Ulysses has a bad reputation. Pretentious, verbose, Joyce takes 20 words to desribe a scene that could use 2. That’s shit. Me, I like Ulysses. I’ve read this book cover to cover twice and whenever I take a hot bath, I like to flick through the book and re-read some of my favourite scenes like: [...]
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Me and Ulysses
Posted in Books, tagged James Joyce, Ulysses on April 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Consume Society
Posted in Books, tagged economics, ethics, Naomi Klein, No Logo, PS3, work on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
If you need a reason to beware the forces of globalisation, Klein offers hundreds in No Logo. Any one of those reasons could also serve as a rant against modern society. This book is not exactly a manifesto but there are some serious Marxist threads in the logos of Klein’s thinking. Marx is not included [...]
The Director’s Cut
Posted in Books, Friendship, HY Art, work, Writing, tagged Bataille, danse macabre, death, Derrida, ethics, faith, Henry Miller, Love, Of Grammatology, philosophy, Sexus, Spinoza, Tom Waits, William Burroughs, Writing and Difference on February 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The mechanism of our ordinary knowledge is of a cinematographical kind. Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution The ancient Egyptians postulated seven souls. Top soul, and the first to leave at the moment of death, is Ren, the Secret Name. This corresponds to my Director. He directs the film of your life from conception to death. The [...]
I Wish I Was Ocean-sized
Posted in Books, family, Friendship, Travel, tagged Aeschylus, Brisbane, Broadbeach Waters, Bundaberg, David Foster Wallace, Dionysus, Dreams, family, Friendship, holidays, Infinite Jest, Jane's Addiction, music, oceans, Travel, Woodford folk festival on January 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I have returned to Melbourne after six weeks spent in the sun, sand, surf and dust. I have travelled thousands of kilometres by rail, road and air and swam in the Southern and Pacific Oceans. I am utterly exhausted but it’s a good exhaustion like one gets from working out muscles one is unused to [...]
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