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Her fiction is awful in my experience, but like I said the diaries are pretty intense. Strange how that works. I'll second on Mount Analogue... And, Cairo Trilogy anyone? I just finished Palace Walk and it was pretty fascinating

Nin's diaries (or at least the the one where she meets Miller and the next one before she moves to New York) are excellent. June, the birth scene, living in a barge on the Seine, quite romantic... Once she comes to the states though it's awful, makes you wonder about America in the 40's

Well it's maybe 150 pages and uncompleted, as Daumal had tuberculosis and died in the midst of writing it... but those few pages are great. Fantastic concepts but rather silly at the same time... I imagine it being written rather joyfully unlike HM, which despite it's psychedelic tinge seems to...

There's plenty of absurdity, not enough levity.

Exactly. Far too serious without any sort of appreciation of its limits. El Topo's certainly better, but I'll have to confess that I don't understand the awe in which some people hold Jodorowsky.

I was going to mention Mount Analogue as well. Way more interesting than Holy Mountain... such a disappointment that it's unfinished.

Well, I'm more referring to your earlier statement that clinical depression can not be solved through will/thought/bucking up, etc... that it requires medication and your defense of the mental health industry So, to be brief: something like schizophrenia being a technique of resistance...

Argh... Too much silliness. To bring this back to something interesting, I'm struck Nomad by the conflict between your views of psychiatry/pharmacology and your interest in Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, etc. I'd like to see how you're reconciling, for example, Bateson's theories on...

Wait... you can own a car in New York?

Eh, everything's patched up in the end, plus that Rod Poole's pretty wicked, so thank you Zhao.

The last would seem to preclude children, no ? As do your comments on ownership, a questionable term to be using here, as it presumes the conclusion (inequality) that you're reaching towards. I think it'd be more productive to think of the owner/pet relationship in terms of the pact where...

What the heck just happened? I'll give you ten bucks if you switch the look back.

Tons of privacy concerns on this out there, plus it's invasive on your machine. I'd give it a couple weeks.

Just seems like a few here want to keep the place a provincial, locals only reflection on the British music scene. That's cool in a way, but I like to see a more diverse group of voices.

Wah? I didn't say anything about capitalism, pro or anti. I don't have a dog in the fight about HMLT so that's got nothing to do with my point. One can leave by choice and still be run off. Shouldn't be too hard to comprehend that.

what could that even mean ? the place is sucking cause all the weirdos got run off... so somebody could maintain a little purity. simple really

this isn't going to be helpful, but I had a friend who went there maybe 8 years back. she spent a lot of time in the desert, loved it, but said every single meal tasted exactly the same. i think the first thing she did when she got back was eat an entire large pizza hut pizza... pretty silly...

The dunk's the ultimate expression of individual style and flair in a sport that's perfect for it. Over here it's about the blackest thing possible. You've got some company with old curmudgeons in hating it, but most of em died off in the 70s... Icelandic handball was pretty <a...

Well, it's been 3-4 years, so I don't remember everything, but the book was just really bleak in a psychologically cutting way. It was almost like an effective depiction of the religious man's view of modern society -> modern life as soulless/mechanistic, but without providing any outs. I hate...

Houellebecq -> probably my least favorite author ever. I got halfway through The Elementary Particles about 4 years ago and just stopped out of disgust, which I haven't done probably for any other book in my whole life of reading, Bataille, Duras, Miller included. There's something powerful in...