Quote 1
I believe that drugs are basically of more use to the audience than to the artist. I think that the illusion of oneness with the universe, and absorption with the significance of every object in your environment, and the pervasive aura of peace and contentment is not the ideal state for an artist. It tranquilizes the creative personality, which thrives on conflict and on the clash and ferment of ideas. The artist’s transcendence must be within his own work; he should not impose any artificial barriers between himself and the mainspring of his subconscious. One of the things that’s turned me against LSD is that all the people I know who use it have a peculiar inability to distinguish between things that are really interesting and stimulating and things that appear to be so in the state of universal bliss that the drug induces on a "good" trip. They seem to completely lose their critical faculties and disengage themselves from some of the most stimulating areas of life. Perhaps when everything is beautiful, nothing is beautiful.
An interesting snippet from Anton Chekhov’s - "The Lady with the toy dog"
Sitting side by side with a young woman, who in the dawn seemed so beautiful, Gomov, appeased and enchanted by the sight of the fairy scene, the sea, the mountains, the clouds, the wide sky, thought how at bottom, if it were thoroughly explored, everything on earth was beautiful, everything, except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
Is Gomov on LSD or just horny i dunno
Quote 2
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
In the current scenario we could choose to see
- America as a gangster, financing tyrants like Saddam world over and then jumping in to perform its own genocide like a mega advertising campaign for its weapons.- India as a prostitute...if you are an indian and have not figured out that you belong to a whore nation, then i dont want to break your illusion...
On a brighter (actually black and white) note here is a 9 minute flick by kubrick before he made any of his feature films.
1 comment:
good one!
Post a Comment