A hypocrite and philistine who has nothing but contempt for hypocrites and philistines.
Ya’ll should listen to The Renwig customer
The Mark Rothko Chapel
I’m allan I’m 23, I dig Communism, Auteur-Cinema, Music, Philosophy and stuff and things.
My favorite directors are Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Peter Greenaway, Bela Tarr, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ingmar Bergman, Yasujirō Ozu and Carl Theodor Dreyer.
My favourite tv shows are The Wire, The X-Files, Deadwood, Six Feet Under, Agatha Christie’s Poirot, Parks and Recreation, Community, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Twin Peaks, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Arrested Development, Prime Suspect, The Thick of it, Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe, ER, Spaced, Modern Family, etc.
My favourite painters are Mark Rothko and Egon Schiele.
I dig the Post Rock, Shoegaze/Dream-Pop, Ambient/Drones, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Classical, Indie/Lo-Fi etc.
The Baby of Mâcon by Peter Greenaway
Madame Tutli-Putli by Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski (2007)
Stewart Lee on Top Gear (2011)
twenty favourite films (one film per director)
1, Andrei Rublev by Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
2, Werckmeister Harmonies by Béla Tarr (2000)
3, The Travelling Players by Theodoros Angelopoulos (1975)
4, The Life of Oharu by Kenji Mizoguchi (1952)
5, Ordet by Carl Theodor Dreyer (1955)
6, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover by Peter Greenaway (1989)
7, Winter Light by Ingmar Bergman (1969)
8, Magnolia by Paul Thomas Anderson (1999)
9, Ran by Akira Kurosawa (1985)
10, La Notte by Michelangelo Antonioni (1961)
11, Harakiri by Masaki Kobayashi (1962)
12, Tokyo Story by Yasujiro Ozu (1953)
13, The Battle of Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo (1966)
14, Last Year in Marienbad by Alain Resnais (1961)
15, Come and See by Elem Klimov (1985)
16, La double vie de Véronique by Krzysztof Kieslowski (1991)
17, The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke (2009)
18, La commune (Paris, 1871) by Peter Watkins (2000)
19, Army of Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville (1969)
20, Children of Men by Alfonso Cuarón (2006)
twenty five favourite albums (in alphabetical order)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis (2007)
And Their Refinement Of The Decline by Stars of The Lid (2007)
The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus (1963)
The Curtain Hits the Cast by Low (1996)
Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life (2008)
Drowning by Numbers by Michael Nyman (1988)
Emperor Tomato Ketchup by Stereolab (1996)
Endtroducing….. by DJ Shadow (1996)
Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) by Wu-Tang Clan
Giles Corey – Giles Corey (2011)
Hex by Bark Psychosis (1993)
In The Aeroplane Over the Sea by Neutral Milk Hotel (1998)
Koyaanisqatsi by Philip Glass (1982)
Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space by Spiritualized (1997)
Liquid Swords by GZA/Genius (1995)
Love by The Beatles (2006)
Loveless My Bloody Valentine (1991)
Mount Eerie by The Microphones (2003)
Portrait in Jazz by Bill Evans (1959)
Slow Riot for New Zerø Kanada by Godspeed You! Black Emperor (2000)
Spirit of Eden by Talk Talk (1988)
The Unseen by Madlib (2003)
The Velvet Underground and Nico by The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967)
There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Sly and the Family Stone (1971)
Wind’s Poem by Mount Eerie (2009)
Prologue from Visions of Europe by Béla Tarr (2004)
The Auteurs was a far superior name than fucking mubi.
1 Star – I hated it/most likely turned it off
2 Star – I didn’t like it/it was poo
3 Star – It was ok/nothing special/average
4 Star – It was great/I recommend it
5 Star – I absolutely loved it
I’m a Communist and a member of the Socialist Party of England and Wales check out the Socialist World website for updates and analysis of world events from a Marxist perspective and the Marxist Internet Archive which has compiled basically every Marxist work online for free.
“In the social production of their existence, men inevitably enter into definite relations, which are independent of their will, namely relations of production appropriate to a given stage in the development of their material forces of production. The totality of these relations of production constitutes the economic structure of society, the real foundation, on which arises a legal and political superstructure and to which correspond definite forms of social consciousness. The mode of production of material life conditions the general process of social, political and intellectual life. It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. At a certain stage of development, the material productive forces of society come into conflict with the existing relations of production or – this merely expresses the same thing in legal terms – with the property relations within the framework of which they have operated hitherto. From forms of development of the productive forces these relations turn into their fetters. Then begins an era of social revolution. The changes in the economic foundation lead sooner or later to the transformation of the whole immense superstructure.”
Karl Marx, Preface to A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy (1859)
“With the seizing of the means of production by society production of commodities is done away with, and, simultaneously, the mastery of the product over the producer. Anarchy in social production is replaced by systematic, definite organisation. The struggle for individual existence disappears. Then for the first time man, in a certain sense, is finally marked off from the rest of the animal kingdom, and emerges from mere animal conditions of existence into really human ones. The whole sphere of the conditions of life which environ man, and which have hitherto ruled man, now comes under the dominion and control of man who for the first time becomes the real, conscious lord of nature because he has now become master of his own social organisation. The laws of his own social action, hitherto standing face to face with man as laws of nature foreign to, and dominating him, will then be used with full understanding, and so mastered by him. Man’s own social organisation, hitherto confronting him as a necessity imposed by nature and history, now becomes the result of his own free action. The extraneous objective forces that have hitherto governed history pass under the control of man himself. Only from that time will man himself, with full consciousness, make his own history – only from that time will the social causes set in movement by him have, in the main and in a constantly growing measure, the results intended by him. It is the humanity’s leap from the kingdom of necessity to the kingdom of freedom.
“To accomplish this act of universal emancipation is the historical mission of the modern proletariat. To thoroughly comprehend the historical conditions and thus the very nature of this act, to impart to the now oppressed class a full knowledge of the conditions and of the meaning of the momentous act it is called upon to accomplish, this is the task of the theoretical expression of the proletarian movement, scientific socialism.”
Frederick Engels, Anti-Duhring (1878)
Some important Marxist works:
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels (1848), Capital: Vol. 1 by Karl Marx (1867), Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (1880) and Ludwig Feuerbach and the End of Classical German Philosophy by Frederick Engels (1886), On Historical Materialism by Franz Mehring (1893), The State and Revolution by Vladimir Lenin(1918), Their Morals and Ours by Leon Trotsky (1938), Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses by Louis Althusser (1970).
The Embrace (Lovers II) by Egon Schiele
