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 […]
Quotes of the day for 12, January 2009
“90% of Communication is just presentation. You should think that over, why speak in the first place if no one can understand you. You are communicating for a listener, for them, not for yourself. So you should make sure they at least understand. This is why academics cannot easily affect any significant direct change in […]
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 […]
To relax in strength
Tension generated as the coil is pressed down. It quivers and is sprung. Released in a direction it exerts force. The coiled spring, the tensed muscle, the panther on its haunches waiting to leap. With the tension unleashed, the energy is transferred. The spring is sprung. The fist, it flies forth. The cat leaps through […]