welcome back Outraged! where the hell have you been?

Posted by: dan of steele | May 20 2005 12:41 utc | 3

… My apologies for my extended and abrupt absence and lack of response … Fate had something else entirely in store for me for quite a while there …
Humbly, In brief: Ultimate betrayal by backstabbing business partner/friend, multiple legal actions, sustained harassment/threats, bankruptcy, all in a very brief period of time resulting in a nervous breakdown, hospitalization and a recurrence of PTSD … all in all, in retrospect and with no intention of flippancy, simply another unpleasant speedhump in the road of life …
What does’nt destroy you only makes you stronger … to paraphrase a qoute … or as rememberinggiap would say, Still Steel 😉
Cheers mes ami.

Posted by: Outraged | May 20 2005 13:04 utc | 5

glad to see you back, Outraged. looking forward to reading your analyses & comments!
anna missed, thanks again for sharing

Posted by: b real | May 20 2005 14:15 utc | 7

There’s not a day that go by where I’m not happy that we left the US last January.
I’d feel as if I was living in Dresden in 1942. I don’t know what’s worse: the anger and disgust at what your country is doing, and the fear of likely-to-be-forthcoming retribution.

Posted by: Lupin | May 20 2005 16:28 utc | 9

alabama said:
Bush knows nothing about the law. He’s afraid of authority, and happy to abuse it in ways great and small; but about the law–what laws are, how they come to be formed, what they can and can’t do–none of this is part of his experience. He’s a Caliban without a Prospero.
……………………
Its just politics — its just business.

Posted by: anna missed | May 20 2005 17:51 utc | 11

i add my thanks for the work by anna missed – there’s a little rothko there today – but all you
& it warms me to see our friend outraged back again – & that moment was a passage my friend – it does not determine you in the least – that we all do not pass some time without hospitalisation in these last few years is in itself a surprise
mostly we all missed you, your warmth, your research, your links – but you must take care you are a good human but also a fine resource outraged – that bring much to the table
so i’m in the middle of lots of difficulty with my diabetes at the moment complicated by a very heavy grippe but anna missed’s art & your return brings me a bit of light & yea joie on this day

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 20 2005 18:16 utc | 13

Outraged,
A very big WELCOME back. I’ve missed you.
beq,
Coming from you, this, after I have enjoyed your art so much, is a huge compliment to anna missed and I totally agree.
I had a hard time sleeping last night thinking about, me personally having to endure the torture that I have been reading about my other fellow humans presently enduring, at the hands of my fellow countrymEN. Thoughts like, “how could I do myself in if this were happening to me.” I love life but I hate how some of our fellow species have been programmed to hate it.
But, where the hell is DeAnander. Hey De, at least check in & let us know you’re ok.

Posted by: Juannie | May 20 2005 18:28 utc | 15

Lupin, how is it going for you? Mr Fubar & I have been talking on and off about leaving, but don’t know how to even begin the process. I worry that we will get to the point where it’s “too late” to leave. Wonder if I’ll know it when I see it……?
Outrage, sorry to hear of your misfortunes. Hope it’s starting to work out for you now.

Posted by: semper fubar | May 20 2005 18:38 utc | 17

Outraged, I just saw your “I’m back” on the other thread…and just now saw this one.
Congrats for coming out on the other side of that mess. I had ptsd long ago. Memory loss over something that happened when I was younger. Family members informed me, tens years later, about my reactions to life when I did not have the capacity to deal with a horrific moment.
It’s amazing though, that the mind can help heal itself, given some opportunities to understand its own defenses.

Posted by: fauxreal | May 20 2005 18:46 utc | 19

i do not think the americans or their partner in crime rupert murdoch underdstand how deeply depraved their act is of photographing the sovereign leader of iraq, saddam hussein;
it is their infantilism – their complete misunderstanding of the nature not only of the ‘sacred’ in the form of the koran – but also the sacred in the form of a, man
they deeply underestimate the humanity of the arba people who will find nothing amusing in these photographs & on the contrary will have more proof – if more proof was needed of the deeper depravity of the occupation
i am in fury because in its way it reminds me of the photographs of old jewish men & women photographed by german soldiers & their propoganda to provide ‘proof’ of their pestilence
& that is the work at hand for anna missed, beq & other painters to work against this dehumanisation, this desacralisation.
murdoch destroys the mystery of men imagining he liberates them but on the contrary we go further & further into the abyss — we are covered in his filth
& art need now to be ‘clean’ – that is it needs to touch in a world where touch has become alien, it has to restore mystery where it exist organicallly in the human endeavour. & perhaps it is not so strange this phantom like quality in anna missed’s work this grasping through the shit of life for figure of the ‘real’ to emerge – as the ‘ancestors’ do for the indigenous people of many cultures
we do not have this racine – this locking device – which helps indifenous people to understand the physical earth
we neither understand the physical or the metaphysical
we crudely capture a man in his underpants & call that history
we mock & provoke people & we call that public interest
we are in the sixth circle of hell

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 20 2005 20:26 utc | 21

afaik, the u.s. did not turn over custody of saddam to the iraqis, right? this release of demeaning photos of saddam reeks of psypops, much like the ubiquitous film of inspectors looking inside his mouth for wmd during the christian holiday season in 2003. if that earlier round was aimed at the de-mythification of saddam’s leadership & intended to counter his supposed power over the “insurgents” while appeasing the minds of the u.s. public that triumph was indeed complete, this round of psyops seems nothing more than a projection of the very nakedness of the occupying empire disguised as a cheap attempt at distracting the public from the more aptly-described “hitler” & his empires plans on extending their blitzkreig across the ME. don’t look, ethel, saddam in his skivies. meanwhile, the killing continues, as the nyt article on still-roaming-free evil killers gets second billing. not as sensational as a bunch of bullies humiliating a hairy guy in his underwear doing wifely chores.

