Showing posts with label DIONYSIAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label DIONYSIAN. Show all posts

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Quentin Crisp - glam theorist


from a 1981 interview with Paul Morley


Interesting comments from Quentin Crisp about music here (similar to Nabokov and Freud's antipathy to music as disequilibrium) which confirms my belief that music in its essence is Dionysian whereas the glam-stylist-dandy impulse is Appollonian.


 



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Ed directs our attention to this Cherry Red Miniatures compilation track by Quentin Crisp 


More glammish perceptions from Quentin C

 Charisma is the ability to influence without logic. I recommend limiting one's involvement in other people's lives to a pleasantly scant minimum. You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave”



Applause without ears

Came across this review of Shock and Awe online and was reading it, nodding along and thinking ' this is rather perceptive'   and t...