November 2010
2 posts
WatchCasting Couch, 2010, Cia Mellegers and Irene Meimaris
Casting Couch
When under scrutiny we present ourselves as we wish to be seen: charismatic, intelligent, confident, attractive. Alcohol eases social encounters, but inebriation means vulnerability and loss of control. The importance of body language becomes evident when the dialogue is removed. But is anyone really listening anyway?
October 2010
2 posts
goo goo muck- the cramps
September 2010
2 posts
simple things- belle & sebastian
July 2010
8 posts
wasted hours- arcade fire
her father and her- adam green
“Fine. Then you can sleep on the couch or go home.”
He stood up. “Fine.” He hesitated. “Goodbye.” He slammed the front door behind him. She exhaled and climbed the stairs to her bedroom. Another friendship laid bare. She lay down on her back and stared at the ceiling blankly. The phone rang. “Hi. It’s David. The thing is— I need somewhere to sleep. I’ll take that couch after all.”...
Disappears- Marigold
June 2010
16 posts
xx teens- how to reduce the chances of becoming a...
the go-betweens- love goes on!
belle & sebastian- dirty dream #2
City
I am an ephemeral and a not too discontented citizen of a metropolis considered modern because all known taste has been evaded in the furnishings and the exteriors of the houses as well as in the layouts of the city. Here you would fail to detect the least trace of any monument of superstition. Morals and language are reduced to their simplest expressions, at last! The way these millions of...
He had heard the names of the passions of love and hate pronounced solemnly on the stage and in the pulpit, had found them set forth solemnly in books, and had wondered why his soul was unable to harbour them for any time or to force his lips to utter their names with conviction. A brief anger had often invested him but he had never been able to make it an abiding passion and had always felt...
beach fossils- twelve roses
May 2010
18 posts
The cold slime of the ditch covered his whole body; and, when the bell rang for study and the lines filed out of the playrooms, he felt the cold air of the corridor and the staircase inside his clothes. He still tried think what was the right answer. Was it right to kiss his mother or wrong to kiss his mother? What did it mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then...
trading cities
When he enters the territory of which Eutropia is the capital, the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size and not unlike one another, scattered over a vast, rolling plateau. Eutropia is not one, but all these cities together; only one is inhabited at a time, the others are empty; and this process is carried out in rotation. Now I shall tell you how. On the day when Eutropia’s...
joy division- wilderness
easier, easier
The car was at the door—the hearse. The whole party had assembled to see him go. Good-bye, good-bye. Mechanically he tapped the barometer that hung in the porch; the needle stirred perceptibly to the left. A sudden smile lighted up his lugubrious face.
“‘It sinks, and I am ready to depart,’” he said, quoting Landor with exquisite aptness. He looked quickly round...
the velvet underground- after hours
April 2010
10 posts
the smiths- half a person
