Music
Here are some albums that I have been enjoying recently:
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The entire body of work by Pisse.
The German Punk Band Pisse captures an energy that could barely try harder to be cool and avant-garde. Their EPs and songs embody remarkably compact and poignant descriptions of an often ironic usually pessimistic reality in which I have indulged myself for many, many hours -
Introspezione by Opus Avantra.
I absolutely adore this album. The lead singer has one of the most beautiful voices I have ever had the chance to listen to in my concious live. Introspezione and Opus Avantra gave me a new entry into chamber music, that I am extremly grateful to have gotten. The album is a definite Recommendation. -
Innocence and Despair by The Langley Schools Music Project.
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Schezerade and Other Stories by Renaissance.
Books
Some of the books I have read in the past months:
- I have no mouth and I must scream by Harlan Ellison
- Beautiful Boy by David Sheff
- The Process by Franz Kafka
- Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
- The Stranger by Albert Camus
- Demokratiedämmerung by Veit Selk
Visual Arts
- L’Ange du foyer by Max Ernst [^1]
- Loup Table Motiv by Victor Brauner One of my favorite motives in modern art are the wolfs in The Paintings of Victor Brauner, although I still have to find something written on it.
- The Legend of Baker of Eeklo by Cornelis van Dalem
- Garten der Lüste by Hieronymus Bosch
Recently I picked up a short Introduction to the works of Michel Focault and have since been really intrigued by the concept of Madness in the Middle Ages. Though I don’t fully submit to the discrete historic understanding of his, I have been thoroughly enjoying the medieval perception of madness he has been describing. Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings, but also the ones of many others like Pieter Bruegel der Ältere, have been a great source of enjoyment in this regard.
Articles and Essays
[1]: Article on Ernst by a small Venice Tourism Blog (I really love the web design)