Posted by: b real | May 20 2005 20:48 utc | 23

“reminds me of the photographs of old jewish men & women photographed by german soldiers & their propoganda to provide ‘proof’ of their pestilence”
same here.

Posted by: slothrop | May 20 2005 23:52 utc | 25

slothrop
i’m worried about deanander, now – is it the end of the academic year there or close to it – i ope dea is ok

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 20 2005 23:59 utc | 27

That makes two of us old barflies who have left, then. It’s been 16 months now since we arrived in Vancouver, and we expect to have permanent resident status in the next several weeks. (They’re almost done with our application.)
I agree with Lupin: it is still, and will always be, “our” country. And there are ways we can fight the battle without being there (I organized hundreds of expat Democrats from Canada and shipped them south into border swing states to work for Kerry, for example).
Still, while a little distance is good, it’s starting to feel like more would be better. Hmm. The south of France…sounds lovely….

Posted by: Mrs. Robinson | May 21 2005 6:03 utc | 29

anna missed if you have the time try to read some work on the german expressionist cinema – how it was used – deliberately to distort ‘realities’ – how as a cinema in the twenties it had very specific ideological objectives articulated by the head of german cinema – who was a kind of murdoch
there is so much of the expressionist methodology in the way murdoch ‘communicates’ through all his media & through his personal & political relations – seems to me based on thepower relations which exist at the base of that cinema
i have no qualms about the term political art – as an appelation it does not do service to waht is the reality of the political – that is – all art is political – whether it is melville’s billy budd, sade’s justine, beckett’s fin de partie or giacometti
politics is lived relations. art is the stretching, the risking & hopefully the transformation of those lived relations. i do not see mystic capabilities but the ‘mysterious’ is as natural to creation as breath
& that mystery is engendered by experimentation. wonderment can only be arrived at through rigorous experimentation
& these times, these dark dark times require of us ; risk, rigour & excellence. the only path to that is experimentation. reproduction & repitition are the enemy. especially so in the moment where pornographers not only dictate to us what they want us to know but how we must behave before those dictates
if i am a little old fashioned i still perceive of the revolutionary possibilities of art

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 21 2005 20:28 utc | 31

anna missed
i’m imbetween ateliers at the moment but i just wanted to not the parrallels between what i have seen of your work & the films of theo angelopolous
the way he transgresses time & history where we are not certain where we are
alos the appearance of ‘fantômes’
the way his work brings back the history the rich would prefer to forget – that he places politics at the centre of his films but it is not a stick with which to beat us
i am thinking especially of voyage à cythere & the travelloing players
there is simplicity a la the long shots & there is a profound interiority
will try ro write more tonight but i think there are a number of connexions

Posted by: remembereringgiap | May 23 2005 16:42 utc | 33

Alas, Hogan’s Heroes. And poor LeBeau. He never stood a chance. The second that Sgt. Schultz discovered the receiver in the coffee pot and then sputtered a report to Colonel Klink, who then discovered the comically obvious bugs in his office, LeBeau’s fate was sealed. But there was so much to go through before the sweet kiss of death finally sucked the last breath from the ill-fated Frenchman.
Sure, when Klink called Col. Hogan to his office, Hogan expected to do the usual song and dance – flatter Klink, make implicit threats about the Commandant’s status within the Luftwaffe, plant yet one more bug, wink at Helga, Klink’s big-titted secretary (would Hogan have it any other way?), head back to quarters, and send more messages to the Allies about Nazi plans. Except not this time. No, when Hogan entered Klink’s office, the monocle was off and Gestapo Officer Hochestetter was there with two big guards. Hogan wasn’t sure what happened when the first rifle butt hit him in the nose, but the next thing he knew, his clothes were being cut off him and a hood was being placed on his head. He heard the Germans laughing at his cold, frightened, shriveled cock, disappearing like a turtle head into his body. Then Hogan made his biggest mistake.
Every other time Hogan had invoked the Geneva Convention (for instance, “Colonel Klink, I must protest as a violation of the Geneva Convention the private interrogation of my men by a Gestapo officer”), Klink had crumbled like a house of cards. But when he tried this time, he was slammed face down on the Klink’s desk as the Commandant exhaled a frustrated, “Hooogannnn. I’ll show you what we think of the Geneva Convention.” And then Hogan heard a thick sheaf of papers being rolled tightly. Well, this is poetic, Hogan thought, just before he felt the searing pain of the Geneva Conventions being shoved into his ass. Schultz protested briefly, but Klink asked the bumbling Sergeant what he would say to any investigators.
“I see noth-ink,” he exclaimed. “I see noth-ink.”
Hogan would not crack. He would not give up the names of anyone who had collaborated with him to enable the Allies to stop so many attacks, so many Nazi plans. By the time they threw him into the freezing cold cell, near the cells where LeBeau, Klinch, Newkirk, and Carter cowered, all naked, all chained into forced kneeling positions, Hogan had been beaten repeatedly, he’d had electrodes attached to…

The Rude Pundit is strangely effective
and hotlinked

Posted by: citizen | May 23 2005 19:26 utc | 35

r’giap,
Havent seen anything by Angelopoulos, but googled it & saw a trailer and some commentary (love it or hate it type), but looks good to me and will try to find some — Yes, do have a soft spot for slow moving photo(graphy) in cinema, like Herzog, Aguirre Wrath of God, Jim Jarmouch, Mystery Train, Stranger than Paradise, Wenders, Chocolote, etc. where content is latent and lurking, just below the surface. Thanks

Posted by: anna missed | May 24 2005 6:05 utc | 37