Comments on: A Worshiper of the Flesh http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/ Indie MP3 blog mostly rock, pop, folk and electronic Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:59:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Not out of the Woods yet « ubiwar.com http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-284642 Not out of the Woods yet « ubiwar.com Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:24:12 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-284642 [...] Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, no doctrine, no firm place to call my own, no known beginning or end, no ’sacred and primordial site’. I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then ‘melt into air’. I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhoutte against the darkening sky. I cannot know your name. Nor you can know mine. Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city. [via Motel de Moka] [...] [...] Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms. I am one of millions who do not fit in, who have no home, no family, no doctrine, no firm place to call my own, no known beginning or end, no ’sacred and primordial site’. I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then ‘melt into air’. I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhoutte against the darkening sky. I cannot know your name. Nor you can know mine. Tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city. [via Motel de Moka] [...]

]]> By: Loulou http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7079 Loulou Thu, 01 Feb 2007 12:11:29 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7079 the sidebar only goes down on this specific individual post though... maybe you need to edit something about it, the word line up? the sidebar only goes down on this specific individual post though… maybe you need to edit something about it, the word line up?

]]> By: lotusoverwater http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7021 lotusoverwater Thu, 01 Feb 2007 04:32:46 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7021 yeah.. i noticed that... yeah.. i noticed that…

]]> By: squashed http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7011 squashed Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:05:46 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7011 I have no idea why MdM layout keeps breaking. sidebar is down again. I have no idea why MdM layout keeps breaking. sidebar is down again.

]]> By: lotusoverwater http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7005 lotusoverwater Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:38:21 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-7005 I've seen that movie, "belly of the architect"... it's a WEIRD movie jaja! though I enjoyed it pretty much, I've been told that guy makes great movies.. eventhough I've only see the Belly one jijiji!!! :P Mucho amor Moka... ojala y estes con bien, te mando mi amor I’ve seen that movie, “belly of the architect”… it’s a WEIRD movie jaja! though I enjoyed it pretty much, I’ve been told that guy makes great movies.. eventhough I’ve only see the Belly one jijiji!!! :P

Mucho amor Moka… ojala y estes con bien, te mando mi amor

]]> By: Moka http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-6977 Moka Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:40:26 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-6977 Fishy I've been watching some movies here lately and I think you might like Peter Greenaway's films, he puts a lot of attention to architecture and interiors on his movies (he even has a great movie with some dark overtones entitled "the belly of an architect" about an american architect going to Italy and... well I recommend you to watch his films.) About the constant fixation on architecture on his movies he said: "In some ways (I use it) because architecture is the ultimate multimedia and it creates the situation which exists for everyday 9-5 living. You can forget cinema, you can go through life without worrying about a painting, you can even, although impoverish your life by not listening to music, but you cannot avoid architecture. We need it, it is one of the essential elements. Certainly in the northern hemisphere is shelter. And a shelter, in a sense, is the basic level of architectural situation. If I ever believed in reincarnation and I wanted to come down again, I would very much like to be an architect, for very obvious reasons." Fishy I’ve been watching some movies here lately and I think you might like Peter Greenaway’s films, he puts a lot of attention to architecture and interiors on his movies (he even has a great movie with some dark overtones entitled “the belly of an architect” about an american architect going to Italy and… well I recommend you to watch his films.) About the constant fixation on architecture on his movies he said:

“In some ways (I use it) because architecture is the ultimate multimedia and it creates the situation which exists for everyday 9-5 living. You can forget cinema, you can go through life without worrying about a painting, you can even, although impoverish your life by not listening to music, but you cannot avoid architecture. We need it, it is one of the essential elements. Certainly in the northern hemisphere is shelter. And a shelter, in a sense, is the basic level of architectural situation. If I ever believed in reincarnation and I wanted to come down again, I would very much like to be an architect, for very obvious reasons.”

]]> By: lotusoverwater http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-6904 lotusoverwater Wed, 31 Jan 2007 06:35:18 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-6904 "Sometimes I get my fix from little kids in strollers…they are just groovin’ on everything" I love that! mmm... I see your point and feel the weight of it, you are right about the war thing... war brings with it such tenacity towards beating an oponent one often loses sight of what is the true objective of the battle... I sometimes find myself caught between the two extremes of the specturm total groove and incessant urgency, and I find both rather gratifying in different levels, it really does depend on my mood I guess. I can only hope to get it right most of the times, and learn what to sponge and what no to sponge... all is time... time time time... jeje.. but in Roisin Murphy's words "Time takes too much time" <*)))>< “Sometimes I get my fix from little kids in strollers…they are just groovin’ on everything”

I love that!

mmm… I see your point and feel the weight of it, you are right about the war thing… war brings with it such tenacity towards beating an oponent one often loses sight of what is the true objective of the battle… I sometimes find myself caught between the two extremes of the specturm total groove and incessant urgency, and I find both rather gratifying in different levels, it really does depend on my mood I guess.
I can only hope to get it right most of the times, and learn what to sponge and what no to sponge… all is time… time time time… jeje.. but in Roisin Murphy’s words “Time takes too much time”

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]]> By: David Owen http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-6898 David Owen Wed, 31 Jan 2007 05:15:35 +0000 http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/01/30/a-worshiper-of-the-flesh/#comment-6898 I am having a good time with the Max Richter piece. I am trying to read your words but I am visually impaired and cannot easily make out the gray-on-brown very well even though I have jacked up the text size. The being-at-war mode of view is difficult because it carries with it such a broad spectrum of urgency which prevents the state of aesthetic nuance that one strives for in an artistic endeavor. I am hopeful that any effort towards making the world more tolerable to live in is not wasted. When the medical community declares war on cancer they sometimes forget during the battle that it is healing they are working towards and that it is the life they are preserving that is the point, not the disease they are trying to destroy. Sometimes I get my fix from little kids in strollers...they are just groovin' on everything and are very generous with their enthusiasm. I am having a good time with the Max Richter piece.
I am trying to read your words but I am visually impaired and cannot easily make out the gray-on-brown very well even though I have jacked up the text size.
The being-at-war mode of view is difficult because it carries with it such a broad spectrum of urgency which prevents the state of aesthetic nuance that one strives for in an artistic endeavor.
I am hopeful that any effort towards making the world more tolerable to live in is not wasted.
When the medical community declares war on cancer they sometimes forget during the battle that it is healing they are working towards and that it is the life they are preserving that is the point, not the disease they are trying to destroy.
Sometimes I get my fix from little kids in strollers…they are just groovin’ on everything and are very generous with their enthusiasm.

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