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[imomus]

I'm massive-attacking Flickr with a fresh flurry of photos today. Suggestion: watch the slideshow while listening to mp3s from Section Amour.

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[imomus.livejournal.com]

I find it a little sad that Gunther Grass, the man who used to describe soups, snails and vaginal fizz bombs, now talks in these "newspaper terms" about life, referring to soup only as a metaphor, and fizz bombs not at all. He concludes "we should freely resist the power of capital, which sees mankind as nothing more than something which consumes and produces," but in fact his view is not much wider in this article, which takes a "newspaper perspective" on life. Well, of course, it's in a newspaper, why shouldn't it? But I am personally increasingly unconvinced that newspapers (or rolling TV news channels) are telling us anything real. The things they persistently exclude falsify their accounts, and their tone has become oddly shrill and stilted, full of intonations you hear nowhere except in a news report. A writer as great as Grass doesn't need to use this restricted code.

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

In non-newspaper terms, how would you describe the modern Germany?

[thetemplekeeper.livejournal.com]

Actually, that question is a bit boring... do you think there is anything real behind appearances? (I'm feeling a bit Nietzschean this morning).

[imomus.livejournal.com]

Well, once I stood beside a CNN reporter. He was standing in a raincoat on a box outside Buckingham Palace, waiting for his cue, garishly lit. To hear those routine news reporter intonations coming from a TV is one thing, but to hear them coming from a man standing on a box in a spotlight, a man visible only in profile, relating in a stressed-yet-relaxed way to a camera while the rain drizzles on his head and make-up people fuss around out of shot... well, what's behind that? Literally, a patch of damp pavement with some trampled chewing gum, a blackbird spearing a worm, large amounts of bacteria, traffic noise, ghosts of history, curious tourists, power cables leading to a generator... And part of this spectrum of things going on is "the story" which he's rewriting slightly with each take.