Under the Rose

"Then shall I turn my face, and hear one bird
sing terribly afar in the lost lands."


Text (c) Arin D., unless indicated
cogito interruptus is typical of those who see the world inhabited by symbols or symptoms. Like someone who, for example, points to the little box of matches, stares hard into your eyes, and says, ‘You see, there are seven…,’ then gives you a meaningful look, waiting for you to perceive the meaning concealed in that unmistakable sign.

—Umberto Eco

Stolen Vector Playlist Spring 2012 - Ambient Electronica

Telefuzz - Dream Of The Dendreons
Miasma - Settled Storm
Hardfloor - Yimtropp
Digital Samsara - Milarepa
Spire - Inertia
Higher Intelligence Agency - Ketamine Entity
Fsol - Dirty Shadows
Kick-Bong - Tropical Trip
Tosca - Chocolate Elvis
King Kooba - Sans Filtre
Taucher - No Need To Ask Baby
Focus - Marvin Is One
Four Tet - Twenty Three
At Home In Space - At Home In Space
Dj Unknown Face - Dat’s Cool
Big Bud - Pure
Bent - Welly Top Mary
Tosca - Joe Si Ha (Spirit Catcher Vers)
Benjamin Brunn - Uber Der Stadt
Secede - Leraine
G.O.L. - Saline Solution
Error 404 - Natural Things
Kenji Williams - Houseboats
Nnnj - Goop Scoop
Spire - Mint
Spunkshine - Hemlock Switch-One
Sasha - Baja
Entheogenic - Midnight Eyes
Secondary Cell - Electromagnet
Evan Bluetech - Green Sophia
Triac Feat. Sharon - Anticipation
Solar Fields - Infection 268-7
Skipless - Ego
Dj Shadow - Endtroducing
Relaxer - Deep-Dive- Corp
Luke Vibert - Rank Ring Ring
Columba Carina - Breezin
Rei Harakami - Glimglim
Original Rockers - De Mat Dub Rim
G.O.L. - Empirical Measures
Spacetime Continuum & Terence Mckenna - Aerobatic
Ear - Heavy Charm
Mad - Hollow
Journeyman - Latneiro (Woob’s Sunrise Dub)
Michael Maricle - What Color Is Your Heart
Akotcha - Img.00.37
Howie B - Birth
Verbrilli Sound - Views

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Escort

—Cocaine Blues

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Ana Tijoux

—Volver

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Existential angst of the modern cat. The exquisite torment of feline existenz

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Pep Ventosa, ”Carousels in the Round” If you take your eyes off it, you can really see it. You’re riding in circles on the merry-go-round, your childish eyes lit by a ‘wild surmise’. Unaware of who you will yet become. Or fail to become. You poor, poor thing.

Pep Ventosa, ”Carousels in the Round”

If you take your eyes off it, you can really see it. You’re riding in circles on the merry-go-round, your childish eyes lit by a ‘wild surmise’. Unaware of who you will yet become. Or fail to become. You poor, poor thing.

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Slacker (1991) directed by Richard Linklater introduces the style he explores fully in  Waking Life - the same neurotic, uber-aware dialogue that Kevin Smith only wishes he could write. The set of interwoven ‘slices’ of Austin circa 1991 are as good a capsule of that time as will ever be available. A lot hasn’t changed. Maybe that high-unemployment time before the boom is relevant to this high-unemployment time after the boom. Maybe there’s a similar malaise in the air. Maybe it’s just a big cycle that is spinning on and on, right. Revel in the nowhere-infused ebb and flow of it all, man. Brilliant first film.

The androgyne on the poster is Butthole Surfers band member Teresa Taylor.

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