Communions - Adam Lehrer BOOK REVIEW
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Cliff being in a Black Metal band is the thing I least expected to hear today
Is it though?
He *was* in a radio station playing metal as a young lad, after all
I don't find that surprising whatsoever. Honestly, just by the way he presents himself, that'd be one of my 20 questions about him.
Glad to see you're recovered, be blessed Clifford.
In Cowboy Bebop, Jett had a dream in which Charlie Parker quoted Goethe to him in order to put him on the correct path. (Obviously talking about the anime version here.)
Charlie Parker and Goethe..
Man I tell ya
I feel dumb because I don’t remember it, was this just a passing remark or something?
Soulseek is a goldmine for rare world music
0:33 nice The Fall ref
One of the things that make me scared in watching your reviews is I inevitably order the books and then go on a book buying rampage. And here I go again. I was sold on the No Wave, Darby Crash references. Thanks for making me financially poorer but mentally stimulated.
Jean michel, coltrane, charlie parker, and all those other people??? God damn I need to read this book
Metal is a special drug releasing dopamine and noradrenaline plus a host of other things we don’t know about yet
You give me great insights and motivation to write... And just ordered Communions, by the way.
Dude love this channel. This episode was fuckin great!
Luv your videos
This is a hidden gem.
Can we please please get a link to this black metal project
Hey, love the videos! Book recommendation: Harassment Architecture.
It’s been talked about a lot in the media and I’d love to hear your thoughts. All the reviews I’ve read are either ridiculously positive or overwhelmingly negative.
Thank you!!!
The definitive answer is the individual artist (whether addicted or not) envisions the art. Heroin is not kindling nor fuel for this. Heroin kills art, just as darkness snuffs out the light. Every addicted artist crippled his muse. Imagine if all that used heroin that ODed had not and lived what truth and beauty this world would now have. Whoever makes the argument that heroin is the muse is simply an addict scoring for his/her next fix. Sometimes knowledge of the truth firsthand (I used to be a substance abuse counselor in Harlem for heroin addicted souls). Whatever drives art substance abuse (alcohol, opiates even Hallucinagenics) all lessen ones genius.
Thank you for the movie recommendation, I love Abel Ferrara, although his last movies are a lil bit unenthusiastic.
From my 4 year and change bout with opioid addiction yeah make for some good stories but they all are in this stain of morbid glory. Wouldn’t recommend, sober for 4 months now
Have you read the work of Leonor Fini? She was a surrealist painter and author, though only one of her novellas has been translated into English, Rogomelec. The book contains the same surrealistic atmosphere as her paintings, it's quite dreamlike. I did find the strange and surreal tone to get a bit tiresome towards the end, the story needed an anchor in reality, a bastion of normalcy to stop the surrealistic elements from becoming boring. I did overall like it though, and I think you might appreciate it as well.
funny you mention this on the video of a review of my book, i once curated Fini's work when I worked full time as an assistant curator at the museum of sex in new york, she's a fascinating lady
Your band was pretty kino
I’m very impressed you’re aware of Nick Land. Would love to hear thoughts/reviews on the ‘dark enlightenment’ works from him or James Ellis
That was Land's demise.
Enough with the Honoring of Junkies.
They are self absorbed directed by weakness who destroy the lives of everybody one around them.
Then they stop destroying everybody and everything for a brief time and we have to praise and applaud them. What about the people who never stole or destroyed the lives of people, they made choices too, it wasn't easy, But no one stands up applauded when they did the right thing the whole time.
My wife and I didn't want kids so we had to make choices, some nights it was NOT what we wanted , but we made the personal choice and forewent the desired activity. Meanwhile people want special attention for their 5th kid as if they had no idea where the kids were coming from.
I've lost people to Junk, do NOT like it, but goddamn enough praise for thieves and destroyers, enough pretending this opiate had anything at all to do with their innate abilities.
And don't get me started on junkies dictating our health care.
Blimey.
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On your point about addiction never leaving someone, I remember a conversation I had with my uncle, who used to be an alcoholic, well actually I suppose the point is that he still is but just doesn't drink anymore.
He hasn't drank for almost 20 years now but said he still wakes up every single morning and wants nothing but a drink, but he manages to stave it off until the urge goes. He said that if God is real then his ultimate test for him will be to offer him a drink at the gates of heaven, and he isn't sure if he'd be able to say no because he only quit for the sake of his children.
