Silence cannot conceal anything
“Shall we converse, then?” “Talk of the weather, which we know all about? Ask how we are, which we already know? I prefer silence. Then you can hear thoughts and see the past. Silence cannot conceal...
View ArticleWhat he misses most is the sound of traffic
As he tells his father, what he misses most is the sound of traffic. It seems the noise made by trucks and taxi cabs created for him a kind of evening lullaby. Now he finds it difficult to fall asleep...
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Blood for Dracula
I was watching Blood for Dracula and I’m just gonna say that this is the best fucking shot in all (s)exploitation film history.
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No image. No color. Just blackness
“Dreams getting worse. Usually in nightmares you see what you’re scared of. Not in my case. No image. No color. Just blackness and then in the distance, getting closer and closer, beginning to pierce...
View ArticleGod 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,...
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Poison (1991)
Poison (1991), Todd Haynes. I think that Poison was the first film I watched by Todd Haynes, many years ago. I’ve seen all his films and I like all of them, but Poison and Velvet Goldmine hold a...
View ArticleThe sexuality of the loud noise
— You made a loud noise. — You didn’t make umbrage with the loud noise. You made umbrage with the fact that you’ve got a load of gay people in a straight bar. That’s what you’ve got your problem with....
View ArticleThe female body is a deviation
“Whenever male bodies are represented as monstrous in the horror film they assume characteristics usually associated with the female body: they experience a blood cycle, change shape, bleed, give...
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 ArticleSímbols franquistes a Tortosa i altres desusos
Núvol ha publicat una bonica crònica del Embarrat i també unes paraules boniques sobre la meva acció/vídeo: «Blanca Rego (Ferrol) va realitzar una de les accions més interessants i directament...
View ArticleThe frequency of opiates is a special oscillation of ultra sound
“Anything that can be done chemically can be done in other ways…what is missed in withdrawal is a certain frequency […] The frequency of opiates turned out to be a special oscillation of ultra sound....
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The revolution is my boyfriend
—In case you’ve forgotten, I’m your boyfriend. —Don’t be ridiculous… The Raspberry Reich (2004).
View ArticleRetinal pessimism
“…Retinal pessimism is not simply the failure of the phenomena of perception, the physiology of the retina, or the science of optics. Nor is it the conviction that whatever one is seeing is the worst...
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Noise licks my ears
Noise has the power to provoke ecstasy. The drawings are from The Laughing Vampire Vol. 2 by Suehiro Maruo. It’s a collage, not the real layout of the comic page.
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If sound is power, then listening seems like submission
We seem thoroughly persuaded that looking is active while listening is passive. So looking is always liable to become a violating, objectifying and diminishing action, while listening is thought of not...
View ArticleNoise is a direct call to action
“‘Le bruit,’ noise with imitative effects, was introduced into art (in this connection we can hardly speak of individual arts, music or literature) by Marinetti, who used a chorus of typewriters,...
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Dark Sound | Mikel R. Nieto
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