Diane's photos are -- WOW!! WOW!! I love her site much too much.

Here are some..

This is heaven. Live au Palais des Congres. C'EST TRES MAGNIFIQUE! Forget about wanting to watch The Faint in concert. Les Choristes is the best!!!

All their songs are breaking my heart! Jean Baptiste Maunier is sure to make it big, and he's such an adorable handsome kid!

Muito maravilhoso!

Seu Jorge's Portuguese version of David Bowie's Life on Mars taken from the film The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou.

I'm so inlove with his songs!

Sourced

• Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
  • Letter to his fiancée, Martha Bernays (June 2, 1884)

• Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.
  • Origins of Psychoanalysis Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (October 15, 1897)

• I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality. . . I expect it to provide all further enlightenment.
  • Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (25 March 1898)

• And now, the main thing! As far as I can see, my next work will be called "Human Bisexuality." It will go to the root of the problem and say the last word it may be granted to say--the last and the most profound.
  • Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (7 August 1901)

• A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.
  • Analysis Terminable and Interminable

• No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human beast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed.
  • Complete Psychological Works, Dora (1905)

• Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us.
  • Complete Psychological Works, Totem and Taboo (1905)

• At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father.
  • Complete Psychological Works, Totem and Taboo (1905)

• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
  • The First Dream Fragment of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria (1905)

• The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race.
  • Leonardo da Vinci (1916)

• The ego is not master in its own house.
  • A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)

• The unconscious is the larger circle which includes within itself the smaller circle of the conscious; everything conscious has its preliminary step in the unconscious, whereas the unconscious may stop with this step and still claim full value as a psychic activity. Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs.
  • Dream Psychology : Psychoanalysis For Beginners (1920) as translated by M. D. Eder

• When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any more clearly for doing so.
  • The Problem of Anxiety (1925)

• The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied.
  • On his seventieth birthday (1926); from Lionel Trilling's The Liberal Imagination

• Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect.
  • The Future of an Illusion, ch. 8 (1927)

• The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing. Ultimately, after endlessly repeated rebuffs, it succeeds. This is one of the few points in which it may be optimistic about the future of mankind, but in itself it signifies not a little.
  • The Future of an Illusion (1928)

• One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be “happy” is not included in the plan of “Creation.”
  • Civilization and Its Discontents, ch. 2 (1930)

• Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness.
  • Letter to an American mother's plea to cure her son's homosexuality (1935)

• The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do.
  • Moses and Monotheism (1938)

• Man found that he was faced with the acceptance of "spiritual" forces, that is to say such forces as cannot be comprehended by the senses, particularly not by sight, and yet having undoubted, even extremely strong, effects. If we may trust to language, it was the movement of the air that provided the image of spirituality, since the spirit borrows its name from the breath of wind (animus, spiritus, Hebrew: ruach = smoke). The idea of the soul was thus born as the spiritual principle in the individual...Now the realm of spirits had opened for man, and he was ready to endow everything in nature with the soul he had discovered in himself.
  • Moses and Monotheism

• Admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological.
  • Referring to romantic love in Civilization and its Discontents

• A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.
  • General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

• America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless.
  • To Ernest Jones ("Amerika ist ein Fehler, zugegeben ein gigantischer Fehler, aber nichtsdestotrotz ein Fehler.")

• A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success.
  • From Ernest Jones' Life and Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. I, ch. 1 (1953)

• Was will das Weib?
  • What does a woman want?
  • More extensive variant: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
  • Letter to Marie Bonaparte, as quoted in Sigmund Freud: Life and Work (1955) by Ernest Jones, Vol. 2, Pt. 3, Ch. 16

New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1932)

• Analogies prove nothing, that is quite true, but they can make one feel more at home.

• One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the perogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go.
  • The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31)

• The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three... The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id.
  • The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31)

• Where id is, there shall ego be.
  • The Anatomy of the Mental Personality (Lecture 31)

• Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action.
  • Anxiety and Instinctual Life (Lecture 32)

• If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness amid the changing vicissitudes of life, and it guides their thoughts and motions by means of precepts which are backed by the whole force of its authority.
  • A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35)

• Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities.
  • A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35)

• Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
  • A Philosophy of Life (Lecture 35)

Attributed

• The only unnatural sexual behavior is none at all.
• A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
• Anatomy is destiny.
• Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
• He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.
• Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as "right" in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as "brute force."
• I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all.
• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.
• It must be admitted that women have but little sense of justice, and this is no doubt connected with the preponderance of envy in their mental life.
• Religion... comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find in an isolated form nowhere else but in amentia, in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion.
• Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.
• Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
• Sex is the mathematical urge repressed.
• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
• The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.
• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is “What does a woman want?”
• The moment a man begins to question the meaning and value of life, he is sick.
• The only thing about masturbation to be ashamed of is doing it badly.
• The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
• The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.
• We are our desires. (appears at the end of the video of the Nu Virgos hit Stop! Stop! Stop!)

