The White Visitation

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"Remember your Creator     in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come     and the years approach when you will say,     'I find no pleasure in them'— before the sun and the light     and the moon and the stars grow dark,     and the clouds return after the rain; when the keepers of the house tremble,     and the strong men stoop, when the grinders cease because they are few,     and those looking through the windows grow dim; when the doors to the street are closed     and the sound of grinding fades; when people rise up at the sound of birds,     but all their songs grow faint; when people are afraid of heights     and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms     and the grasshopper drags itself along     and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home     and mourners go about the streets."

- Ecclesiastes 12:1-5

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The Third Reich 'N' Roll - The Residents

"...taking all your favourite bubble gum riffs from the sixties, dressing them up in avant-guard drag, and sending them into the streets to break windows."

1. Swastikas on Parade

(00:00)Let's Twist Again (German Version) -- Chubby Checker (sampled)

(00:28)Land Of 1000 Dances -- Chris Kenner (also Cannibal & The Headhunters)

(02:23)Hanky Panky -- Tommy James & The Shondells

(04:29)A Horse With No Name -- America (played over Double Shot)

(04:21)Double Shot Of My Baby's Love -- The Swingin' Medallions

(06:30)The Letter -- The Box Tops (also Joe Cocker)

(08:28)Psychotic Reaction -- Count Five

(10:15)Hey, Little Girl -- Syndicate of Sound

(11:33)Papa's Got A Brand New Bag -- James Brown (sung in German) (samples from the original at 12:03 & 12:25)

(12:50)Talk Talk -- The Music Machine (also Erik Lindgren or Alice Cooper)

(13:50)I Want Candy -- The Strangeloves (also Bow Wow Wow)

(14:22)To Sir, With Love -- Lulu

(14:30)Telstar -- The Tornados

(14:37)Wipe Out -- The Surfaris

(14:23)Heroes And Villains -- The Beach Boys

2. Hitler was a Vegetarian

(00:00)Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) -- John Fred & His Playboy Band

(00:46)96 Tears -- ? And The Mysterians

(01:41)It's My Party -- Lesley Gore

(02:50)Light My Fire -- The Doors

(03:33)Ballad Of The Green Berets -- Sgt. Barry Sadler

(05:12)Yummy Yummy Yummy -- Ohio Express

(08:24)Rock Around The Clock -- Bill Haley & His Comets

(09:02)Pushing Too Hard -- The Seeds

(10:02)Good Lovin' -- The (Young) Rascals

(11:45)Gloria -- Them featuring Van Morrison

(12:51)In A Gadda Da Vida -- Iron Butterfly

(14:02)Sunshine Of Your Love -- Cream

(15:01)Hey Jude -- Beatles

(17:54)Sympathy For The Devil -- Rolling Stones

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I've made a count of airheads and severed heads ... There're definitely more severed heads ... Although in eternity it's hard to tell them apart

Antwerp, Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer

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"History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."

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"But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice--guessed and refused to believe--that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the Rainbow, and they its children...."

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We witness that there is a relationship between government, media and industry that is evident even at this most spurious and superficial level.

- Russell Brand, GQ Oracle

[proustitute]

Death is a Dialogue between The Spirit and the Dust.

Emily Dickinson, from “[976]” (via proustitute)

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" . . . or the machine . . . more likely the machine . . . so disconnected . . . never got the message . . . "

- Not I, Samuel Beckett

[illbetheendofme-x]

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"Other girls of her generation grew up asking, 'Who am I?' For them it was a question full of pain and struggle. For Gretel it was hardly even a question. She had more identities than she knew what to do with. Some of these Gretels have only the sketchiest of surfaces--others are deeper. Many have incredible gifts, antigravity, dreams of prophecy . . . comatic images surround their faces, glowing in the air: the light itself is actually crying tears, weeping in this stylized way, as she is borne along through the mechanical cities, the meteorite walls draped in midair, every hollow and socket empty as bone, and the failing shadow that shines black all around it . . . or is held in staring postures, long gowns, fringe and alchemical symbol, veils flowing from leather skullcaps padded concentric as a bike-racer's helmet, with crackling-tower and obsidian helix, with drive belts and rollers, with strange airship passages that thread underneath arches, past louvers and giant fins in the city mist. . ."

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"...a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it..."

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To reach truth from the appearances, it is necessary to interpret, to guess the riddle… but though this seems to be within the capacity of men, it is something most men never do.

The Presocratics, Edward Hussey

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"He, the new one, the shy one, how he tangled in the spreading roots and tendrils of inner event twisting in primitive patterns, in choking growths, in the shapes of killer animals. How he submitted. Made love. Loved his own inwardness, his inner wildness the primeval forest where his heart stood like a green shoot among huge fallen trees. Made love. Let it go, went on down through his own roots and out to the monstrous beginning where his little birth had happened so long ago. Loving it he waded downward into more ancient blood, into canyons where Horror itself lay gorged from eating his fathers and every Terror knew him and winked in complicity.”

- Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke, tr. David Young

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"Natalija A. was a thirty-one-year-old former philosophy student who had been deaf for many years (she communicated solely by writing), and who was haunted by the image of her own double. She felt that she had been controlled for six and a half years by an electrical machine which she said was manufactured in Berlin, though its use was illegal and prohibited by the police. The machine resembled her in every way. 


Her doppelgänger looked something like the outstretched figure on a sarcophagus; the torso lifted off like the lid of a coffin, and was lined with velvet or silk, to reveal the inner workings of the machine, which consisted of batteries supposed to represent the internal organs...

In the course of his analysis of Natalija A., Tausk noticed how the machine ceased to resemble her. Her double was becoming flat and indistinct in her descriptions of it, shedding its human attributes as it became purely mechanical. 
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- The Influencing Machine, Christopher Turner

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Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground

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"The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark - into the evil."

"Yea, into the evil!" cried the youth. "How is it possible that thou hast discovered my soul?"

Thus Spake Zarathustra

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". . . mba rara m'eroto ondyoze . . . mbe mu munine m'oruroto ayo u n'omuinyo . . ."

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Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded

-T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland