Sonic Youth, i. The Wonder ii. Hyperstation
(Daydream Nation, 1988)

lips red to white
lips green in black night

yr. city is a wonder town

transmitter rhyme
transmitter all the time

from bowery to broome to greene

smashed-up against a car at 3am

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Richard Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (Liebestod / End of the World)
(Melancholia, 2011)

“Soll ich schlürfen, untertauchen? Süss in Düften mich verhauchen? In dem wogenden Schwall, in dem tönenden Schall, in des Weltatems wehendem All — ertrinken — versinken — unbewußt — höchste Lust — “

Lars von Trier, previously. More Melancholia.

On will and sensuality

Your passion is a lie. It isn’t passion at all, it’s your will. It’s your bullying will. You want to clutch things and have them in your power. You want to have things in your power. And why? Because you haven’t got any real body, any dark sensual body of life. You have no sensuality. You have only your will and your conceit of consciousness, and your lust for power, to know.

— D.H. Lawrence, Women in Love

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Kate Bush, Among Angels
(50 Words for Snow, 2011)

“Only you can do something about it. There’s no-one there, any better. There’s someone who’s loved you forever but you don’t know it. I can see angels standing around you. They shimmer like mirrors in summer. But you don’t know it.”

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The Sisters of Mercy, Marian
(live at The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1985)

“Was ich kann und was ich könnte, weiss ich gar nicht mehr. Gib mir wieder etwas Schönes. Zieh mich aus dem Meer.”