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It is crucial for the fate of individuals as well as peoples that culture begin in the right place…the right place is the body, gestures, diet, physiology, everything else follows from this…
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, “Skirmishes of an Untimely Man,” Aphorism 48. -
A twenty-year old Friedrich Nietzsche, pre-moustache, potentiality lying in wait. The scowling grimace and the distant gaze say it all. 1864.
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…everyone has heard of the book in which the famous Cornaro recommends his meagre diet as a recipe for a long and happy—and virtuous—life. This is one of the most widely read books, and several thousand copies are still being printed in England every year. There is no doubt in my mind that few books (except of course the Bible) have wreaked as much havoc, and have shortened as many lives as this well-meaning curiosity has done. The reason: confusion of cause and effect. This conscientious Italian thought that his diet was the cause of his longevity: but the preconditions for a long life—an exceptionally slow metabolism and a minimal level of consumption—were in fact the cause of his meagre diet. He was not free to eat either a little or a lot, his frugality was not ‘freely willed’: he got sick when he ate more. But unless you are a carp, it is not only advisable but necessary to have decent meals. Scholars in this day and age with their rapid consumption of nervous energy, would be destroyed by a regimen like Cornaro’s. Crede experto.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols, ”The Four Great Errors,” Aphorism 1, in The Anti-Christ, Ecce Homo, Twilight of the Idols, and Other Writings, Cambridge University Press, 2005. -
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Christie Front Drive, “Fin”, Stereo, Caulfield Records, 1998
The release of CFD’s last record—a year after the band had broken up—has a particular resonance for us here at tirado/thrown. First listening to the record in the touring van of some fellows we befriended in college was something of a melancholy occasion, because we were all under the impression that the band wasn’t going to get together anytime soon. It was like hearing faint messages of possibilities that merely flickered past but hardly realized themselves. So hearing a song called “Fin” was enough to sense that the song, the album even, was a premature yet somewhat ominous goodbye.
Fast-forward almost fourteen years.
To hear that CFD will be playing the Noise Pop Fest in San Francisco next February comes as fantastic news, if only because it partially satisfies a desire to see a band that stopped performing too soon.
There’s a minor symmetry at work between a band who announced their end with a song whose title designates an end, only to return years later on the one hand, and on the other, an old year announcing its end and the entry of a new—if somewhat uncertain—cycle around the sun. “Fin” is enough to offer some consolation as 2011 comes to an end.
Happy 2012 everyone.
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So, I could have sworn I heard Richard Butler sing “I follow where my line goes…”, which would be much more fascinating and far less rationalistic than, “I follow where my mind goes…”. Creative misinterpretation aside, it’s a brilliant, and much needed track at this particular point.
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Posted on December 16, 2011 via sloth unleashed with 291 notes
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Certainly, the sense of originality exists at its highest in an infant, and probably at its lowest in him who has completed the circle of the sciences.
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In nearly all the original characters, loosely accounted such in works of invention, there is discernible something prevailingly local, or of the age; which circumstance, of itself, would seem to invalidate the claim, judged by the principles here suggested.
Furthermore, if we consider, what is popularly held to entitle characters in fiction to being deemed original, is but something, personal — confined to itself. The character sheds not its characteristic on its surroundings, whereas, the original character, essentially such, is like a revolving Drummond light, raying away from itself all round it — everything is lit by it, everything starts up to it (mark how it is with Hamlet), so that, in certain minds, there follows upon the adequate conception of such a character, an effect, in its way, akin to that which in Genesis attends upon the beginning of things.
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Manu Chao, “Denia”, Proxima Estación: Esperanza, Virgin Records, 2001, Reissued by Nacional Records.
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School of Seven Bells, “My Cabal”, Alpinisms, [Ghostly International, 2008]
There was a point in which this post was going to have some commentary on how SVIIB’s music is often under-represented in the indie music press as merely influenced by shoegaze and dreampop. They’re obvious references, really; but the band’s sound suggests influences that are definitely more along the lines of what one would hear in freestyle and urban pop during the mid to late 80s. It’s difficult not to hear traces, afterlives of Sheila E, Lisa Lisa, and other Latin@ musicians of the time. But among the collateral deficiencies of rockism is a tendency to produce some negligent and lazy criticism, to say less of the dismissal of certain rhythms unbeknownst to the typical rockist as somehow ‘exotic’. For shame.
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![Edward Weston, Galván Shooting (Manuel Hernández Galván, Mexico), 1924; gelatin silver print; 8¼ in. x 7 3/16 in.; Collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, Albert M. Bender Bequest Fund purchase; © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
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Edward Weston, Galván Shooting (Manuel Hernández Galván, Mexico), 1924; gelatin silver print; 8¼ in. x 7 3/16 in.; Collection SFMOMA, Albert M. Bender Collection, Albert M. Bender Bequest Fund purchase; © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents
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