Apologies for the haitus, and sending love to all the other survivors out there. I don’t know about you, but I’m barely pulling it together, lately.
“It’ll be this kind of deep blue,” she said. “The kind of color that somehow sucks your eyes and your ears and all your words — the color of a completely closed-in night.”
Banana Yoshimoto, Asleep
Yves Klein, Anthropometry: Princess Helena, 1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York
“In this way, I stayed clean. I no longer dirtied myself with color, not even the tips of my fingers.”
Yves Klein on his use of women’s bodies as brushes
“Woman then stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of woman still tied to her place as bearer, not maker, of meaning.”
Lauren Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema
Track Listing:
Nirvana - Blew
X - Painting the Town Blue
TV On the Radio - Blues From Down Here
Modest Mouse - What People Are Made Of
Metric - Love Is A Place
Aimee Mann - Dear John
Nina Simone - Mood Indigo
Neil Young - I’m the Ocean
Mitski - Cop Car
GZA - 4th Chamber
Thank goodness