“In our struggle for responsibility, we fight against someone
who is masked. The mask of the adult is called ‘experience’.
It is expressionless, impenetrable, and ever the same. The
adult has already experienced everything: youth, ideals,
hopes … It was all an illusion. Often we feel intimidated
or embittered. Perhaps he is right. What can our retort be?
We have not yet experienced anything.”
— Experience, Walter Benjamin
Anonymous asked: Are you a bedroom philosopher?
I’m more of a bathroom philosopher.
someone should have sent me this meme/memo while I was in high school
suffering through an awful junk-tv obsession, but I sort of think like: that’s okay, just become a pop-culture academic so all this ‘wasted’ time ends up being research, but then I remember how awful every pop-culture academic is
“Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung-fu film.” — Werner Herzog
“I’ve never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual, and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He’s made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, Féminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mind-numbingly boring.” — Ingmar Bergman on Jean-Luc Godard
but it’s a shame ‘Luck’ was cancelled
faggotdogg asked: How'd your Big Brother application end up going?
I got an invitation email, but decided in the end that I couldn’t be bothered camping out at king george square to take part in the in-person auditions. Right now I’m applying for a new show called Come Date With Me
According to Wikipedia: “Bill Lawrence [Scrubs Creator] credits the works of Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut Jr. as having a large influence on his script writing.”