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Perfect song

That's how I used to watch films lmao. Just start sipping wine or whiskey until I could barely see the screen. (not the best way to retain information)

Yeah I would also recommend The Headless Woman and La Cienega by Martel but Zama would be a good place to start.
Maybe this is a trivial question, but how is the prose in the book? I assume it must have been translated.

And It's mostly books for research, so not typical narrative stuff. I basically try to spend a couple hours reading and annotating/highlighting stuff from one text and then the next day I'll switch to a different book. I don't think I'll finish most of them since a number of them are pushing 600 pages but if I can at least find strong/insightful moments every now and then....Here are a number of the books I'm reading. I doubt anyone would find these topics interesting and honestly a lot of them are boring and dense as f***...

Stephen Davies - Musical Meanings and Expressions
Vladamir Jankelevitch - Music and The Ineffable
Merleau Ponty - Phenomenology of Perception
Ludwig Wittgenstein - Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Sylvia Jonas - Ineffability and its Metaphysics: The Unspeakable In Art, Religion, and Philosophy
Robert Bringhurst - The Tree of Meaning: Language, Mind and Ecology
Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space
John Dewey - Art as Experience
Hans-Georg Gadamer - Truth and Method
A.W. Moore - Points of View
Donald Hoffman - The Case Against Reality
Charles Baudelaire - Richard Wagner et Tannhäuser à Paris
Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy
Mark Fisher- Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
Mark Fisher- The Weird and The Eerie
Mark Fisher - Ghosts of My Life: Writings on Depression, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Martin Heidegger - Being and Time
Graham Priest- Beyond The Limits of Thought
Michael Gallope - Deep Refrains : Music, Philosophy, and the Ineffable
Arthur Danto - After The End of Art

People are s***ting on that new Katy Perry song and video, but it seems pretty clearly satirical to me.

don't think I've listened to a new Katy Perry song in at least 7 years

It’s a bad song, but the video seems to be poking fun at superficial pandering mid 2010’s style feminism. Also on just a surface level glance—despite the Ozempic cutting back on the curves—she still has nice b**** and I appreciate that.

romantic era

Feeling nostalgic

These are so beautiful

John Martin, Caspar David Friedrich, J.W.M Turner are a few of the artists depicted if you want look into more paintings like these

Flowers to them

And thank you

it's all them - but no problem

if you ever want some recs from other eras/art movements lmk

Reminds me of this cover

never heard of the album but yeah that's The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin

@Elric you ever heard this? It’s from a 60’s psych band, but it sounds like a dreamy jangly 90’s indie artist.

had like 30 paintings I wanted to post but for some stupid reason ktt only let's you post 15

Those paintings just feel.. Massive

think i might make a webpage where i can post art. mainly for myself so I can keep track of artworks I like.

this 'massive' type of art is usually referred to as 'the sublime' or just 'sublime/sublimity', images that evoke beauty, wonder, astonishment but also fear and terror

"Burke finds the sources of the sublime in qualities such as obscurity, power, vacuity, darkness, solitude, silence and vastness, which convey ideas of pain and terror without causing physical danger"

It originally had more to do with nature than with art. so the sublime has the power to both compel but also destroy the self... sort of like looking into the the night sky which seems infinite while contemplating your finitude. The individual’s desire to advance towards the infinite is tempered by the awareness of their finite nature, thus a clash between desire and recognition leads to a kind of "negative pleasure"

Swans would be good example of sublimity in music. remember that quote from Gira lol "audiences would flee...we took to locking the doors"

yeah its a dylankubrick classic dutch band

title track and Zsarrah are my favourite track on there

I don’t love the whole album, but it’s certainly interesting. Too much proto punk and experimental psych for my taste, but that does make the lighter moments like this one seem more magical. The title track is really cool and I Love You No. 2 is nice as well.

Learning a lot today

there's a whole world out there. definitely worth exploring. if I can influence someone to look into more types/disciplines of art and aesthetics I would be very happy

Had to look up some different art styles for a manuscript I was working on a few years back. There was a character in the story who was into acrylic painting, so this is all fascinating to me.

the worst part of ktt2 is how you cant fix quotes anymore :okay:

also, the image of the peasant girl looking out of the frame at something in the distance is called 'Song of The Lark' by Jules Breton. There's a story Bill Murray tells where he was about to kill himself by jumping into the Chicago River but decided to keep walking. walked into a museum where he saw that painting which he claims saved his life

There are certainly better contemporaries who painted in this style and with these themes (Millet, for example), and I don't love all of Breton's work because he seemed to prioritize quantity over quality, but his best paintings are really great. (There's sort of a 'Days of Heaven' feel to some of them.) Unfortunately, most of these are in really low resolution or have been b******ized by weird color grading so, you really don't get a true feel for their magnitude unless you see them in person. They're almost completely different paintings in person.