Wim Wenders

Watched Wim Wenders’ new documentary Pina last night.

It’s a series of dances by the Tanztheater Wuppertal contemporary ballet company – some in the theatre, some outdoors – and interviews with dancers.

The direction of photography is so beautiful.

Wenders is the man.

Also watched his Paris, Texas the other day. Apparently, it was Kurt Cobain’s favourite film.

Minutemen in Rolling Stone

From their midsummer (July 18 – August 1) double issue.

“Music can inspire people to wake up and say, ‘Maybe somebody’s lying.’ This is the point I’d like to make with my music,” says Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, 27. “Make you think about what’s expected of you, of your friends. What’s expected of you by your boss. Challenge those expectations. And your own expectations. Man, you should challenge your own ideas about the world every day.”

Way Back When

Mum and sisters in a photobooth, London, mid-70′s.

Lorrita Hayworth

Jack-O by James Franco

In his ‘Palo Alto’ series of short stories.

“I love driving down an empty dark freeway, lit up intermittently by the lights at the side of the road, and when I see the lights, I think of all the little worlds out there, all the little animals living in their habitats out there, and how we could pull over and have an adventure at any one of these forgotten pockets of the world, just-nothing zones, backwash refuse property in the wake of the great freeways, and I like passing all of them, racing down the freeway, like a tunnel into the night, and racing but still being able to carry on a whole action scene with Joe, and I think it is like life because I am racing, and time is pushing me forward and it’s not going to stop and I will have a few passengers in the vehicle with me, and it’s either enjoy the scenery together, or listen to some music we both like, or maybe just have a little poking knife game because you want to know if the other person is really there.”

Dane Reynolds has lost his marbles

Tortured soul, drunk jock or contrived actor?

I don’t really care. Dane is a mad old gentlemen who surfs backwards, on his knees, on his belly, on Super8, in chain-gang Miki Dora-style boardies, in the air and always off the wall. Love him or hate him, he disrupts the surfing world like no other, and that is awesome.

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Tim Walker’s ‘Mechanical Dolls’

The Seventh Seal

“I shall remember this moment: the silence, the twilight, the bowl of strawberries, the bowl of milk. Your faces in the evening light. Mikael asleep, Jof with his lyre. I shall try to remember our talk. I shall carry this memory carefully in my hands as if it were a bowl brimful of fresh milk. It will be a sign to me, and a great sufficiency.”

- Antonius Block

Medium Cool

Innocence is a feeling.

Awareness is a feeling.

How does it feel, to stop feeling?

You may discover violence, at a time when an entire country learns to feel nothing.

America is wonderful.

We deal with dynamic things. We don’t deal with the static things, we deal with the things that are happening, we deal with violence.

Get the guys with the cameras!

Desperate Teenage Lovedolls

In a scene of no values.

Where climbing to the top means climbing into bed.

Where drugs & cheap thrills fill the date book.

Where rock & roll means death & destruction.

“My fingers… They’re breathing!”