True by Charles Bukowski

one of Lorca's best lines 
is, 
"agony. always 
agony..." 

think of this when you 
kill a 
cockroach or pick up a razor to 
shave 

or awaken in the morning 
to 
face the 
sun. 

Henri Matisse

Lykke Li, Get Some

"The sadness will last forever." ~ The last words of Vincent van Gogh

"If you're gonna lead people, you have to have somewhere to go." ~ The Motorcycle Boy

This new service that uses facial recognition technology and Facebook to promote deals makes my skin crawl! Minority Report here we come. I recommend you go read Little Brother now.

"That's what a project is: a heavy question mark.You're the dot under that mark and you mustn't let it crush you." ~ Leos Carax on the making of Pola X.

Wild Bill is a gritty London drama set in an estate overlooking the Olympic park. It's not nearly as hackneyed as that sounds and was actually rather excellent. And worth watching if you're a Talk Talk fan for the Mark Hollis song near the end.

Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive was one of my favourite films of last year so I'm re-watching Bronson. The electronic musical aesthetic of Refn that pervades and elevates Drive is clearly hinted at in 2008's Bronson.

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore." ~ André Gide

Dylan Thomas at his best.

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, 
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Slint, Spiderland

"There is no contradiction between free will and knowing in advance precisely what one will do. If one knows oneself completely then this is the situation. One does not deliberately do the opposite of what one wants." ~ Kurt Gödel

"Nothing is true, everything is permitted." ~ Hassan-i Sabbah

Violent Femmes, Never Tell