Musicians who are also artists, writers, painters, publishers etc

[catalog]

Not that I've read any beckett mind

 

[luka]

much more fun and alive than Beckett

 

[catalog]

There is something arch and sly about it yes. I do quite like how sure of himself and his gags he is. That sort of formidable confidence

 

[catalog]

The book is quite wanna read is great apes, which is his takedown of Virginia woolf and thed bloomsburies

 

[luka]

apes og god or soemthing? i started that years ago but got bogged down. i'd like another crack at it. ive got the first of the human age trilogy lying around which is highly regarded.

 

[catalog]

Yes that's the onee I think. It's massive, but now you mention that other one, maybe it's that.

 

[catalog]

Basically he was really fucked off with them that they stole his moment in the sun. I think thats his problem actually. Vorticism was fresh and exciting but then he'd got jaded I think and went all fascisty. Started worrying about them rather than focusing on his own shit.

 

[catalog]

There's a lesson there for everyone, you can't be bitter about other people's undeserved success, it's like drinking poison and waiting for them to die (as David puttnam once said)

 

[luka]

yes you just have to let it go ultimately and cry yourself to sleep

 

[catalog]

And then wake up and usher in the new age

 

[version]

Basically he was really fucked off with them that they stole his moment in the sun. I think thats his problem actually. Vorticism was fresh and exciting but then he'd got jaded I think and went all fascisty. Started worrying about them rather than focusing on his own shit.

Like Hitler with his paintings.

 

[catalog]

Yes. The failed artist (failed by the world, then you believe it) becomes a fascist. Its a standard story. Bolano all over this subject, he must've seen it in his mates.

 

[version]

Not that I've read any beckett mind

Read him, you pleb.

 

[luka]

we need to bully catalog out of his 1990s indie boy slacker personna. its holding him back.

 

[version]

Corpsey needs to read Gravity's Rainbow. Patty and Catalog need to read Beckett. Vimothy needs to read Spengler. Craner needs to become a troll.

 

[luka]

and he needs to get into cocaine too. craner that is. id love to see him on cocaine.

 

[luka]

corpsey needs to start a thread about his wanks. every wank logged.

 

[catalog]

i've been meaning to read beckett for about 20 years. i think my mate recommended watt or molly, one of those, ages ago. but i was put off a bit by the bleakness i saw in the films and plays. but having said that, i did see a good play of his fairly recently, happy day, really enjoyed that.

 

[catalog]

we need to bully catalog out of his 1990s indie boy slacker personna. its holding him back.

we need to encourage you out of your 1920s on-the-turn-fascist-boot-boy persona more like!

 

[luka]

its the only way you can get the best out of people. look at gordon ramsey.