blasé

FEELIN’ GOOD!!

오! 괜찮은 영화!

“They must find it difficult…
Those who’ve taken authority as the truth,
rather than truth as the authority.”

- Gerald Massey




진실을 권위로 인정하는 대신
권력을 진실로 받아들이는 사람들…

1932년에 출판되었다. 문명이 극도로 발달하여, 과학이 모든 것을 지배하게 된 세계를 그린 반(反)유토피아적 풍자소설이다.
아이들은 인공수정으로 태어나 유리병 속에서 보육되고 부모도 모른다. 그리고 지능의 우열만으로 장래의 지위가 결정된다.
과학적 장치에 의하여 개인은 할당된 역할을 자동적으로 수행하도록 규정되고, 고민이나 불안은 정제로 된 신경안정제로 해소된다.
옛 문명을 보존하고 있는 나라에서 온 “야만인”은 이러한 문명국에서 살 수 없어 자살하고 만다.



Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1931 while he was living in Guatemala and El Salvador (a British writer, he moved to California in 1937). By this time, Huxley had already established himself as a writer and social satirist. He was a contributor to Vanity Fair and Vogue magazines, had published a collection of his poetry (The Burning Wheel, 1916) and four successful satirical novels: Crome Yellow (1921), Antic Hay (1923), Those Barren Leaves (1925) and Point Counter Point (1928). Brave New World was Huxley’s fifth novel and first dystopian work.

Brave New World was inspired by the H. G. Wells’ utopian novel Men Like Gods. Wells’ optimistic vision of the future gave Huxley the idea to begin writing a parody of the novel, which became Brave New World. Contrary to the most popular optimist utopian novels of the time, Huxley sought to provide a frightening vision of the future. Huxley referred to Brave New World as a “negative utopia” (see dystopia), somewhat influenced by Wells’ own The Sleeper Awakes and the works of D. H. Lawrence.

Huxley visited the newly opened and technologically advanced Brunner and Mond plant, part of Imperial Chemical Industries, or ICI, Billingham, and gives a fine and detailed account of the processes he saw. The introduction to the most recent print of Brave New World states that Huxley was inspired to write the classic novel by this Billingham visit.

Although the novel is set in the future, it contains contemporary issues of the early 20th century. The Industrial Revolution had transformed the world. Mass production had made cars, telephones, and radios relatively cheap and widely available throughout the developed world. The political, cultural, economic and sociological upheavals of the then-recent Russian Revolution of 1917 and the First World War (1914–1918) were resonating throughout the world as a whole and the individual lives of most people. Accordingly, many of the novel’s characters named after widely-recognized influential people of the time, for example, Polly Trotsky, Benito Hoover, Lenina and Fanny Crowne, Mustapha Mond, Helmholtz Watson, and Bernard Marx.

Huxley was able to use the setting and characters from his science fiction novel to express widely held opinions, particularly the fear of losing individual identity in the fast-paced world of the future. An early trip to the United States gave Brave New World much of its character. Not only was Huxley outraged by the culture of youth, commercial cheeriness, sexual promiscuity and the inward-looking nature of many Americans; he had also found a book by Henry Ford on the boat to America. There was a fear of Americanization in Europe, so to see America firsthand, as well as read the ideas and plans of one of its foremost citizens, spurred Huxley to write Brave New World with America in mind. The “feelies” are his response to the “talkie” motion pictures, and the sex-hormone chewing gum is parody of the ubiquitous chewing gum, which was something of a symbol of America at that time. In an article in the 4 May 1935 issue of the Illustrated London News, G. K. Chesterton explained that Huxley was revolting against the “Age of Utopias” — a time, mostly before the First World War, inspired by what H. G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw were writing about socialism and a World State.

After the Age of Utopias came what we may call the American Age, lasting as long as the Boom. Men like Ford or Mond seemed to many to have solved the social riddle and made capitalism the common good. But it was not native to us; it went with a buoyant, not to say blatant optimism, which is not our negligent or negative optimism. Much more than Victorian righteousness, or even Victorian self-righteousness, that optimism has driven people into pessimism. For the Slump brought even more disillusionment than the War. A new bitterness, and a new bewilderment, ran through all social life, and was reflected in all literature and art. It was contemptuous, not only of the old Capitalism, but of the old Socialism. Brave New World is more of a revolt against Utopia than against Victoria.

For Brave New World, Huxley received nearly universal criticism from contemporary critics, although his work was later embraced. Even the few sympathetic critics tended to temper their praises with disparaging remarks.


- Wikipedia –

이따위 세상에 참된 “인간미”를 잃지 않은 건
아이러닉하게도 강아지들인듯 하다

Sweet child in time
You’ll see the line
The line that’s drawn between good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you’ve been bad, lord I bet you have
And you’ve not been hit by flying lead
You’d better close your eyes
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet

I wanna hear you scream

Sweet child in time
You’ll see the line
The line that’s drawn between, good and the bad
See the blind man shooting at the world
Bullets flying, taking toll
If you’ve been bad, lord I bet you have
And you’ve not been hit by flying lead
You’d better close your eyes
Bow your head
Wait for the ricochet

I gotta hear you scream

Oh, god, oh, no don’t,
Oh, ain’t gonna do it, oh, no…

Musée Picasso at Château Grimaldi
Antibes, France

재개봉!!!!!!!!!!!
내일 새벽에 가서 봐야지!!!!!!!!!!

학생들 대부분이 이 사람을 모르는군요.

Jack Kevorkian is an American pathologist, right-to-die activist, painter, composer, and instrumentalist.
He is best-known for publicly championing a terminal patient’s right to die via physician-assisted suicide;
he claims to have assisted at least 130 patients to that end. He famously said that “dying is not a crime”.

Between 1999 and 2007, Kevorkian served eight years of a 10-to-25-year prison sentence for second-degree murder.
He was released on parole on June 1, 2007, due to good behavior.

An oil painter and a jazz musician, Kevorkian has marketed limited quantities of his visual and musical artwork
to the public.

제다이 또치

Bach – Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1042

Anne-Sophie Mutter
Conducted by Herbert von Karajan with Berliner Philharmoniker
December 1984



Bravo!

Bach Partita for solo violin No. 3 (I. Preludio)



첫 내한공연 때, 들뜬 맘으로 맨 앞줄 좌석에 앉았건만
퇴근 후 너무 피곤했는지,
아님 그녀의 황홀한 바이올린 소리에 취해서인지,
그냥 좀 심하게 졸았다.


미안해요 미스 한.

다시한번만 와주라..

The Who, 1974






Mr. Big, 1991



Woodstock is coming to Korea!!

Boys at HBO did it again.
This is the new shit for me now.

Helene Grimaud performs Rachmaninov etudes Op33-2 as an encore number.
Live at Tokyo Opera City concert hall, 6-May-2004