Let us say it again, all art is in its origin essentially symbolical and ritual, and only through a late degeneration, indeed a very recent degeneration, has it lost its sacred character so as to become at last the purely profane ‘recreation’ to which it has been reduced among our contemporaries. René Guénon The dark …
All the animals come out at night – whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. -Travis Bickle The New York of Travis Bickle, Stanley Kubrick and Roman Polanski is real- Byzanz 2.0, a modern Moloch/Metropolis literally build on …
Music is a fascinating beast. Twisting and turning, contorting when you least expect. And the changes, the innovations are going to happen when very few are looking. And just when you think it’s all been said and done. It bites back and something new comes form seemingly nowhere. Since making his mark on popular music, …
I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer. Fyodor Dostoevsky – The Idiot In the middle of the 1970s, David Bowie and Iggy Pop were both struggling with the demons of their drug addictions. Iggy …
When Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself, his body was discovered with Iggy Pop’sThe Idiot still spinning on his turntable. The choice made sense, as the record directly inspired the dreary post-punk that Joy Division was beloved for. It’s odd then, that The Idiot was actually a stylistic detour for Iggy, an outlier …
