Garfield minus Garfield

"Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb."











Garfield minus Garfield

You've got mail

I just ordered this. It should be here by the end of the week. I can not contain my excitement.




"La Passion de Jeanne D'Arc" by Carl Th. Dreyer with an amazing performance by Maria Falconetti (her only performance on film/screen ever.)

Food Fight

Brilliant. Thanks to Emily White for e-mailing this.

The list of wars/conflicts (do not read until after viewing the video if you don't want spoilers)-






1. The World
2. WWII - Holocaust / French surrender / London Bombing / Pearl Harbor / Battle of Midway / D-day / fall of Berlin / Hiroshima
3. Arab-Israeli War
4. Korean War
5. Cuban Missile Crisis
6. Vietnam
7. Cold War
8. Intifada
9. Gulf War
10. 9/11
11. Afghanistan
12. Gulf War II
13. Bug Food

In conclusion

California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.

D.H. Lawrence

Dandy

From the movie "Wilde." Scenes of Bosie's (Lord Alfred Douglas) legendary fights with Oscar Wilde-

Lawrence to Miller- on being Alive

"What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man wants his physical fulfilment first and foremost, since now, once and once only, he is in the flesh and potent. For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn and the dead may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos."

D.H. Lawrence Apocalypse (1930)


"It may be that we are doomed, that there is no hope for us, any of us, but if that is so then let us set up a last agonizing, bloodcurling howl, a screech of defiance, a war whoop! Away with lamentation! Away with elegies and dirgies! Away with biographies and histories, and libraries and museums! Let the dead eat the dead. Let us living ones dance about the rim of the crater, a last expiring dance. But a dance! "

Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer (1934)

Sleepless in Seattle

"Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.
I want to be a writer who reminds others that these moments exist; I want to prove that there is infinite space, infinite meaning, infinite dimension.
But I am not always in what I call a state of grace. I have days of illuminations and fevers. I have days when the music in my head stops. Then I mend socks, prune trees, can fruits, polish furniture. But while I am doing this I feel I am not living."

-from Diary of Anais Nin Volume I