Man always dies before he is fully born

The estranged man on the other hand tries to solve the issue another way, namely by conforming to his surroundings. He only feels secure and safe if he resembles his fellow man as much as possible. His highest purpose is to achieve approval of others, and his greatest fear is having to live without it. Being different, or belonging to a minority, is a danger that threatens his feeling of security. The consequence is a search for limitless conformism. The feeling of guilt with regard to sin that controlled people's lives some generations back, has now been replaced by a feeling of discomfort and insecurity with respect to being different.

(Erich Fromm)

Tacking

"Only what we dream is what we truly are, because all the rest, having been realized, belong to the world and to everyone. If I were to realize a dream, I'd be jealous, for it would have betrayed me by allowing itself to be realized. I've achieved everything I wanted, says the feeble man, and it's a lie; the truth is that he prophetically dreamed all that life achieved through him. We achieved nothing. Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, 'look at me move.'" 


FERNANDO PESSOA - "The Book of Disquiet"

"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is fuel."

— Hunter S. Thompson

One Day

"What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance."

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
- Muhammad Ali

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. - J. D. Salinger

My Mousehole

Reading this book is like constantly stabbing at my own heart. Even when I was reading Camus' The Stranger, i didn't feel as terrible as when I was reading this book. How could Dostoyevsky wrote such a book, if he wasn't the underground man? The suffering is indeed personal, but immense, and universal. I read the exact book as the picture shown above, Signet Classic version, which included other short stories by Dostoyevsky. So far, I love everything from I've read in this book. Now I gotta read more Dostoyevsky - The Idiot, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, The Possessed, everything really.

後現代生活萬歲！

"I think the electronic movement of music was the last great modernist movement. Everything now is kind of post modern, it’s not really going forward it’s looking backwards and taking a lot of influences and taking lots of different genres and mashing them up into attempted new things." - excerpt from OMD interview

這段話的重點在於 - 後現代。活在二十一世紀的我們過的是後現代的生活。不能說現在的人沒有創意，只是感覺好像耗盡了創意，不斷回歷史裡找著那些曾經我們很喜歡的東西，換湯不換藥的再端出來。沒有甚麼事是令我們驚奇的，沒有未來是值得憧憬的。我們過著冰河時期恐龍的日子，吃著其他凍死的動物過日子。

Women. They are holes, you put one thing in after another and it's never enough, you stuff your entire life in there and they smile that crooked little sad smile and are sorry you couldn't have done better, when all is said and done.


- John Updike, Rabbit Is Rich

Wilde is a genius

"My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."

— Oscar Wilde

What are the youth to do ?

"Some people see rock and roll as youth culture, and when youth culture becomes monopolized by big business, what are the youth to do? I think we should destroy the bogus capitalist process that is destroying youth culture by mass marketing, and commercial paranoia behavior control. And the first step is to destroy the record companies." -Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

i think nowadays, everything has to be a little ironic. sonic youth was featured to play in gossip girls - a mass-marketed commercial teenage soapie. destorying youth culture? i can see that...

We're born to live this kind of life
Life of desperation and seperation

Alas For Mankind!

Live Wild

Three quotes from the Johnny Depp letters to Hunter S. Thompson:

"He did what he did because he knew it was the wrong thing to do."
-Lord Buckley on the Marquis de Sade

"Cultivate what the audience doesn't want."
-Jean Cocteau on the essence of moviemaking

"Who is the happier man? He who has braved the storm of life and lived? Or he who has stayed securely on the shore and merely existed?"
-Hunter S. Thompson, age 17

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

Socrates

All The Images

"When I started making movies, there were 'movies' movies. Now 'movies' seems to be commercials, music videos, images off the Internet, there's all this imagery now."

Leos Carax

this is a great post!

The problem of the image isn't gonna go away; if cinema's to survive, it has to get worse. Now more than ever, I think, it's possible to equate cinema with music, in the sense that, in a world where everything makes a noise, where there are all of these sounds that surround us and that may hold significance in our lives (this may be someone's voice or even the noise of your car's engine, which becomes as familiar as a voice until you can tell its mood), it's a plain old song that can sometimes overtake you. The more noise, the more extraordinary music seems to be, and the same thing happens to cinema in a world where everything produces an image.

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused, and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?