“Hi, my name’s Martin, I’m 39, and I live in a small town in central England. I’m not a very heavy smoker but I do enjoy my Marlboro Lights (sometimes filterless), and I do get a kick out of smoking. Enjoy the occasional cigar too. There is much more to me than this though - drop me a line if you want to know more! Hello Everyone…”
“Everything’s relative. They say keep your eye on the donut not the hole. Work is the donut and fame is the hole - it can be a deep hole, too, and you can get pretty screwy if you spend too much time in it. Getting stuck in the hole can be dangerous because it can make you forget what got you there in the first place.”
At home with David Lynch, March 1999.
From Book Of Changes - Interviews by Kristine McKenna, Fantagraphics, 2001.
Item not won: Adolf Hitler’s head shaped candle.
A man was arrested yesterday for decapitating an wax effigy of Hitler in Berlin’s Madame Tussauds.
Possible motive:
World War II is over, and Nazi officials remove Adolf Hitler’s living head and hide it in the fictional South American country of Mandoras, so that they can resurrect the Third Reich for the future. It fast forwards into the 1960s, and the surviving officials kidnap a scientist in an attempt to keep Hitler alive. Various intelligence agencies, aware of the evil plot, recruit secret agents to bust the Nazi officials.
-They Saved Hitler’s Brain (synopsis), 1963. Dir. David Bradley.
Comment:
This is a rare reactionary attitude to German history in the capital (of all places) as Germany is internationally recognised as a nation which has confronted its past ‘head-on’ and benefited as a result. You only have to walk around Berlin to see that the remenants of the Reich have not been concealed or glossed over.
Consider the term: Trauerarbeit - Ger. meaning: mourning or grieving, literally translates as ‘healing work,’ (which importantly denotes an active process) used by seminal artist Joseph Beuys during postwar period to describe his modus operandi which included didactic lectures, social sculpture and founding the Green Party in Germany. He is said to have been a Luftwaffe pilot, shot down over the Crimea and nursed back to health by Tartar nomads, hence his autobiographical output. Beuys saw himself as shamanic figure who sought to put a plaster on every wound that he found, no matter what the size. More…
Remember: Two (W)Wrongs do not make a (Third)Reich.
Story
Robert just wants Morgan to be his friend.
But Morgan feels Robert is a bully who doesn’t
know how to be friends.
Robert chews on Morgan’s face.
Morgan gestures to push him away.
The well has long since dried up.
Image: Ant Macari
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