pre-apocalyptic art, literature, cinema

topic posted Tue, January 10, 2006 - 11:52 PM by  ddddddddddddd
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any suggestions for what this might look sound and smell like? a manifesto may soon appear here or elsewhere.
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  • Re: pre-apocalyptic art, literature, cinema

    Tue, January 17, 2006 - 12:40 AM
    It's all around you. People are getting ready for the last dance as the walls fall around them. Joy, sadness, pleasure, fear, hate --it's all there. Look at the games they play. You see worlds being destroyed, horrible revelations being made. Look in the schools where the children are breaking down and killing each other. Look at social life where those who know what's happening can only look and hold an occasional hand for comfort. That's the art. If you choose to see it.
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      Re: pre-apocalyptic art, literature, cinema

      Tue, January 17, 2006 - 12:45 AM
      Old Spider,

      Well put.

      Two films that I have seen accomplish the difficult vision in cinema are Dusan Makavejev's SWEET MOVIE and Alejandro Jodorowsky's EL TOPO. Both made in the early seventies, both prophetic.
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        Re: pre-apocalyptic art, literature, cinema

        Tue, January 17, 2006 - 1:20 AM
        O GOD OF THE END OF THE WORLD
        I am afraid to take you seriously; tell me you’re only kidding,
        Show me how to be a greater fool than I already am
        B y making me laugh at death without forgetting my mortality.

        O GODDESS OF BEAUTY IS BETTER THAN TRUTH
        I am embarrassed by my need to be right all the time.
        Send me your most gorgeous dropdead image, the Mother of All Visions,
        The vision that outgrows and destroys all other visions including itself,
        So I can see through myself when I am lying.

        O WRATHFUL DEITIES OF DOOMSAYING EVANGELICALS & DOGMATIC LITTLE BIGOTS, I am bored to tears with my intolerances.
        Grant me the enchantment to be entertained by the hidden pixie agendas
        Behind all dreary, dismal grey-faced warnings so I can stop
        Taking myself more seriously than the life I am actually living.

        O DEMIGOD OF POETIC TERRORISM,
        I am utterly and royally confused.
        Make me go crazy in the name of Creation, not Destruction,
        So I may freely sabotage the literalist virus immobilizing my imagination
        And learn to incite riots in the minds asleep to your splendor and glory.

        O GODS & GODDESSES OF EVERYBODY’S HOLY GUARDIAN ANGEL,
        I am fucked up beyond all recognition.
        Trick me into not knowing whether I am really a good person or really a bad person. Give me the wisdom to never believe my own PR and what other people think of me, No matter how much money they pay me.
        Deepen my gratitude for being a nobody in an UnWorld
        Of wannabe somebodies and hungry ghosts, so I can be touched in the head
        By your benevolence and tell your truths
        Without wanting the credit.

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