america

[constant escape]

Well fold or go bold, cause the table's a-turnin', partner.

 

[catalog]

this thread is called 'america' not 'America' and it's about an imaginative space, rather than a country

 

[boxedjoy]

who do you think covers america (not America) in their music/art/writing best?

 

[catalog]

alexis de tocqueville

 

[woops]

kafka

 

[catalog]

Terrence malick

 

[nilprenia]

America doesn't feel like a real place. Everybody has nonsense motivations

 

[catalog]

are you not american neil? i thought you were american

 

[nilprenia]

are you not american neil? i thought you were american

I am, this is based on experience

 

[boxedjoy]

"If You Ever" was playing in Greggs this morning, what a song

 

[sus]

Have You Seen the delete footage—really something else


My favorite is the nearly 3-minute scene at 2:00 circling the ship.

 

[thirdform]

Constant escape can you help me I would like to know the precise moment in America at which the word arse became ass.

actually ass is in shakespeare.

 

[thirdform]

Chopin is absolutely fucking wank. the kenny g of classical. Petite-salon characterless anxious cryboy shite.

That being said the Artur Rubenstein version of the nocturns are semi-acceptable.

Who you really want is Anton Bruckner. Fourth, Eighth and Ninth symphonies in particular, mental proto-industrial crescendos with orchestral instruments.

Get the Pierre Boulez conducted version of the 8th, very feverish.