The Sisters Of Mercy - Gimme Shelter
I judge you unfortunate because you have never lived through misfortune. You have passed through life without an opponent—no one can ever know what you are capable of, not even you.
Seneca (via firelinkfine)
‘an element thas has yet to be discovered’
mk. 6 dec 2022
It is time to abandon the world of the civilized and its light. It is too late to be reasonable and educated–which has led to a life without appeal. Secretly or not, it is necessary to become completely different, or to cease being.
Georges Bataille. ’The Sacred Conspiracy’. Visions of Excess. (via tesserariuss)
Tape machines used by Brian Eno to record ‘Discreet Music’
What the artists, like the alchemists, probably did not realize was the psychological fact that they were projecting part of their psyche into matter or inanimate objects. Hence the “mysterious animation” that entered into such things…They projected their own darkness, their earthly shadow, a psychic content that they and their time had lost and abandoned.
Carl Jung, Man and his Symbols (via funeral)
Joy Divison photographed by Anton Corbijn, London, 1979.
