Helafizzles
Short story idea when watching Persona, but now it is gone. I think it had to do with people I know.
I hope when you are old you’ll read a Henry James novel and we will talk about it and I’ll remember that angry man I used to be, who thought this thought, and I’ll wonder, Why? Why, you mad fool, did you hope for something like this when old?
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by social media.
Nervous, I once asked Don DeLillo if kids had taunted him, calling him “Don Dildo.”
When I cry, my eyes burn. Does this happen to you?
Most people cheat on their lovers with another not because the other shines so bright, but because the lover dims. The heart wants twilight.
By Greg Gerke.
Al Paldrok Non Grata
One can direct a performance totally separate from one’s body, using only one’s brain. To create a non-carnal space, a virtual performance or global catastrophe where performative activities start functioning on their own, disconnected from body. As brain is still a material part of one’s body, a thought originating from there is already a compromise between an idea and materialized reality.
Questioning everything is our main philosophy and it is also the difference between art and entertainment. Of course, I have grown up in one authoritarian regime and also seen its fall. In these systems your reality is twisted. Everybody knows that there is real life, which they live with their friends and families and then there is another one, the official artificial reality, in which you take part outside of the home. This experience has probably given me this attitude, to always be sceptical about surface issues.
Continuing the States of Anxiety series, Jana Astanov interviews Anonymous Boh.