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Ese sonido horrible de chorro enérgico que hace el agua al salir con tanta...
«Ese sonido horrible de chorro enérgico que hace el agua al salir con tanta fuerza, a borbotones, en el sanitario del centro comercial es el canto burlón de “¡mierda, mierda!”. Nada podrá presentar...
View ArticleBolshevism vs Americanism
“He said there are only two great diseases in the world to-day—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your...
View ArticleThe instinct for chaos had entered
“Even in the machine, there should be equality. No part should be subordinate to any other part: all should be equal. The instinct for chaos had entered. Mystic equality lies in being, not in having or...
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God is prowling around with a tape recorder
“When nobody cares, then shame ceases to exist and we can all return to the Garden of Eden without any God prowling around like a house dick with a tape recorder”. Playback from Eden to Watergate,...
View ArticleActivating word patterns in the brain by tape-recorder techniques
“Assassins often hear voices telling them to kill. Are these voices necessarily imaginary? Directional mikes can project voices. Top secret research on lasers is concerned with sending thoughts....
View ArticleWatched – June 2016
• Cosa avete fatto a Solange? (1972). • Soylent Green (1973). • Addio zio Tom (136 minutes version, 1971). • Addio zio Tom (123 minutes version, 1971). • Arsenic and Old Lace (1944). • Игла (1988). •...
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Written on the Wind (1956)
This one is much better, and much less innocent, than Magnificent Obsession. Besides, it plays a little bit with structure. Anyway, I think that All That Heaven Allows is more perfect and deals better...
View ArticleSeconds (1966)
When a film starts like this, it must be good (Saul Bass, of course). A paranoia, a dystopian history about who we are and who we would like to be. And, like all good science fiction films, with a lot...
View ArticleDewey Decimal Classification
“The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC), or Dewey Decimal System, is a proprietary library classification system first published by Melvil Dewey in 1876. It has been revised and expanded through 23...
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El día que descubrí la violencia
Cuando inicié la serie de remixes sonoros de películas titulada The Sound Screen, lo hice sin ninguna idea preconcebida, la única condición era que todo el sonido procediese de películas. Quizás por...
View ArticleWatchings
• Harper (1966) Jack Smight • Only God Forgives (2013) Nicolas Winding Refn • 藪の中の黒猫 (Kuroneko, 2013) Kaneto Shindô • Repo Man (1984) Alex Cox • 박쥐 (Thirst, 2009) Chan-wook Park • Byzantium (2012) Neil...
View ArticleWatchings
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) Karel Reisz • This is the End (2013) Evan Goldberg, Seth Rogen • It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) Robert Hamer • 女が階段を上る時 (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs)...
View ArticleHigh heels, tight or fragile shoes, corsets and girdles, very full or narrow...
“Women’s clothes and bodily confinements—high heels, tight or fragile shoes, corsets and girdles, very full or narrow skirts, easily damaged fabrics, veils that obscure vision—are part of the social...
View ArticleThe actions necessitated for us by circumstance
“The Stoic philosopher Epicurus maintained that free will was only an illusory sense we experience when the actions necessitated for us by circumstance fortuitously coincide with what we happen to...
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Paralysis by analysis
“Analysis paralysis or paralysis of analysis is an anti-pattern, the state of over-analyzing (or over-thinking) a situation so that a decision or action is never taken, in effect paralyzing the...
View ArticleWalking about at night
“In England, walking about at night was a crime for a very long time. William the Conqueror ordained that a bell should be rung at 8 p.m., at which point Londoners were supposed to put their fires and...
View ArticleBelieve nothing
“Do not believe on the strength of traditions even if they have been held in honour for many generations and in many places; do not believe anything because many people speak of it; do not believe on...
View ArticleGender is a scaled economy
“Gender is a scaled economy: it is a mode of regulation, management, and control. … We have the right to deny our use and, through this, close the wounds created by a world fed on binary rhetoric.”...
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