Please watch the Australian film and heroin-themed masterpiece "Candy" feat. The late/great Heath Ledger. It is dark, brilliant and bleak. Actually based on a novel too!
Best breakup movie of all time, one of my favorites
I went to high school with the daughter of the woman the film was based on
Thanks for introducing me to Lehrer.
Cliff, pleased you said “I’ve never done heroin, and no one needs to…”. No one needs to try it, even once. Why would someone try a drug they know they’ll like only to have to quit after doing once, or it will wreck your life if you survive? Too much of a Russian Roulette and ball and chain. Learn through other peoples mistakes. ☮️
It's cool to see a youtuber who's into black metal. Do you still listen to it and do you have any favorite bands? Also is there a way to listen to the rest of that album online?
"It's flawed. All the great things are." True.
Hey it's Madeline C.! So surprised when I got to the end to see that I was selected. Thanks a bunch Cliff, can't wait to read it and get that coffee. Appreciate you.
When you said (Lehrer has been to...) "hell and back", I heard "Houellebecq". I so much liked my wrong hearing that from now on I will always think about Houellebecq as the "Hell and Back" -name. Just the name, I don't think he is a hell and back guy. He loves this world, and hates it.
Speaking of his favorite drug - the nicotine - he wrote in Serotonin: “The relief that comes from the first puff is immediate, startlingly violent. Nicotine is a perfect drug, a simple, hard drug that brings no joy, defined entirely by a lack, and by the cessation of that lack.”
Dude, Ms. 45 is so good. I hope you've seen King of New York!
Interesting that you move to places of historical literary importance like Portland or California, but why not places like Kentucky, plenty of incredible artists from here
He's got the smug face of someone on the street in LES who thinks he knows "the secrets" that he can't possibly convey....
Cliff where do you buy clothes?
I think i saw your band live like at the satyricon or somewhere around Portland, old buddy of mine made their logo
Hey Cliff, have you seen the recent Dash Snow documentary “Moments Like This Never Last”? So good.
I have read interviews with authors who say they would never drink alcohol when writing because the work never read as brilliantly as when they were sober.
So, your album is on UA-cam also👍
Blaise Cendrars said that books were a drug to him, said it more than once in several writings. Blaise Cendrars, yeah. Have you reviewed Cendrars? Moravagine (an early anti-hero whose name translates as "death to the vagina"), par example? The Astonished Man? Sky? Planus? Lice?
I had meant to mention that the deposed Prince Moravagine is a morphine addict, in addition to being a murderous Madman.
My daughter lost her arm because of heroine. How people can destroy their lives and others around them is beyond me.
Well, people I knew went into it because their life was already hopeless. Alcohol saved my life, that's for sure.
@@AleksandarBloom Glad you made it out, man.
Dear Cliff,
Per your recommendation I have begun to read Absalom, Absalom in the original english version. It's a tough read, especially if you're not native in english. But I feel that Faulkner is really getting to the bottol of the english language.
How come you haven't done Hubert Selby Jr. yet? I haven't read him because substance literature is not my cup of coffee, but I can always be entertained with a good review. Henry Rollins tells his recollections of Selby in his Henry & Heidi Podcast.
Why do u advertise the same thing every single video the same way 😟 its too much
Always remember diarrhea reading
Hey I was curious who your favorite author is? I understand my question may appear to be pointless as I know SotE is your favorite book so obviously your favorite author might be Bataille. I’d argue if two authors you like came out with the same amount of books and the first created your fav of all time but the latter produced more books you like the latter would be your fav of all time IMO
All I wrote was just an example I should say
Sounds like it romanticises the drug a bit. Does it?
It’s one of the most difficult areas when depicting addiction regarding one’s not ever trying to romanticise it. There’s a great interview with Alex Cox and Joe Dante where he talks about Sid & Nancy and the production process being very much freighted with this problem. Members of the production team would later become addicts, - but this seems like an ‘aporia’ with any such depiction by contrast to one’s managing to ever get around it...
@@freddie2119 I totally agree, it's a difficult task. I guess people have relationships with opiates and dedicate their lives to them, so there is always a kind of tragic romance involved.