Culture

Momentous Eventus: Something in the Water Edition
“Gravity is not controlled physically in us by one of the 5 ordinary senses. We always reduce a gravity experience to an autocognizance, real or imagined, registered inside us in the region of the stomach.”
Marcel Duchamp.

Momentous Eventus: Bobos de Abril Edition
“Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.”
Henry David Thoreau.

Momentous Eventus: It Can’t Rain All The Time Edition
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
Leonard Cohen.

Loafing As an Act of Resistance: an Interview with Bartholomew Ryan
How does this loafing hero end up in Lisbon, on his first stage since the start of the pandemic, so far from his Irish homeland?

Momentous Eventus: Dust in the Wind Edition
“Art washes away the dust of daily life from the soul.”
Picasso.

Momentous Eventus: Feeling Drained Edition…
“If I had my life to live over again, I’d be a plumber.”
Albert Einstein.

Momentous Eventus: March 4th Edition
“I believe that the people live on a planet, not in a state.”
Viktor Tsoy.

Reflector #33: Panda Bear – “Benfica”
Noah Lennox has been living in Lisbon for a good number of years now, and in his 2011 Tomboy, he dedicated a song to one of the city’s premier football clubs.

Momentous Eventus: Planet Earth Edition
“People cannot think alike, but they must understand each other. That’s what they’re for.”
Viktor Tsoy.

Momentous Eventus: Pluto, Ono, Assange Edition
“Non-conformity is the only real passion worth being ruled by.”
Julian Assange.

Floating Through Young Adulthood with Paul Thomas Anderson
Licorice Pizza proves to be not only Anderson’s most loose and playful film, but also his most personal.

Momentous Eventus: Lupercalia Edition
“Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.”
Fernando Pessoa.