remedial chaos

[sound-of-metal]

i think about this interview of james spader very often. not only because it explains a lot of his behavior and thoughts but also it explains mine too. i love him for speaking for us, the freaks "i'm just drawn to particularities in life. i'm interested in perversity, i'm interested in oddity, i'm curious about taboos, i'm curious about secrets, that's what interest me and so those were tend to be what i looked for" ♥

[irreparableinnocence]

Filmmaker: To what extent did you research whatever real-world analogue to Crash may exist before filming?

Cronenberg: Not at all. I mean, the film works on such a non-literal level that it’s really irrelevant. What Ballard is saying is not that car crashes are sexy. It’s that there is a deeply hidden erotic element to the event of the car crash. I believe that is true, and that is what we are talking about in the movie. But it’s so difficult for people to get their head around it. Somebody will say, “I’ve been in a car crash, and it’s not sexy.” I heard of this psychiatrist who said, “Yeah, I deal with one of these guys every week. He seeks them out [car crashes] and stands around and gets sexually aroused.” To me this has almost nothing to do with the movie, bizarrely enough. The movie has more to do with the relationship between sex and death — the fact that when we are endangered physically we are also aroused sexually. There’s a very old primordial trigger: members of your species are dying, so you should become sexy so you can mate and procreate. Sex and death. Thanatos and Eros. Understood for thousands of years — not by UK journalists, mind you. It’s a very complex interrelationship. On that level — mortality and death — you find the meaning that makes sense in the movie.

Braking and Entering: Director David Cronenberg on His Austere and Unnerving J.G. Ballard Adaptation, Crash

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[timotheescloset]

"can't always be running scared... you can't be scared of liberty"

Operation Hyacinth (2021) dir. Piotr Domalewski

[jdebbiel]

painted for the first time on paper in over a decade?

[ofishal-fish-posts]

official fish post

[onlyadestroyedcarisagoodcar]

"Car Crash Debbie" - Bob Gruen's portrait of Debbie Harry, taken at a wrecked car on 6th Avenue and 50th Street in New York City, 1976

[beingharsh]

Hour of the Wolf (1968), dir. Ingmar Bergman

[leatherandmossprints]

‘After Breakfast’ by Elin Danielson-Gambogi, c. 1890.

[flowerytale]

Florence Welch, interviewed by Steffanee Wang for Nylon Entertainment

[1892]

he needs mouse bites to live

[1892]

the most legendary gif maybe ever

[solarotters]

Happy birthday sherlock holmes!

[hiltontower]

I LOVE THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’M SICK OF DENYING IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE IS THE ONLY ADAPTATION OF MY WORK THAT TRULY UNDERSTANDS THE CRUCIAL THEMES

[annalikesthings]

#i’m glad this url went to someone who knew what to do with it

[thefisherqueen]

“But how did you know, Mr. Holmes?” “I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. 

Going to refer to myself as an omnivorous reader from now on. That's hilarious

[caffeinated--peach]

no additional commentary necessary

[abiiors]

sufjan stevens really wrote “but in this light, you look like poseidon. i'm just a ghost you walk right through” and expected me to be okay after that huh

[4thelneyjones]

How bout that editing boys

[harbingerofsoup]

watching sherlock and co like oh thank god finally an adaptation of sherlock holmes where john watson is the most awkward man to walk the earth