Didn’t realize that Nicholas Walters was still out here kicking. Thought dude disappeared back in 2016 after getting NoMaschenko’d. Apparently he came back last year and is 2-0 on the rebound trail. He’s fighting tonight for ProBox. Shouts to ProBox for getting his name wrong in the title.

Adorno is a young dude who hasn’t beaten anybody but almost all the people he’s failed to beat are pretty good - Michel Rivera, Edwin De Los Santos, Jamaine Ortiz, and Elvis Rodriguez.

2022.09.09 Joseph Adorno vs Hugo Alberto Roldan super-légers

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Honremos la primer publicación con un personaje shakesperiano icónico en el mundo del arte, Ofelia...

Gertrude "There is a willow grows askaunt the brook, That shows his hoary leaves in the glassy stream, Therewith fantastic garlands did she make Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cull-cold maids do dead men’s fingers call them. There on the pendant boughs her crownet weeds Clamb’ring to hang, an envious sliver broke, When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like awhile they bore her up, Which time she chaunted snatches of old lauds, As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and indued Unto that element. But long it could not be Till that her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull’d the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death."

Gertrudis "Donde hallaréis un sauce que crece a las orillas de ese arroyo, repitiendo en las ondas cristalinas la imagen de sus hojas pálidas. Allí se encaminó, ridículamente coronada de ranúnculos, ortigas, margaritas y luengas flores purpúreas, que entre los sencillos labradores se reconocen bajo una denominación grosera, y las modestas doncellas llaman, dedos de muerto. Llegada que fue, se quitó la guirnalda, y queriendo subir a suspenderla de los pendientes ramos; se troncha un vástago envidioso, y caen al torrente fatal, ella y todos sus adornos rústicos. Las ropas huecas y extendidas la llevaron un rato sobre las aguas, semejante a una sirena, y en tanto iba cantando pedazos de tonadas antiguas, como ignorante de su desgracia, o como criada y nacida en aquel elemento. Pero no era posible que así durarse por mucho espacio. Las vestiduras, pesadas ya con el agua que absorbían la arrebataron a la infeliz; interrumpiendo su canto dulcísimo, la muerte, llena de angustias."

1) John William Waterhouse – Ophelia, 1910

2) John William Waterhouse – Ophelia, 1894

3) Joseph Kirkpatrick – Ophelia, 1896

4) Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret - Ophelia

5) Arthur Hugues - Ophelia

6) Paul Albert Steck – Ophelia, 1895

7) Thomas Francis Dicksee - Ophelia

PARTE 1

MARX MADNESS - WEEK 2

poor aglietta got 0.4% of the vote, the lowest percentage out of all the polls. smh. needless to say he did not advance

DIA 21 DE OUTUBRO DE 2023 : NA GULBENKIAN ” DEAD MAN WALKING “ ESTREIA BRILHANTE DA TEMPORADA DE TRANSMISSÕES DO MET .UMA OPERA CORAJOSA DO SÉCULO XX , CANTORES, ORQUESTRA E MAESTRO AO MAIS ALTO NÍVEL , E UMA ENCENAÇÃO DEPURADA E AVASSALADORA DE IVO VAN HOVE :com profundidade emocional e uma narrativa poderosa, a nova produção de “Dead Man Walking”, de Jake Heggie com libreto de Terrence McNally.e dirigida por Ivo van Hove, impressionou o publico na estreia em Nova Iorque e a mim numa das minhas raras presenças no “cinema Gulbenkian” .A ópera é baseada numa história real escrita pela “verdadeira” Irmã Helen Prejean e apresenta a freira nas suas interações com Joseph De Rocher, um condenado por estupro e assassinato no Corredor da Morte da Penitenciária Estadual da Louisiana, em Angola. Durante a jornada como sua conselheira espiritual a irmã Helen enfrenta muita turbulência emocional decorrente do conflito entre sua fé e moralidade. No papel da freira católica a mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato tem uma interpretação fabulosa . Este será um papel marcante na sua carreira .Digo isto quando sabem quanto não me tem agradado os maneirismos da artista americana em recentes actuações . Assumindo o comando das emoções , ao lado de DiDonato, esteve Susan Graham como a Sra. Patrick De Rocher - a mãe de Joseph. Não foi a primeira actuação da texana nesta ópera - ela tinha sido a Irmã Helen na produção da estreia em 2000 - A negação e o desespero emanaram do seu corpo de luto, colocando-a como o centro de grande parte da emoção da ópera. O baixo barítono Ryan McKinny retratou intensamente o assassino condenado na vida real Joseph De Rocher, . Restante elenco a alto nível .A partitura de Heggie’s é uma mistura cinematográfica com gospel e jazz . É absorvente, acessível e melódica . Alguns momentos aproximam-nos dos Diálogos das Carmelitas de Poulenc - particularmente quando Heggie montou a cena da morte.. Não se pode dizer o suficiente sobre a liderança de Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Ele tornou-se uma superestrela do Met em tempo recorde e é fácil entender o porquê: ama o que conduz, é atencioso com os cantores, e a orquestra toca apaixonadamente.Quanto à encenação o estilo signature de Van Hove minimalismo ultramoderno com uma teatralidade expressionista atingiu um auge.O episódio da violação e /assassinato dos adolescentes é filmado, assim como a longa viagem da Irmã Helen até a prisão. A técnica é usada de forma magnífica na cena dividida do monólogo de Rocher com a irmã Helen dormindo um sono agitado Tudo isso acontece num cenário caixa sem adornos com a iluminação de Jan Versweyveld, sem acessórios - sem celas, sem barras, sem algemas. A execução em si, com de Rocher amarrado numa maca- crucifixo e com a injeção da substância letal no seu braço em close-up, cada vez mais odiosa até que acaba . Este final com arquibancadas, é particularmente poderoso porque espelha. o público na casa de ópera, incluindo nós como voyeurs.. Um espectáculo notável

