My brain is doing some FuNkY things right now. I think all the tripping people around me have somehow passed the thoughts through the Hive-Mind.
Meh, x-posted because I'm too lazy to write an entry:
In the machinery of night
Wow, I just finished watching hamlet-machine and that's all I can say. For some odd reason I'm in a phase right now where I'm really into plays. This one was right up my alley though since it was an adaptation of Hamlet done by a german. I'm writing a short, fairly shitty paper on it and I really haven't had this much fun in a long time. Writing this paper could possibly be better than sex. I'm not writing it on the play like I should be, but rather on my interpretation of the play. For once my knowledge of german figures is key. I get to reference Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of cities (another awesome ass play) and Benjamin's theory on theater. It's an opinion paper and I'm full of opinions (and you all know by now that I REALLY like voicing my opinion.
The final scene made me feel like I was tripping too.... which is pretty awesome.
I get to reference some of my favorite quotaitons in the paper... and that brings me infinite joy (because I really love some of these quotations).
"in the machinery of night" - Mller refers to the cities as "concrete blooms" and also has hamlet wish that he was a machine. That he would walk, and move, and feel no more.
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots." - Fromm
(the gravitational pull of the ego away from pain and toward self-preservation and stoicism is amazing to comment on)
"You know, in its natural state human skin is too thin for this world. So men take care to see it grows thicker. There would be nothing wrong with the methjod, if only you could stop it from growing. Take a piece of tanned leather: it stays the way it is. But the living skin grows, it grows thicker and thicker."
- Jungle of Cities (B.B)
oh yeah, and I loved the comment that mller made on society. He had the main character rant about Nausea. He would say a statement about people dying so that he could be alone in his blood or soldiers killing or a statement about people buying things to feel numb and shout Nausea after each phrase. In doing this he was making commentary on how today's society is moving in the wrong direction and it makes him sick. Then, to my great joy, he said "My nausea is my priviledge". How amazing!
(eric, if you read this know that I thought of you and your rants, because it sounded just like one of them as the character recited the lines).
Man I love Epic Theater. (Brecht's theory that theater should not have the audience identify with the emotions of a character and become passive through that catharsis, but that they should actively reflect on the actions and emotions so that they will reflect on the social meanings behind them).
Really, I just love having something to think about and analyse that isnt' straight forward cut and dry bullshit. I haven't been this excited since I saw Salo. Maybe it's just that it's doing work on something other than German HW or Archaeology stuffs.
Well, I'm going to sleep. Gotta rest up for Toli!!!!
Meh, x-posted because I'm too lazy to write an entry:
In the machinery of night
Wow, I just finished watching hamlet-machine and that's all I can say. For some odd reason I'm in a phase right now where I'm really into plays. This one was right up my alley though since it was an adaptation of Hamlet done by a german. I'm writing a short, fairly shitty paper on it and I really haven't had this much fun in a long time. Writing this paper could possibly be better than sex. I'm not writing it on the play like I should be, but rather on my interpretation of the play. For once my knowledge of german figures is key. I get to reference Bertolt Brecht's Jungle of cities (another awesome ass play) and Benjamin's theory on theater. It's an opinion paper and I'm full of opinions (and you all know by now that I REALLY like voicing my opinion.
The final scene made me feel like I was tripping too.... which is pretty awesome.
I get to reference some of my favorite quotaitons in the paper... and that brings me infinite joy (because I really love some of these quotations).
"in the machinery of night" - Mller refers to the cities as "concrete blooms" and also has hamlet wish that he was a machine. That he would walk, and move, and feel no more.
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots." - Fromm
(the gravitational pull of the ego away from pain and toward self-preservation and stoicism is amazing to comment on)
"You know, in its natural state human skin is too thin for this world. So men take care to see it grows thicker. There would be nothing wrong with the methjod, if only you could stop it from growing. Take a piece of tanned leather: it stays the way it is. But the living skin grows, it grows thicker and thicker."
- Jungle of Cities (B.B)
oh yeah, and I loved the comment that mller made on society. He had the main character rant about Nausea. He would say a statement about people dying so that he could be alone in his blood or soldiers killing or a statement about people buying things to feel numb and shout Nausea after each phrase. In doing this he was making commentary on how today's society is moving in the wrong direction and it makes him sick. Then, to my great joy, he said "My nausea is my priviledge". How amazing!
(eric, if you read this know that I thought of you and your rants, because it sounded just like one of them as the character recited the lines).
Man I love Epic Theater. (Brecht's theory that theater should not have the audience identify with the emotions of a character and become passive through that catharsis, but that they should actively reflect on the actions and emotions so that they will reflect on the social meanings behind them).
Really, I just love having something to think about and analyse that isnt' straight forward cut and dry bullshit. I haven't been this excited since I saw Salo. Maybe it's just that it's doing work on something other than German HW or Archaeology stuffs.
Well, I'm going to sleep. Gotta rest up for Toli!!!!
Somehow I feel smarter for reading this. Thank heavens. I just watched a movie that lowered my intelligence quotient by several points.