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So most of my auditions went great. And so much museum time. The Met was doing a Rauschenberg exhibition and that was fantastic and they also have like a whole wall of Modigliani in one room. Probably most exciting was Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein--Sarah and I have begun just calling her Gertrude, which is kind of silly but works. We also
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What books did you buy?
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Then in New York at The Strand I bought a Stein biography that I hadn't heard of before, focusing on her relationship with her brother.
Then at St. Mark's I bought tons of poetry:
My Life by Lyn Hejinian (a sort of prose-poem/memoir)
N/O by Ron Silliman (two sections of a poem he worked on for 26 years called The Alphabet)
Under Albany by Ron Silliman (a sort of memoir that uses the first section of The Alphabet, explaining the thoughts and events behind what he wrote)
Deer Head Nation K. Silem Mohammad (the first published book of Flarf poetry, Flarf being a strange sort of new movement that involves using Google searches and other methods to produce poetry which is just all kinds of socially unacceptable, and often creepy or funny ( ... )
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I haven't read much Nietzsche (only pieces of Zarathustra), that's why I bought the book. But he was quite insane and that is part of the appeal. People can find completely diffferent things in his work. Hitler, Winston Churchill, and a pair of child-murderers have all said that Nietzsche was an inspiration to them.
Robert Creeley is one of my favorites. My very first post on this journal contained a poem of his.
Apparently his birthday tradition was to close his one good eye and drive really fast along a cliff.
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but seriously, I'm a nietzsche fanatic. i've read every one of his published works. he's not inconsistent, just consistently ambiguous. he wrote his last few books while syphilis was burrowing its way into his spinal column- he was batshit crazy for the last 10 years of his life. his last sane act was hugging a horse that was being flogged.
the geneaology of morals and thus spake zarathustra are good general starting points. twilight of the idols is better if you're interested by his religious (or contrareligious, as the case may be) views.
there's a really good anthology of schopenhaeur out there- I forget its name. but if you like nietzsche, you'll appreciate him. you should probably skim hegel, kant, and leibnitz before you dive into nietzsche though, because he's very referential
-hogan
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ps: heidegger was a nazi
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Again, I haven't read a bunch of Nietzsche, but I was largely thinking about his stance on Wagner.
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Nietzsche was, like, my FAVORITE philosopher when I was thirteen and still coming to terms with the fact that I was the only kid in my eighth-grade class who didn't believe in God. Also I was kind of trying to be goth. I still have "The Collected Works of Nietzsche" on a shelf somewhere, collecting dust.
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Who is that guy on your icon, I recognize him.
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