The Life and Death of Kunst

I just wrote this a moment ago and pressed "Posting" rather than "Publish Post" and it disappeared. It must have been too close to reality in the Schillerian way, say:

"Der Schein soll nie die Wirklichkeit erreichen, und siegt Natur, so muss die Kunst entweichen."

This was translated as: The appearance should never reach reality and if nature wins art must disappear.

Which I don't properly understand, so I'm throwing it to question. I read it as - the created object/ thing should never too closely resemble that in nature, and if it does, then there is no room for art.

That art requires a certain level of abstraction to live and prosper.

Anyway, I think I like it. My post though was about The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, which I saw today. It had a line that I really like. Pete's just been rejected for having a rough head, great for radio, by various casting agents. He's upset but reflecting on having wife-kid-radio gig, and should be satisfied with this. He mentions this to his very ambitious mother. Mum says: "But Peter! I didn't bring you up to be content!"

I'm hoping to post this now, contentedly, with the extra quote to console me.

The Golden Speed

I'd driven 395 Kilometres of a 408 kilometre journey, then: entrance (stage/car) right!
Bang!
There was just a moment when I could see it looking in my direction with a kind of "that's very weird" look on its face. Then it was sucked under the car. Kaboomumumumumumum, rolling under the car.
I hitched the final thirteen kilometres into town and got a tow truck driver for the car.
"Mate", he says to me, "you were goin too slow."
"I was doing about ninety" I said
"Too slow. My missus has hit a few doin ninety, and I know people doin 120 and 130 hit em. But you go at 100 and you never hit em. Never. Guaranteed. I've told the wife that. If you're goin less than 100 they catch up to you, if you're goin faster you catch up to them".
I forgot to ask if that was specific to Eastern Grey's or whether it holds true for Reds as well.

anime soccer league

this morning in Victoria Park we came upon a wondrous piece of paper, A4, spangled with dew. Tim stopped to look, mostly because of the bedewedness, then I started to read what was on the paper. It is a print out from an online discussion, and it is primarily an anime soccer club theme song. I won't quote it all here, but will give you the refrain as it is very stirring:

YOU GO ON CRUNKY
The heroes who defend the taste of chocolate
When the day of battle comes
You cannot fail
YOU GO ON CRUNKY
With legs like a blue wind
Look toward the future
For courage and the taste of chocolate, Crunky ...
Winning Your Days, Goal Up!

Yes, indeed.