The Beach

Being alone, without cigarettes and a real camera, is driving me insane. Im watching The Beach...which I've always enjoyed...yeah yeah, bad camera effects and to much poetry as internal monologue coming from the retard in Whats Eating Gilbert Grape. Big deal.

"When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn't need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that's just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it's just what you've been searching for all these years. "

Erik Satie

I was reading about Erik Satie today, since I'm at work and can't listen it....There is so many interisting points to be made about this man and what made him unique and beautiful, but I'll just jot some notes, for now.

• Responding to complaints that his music lacked form, in 1903 Satie composed the witty Three Pieces in the Form of a Pear. Man Ray, who was a friend of Saties, memorialized the occasion in his 1969 drawing Satie's Pear.
  

• French painter, Suzanne Valadon was the only woman with whom Satie had a known love affair. After she left him for another man, Satie remarked, with Olympian detachment, " I am a man whom women do not understand."
  

• Satie played cabaret piano at the famous club Le Chat Noir.'
  

• As a hobby, in a filing cabinet he maintained a collection of imaginary buildings, which he drew on little cards.  He would publish anonymous small announcements in local journals, offering some of these buildings for sale or rent.
  

• He considered himself someone who measures and writes down sounds, and not a musician. I feel by thinking of him as a phonometrician, makes the statements of his pieces being 'clumsy' by the french contemporary community, into a unique and beautiful statement. 
  

Well, thats all I have time to post. I will however link you to some clips of music you can hear of his. 

Like this site filled with samples and descriptions 

and the most popular piece of music he has done

This photo is the highlight of my day.

Other good things:

• New Acid Tiger album 
  
• Popcorn in a bag
  
• and THIS: