érotisme a pour fin d'atteindre l'être au plus intime, au point où le coeur manque..."

G. Bataille

"photographe de talent, il est sourtout l'auteur de plusieurs livres sulfureux publiés aus èditions de Minuit..."

présentation anonyme dans quelque roman

"Il espérait s'en tirer avec le nom de sa mère d'origine italienne..."

Hanna Arendt, Lettre à Jaspers

"Je séduit là où Je ne se touche pas."

"... il spectralise toute expérience..."

Derrida

"Maybe we do need alchemy, name magic, whatever derogatory epithet you choose, in order to advance human culture."

Ian Hacking

"... a confession made of my own free will... a kind of egoism..."

Edvard Munch

"Tout est parti de notre stupéfaction... Nous avons été subjugués aux yeux roux."

Michel Foucault, Pierre Rivière

"Er sagt nur... dass man seine Psyche einsetzt im Kampf, dass es beim Kampf um die Psyche geht, dass man seine Psyche zu retten sucht..."

Bruno Snell

"Un tableau est une chose qui exige autant de roueries, de malice et de vice que la perpétration d'un crime."

Edgar Degas

"... that masculine American woman..."

Roger Marx

"... he was considered both ambitious and erratic, powerful and tormented; he was moody and pathologically shy, easly offended and brusque."

a manual

"Au cours de l'été et de l'automne 1969, j'ai occupé la Suisse, la France et l'Italie. Quelques photographies..."

Anselm Kiefer (traducteur inconnu)

"He lent his pretentions to military wizardry to the service of Cesare Borgia, the warlord son of the outstandingly corrupt Pope Alexander VI..."

gossip

"Il est venu au monde pour détruire la peinture."

Nicolas Poussin

"... ça sent le mort-vivant — manoir, spiritisme, science occulte, roman noir..."

Max Stirner (?)

"Je suis abject, c'est-à-dire mortel et parlant"

Christo-Ewa

"C'est ainsi qu'ont débuté, non seulement une amitié, mais une longue aventure dont bien des aspects confinent au fantastique..."

à propos de une lettre

"Cependant que symétrique... le plus ambigu et le plus instable..."

Francis Bayer

"... habitant de l'infra mince fainéant"

Marcel Duchamp

"l'inattendu entre difficilement dans des calculs"

Paul Klee traduit

"Empfindung des mystischen Willens: unwillkommen!"

comic error of a transcription (1927)

"Lanço-me na pintura e na vida como um mergulhador na água... com o vagar da árvore que tomba... queres um anel? Mete o dedo no cú, diz seu Florindo."

Iberê Camargo

"... aquela coisa esnobe das que estudavam no Colégio Anchieta, o mais burguês da cidade... eu tinha que ficar muito amigo deles todos, quatro cavalos e duas vacas..."

Júpiter Maçã

"Em Berlim, no início dos anos 1930, era muito elegante ser gay

— Helium ganhava a vida vendendo cocaína, uma vez que..."

(de um brasileiro que frequentou Beckett)

"Mas o que a Xuxa tem a ver com tudo isso? Coma um filé. Um filé malpassado."

Gerald Thomas

"A man of small virtue, inclined to extravagance and alcoholism."

J. J.

"I should be supported at the expense of the state because I am capable of enjoying life. As for writing, I may perhaps employ my sober moments in correcting the grammatical errors of the more illiterate among the rugged geniuses."

Kinch

"Il se promène — pas plus — lisant au livre de lui-même."

My Larmes

"His mission in Ireland is to prove to his Protestant grandaunts that unbelievers can be very moral and admire the Bible."

Morose Maurice

"... as a subject which sees as well as an object which is seen, the embodied self is ambiguous in its being..."

Kitaro Nishida

"Un nommé Dianus écrivit ces notes et mourut."

Georges Bataille

"Patologia não como enfermidade, mas como páthos, paixão de afirmação do mesmo, por exclusão e apagamento de alteridades divergentes... bicha: o bicho ou a besta que se efemina."

Evando Nascimento

"Je ne suis pas belle, je suis pire!"

Juliette Drouet

"Es gibt keine lineare Entwicklung, es gibt nur eine Circumambulation des Selbst."

Carl Gustav Jung

"... those who think mundane affairs hinder the practice of the Buddha Dharma know only that there is no Buddha Dharma in their daily life..."

Dogen, Bendowa

"For one role at least I seem unfit: that of man of honour."

J.J.

"A man's life is very short, so it is best to do what he enjoys most."

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

"Your face is a canvas now."

James St. James

"... ce corps du viel Artaud enterré puis déterré par lui-même au dehors des éternités"

Artaud le Moma

"Ich habe nie rote Haare gehabt!"

A. Schopenhauer

"... the whole thing has no deeper source than vanity, a source that unfortunately can be fairly deep."

Constantine Constantius (translation by M. G. Piety)

"Mais cette pensée opère pratiquement une sélection des différences d'aprés leur capacité de revenir ou de supporter l'épreuve de l'éternel retour."