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Featherweight Malik Nelson (4-0, 3 KO’s) from Perth Amboy, N.J. scores a four round unanimous decision win over Joseph K Adorno Del Valle (0-1-1) from Vega Alta, Puerto Rico. Nelson posing his will on Del Valle right from the opening bell hitting him with some great body work as Del Valle walks right in, Nelson was having nothing of it creating space getting off the bigger shots in the contest. The judges official scores are 40-35, 40-36 2x. March 25th 🥊 @rspboxing #boxing #boxeo #sports #wbaboxing #nbaboxing @officialcornflakeboxing 📸: Photo credits: @kennyludwigphotos @wbaboxingofficial @bxng.tv (at Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqUK57YOqSx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Weights from Atlantic City

Kristian Prenga 255 vs. Sam Crossed 208 (NBA Continental and NABA heavyweight titles) Anthony Johns 112 vs. Ramon Velasquez 116.5 Justin Figueroa 154 vs. Manuel Moreira 154 Malik Nelson 125,5 vs. Joseph Adorno 127.5 Francisco Rodriguez 134 vs. Marco Dorame 134.4 Gabe Gerena 131 vs. Joshua Maldonado 132 Avious Griffin 146.5 vs. Jose Gazzo 140=9 Isaah Flaherty 157.5 vs. Dewayne Williams 161,5 Derek…

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24, Abr, 14.

Donde nadie te espere

ni luchen por ti ni te procuren

ni te velen ni se mueran

por un segundo de tu presencia.

Y juren amarte más que a nada

y te pague con mentiras o con ausencias,

al darte palabras vacías que suenan bellas

pero hasta lo bello falto de actos es cobardía

envuelta de adornos que siendo veneno

hasta parece al espectador una buena receta.

Huye, huye con todo tu ser,

con todas tus fuerzas

de esa jaula mental

llamada dependencia.

Hasta el pájaro atrapado

se cansa del encierro

al ser la más terrible

forma de violencia.

Silenciar una voz,

apagar una vida,

lentamente,

con paciencia.

—La dependencia, Joseph Kapone

(Cuaderno de notas, 1996 - 2014)

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Lucia Calfapietra

Vasiliy Lomachenko to Face Unbeaten Contender Jamaine Ortiz

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Published: September 13, 2022