About Sigmund Freud

• He had a sharp vision; no illusions lulled him to sleep except for an often exaggerated faith in his own ideas.
  • Albert Einstein

• Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the manifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.
  • Lewis Mumford in Interpretations and Forecasts (1967)

• "Доктор Фрейд не только сам сидел на кокаине, он его пациентам прописывал. А потом делал свои обобщения. Кокаин — это серьезный сексуальный возбудитель. Поэтому все, что Фрейд напридумывал — все эти эдипы, сфинксы и сфинкторы — относится исключительно к душевному измерению пациента, мозги которого спеклись от кокаина в яичницу-глазунью. В таком состоянии у человека действительно остается одна проблема — что сделать раньше, трахнуть маму или грохнуть папу. Понятное дело, пока кокаин не кончится. А в те времена проблем с поставками не было. Но пока у тебя доза меньше трех граммов в день, ты можешь не бояться ни эдипова комплекса, ни всего остального, что он наоткрывал." ~ Victor Pelevin, The Sacred Book of Werewold (2004)
  • Translation: Doctor Freud not only used cocaine himself, but he also prescribed it to his patients. And then he drew his generalizations. Cocaine is a strong sexual arouser. That's why everything Freud invented — all those oedipuses, sphinges and sphincters — is relevant only to a mental dimension of a patient, whose brain is turned to fried-eggs by cocaine. In such a state, one really has only one problem left — what to do first, to screw his mother or to do away with his father. Of course, until his cocaine runs out. And in those times, there were no problems with supplies. But so long as your daily dose is less than three grams, you don't have to fear either the Oedipus complex, nor other things discovered by Freud.

• Perhaps the last cultural fad one could still argue against was Karl Marx. But Freud—or Rawls? To argue against such persons is to grant them a premise they spend all of their effort disproving: that reason is involved in their theories. Ayn Rand,The Ayn Rand Letter

Vol. IV, No. 2 November-December 1975.

• "Зигмунд Фрейд был честным учёным и психиатром. Он никогда не давал своим пациентам непроверенные медикоменты. Он делал проверки на себе и знал до мельчайших подробностей все побочные эффекты и воздействия. Кризис совремменой психиатрии вызван стремлением врачей уйти от реальности и довольствоваться отсталой книжной информацией, вместо того чтобы анализировать самих себя и экспереминтировать над своим организмом, как это делал великий психоаналитик Зигмунд Фрейд." - D. Sovushkin.

• • Translation: Sigmund Freud was an honest scientist and psychiatrist. He never gave his patients unproven medicine. He made the testing on himself and he knew to lowest details all adverse effects and influences. The crisis of modern psychiatry is caused by attempts of doctors to leave the reality and be contented with obsolete book information, instead of making the analysis of themselves and make experiments on their own organisms, like it was done by a great analytical psychologist Sigmund Freud.

Go placidly amid the noise and haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible without surrender
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
they are vexations to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain and bitter;
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs;
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals;
and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe,
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be,
and whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.

(Max Ehrmann) 

"Sans toi, les émotions d'aujourd'hui ne seraient que la peau morte des émotions d'autrefois."

"Without you, today's emotions would be the scurf of yesterday's."

(Hipolito)

SUBLIME.

Perfect imagery by Canadian artist Gregory Colbert.

Indeed heartbreakingly beautiful.

The promise of youth!!!

Brilliant 6 minutes of film. A piece of art from Icelandic group Sigur Ros!

"There's more to give than what you take from me"

"Believe in the things that you know"

The lyrics are so beautiful. The video's beautiful. Life is beautiful. It's time to say au revoir to the not so pleasant things..

I have so much respect for this band. Danse Macabre and Wet From Birth are the best albums EVER. I love The Faint! <333333333333333

Wanna go to Nebraska and see them play at the Sokol club !!!

Live

Led by Noiz-Davi and Daisuke Yamamoto. This one's a bird's eye view of a painting in progress. Such great collective work!

never fails to blow me away!