Happy Friday everyone. An angsty manpain soundtrack now cross-posted.
Good background music for intense pull-ups, punching things in anger, kicking down doors, running around aimlessly and crying in the rain.
Photo credit to tofubeast.
1. Heartbeat - 2PM
2. Love is Gone - ZE:A
3. This Time Is Over - B1A4
4. Fiction - BEAST
5. E.R. - Dalmatian
6. Abandoned (Ft. Dok2) - Jay Park
7. 하루하루 (HARU HARU) - BIGBANG
8. 빗소리 (Rain Sound) - B.A.P
9. 시끄러!! (Shut Up!!) - U-KISS
10. This is War - MBLAQ
11. 야누스 (Janus) - Boyfriend
12. Before the Dawn (BTD) - Infinite
Rocco e i tuoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Starring Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Claudia Cardinale
Athanasius Kircher, Magic Lantern, from Ars magna lucis et umbrae, 1645
“The machine seemed to live gratia sui, that is solely for the purpose of showing off its marvelous internal structure. It was something that was admired for its form, irrespective of its utility… This triumph of the mechanism produced a kind of giddiness, whereby the importance attached to what the machine actually produced was less than that attached to the extravagance of mechanical resources required to produce it, and frequently many of these machines displayed a wholly disproportionate relationship between the simplicity of the effect they produced and the highly sophisticated means required to obtain it.”
- XV. The Beauty of Machines: “From the Fifteenth Century to the Baroque”, History of Beauty, Edited by Umberto Eco
Happy Birthday to Christopher Lee & Vincent Price
Peter Cushing’s was yesterday
In which Tadzio has the worst summer holiday yet.
Death in Venice (1971)
Directed by Luchino Visconti
Starring Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns
Giovanni Boldini, Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac, 1897.
Paris, Musée d’Orsay
“Dandyism is first and foremost a burning desire to create an original look, on the edge of society’s conventional limits. It is a sort of cult of oneself, which can do without the pursuit of that happiness one finds in others, in women, for example: a cult that can even do without all that we call illusions. It is the pleasure to be had in causing others to marvel, and the satisfaction to be had in never marveling at anything oneself.”
- “The Perfect Dandy”, Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life, 1869
