Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Literature. Show all posts

Friday, 27 March 2009

" New York was his town, and it always would be... "

Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' is one of my favorite films depicting New York City. The cinematography is spot on. It really captures the essence of New York. Whilst trawling through youtube I stumbled across this fantastic pastiche of Jack Kerouac reciting 'Visions of Cody' and 'On The Road' set to the opening sequence of Allen's 1979 classic.



One of my favorite Directors and one of my favorite Writers.

Sunday, 3 August 2008

The Rebel

"I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my own proclamation and I am compelled to believe, at least, in my own protest. The first, and only, datum that is furnished me, within absurdist experience, is rebellion. Stripped of all knowledge, driven to commit murder or consent to it, I possess this datum which gains greater strength from the anguish that I suffer. Rebellion arises from the spectacle of the irrational coupled with an unjust and incomprehensible condition. But its blind impetus clamours for order in the midst of chaos, and for unity in the very heart of the ephemeral. It protests, it demands, it insists that the outrage come to an end, that there be built upon rock what until now was written unceasingly upon the waters." - Albert Camus.