dissolving
Amor
love, dating, related annoyances
Melancholia, and random thoughts, on the CD deck is Death in June
When walking in Melancholia, I tend to listen to Death In June’s NADA! on a repeat loop. Something about that record is kind of soothing to me. NADA is, I’m convinced, one of the best Industrial and dark synth-pop records of the 80’s, and one of Death In June’s own masterpieces. Though the collaborations with […]
Thoughtful Quotes of the day, 12/22/2009
Quotes I found thought provoking “Every fear is an unconfronted weakness.” – Kurt Saxon in the essay “Survival and the Paranoid” 1977 “Intellectual understanding in the strict sense is found at the highest pinnacle of human selfhood, what the philosophers call the “actual intellect.” When such understanding leaves the realm of pure intelligence and descends […]
the Duende and Romantic Love (from Upton’s Shadow of the Rose)
“Romantic love is much more, however, than the union of sexuality and affection, since this union itself requires a sublimation and refinement of soul. Nor is romantic love necessarily young love, nor adulterous love, nor love framed by war, nor even passionate love in the usual sense. Rather, it is that mode of love which […]