mvuent

Void Dweller
badass? hardly. the precedent for badass didn't exist in 60s white rock culture and Morrison was not a gangster.

It's like saying Aesop Rock is a bad ass, even though his main identity grounding is being a nerd. We all have nerd aspects to our personality but there is a certain male conceit that privileges that aspect above all else.

That's the problem with Morrison. if he was a cynical egoist we'd all laugh. but he believed in the sub-modernist crap he was spouting.

i'm not vouching for jim morrison as a person! absolutely no interest in doing that.
 

mvuent

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also i wouldn't be talking about aesop rock like that. watch out. i've seen a few of his videos and it's clear to me that he's a very, very dangerous man.


intimidating as fuck. i feel terrified just watching this.
 
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thirdform

pass the sick bucket
for the record I'd be utterly appalled if my kids mates were into football in 10-20 years time, it would be like those weirdo potential UN employee year 11 head student girls into brahms. Liszt all the way.
 

luka

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Riders on the Storm is the best song. It's so perfectly itself that it feels archetypal, so incredibly evocative it feels like it should have inaugurated an entire genre but there's nothing else quite like it.
 

luka

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I can imagine films evoking the same atmosphere. Although I'm not sure I've seen any. You get it in the video. That light, the grainy footage, the open road, the motorbikes, the menace
 

version

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Paris, Texas kind of has it.

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Benny Bunter

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"Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown"

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Everything’s all milk & honey when you’re a baby, but once you come of age you’re tossed into the world…
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The concept of “thrownness” into the world was originally coined by the german philosopher Martin Heidegger in his monumental book “Sein und Zeit” (Being and Time), where he called it “Geworfenheit” in german. It’s the state we’re in in this world: being born without our consent, but not knowing anything about anything.
 

Benny Bunter

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Riders on the Storm is the best song. It's so perfectly itself that it feels archetypal, so incredibly evocative it feels like it should have inaugurated an entire genre but there's nothing else quite like it.

He was seeing a girl named Mary Werbelow who lived in Clearwater, 280 miles away. Jim would oftentimes hitchhike to see her.
Those solitary journeys on hot and dusty Florida two-lane blacktop roads, with his thumb out and his imagination on fire with lust and poetry and Nietzsche and God knows what else – taking chances on redneck truckers, fugitive homos, and predatory cruisers – left an indelible psychic scar on Jimmy, whose notebooks began to obsessively feature scrawls and drawings of a lone hitchhiker, an existential traveler, faceless and dangerous, a drifting stranger with violent fantasies, a mystery tramp: the killer on the road.

 
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