13 November, 2010

Cupidean intelligence; Hymn to Dionysus shit




A little and lovable thing just send me this texto:

"Yo funny (and still not African American)"

This is my reply ……

I dislike (but also admire) those spiritual jokers that get lost in the bla bla; I mean the ‘Orientalists’ .. Thankfully sometimes they make really cool Art ..

So here are some crucibles of Western thought that are as hard as stone. And soft as any pillow. Take a nap on them and wake up feeling refreshed.

> Freddy Neats: Hymn to Dionysus (check out origin and history of 'Thriambos' if you curious enough ... )
> Cupid and Psyche (from ‘The Golden Ass’; Cupid finds a way to love Psyche while chilling in heaven with the Gods, he does that shit with total detachment .. Cool)
> The outrageous line: “ When ye despise pleasant things, and the effeminate couch, and cannot couch far enough from the effeminate: there is the origin of your virtue.” (From the really classic chapter of a (very) bizarro book)
> Have lunch ~ This is some really hastily thrown together potpourri of the words/tunes of Mr Leonard Cohen and other peeps that clearly respect what he does (Aural sophistation is obviously not the point in this psudo-mix ..; the poetic contents of this bla bla is the crucible, not how shoddily its been taped together)

SO~

I would say that its cool to go anywhere you wish but never forget where you come from. Whoever you are. Hold with a delicate grip both directions of whatever road you rolling on. And don’t forget to strut occasionally (haha). But we don’t like show–offs either (yes, contrary to intuition, (I hope this is your counter-intuition too), peace and joy can for whatever fucked up reason sometimes be deeply offensive to some dispositions; More about that later .. that shit is too terrifying to think/write about right now .. but I give you a puppy glimpse: (see second paragraph (and feel free to go beyond if that's ya bag); Another glimpse in any case is from Jay Z in this track).

So cloak yer grin from time to time .. No dawn without dusk .. Sometimes the mask that comes between these two things has value etc ..

As shit steepens, ya loins become stronger, eventually it gets easier (but only if you are working hard enough haha ! :-)

If there is one thing to really recommend in all of the bla bla above .. it’s the 44minute Leonard Cohen documentary

(its surprising that Cohen's french accent is so amateur tho ;-)

1 comment:

  1. Favorite part of Cohen Doco @ 9:19: "Oh you have lost me" .. but to get it you obviously need to survey the whole territory ..

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