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doos (2008)
Sometimes I wish I had a penis. How much simpler it would make things! We’d hang together, free flowing, without ration, without suspicion, without tourniquets to cut off our blood if it quickened in...
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the raincoats – adventures close to home (1979)
Passion that shouts Red with anger I lost myself Through alleys of mysteries I went up and down like a demented train Don’t take it personal I choose my own fate I follow love I follow hate Searching...
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shane koyczan – to this day project
Help this message have a far reaching and long lasting effect in confronting bullying. Please share generously. Filed under: freedom, memory, personae, politics, spirit, violence Tagged: bullying,...
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jim morrison on painful feelings
People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that...
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“i knew these two people …”
Harry Dean Stanton and Nastassja Kinski in Wim Wenders’ Paris,Texas (1984).Filed under: history, love, memory, violence Tagged: escape, fear, jealousy, loss, pain
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missing, forever
I made this poster in reference to this one, but the events it describes are entirely true. My cat’s head was never found. That night, I think I lost a part of me too, though I didn’t realise it at...
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“scrape”: it’s brilliant – go and see it!
This play is on for two more nights at the Intimate Theatre on UCT’s Hiddingh Campus. I went last night. It is an absolute tour de force – insightful, brutal, awkward, compassionate, hilarious. If you...
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tom waits – a little rain (live)
“A Little Rain” (from the 1992 album Bone Machine), performed live in Austin on 20 March1999.Filed under: dream, music, poetry, uncanny Tagged: adventure, bone machine, pain, rain, suffering, tom waits
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brenda holloway – every little bit hurts
American Bandstand, 6 June 1964.Filed under: love, music, violence Tagged: american bandstand, brenda holloway, pain
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terribly real
— Emilie Autumn, “The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls”. “Studies show: Intelligent girls are more depressed Because they know What the world is really like Don’t think for a beat it makes it better...
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ameera conrad – on exhaustion over a lack of understanding
I am tired God Almighty, I am tired of being told that we need to move on, that we need to forget, that we need to put the past behind us, that Apartheid is over. They don’t understand. We never will....
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jonathan richman – true love is not nice (acoustic)
Filed under: love, music Tagged: jonathan richman, pain
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from ‘the waves’
“For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.” ~ Virginia Woolf, The WavesFiled under:...
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simone weil – meaning of the universe*
We are a part which has to imitate the whole. The a¯tman. Let the soul of a man take the whole universe for its body. Let its relation to the whole universe be like that of a collector to his...
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pharmakon interview (2015)
Great Interview with Margaret Chardiet AKA “Pharmakon” in Santiago, Chile, September 02, 2015, for her South American Tour “Sacred Bones”.Filed under: art, embodiment, music, philosophy, politics...
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screamin’ jay hawkins – constipation blues (1990)
Filed under: embodiment, freedom, music, philosophy, writing Tagged: humour, pain, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, shit, stuckness, the most intense live performances, theses rhyme with faeces
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pain is… (stephen dwoskin, 1997)
Pain Is…’ (1997) unflinchingly examines the role of pain within society. Attempting “to make an image of pain”, Dwoskin’s film is practical and philosophical. “Pain Is… combines interviews, archival...
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emily dickinson – pain
PAIN has an element of blank; It cannot recollect When it began, or if there were A day when it was not. It has no future but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New...
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