what are you reading now?
jenks
thread death
It’s one of my favourites, I was thinking of re-reading it this year.
jenks
thread death
I have read a lot more this year - I think I really retreated into books during the worst of lockdown - I had lost all ability to focus on tv/films - I failed to finish a whole bunch of films. Also I can become a bit obsessive - there were/are various ‘projects’ in there but I particularly made a point of reading lots of small press stuff and work in translation.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I can believe that the latter takes up a lot of time, but do you really think about it as such?
IdleRich
IdleRich
While I'm taking pictures (which, as Luka noted, I do supremely well) I include this passage from Moravagine which was written 1926, it's like he's describing the advent of modernism in his own vocabulary, probably the jargon he wanted wasn't commonly available at that point.
It reminded me a lot of (or rather just made me think of, the writing is not the same, it's merely a similar topic) a passage in Orlando which I read the other day in which Woolf talks about driving out of London in a car and how at that, hitherto unknown (I suppose) speed everything is reduced to fragments; you see the beginnings of events but not their conclusion, glimpses of bits of things and so on... it made very explicit the link between how the new speed of events and life itself had fragmented experience and modernism's attempts to capture that in the way it is written.
It reminded me a lot of (or rather just made me think of, the writing is not the same, it's merely a similar topic) a passage in Orlando which I read the other day in which Woolf talks about driving out of London in a car and how at that, hitherto unknown (I suppose) speed everything is reduced to fragments; you see the beginnings of events but not their conclusion, glimpses of bits of things and so on... it made very explicit the link between how the new speed of events and life itself had fragmented experience and modernism's attempts to capture that in the way it is written.
Corpsey
bandz ahoy
The only time I think about porn is in the aftermath of a marathon wank session when I'm beset by a quasi-religious sense of guilt and I swear it all off for up to three days. It would boggle my mind and destroy my spirit to learn how many hours I've put into watching porn.
pattycakes_
Can turn naughty
Do you have favourites you go back to or take a wild & unpredictable journey each time?
IdleRich
IdleRich
Did you see this programme called Adult Material, a four part drama about this woman who works in the UK porn industry? It was nasty and depressing stuff and it tied in with a load of bits and bobs that I'd read inthe mail-outs from Jezebel (among other places) so I suspect it had a lot of basis in truth. For example this thing where after a shoot, the performers have to speak to camera and they talk about their experience of making the film and, I think, basically a film can't be cleared to be seen unless it's accompanied by such a video (it's a kind of certificate effectively)7 with them saying that they weren't pressured into anything, made to feel uncomfortable or hurt or whatever. Which seems like a good idea in itself, but seeing as that takes place under the eye of the director and the crew and so on ie the very people who might have done that, it's all but worthless as they under a lot of pressure right there to say that it was all done properly.
In fact the Jezebel thing I read was about the controversy that arose when a woman basically used that to say that she had been pressured and the director tried to stop her saying it. I wouldn't be at all surprised if that story was part of the inspiration for this programme. But anyway, it was quite interesting and informative if some of the actual drama was a little implausible. I dunno, I don't want to complain, it was worth watching for me.
jenks
thread death
I liked it - there were moments where I was word surfing but that was more to do with the dips into obscure subject matter rather than the poetry as such. I liked the psychgeographic aspect and I always enjoy a footnote. I am always drawn towards those who are not embarrassed to discuss spirituality and the church (not exactly fashionable these days) but mostly I enjoyed that Blakean sense of someone utterly wedded to their own vision. Have you read anything else of his other than In Parenthesis?