TOMMY, DANIEL & JOSEPH FOR TOPMAN 'MODERN PREP'.

PEACE, PLEASE.

  THE VELVET UNDERGROUND x GRIEG.

FLASHBACK.

  ME, BY LAURENCE ELLIS 31.03.11

GEORGE FREDERIC WATTS  /  'PAOLO & FRANCESCA' (1872-84)


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"BE BRAVER IN YOUR HEART, OR YOU LOSE YOUR GAME...BE BRAVER IN YOUR BODY, OR LUCK WILL LEAVE YOU."

 - D.H. LAWRENCE, 'THE VIRGIN & THE GIPSY' (1930).

MAGNIFICAT / 

 ARVO PÄRT  /  MAGNIFICAT.

  I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO STOP LISTENING TO THIS FOR THE PAST WEEK.

  ARNOLD BÖCKLIN  /  'THE ISLE OF THE DEAD' IV (BASEL VERSION), 1880


"...AND WHEN, AMID NO EARTHLY MOANS,
DOWN, DOWN THAT TOWN SHALL SETTLE HENCE,
  HELL RISING FROM A THOUSAND THRONES
  SHALL DO IT REVERENCE,
  AND DEATH TO SOME MORE HAPPY CLIME
  SHALL GIVE HIS UNDIVIDED TIME."

- EDGAR ALLAN POE, 'THE DOOMED CITY [THE CITY IN THE SEA]', 1831

 

"HE WAS FRETFUL AND BESIDE HIMSELF LIKE A CHILD...AND AT THE SAME TIME HE WAS A MAN, DARK AND POWERFUL AND INFURIATED BY HIS OWN WEAKNESS.  BY SOME FATAL FLAW, HE COULD NOT BE BY HIMSELF, HE HAD TO DEPEND ON THE SUPPORT OF ANOTHER.  AND THIS VERY DEPENDENCE ENRAGED HIM...HE KNEW THE HATRED WAS NONSENSE, HE KNEW IT WAS THE OUTCOME OF HIS OWN WEAKNESS."

 - D.H. LAWRENCE, 'THE BLIND MAN' (1922).

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"DANCE, DANCE...OTHERWISE WE ARE LOST."

- PINA BAUSCH.

11.04.12
A TOUCH OF MADNESS;
 BEATING HEAD AGAINST THE WALL
 TO LET IT ALL OUT.

"...A PLACE OF PURE ECSTASY...IT'S UNIVERSAL, IT'S FOR EVERYONE."
  - BJÖRK x ARVO PÄRT, FROM BBC'S 'MODERN MINIMALISTS', 1997

CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH

  'MONK BY THE SEA', 1809

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"I WAS SO SURE OF EVERYTHING WHEN  WAS 23, I KNEW...I KNEW EVERYTHING.  AND I KNEW HOW EVERYTHING SHOULD BE MANAGED, AND FIXED, AND DONE.  AND AS TIME GOES ON I REALLY HAVE AN APPRECIATION FOR THE COMPLEXITY, THE CONTRADICTIONS IN LIFE.  THEY'RE SORT OF WHAT I LOVE, AND WHAT CONFOUNDS ME.  AND SO WE'RE ALL ON A JOURNEY TO UNDERSTAND MORE."

 - MERYL STREEP, 2011.

I NEED A RENDEZ-VOUS.

  I NEED A RENDEZ-VOUS.

  BALANESCU QUARTET COVER OF KRAFTWERK'S 'COMPUTER LOVE'

ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT.

  ANOTHER LONELY NIGHT.

TUESDAY

DEAREST,

I FEEL CERTAIN THAT I AM GOING MAD AGAIN: I FEEL WE CAN'T GO THROUGH ANOTHER OF THOSE TERRIBLE TIMES.  AND I SHAN'T RECOVER THIS TIME.  I BEGIN TO HEAR VOICES, AND I CAN'T CONCENTRATE.  SO I AM DOING WHAT SEEMS THE BEST THING TO DO.  YOU HAVE GIVEN ME THE GREATEST POSSIBLE HAPPINESS.  YOU HAVE BEEN IN EVERY WAY ALL THAT ANYONE COULD BE.  I DON'T THINK TWO PEOPLE COULD HAVE BEEN HAPPIER TILL THIS TERRIBLE DISEASE CAME.  I CAN'T FIGHT ANY LONGER.  I KNOW THAT I AM SPOILING YOUR LIFE, THAT WITHOUT ME YOU COULD WORK.  AND YOU WILL I KNOW.  YOU SEE I CAN'T EVEN WRITE THIS PROPERLY.  I CAN'T READ.  WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS I OWE ALL THE HAPPINESS OF MY LIFE TO YOU.  YOU HAVE BEEN ENTIRELY PATIENT WITH ME AND INCREDIBLY GOOD.  I WANT TO SAY THAT - EVERYBODY KNOWS IT.  IF ANYBODY COULD HAVE SAVED ME IT WOULD HAVE BEEN YOU.  EVERYTHING HAS GONE FROM ME BUT THE CERTAINTY OF YOUR GOODNESS.  I CAN'T GO ON SPOILING YOUR LIFE ANY LONGER.  

I DON'T THINK TWO PEOPLE COULD HAVE BEEN HAPPIER THAN WE HAVE BEEN.  

V.

- VIRGINIA WOOLF, IN HER FINAL LETTER TO HER HUSBAND LEONARD, 28TH MARCH 1941.

THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN POSTED MUCH EARLIER.  #SOZ  

LFW AW12 MENSWEAR.