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wheels... Feb 2, 2009
Laughter and tears are meant to turn the wheels
of the same machinery of sensibility.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet and physician (1809-1894)
Nathaniel Hawthorne Jan 5, 2009
I want my place! - my own place! -
my true place in the world! - my proper sphere! -
my thing to do, which nature intended me to perform
when she fashioned me thus awry, and which I have
vainly sought, all my lifetime!"
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Sylvia Sidney Dec 18, 2008
never.... Dec 18, 2008
"Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance."
--Sam Brown
lonely man Sep 23, 2008
RIP DFW Sep 14, 2008
"Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control
over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough
to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning
from experience. Because if you …
a word from the Wiki... Sep 4, 2008
"Hipsters are commonly unliked for their false sense
of individuality and passive-aggressive behavior."
about me
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Photographer.
Thinker.
Music lover.
I do not suffer fools gladly.
My genetic makeup,
as well as the folly of the world around me
necessitates a dark sense of humour.
Funny, curious.
Hopeful, occasionally.
I hate hyprocrites, but do not deny being one.
I procrastinate, but have high expectations.
L.P. Hartley - The Go Betweens (1953)
the randomness of the universe
without having to attribute convenient
rationalizations to happenings in the world.
In other words:
people who do good things because they want to,
not who act nice because they think
there is some sort of "reward" coming.
I'd rather hang out with an honest, surly asshole
than a disingenuous new age phony.
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Music,
cultural anthropology,
Absinthe,
contemporary photography,
sensible shoes,
anti-heroes,
real eccentrics,
misuse "of" quotation marks,
dark humour,
dark chocolate,
alan watts lectures,
lean fiction and modern poetry,
collage,
the sound of trains in the distance,
the light when there is moisture in the sky,
the night landscape when it is overcast,
squished pennies,
natural history museums,
fashion,
Politics,
early 1970's American cinema,
Danny Kaye,
the 10 cent coffee at Philippe's,
the triumph of the small,
New York,
rounded toothpicks,
strange word combinations,
industrial design,
and of course... Music
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All photographs ©Beth Herzhaft 2007
Movies
Delicatessen, Eraserhead, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer, Don't Look Back, American Movie, The American Astronaut, Putney Swope, Hard Day's Night, The Loved One, Mystery of Kaspar Hauser, Mr. Death (Erroll Morris), Walkabout, 13 Conversations about One Thing, Wings of Desire, Zabriskie Point, The Manchurian Candidate, Dr Strangelove, Capturing The Friedmans, Safe, The Graduate, Vanishing Point, Lawrence Of Arabia, Ghost World, The Commitee, Performance
Music
NilssoN, Fred Neil, Staple Singers, Tim HardiN, JJ Cale, Dory PreviN, Morricone, Moondog, Eno, Francoise Hardy, Brigitte Fontaine, Richard Hawley, Barbara Morganstern, Black Keys, The Conet Project, Plux Quba, Stereolab, MBV, J+MC, Django, Fats Waller pipe organ solos, Bob Welch, X-Ray Spex, Les Baxter, Zombies, Ellen Allien, Chris Gaffney, Los Bravos, Max Neuhaus, Beach Boys, DonovaN, Momus, Bach Cello suites, Stephen Vitiello, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, Kenny Burrell, The Shaggs, Willem Breuker Collectiev, Asian muzac, Scott Walker, CoMediaN Harmonists, Buddy Holly, David BehrmaN, Mark LanegaN, The High Numbers, Howard Tate, Fairport Convention, pop, Bert Jansch, Randy Newman, Skip Spence, The Pink Floyd, Alice Coltrane, Tim Buckley (the father! Not the son!), Dusty Springfield, Joni Mitchell, Wire, Swell Maps, BenjamiN Lew, Cheap Trick, Pharoah Sanders, Primal Scream, GuN Club, MortoN FeldmaN, Meredith Monk, George Tipton, song poems, scratchy HawaiiaN records, MellotroN, harmonium, Omnichord, trains, glass bells, Fender Rhodes, Casio, Farfisa, Blue Thumb, Back From The Grave, Stax/Volt, Excello, Vee Jay
Television
Books
Would You Please Be Quiet Please? (Carver), Sheltering Sky (Bowles), Midnight Mass (Paul Bowles short stories), Johnny Got His Gun (Trumbo), Yes We Have No (Nik Cohn), Fooled By Randomness (Nassim Taleb), You're Too Kind (R Stengel), Contemporary German Photography, re/Search number 11, much by Italo Cavino, Breakfast Of Champions (Vonnegut), Elevator Music (Joseph Lanza), William Eggleston's Guide, Avedon's In The American West, Disfarmer .......
Interests
i also like:
Music, cultural anthropology, Absinthe, contemporary photography, observing human folly, sensible shoes, anti-heroes, real eccentrics, misuse "of" quotation marks, dark humour, dark chocolate, alan watts lectures, lean fiction and modern poetry, collage, the sound of trains in the distance, the light when there is moisture in the sky, the night landscape when it is overcast, squished pennies, natural history museums, fashion, Politics, early 1970's American cinema, Danny Kaye, the 10 cent coffee at Philippe's, the triumph of the small, New York, rounded toothpicks, strange word combinations, industrial design, and of course... Music
Simonluca Laitempergher says:
Hello Herzco! Thank you for your comment.! What about our pact?
posted Oct 14, 2007