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Modern Malady: Rock’n Tomb


Monday, April 28, 2008
This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series modern malady

MODERN MALADY: rock’n tomb

1.ROLLING STONES DON’T GATHER MOSS FLOGGING THEIR CORPSE

 

With the index title Modern Malady I am introducing a permanent analytical framework concerning the unification and clarification of the last century with it’s scattered histories; like music, cinema, literature, art, economy, politics, for the benefit of locating ourselves on the map of our universe, now.  

I will be evoking some key points for you to understand the disambiguation of what would be otherwise ambivalent; the clear definition of loyalty to the spirit, our essence and contradictory to that; the betrayal that is possessed by depleted, fake facades made to be products in this supermarket life.

Here we go, I take Rolling Stones as a symptom, to single handedly show what is eternally wrong with this fucking culture. What sets up this condition?

Modern Malady, yes modern sickness, is what I call this condition. 

In context of music; particularly rock’n roll, because it’s root lies in revolt and expression of youth, grappling with it’s existential crisis, in which Rolling Stones played a role, somewhat authenticto the experience of rock music in the 1960s… fine. 

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Modern Malady: Autistic Space


Monday, May 12, 2008
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series modern malady

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MODERN MALADY: Autistic Space

2. AN ART GALLERY IS AN INSULAR SPACE, ART LIKE LIFE LIVES ELSEWHERE. IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE ME GO CHECK FOR SIGNS OF LIFE.

 

The Pretext is a fresh news:     

Freud work sets new world record.
A Lucian Freud painting of a sleeping, naked woman sells for $33.6m (£17.2m)
in New York, a new record.”

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On a random excursion in incomparable Soho, New York, I stumbled across a prominent typical gallery.  Lovely how it all unfolds in front of my eyes.

 

- Where are you?

- I am outside an art gallery.

- What do you see? 

- I see the reflection of my feet on the ground. 

and I see paintings as well as a man facing the computer.

- What kind of paintings? 

- Art history tells me that was an abstract painting.

- How does the art history come to know this?

 

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Modern Malady: The Sound of Music


Monday, June 23, 2008
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series modern malady

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MODERN MALADY. NOT MELODY. MALADY.
IN OUR TIME, REPETITION ITSELF HAS BECOME THE FORM OF EXPRESSION.    
  

Presenting to you a handful of random musical selections from the last century against another batch of random music created in this decade by the people who were born in the last century - except Mr. Richard Wagner who wrote the piece of music in the middle of the film ‘Tristan & Isolde’ in 1859 on a piano. 

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WHAT IS MUSIC?
The kinetic twin: sound and image.
Of the image the sound is made,
and of sounds we make music.
So, in the music there must be imagery
and if the imagery is not in the music;
inscribed in sound, pitch, rhthmn and melody
then it doesn’t move my spirit.     

There is so much vacant stimulation for the body and our physical senses which by now are just the hardware, the property of the market wherever you are in the world..

The beauty of it is that music can’t be intellectualised. That is why I make music! It is the proper property of the spirit. There is no such thing as bad music, there is only music that will last.

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Modern Malady: Fire the Phantom of Liberty


Monday, July 14, 2008
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series modern malady

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FIRE WORKS. STATE VS. PEOPLE. VULTURE CULTURE OF THE STATE. BIT OF PLATO. BIT OF NIETZSCHE. THE VOID IDEOLOGY OF PRACTISING POWER.

Americans, I mean the citizens of the United States of America, not the people of ununited other states like Mexico, Chile, Canada or Argentina even though they also are Americans because of geography, you know, just like Japanese, Chinese and Indians are all Asians, and as Welsh, Italian and Bulgarians are Europeans, however they continent they are in doesn’t really give much definition to their different cultures. Anyway, the good people of this country widely known as Americans celebrated the annual commemoration of their declaration of independence from Britain on 4th of July. 

This is a national holiday here, a big fanfare cheered with massive fireworks and just general pleasantry of all these different people coming together to enjoy the lovely summer evening and recognise their landmark values attributed to the American dream. That’s all dandy. 

But, the winning question is who projects the dream beyond the innate force that forces one to dream, the one who has a right to education and criticism? Who? The government, a few fat fucks who feed on people’s blood and sweat, lobbies of wanker bankers, butchers, cold-blooded murderers who destine people’s lives by the flick of a pen on criminal contracts? Definitely not the hard-working people who are now assimilated in to the atrocious mechanism, the adulterated  democracy. oh, racy.

Clearly, this is not a criticism of people. That in itself is a universal theme applicable to all groups of people. If you will, I am looking at the structure of the solar system here, sociology would be focusing on a colony of ants. Yes, I am criticising the ruling elite of the United States of America, whoever they are behind the mophead politicians who carry out the show. How can one identify this nebulous force who has been responsible for this unconvincing performance as the righteous saviour, the guarantor of freedom, such a lovely hypnotising proposition to stun the world. 

This film came about because the poetic realism bypassed everything else in front of me, like it does.

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