“We have no wish to enter into the kingdom of heaven, for we have become men, so we want the earth!”

—F. Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra: Part Four, “The Ass Festival,” §2 (edited excerpt).

The one that stands alone

And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.

- Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

Debbie Harry from Blondie

Jiro Takamatsu, Slack of Net.

Exercising his love of risk in stylised performance.

Lucidity’s task: to attain to a correct despair.

Brian Eno, advertisement for ZigZag Magazine (1982)

Frank Sinatra on the set of ‘It Happened in Brooklyn’ (1947)

To fuck up one's life means getting access to its poetry - without the help of talent.