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Sixth Mess Section
1. Alone, for one moment. –directions to performers from Erik Satie
2. Lutgardis, mystic. Born at Tongeren in 1182, died at Aywieres in 1246. Lutgardis’s family fobbed her off on a Benedictine nunnery when she was still a girl. In her mid-twenties she decided that she needed a more austere existence and so joined a group of Cistercian nuns near Brussels. There she levitated and dripped blood from her forehead and hair. –Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” In Another Context
3. “Try going a day without it you’ll miss it Charlie–” –Check It Out! with Dr. Steve Brule is live
4. The Pharmako trilogy by Dale Pendell is a massive accomplishment, and great to read. You will want them. Look inside.
ADDITION: 5. The hallway of blood scene in The Shining, recreated with CGI. Look up.
Tags: dale pendell, erik satie, marina abramovic, mess section, pharmako, steve brule, the shining
My favorite Satie direction is “more like a pear”
I first learned of Satie from the movie “Badlands”.
“Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire”
Great photo. Funny thing about the Karl Marx quote is that the common assumption is that it means that religion is the addiction of the people, but he meant that it was a painkiller for people who had nothing.
Exactly. Or both, maybe?
Really good movie. Do you have a favorite Malick movie?
That’s great.
badlands, yes!
I’ve only seen Badlands and Days of Heaven.
Why have I not seen The Thin Red Line or The New World?
Huh.
I better get on it.
Days of Heaven is my mom’s #1 all-time favorite movie.
I haven’t seen Days yet, got it in my living room. But The Red Line is a monument. And The New World is excellent.
Gates of Heaven is fine and big and strong. I loved it. Badlands is a wonderful movie. I read Thin Red Line a couple of years ago and was thrown into an intellectual depression by it. It was a very powerful experience, and I had wanted to see the film but, when it got so-so reviews, I didn’t want to risk what I still had from the novel. I’ve never felt that way about a novel-to-movie translation, just this novel and this movie.
love malick. i agree, Thin Red Line is too beautiful to take at times. days of heaven, it’s grand and quiet and strange, yet still feels like a master becoming such, and is therefore somehow just as interesting as Red Line, if not as good. i remember study about then writing a paper on malick and heidegger in college and now i can’t remember a thing about that paper, except that i must have been writing it to impress someone.
My favorite Satie direction is “more like a pear”
I first learned of Satie from the movie “Badlands”.
“Trois Morceaux en forme de Poire”
Great photo. Funny thing about the Karl Marx quote is that the common assumption is that it means that religion is the addiction of the people, but he meant that it was a painkiller for people who had nothing.
Cool timing. I tutor a kid in creative writing who takes classes at Juilliard. Last week he brought in a few pieces by Satie, including “Embryons desséchés” — desiccated embryos. We set to work on translating the performer’s directions using my remedial knowledge of French and freetranslation.com.
My personal favorite was “What a beautiful boulder!” (translated on wikipedia as “What a nice rock!”)
Another nice one is “war-song of the King of Beans.”
On ubuweb, you can find a slew of free mp3’s and this interesting stage direction, for a piece called “Vexations”: “to be repeated 840 times.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHIqMmtS-0&feature=player_embedded
i haven’t read the novel, but i’m guessing the film’s so loosely-based on the novel that you won’t have to risk losing the book. the movie’s worth watching, like no war movie (i sort of dislike calling it a ‘war’ movie) out there. like very few films out there.
Exactly. Or both, maybe?
Really good movie. Do you have a favorite Malick movie?
That’s great.
badlands, yes!
I’ve only seen Badlands and Days of Heaven.
Why have I not seen The Thin Red Line or The New World?
Huh.
I better get on it.
Days of Heaven is my mom’s #1 all-time favorite movie.
I haven’t seen Days yet, got it in my living room. But The Red Line is a monument. And The New World is excellent.
Gates of Heaven is fine and big and strong. I loved it. Badlands is a wonderful movie. I read Thin Red Line a couple of years ago and was thrown into an intellectual depression by it. It was a very powerful experience, and I had wanted to see the film but, when it got so-so reviews, I didn’t want to risk what I still had from the novel. I’ve never felt that way about a novel-to-movie translation, just this novel and this movie.
love malick. i agree, Thin Red Line is too beautiful to take at times. days of heaven, it’s grand and quiet and strange, yet still feels like a master becoming such, and is therefore somehow just as interesting as Red Line, if not as good. i remember study about then writing a paper on malick and heidegger in college and now i can’t remember a thing about that paper, except that i must have been writing it to impress someone.
Cool timing. I tutor a kid in creative writing who takes classes at Juilliard. Last week he brought in a few pieces by Satie, including “Embryons desséchés” — desiccated embryos. We set to work on translating the performer’s directions using my remedial knowledge of French and freetranslation.com.
My personal favorite was “What a beautiful boulder!” (translated on wikipedia as “What a nice rock!”)
Another nice one is “war-song of the King of Beans.”
On ubuweb, you can find a slew of free mp3’s and this interesting stage direction, for a piece called “Vexations”: “to be repeated 840 times.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYHIqMmtS-0&feature=player_embedded
i haven’t read the novel, but i’m guessing the film’s so loosely-based on the novel that you won’t have to risk losing the book. the movie’s worth watching, like no war movie (i sort of dislike calling it a ‘war’ movie) out there. like very few films out there.