G. Deleuze

"Le docteur Faust est légion."

G. Dumézil

"And he shows off his Latin as though he were a Doctor of the Sorbonne!"

Jacques Thibault

"Words are at once indispensable and fatal."

Huxley

"... et la conscience générale de la société... le suicida."

A. Artaud

"J'y a songé un instant faire de ce discours un traité des parfums et l'intituler Du perfumatif dans Ulysse..."

L'Ouia

"It riles my blood to see you competing with Miss Stein for the position of Master Boomster."

Stanislaus Joyce

"Who ordered that?!"

I. I. Rabi

"Their vanity is greater than their misery"

voxsartoria (?)

"... fils d'un homme qui s'est suicidé et dont il a été contraint de regarder le corps pendu au bout d'une corde... il ne recule jamais devant les expériences limites, souffre de tuberculose, affiche crânement sa pédérastie, initie ses amis au spiritisme..."

P. Assouline
"Look in the mirror. You are unemployable."
Julian Cope (magazine anecdote)
"... he had studied the Hindu and Buddhist scriptures, not only as a scholar, but with the insight that comes from inborn sympathetic understanding."
"... so that at last it is seen that there is no sound bottom."
Aleister Crowley
"Jeder außerordentliche Mensch hat eine gewisse Sendung, die er zu vollführen berufen ist."

J. W. von Goethe
"Salvador Dali dos pobres..."
epiteto, Santo Ignácio de Loyola
"With all due respect I have no relation to his method of forming something on the wall with margarine."
Bernd Bruns (Green Party member)
"Il est heureux pour l'humanité qu'il existe peu d'artistes de ce genre... un être bizarre et contrefait qui voyait un peu tout le monde à travers ses tares physiologiques."
Courrier français & Lyon Républicain
"... il avait la vocation de la maison de santé..."
Alexandre Hepp
"Il était prisonnier d'une formule."
(necrologie)
"... vous avez le génie de la déformation..."
Yvette Guilbert
"I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote."
Warhol
"Nein! an Ihren Nerven liegt's nicht, ich selber bin nur nervös."

Ein Arzt
"... für ein typisch gesundes Wesen kann Kranksein sogar ein energisches Stimulans zum Leben sein."

Nietzsche
"Who says school would give you class?"
Tommy Cash
"Aber die deutsche Küche überhaupt — was hat sie nicht Alles auf dem Gewissen!"

Nietzsche
"Ich empöre durch mein bloßes Dasein Alles, was schlechtes Blut im Leibe hat..."

Nietzsche
"A galinha tem muita vida interior. Para falar a verdade, a galinha só tem mesmo é vida interior."
Clarice Lispector
"I will crawl upon you with verminous nests of snakes... and you will want me!"
Scriabin/Faubion Bowers

"... zuletzt wäre ich sehr viel lieber Basler Professor als Gott!"

Nietzsche

"By the end, she was adding beaded fruit to the colored lights in her hair and drugging the cat and wearing it as a fur stole."
James St. James
"And so it had gone forth to the world that Mr. Whistler was an ill-educated man, an impostor, a cockney pretender, and an impudent coxcomb."
(The Gentle Art of Making Enemies)

"Moi! je n'oserais pas cracher sur ce vieux singe?"

Albertine
"Und er selbst, so blass, so schwach, so décadent..."

Nietzsche

"... einen ausgenommen, der vielleicht bloss ein Unmensch ist..."

Nietzsche

"Tel le gardien de le cimetière Saint-Marx, j'attends le son de la cloche pour délivrer mes tableaux du coma."

Anselm Kiefer

"Les extravagances de ce génie ont maintenant atteint le nec plus ultra; Beethoven est maintenant mûr pour l'asile de fous..."

Carl Maria von Weber 

***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:

- Georges Bataille et la part maudite; 

- Kitsch, Neo-Kitsch, Anti-Kitsch;

- The Willy-Mina Adventures (Erlebnisse); 

- Modern Literature and Esotericism: Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Mallarmé & others;

- défi du non-circoncis;

- pick a soul (ass you wish); 

- view from Berthe Trépat's apartment;
- Audrey Hempburnt Haunted by A/Z;
- Genug! Manifesto;
- Kur-d-t My Ghost;

- Série, presque à genoux with thread;
- Orlando 06/12: this is not a miracle;

- the meaning of sacer in Homo Sacer;

- Amat Escalante (& Werner Herzog): Basilisk's Cinema;

- Dogen with Hagakure; 

- Communauté Elective (syncope);

- parler: une chose grave & la légèreté;

- mes yeux consumés (2);
- mes yeux consumés (1);

- Umberto Eco about Nietzsche;

- "Stravinsky as devil: Adorno's three critiques" (Max Paddison);

Frank Lebon's Mount Kimbie - 'We Go Home Together' ft James Blake: