Why all these old goggles & safety glasses?
As the mind perceives all kinds of gross natural objects and admits their images
into its consciousness, it creates for itself, out of this natural function,
a certain mode of existence which bears the stamp of finiteness. The normal life of the
soul, in other words, is kept within the limits determined by our sensory perceptions
and emotions, and as long as it is full of these, it finds it extremely difficult to
perceive the existence of spiritual forms and things divine. The problem, therefore, is to
find a way of helping the soul to perceive more than the forms of nature, without its
becoming blinded and overwhelmed by the divine light, and the solution is suggested by
the old adage "whoever is full of himself has no room for God." All that which occupies
the natural self of man must either be made to disappear or must be tranformed in such
a way as to render it transparent for the inner spiritual reality, whose contours will
then become perceptible through the customary shell of natural things.
- Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism,
"Abulafia and the Doctrine of Prophetic Kabbalism"
Stereoscopy
The New Edison-style Cup Phonograph Kit, by Gakken
The Teanola brand DIY paper-strip music box
The DIY paper-strip music box by Kikkerland
Player-piano rolls...
BERGMAN Hour of the Wolf
CHAPLIN Modern Times
DREYER
The Passion of Joan of Arc
HANEKE Cache
HERZOG Bells from the Deep
KUROSAWA
Rashomon
LANG M
LYNCH (Peter) Project Grizzly
MALLE Phantom India
MARKER La Jette
REYGADAS
Japon
SOKUROV Russian Ark
"It is a long time since I have read with such a healthy appetite and at the same time with so much
gluttony. Each new idea drawn from my reading, as soon as it enters my head, links up with something;
it seems to me that I was waiting for it; its place was ready. I recall certain readings in my childhood,
so voluptuously penetrating that I felt the sentence almost physically enter my heart. This evening I again
felt that marvellous sensation." — Andre Gide 6 March, 1906
favorite reading
Woody Allen The Complete Prose
Louis Althusser The Future Lasts Forever
Claudio Arrau Conversations with Arrau
Marcus Aurelius Meditations
John Ashbery Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror
Girls on the Run
Flow Chart
Milton Babbitt The Collected Essays of Milton Babbitt
Derek Bailey Improvisation
BANKSY Wall and Piece
Roland Barthes Mythologies
Bela Bartok Rumanian Folk Music
Samuel Beckett Three Novels
Waiting for Godot
Krapp’s Last Tape
The Complete Short Prose
Saul Bellow Herzog
John Berger Selected Essays
Ingmar Bergman Face to Face
Yann Arthus-Bertrand Earth From Above – 365 Days
Lee Bontecou A Retrospective
Jorge Luis Borges The Collected Fictions and Non-Fictions
7 Nights
The Norton Lectures
Stan Brakhage Essential Brakhage
J. Bronowski
The Ascent of Man
Pierre Boulez Orientations
The Boulez-Cage Correspondence
Paul Bowles The Stories of
Andre Breton Nadja
Richard Maurice Bucke Cosmic Consciousness
Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye
Play the Piano Drunk Like A Percussion Instrument...
Love is a Dog From Hell
Mocking Bird Wish Me Luck
Italo Calvino If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italian Folktales
Joseph Campbell Primitive Mythology: The Masks of God
Carlos Casteneda Teachings of Don Juan
A Separate Reality
The Art of Dreaming
Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote
Michael Chabon The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Anton Chekov The Complete Short Novels
Giorgio de Chirico Hebdomeros
The Memoirs
J. Ma. Corredor Conversations with Casals
Julio Cortazar Cronopios and Famas
Hopscotch
Blow-up and Other Short Stories
Robert Creeley For Love
Collected Prose
Robert Crumb Sketchbooks
Crumb Family Comics
Salvador Dali 50 Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali
Diary of a Genius
Robert Descharnes DALÍ
David Douglas Duncan Picasso’s Picassos
Freeman Dyson Infinite In All Directions
Black Elk Black Elk Speaks
Ralph Waldo Emerson Selected Prose and Poetry
Jorge Enciso Design Motifs of Ancient Mexico
Max Ernst Une Semaine De Bonté
M.C. Escher Exploring the Infinite – Escher on Escher
John Fante Ask the Dust
William Faulkner Absalom, Absalom!
Morton Feldman Give My Regards to Eighth Street
Steven Foster Vision Quest
Buckminster Fuller Ideas and Integrities
Mahatma Gandhi on Non-Violence
Paul Gaugin Noa Noa
Larry Gerstein Introduction to Mathematical Structures and Proofs
Kahlil Gibran Spirits Rebellious
The Prophet
Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949
Allen Ginsberg Howl
Vincent van Gogh The Complete Letters
Andre Gide The Counterfeiters
Journals 1889 - 1949
Glenn Gould The Glenn Gould Reader
Knut Hamsun Pan
G.H. Hardy A Mathematician’s Apology
Stephen Hawking A Brief History of Time
Universe in a Nutshell
Lafcadio Hearn Kwaidan
Frank Herbert Dune
Werner Herzog Herzog on Herzog
Abraham Joshua Heschel The Wisdom of Heschel
The Insecurity of Freedom
God in Search of Man
Hermann Hesse The Glass Bead Game
Siddhartha
Journey to the East
Klingsor's Last Summer
Steppenwolf
Demian
Wandering
Pictor’s Metamorphosis
Stories of Five Decades
The Fairy Tales of Herman Hesse
Narcissus and Goldmund
Peter Camenzind
Aldous Huxley The Doors of Perception
Heaven and Hell
Charles Ives Essays Before a Sonata, The Majority and Other Writings
Julian Jaynes The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
LeRoi Jones Tales
James Joyce Dubliners
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Ulysses
C.G. Jung Memories Dreams Reflections
Man and His Symbols
Speaking – Interviews and Encounters
Franz Kafka The Complete Short Stories
The Castle
Wassily Kandinsky Complete Writings on Art
Yasunari Kawabata The Master of Go
Hazrat Inayat Khan Sound in Mysticism of Music
Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan Toward the One
Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyyat
Paul Klee The Diaries of Paul Klee
J. Krishnamurti The Awakening of Intelligence
Notebooks
Giovanni Battista Lamperti Vocal Wisdom
Bruce Lee The Art of Expressing the Human Body
Claude Levi-Strauss The Raw and The Cooked
Max Lüscher The Lüscher Color Test
David Lynch Catching the Big Fish
Benoit Mandelbrot The Fractal Geometry of Nature
Thomas Mann The Magic Mountain
Gabriel Garcia Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude
Herman Melville Moby Dick
Olivier Messiaen Music and Color – Conversations with Claude Samuel
Joseph Mitchell Up In The Old Hotel
Philip and Phylis Morrison Powers of Ten
Miyamoto Musashi A Book of Five Rings
Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities, Vols. I & II
Vladimir Nabokov Pnin
Pale Fire
Lolita
Speak Memory, Speak
Dear Bunny, Dear Volodya – The Nabokov-Wilson Letters
Robert Nozick An Examined Life
Frank O’hara The Collected Poems
Kakuzo Okakura The Book of Tea
Charles Olsen The Maximus Poems
Yoko Ono Grapefruit
Osho The Book of Secrets
Wilfred Owen The Collected Poems
Roger Penrose The Emperor’s New Mind
Ezra Pound Selected Poems
The Cantos
Edward Quinn Max Ernst
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Only One Sky
Rainer Maria Rilke Letters to a Young Poet
Letters on Life
Letters on Cezanne
The Complete French Poems
Duino Elegies
Selected Poems
Odilon Redon To Myself
Gerhard Richter Writings 1962–1993
Carl Sagan Cosmos
Billions and Billions
Erik Satie A Mammal's Notebook
Artur Schnabel My Life and Music
Menachem Mendel Schneerson Toward a Meaningful Life - The Wisdom of the Rebbe
Arnold Schoenberg Style and Idea
Miguel Serrano C.G. Jung and Herman Hesse
Goro Shimura The Map of My Life
Shel Silverstein Different Dances
Constantin Stanislavski An Actor Prepares
Gertrude Stein On Picasso
Karlheinz Stockhausen Stockhausen on Music
Paul Stoller In Sorcery’s Shadow
Hyemeyohsts Storm Seven Arrows
Igor Stravinsky Poetics of Music
Toru Takemitsu Confronting Silence
Nikola Tesla My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla
Dylan Thomas The Collected Stories
Collected Poems
Leo Tolstoy Anna Karenina
Chogyam Trungpa Meditation in Action
The Myth of Freedom
The Sacred Path of the Warrior
Orderly Chaos
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Lao Tzu Tao Te Ching
Sun Tzu The Art of War
Morihei Ueshiba Training with the Master
The Way of Peace
Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks
Chris Ware Jimmy Corrigan – The Smartest Kid on Earth
Alan Watts The Way of Zen
Nature, Man and Woman
Wim Wenders Once
Walt Whitman Leaves of Grass
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray
Stories
Richard Wilhelm [translator] The Secret of the Golden Flower
The I-Ching
Understanding the I-Ching
William Carlos Williams Pictures From Brueghel
Edward Wilson The Diversity of Life
Frank Lloyd Wright A Testament
Iannis Xenakis Conversations
Paramahansa Yogananda Autobiography of a Yogi
Man’s Eternal Quest
Hiltgunt Zassenhaus Walls
Louis Zukofsky "A"
chess
M.M. Botvinnik
Selected Games, 1967-1970
David Bronstein
Zurich International Chess Tournament, 1953
Irving Chernev
The Most Instructive Games of Chess Ever Played
Logical Chess Move by Move
Gary Kasparov
My Great Predecessors, all vols.
Aron Nimzowitsch
My System
John Nunn
How to Win at Chess Quickly
László Polgár
5,334 Problems, Combinations and Games
L. Polugayevsky
Grandmaster Performance
C.J.S. Purdy
His Life, His Games and His Writings
Fine Art of Chess Annotation and Other Thoughts
Jeremy Silman
The Reassess Your Chess Workbook
Mikhail Tal
The Life and Games of Mikhail Tal
