Wednesday, August 5, 2009


Anonymous said...


July 21, 2009 4:51 PM

Terre said...


March 2, 2008


  1. two very different points of view on the same subject...interesting.

    "only boring people get bored."
    -kate coffee

  2. And for Erik Satie, 'Boredom was mysterious and profound' and an effective way of mystifying and irritating the bourgeoisie, as Satie suggests in Sports et Divertissements [1914], which opens with a Chorale into which "I have put all I know about Boredom. I dedicate it to those who don't like me.'

  3. To add (from Walter Benjamin):

    'The dream bird of boredom hatches the egg of experience.'

  4. "Your true traveller finds boredom agreeable rather than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty—his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."

    So there you have Huxley's take. Boredom = the profoundest decadence. I agree.

  5. No. this is the wrong mentality. There is room between Lady Gaga and "Upekah" by Son.Sine, a dreary track revered by this site's blogger. Of the beyond boring "Upekah" he writes "it is moments like this that you feel the full force of techno. everything else fades away, life is momentarily in balance, all you can hear and feel is the music. moments like these are so rare and beautiful that each one should be treasured and remembered." What?? In general I find ambient music to be suspect: too often there's a "spiritual" or worse- a "philosophical"- agenda being promoted from behind the music..

  6. nietzsche believes that it is only after a massive amount of boredom that the Artist becomes motivated. The problem with most people he felt, is that they are simply unable to endure it. Something I come across all the time.


