"In a laboratory, she would have caused explosions."
Yesterday H's film class went to a local indie theater to see Bad Education, a disturbing (and beautiful) spanish film about um, identity? Child abuse? Homosexuality? Anyway it's one of those films you see once, appreciate, and never want to see again. I put it on the same shelf as Naked Lunch, sorta, except I just rented that and am going to make H watch it. Hehehe.
Also yesterday, I went to the library and checked out Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin, who is fast becoming of my new favorite authors. She has a style that's both lucid & surreal, engaging to the point of obsession. Her equivalent in music would have to be somewhere between the later, grander Chopin, and middle Scriabin, before the surreal-to-the-point-of-unintelligible (programme-wise) late sonatas.
The weather lately has been great for outdoor studying... can't wait for this bloody quarter to be over, though.
Current Music: Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo
Also yesterday, I went to the library and checked out Ladders to Fire by Anais Nin, who is fast becoming of my new favorite authors. She has a style that's both lucid & surreal, engaging to the point of obsession. Her equivalent in music would have to be somewhere between the later, grander Chopin, and middle Scriabin, before the surreal-to-the-point-of-unintelligible (programme-wise) late sonatas.
The weather lately has been great for outdoor studying... can't wait for this bloody quarter to be over, though.
Current Music: Devendra Banhart, Nino Rojo
posted by josh p at 9:55 AM
2 Comments:
Cool pic man. Hmmm what sort of topic does she touch on with her work. I am intrigued.
Thanks, the pic is from Lake Padden. It's somehow always pretty there. As for Nin, she has a really unique style, it seems like she's really concerned with the Jungian shadow. As for subject matter, it's pretty much character-oriented, not so much action. Psychological, for sure. She's usually classified as "erotica," which makes no sense to me. I could see a parallel between her & De Sade, but he's usually classified as erotica too, and he writes with a far wider range than that classification denotes. Hmf! Anyway, visit your local library. ;-)
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