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Some goddamn point a man’s due to stop arguing with his-self and feeling twice the goddamn fool he knows he is ‘cause he can’t be something he tries to be every goddamn day without once getting to dinnertime and fucking it up. I don’t want to fight it anymore, understand me Charlie? And I don’t want you pissing in my ear about it. Can you let me go to hell the way I want to?
— Wild Bill Hickok (Deadwood, 2004)
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Private Pyle I’m gonna give you three seconds; exactly three-fucking-seconds to wipe that stupid looking grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull-fuck you!
— Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Full Metal Jacket, 1987)
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Camus’ L’Étranger post-punk’d
The first single by The Cure, Killing an Arab, was in Robert Smith’s own words, “a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in L’Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus.”
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7 Cures For An Existential Crisis
1. Turn on the bright lights. Get organized. Eat healthy. Go out. Socialize.
2. Explore new music. Watch movies; explore foreign cinema.
3. Get your Nietzsche, Camus and Sartre right.
4. Call home. Accept facts. Kill cognitive dissonance.
5. Create! Make! A lot of great art came out of profound personal crises.
6. Go see a doctor. Clinical depression can be cured.
7. Suicide can be a way out of the mire. But (3) is better.
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There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.
— The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
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Music is a higher revelation of science and philosophy.
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

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7 Great Films About Music
1. Amadeus
2. Spinal Tap
3. I Am Trying To Break Your Heart
4. Hilary and Jacky
5. Stop Making Sense
6. Almost Famous
7. Shine
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Take music, for instance. Less than anything else, it is connected to reality, or if connected at all, it’s done mechanically, not by way of ideas, just by a sheer sound, devoid of… any associations. And yet, music, as if by some miracle, gets through to our heart. What is it that resonates in us in response to noise brought to harmony, making it the source of the greatest delight…
— Stalker (1979)
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7 Reasons Why You May Abstain From The Indian General Elections 2009
1. INC
2. BJP
3. NCP
4. BSP
5. CPI(M)
6. CPI
7. RJD
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Bunuel’s Un Chien Andalou always reminds me of slicing up eyeballs and Pixies!
Debaser
got me a movie
i want you to know
slicing up eyeballs
i want you to know
girlie so groovy
i want you to know
don’t know about you
but i am un chien andalusia

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7 Silent Films That Are Totally Awesome
1. Nosferatu
2. City Lights
3. The General
4. Metropolis
5. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc
7. The Battleship Potemkin
note: It’s impossible to talk about silent films without even a passing nod at Bunuel’s surrealistic short, Un Chien Andalou!
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