NEW YORK — Ukraine’s former pound-for-pound king, the man known as “Loma,” is back. Vasiliy Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion, will make his triumphant New York City return in the 12-round main event Saturday, October 29, against undefeated contender Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. The 10-round featherweight co-feature sees two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist Robeisy “El Tren” Ramirez attempt to author a career-best win against former world champion Jessie Magdaleno. U.S. Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. (3-0, 3 KOs), who is coming off a 44-second knockout over Marco Antonio Canedo in August, looks to make it 4-0 in a six-round heavyweight special feature. Lomachenko-Ortiz, Ramirez-Magdaleno, and Torrez Jr. headline a card that will stream live and exclusively on ESPN+. Promoted by Top Rank, tickets starting at $56 go on sale Thursday, September 15 at 12 p.m. ET and will be available to purchase at Ticketmaster.com. Lomachenko was set to fight then-unified lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr. earlier this year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine, he put his boxing career on hold to join a territorial defense battalion in his homeland. “Vasiliy Lomachenko is a credit to his country and the sport of boxing,” said Top Rank chairman Bob Arum. “When his country needed him, Vasiliy did not hesitate. We are thrilled that he is safe and fighting once again at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, his home away from home. Jamaine Ortiz is a young, hungry, undefeated fighter who understands that a victory over a living legend like Loma would be life-changing.” Lomachenko (16-2, 11 KOs) has a résumé that is unmatched in modern boxing. A two-time Olympic gold medalist for Ukraine, he had a 396-1 amateur record, won a world title in his third pro fight, and became a three-weight world champion in his 12th bout. Lomachenko unified three of the four lightweight titles before a loss to Teofimo Lopez in October 2020 derailed his quest for undisputed supremacy. Last year, he came back with one-sided victories over Masayoshi Nakatani and Richard Commey. Lomachenko is 5-0 at Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s venues, including the win over Commey and his one-sided drubbing over fellow two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux. He arrived in Southern California last month to resume his career and work towards his goal of capturing the undisputed lightweight title, which is currently held by Devin “The Dream” Haney. Lomachenko said, “I love my sport, and I am so glad to be back. My goal is to win the undisputed lightweight title, but I will not take Jamaine Ortiz lightly. Madison Square Garden and Hulu Theater at MSG have been special places in my career, and I look forward to making more great memories on October 29. I want to dedicate this fight to all my Ukrainian people. I wear the flag proudly every time I step in the ring.” Ortiz (16-0-1, 8 KOs), from Worcester, Massachusetts, enters this bout hoping to stun another former world champion on the comeback trail. He last fought May 21 in Las Vegas, wearing down Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring down the stretch to earn a 10-round unanimous decision. Ortiz is a six-year pro who plied his trade on the New England club scene. Three months before the Herring triumph, Ortiz won the NABF lightweight strap with a clear decision win over Nahir Albright. Ortiz made his Top Rank on ESPN debut in April 2021 with an eight-draw against Joseph Adorno, surviving a pair of knockdowns in one of the year’s best action battles. Ortiz said, "I'm excited about this fight. Vasiliy Lomachenko is a great fighter, but I'm here to win. Once I win this fight, I'm targeting a world title opportunity. This is a dream come true." Ramirez (10-1, 6 KOs), from Cienfuegos, Cuba, starred at the 2012 London Olympics alongside Lomachenko. He won the first of his gold medals, while Lomachenko dominantly captured gold medal number two. Ramirez ruled the amateur ranks for another six years before defecting from Cuba. After a stunning loss in his 2019 professional debut against Adan Gonzales, Ramirez has been flawless during a 10-fight winning streak that has seen him avenge the Gonzales loss and crack the top 15 of all four major sanctioning organizations. He authored his most notable victory to date in June at Hulu Theater at MSG, knocking out the previously undefeated Abraham Nova with a left hand in the fifth round. That one-shot knockout propelled Ramirez into the title conversation, and he hopes to get that shot before long. But, first, a former world champion stands in his way. Ramirez said, “It is great to be back at the iconic Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. I am particularly excited to do so as co-main event of the evening that marks the return of the great Vasiliy Lomachenko, whom I admire and consider one of the greatest talents of all time. It’s rare to have two two-time Olympic gold medalists on the same card, and it is an honor for me. As far as Magdaleno is concerned, he represents an important challenge as he is an excellent boxer, a southpaw, and a former world champion.” Magdaleno (29-1, 18 KOs) ascended to the top of the junior featherweight division in November 2016 with his decision victory over Nonito Donaire. His title reign ended at the hands of Isaac Dogboe in April 2018, but he is 4-0 since losing to Dogboe and subsequently moving up to featherweight. He shook off an extended layoff in May to shut out Edy Valencia over eight rounds. A native of Las Vegas who has showcased his talents at many of the city’s most storied venues, Magdaleno will be making his New York City debut against a recently unstoppable train. Magdaleno said, “I am coming to shock the boxing world. I know what a victory would mean for my career. My goal is to become a two-time world champion, and Robeisy Ramirez is in my way. Just know that I am ready.” In addition to Torrez, three of his Olympic teammates from Tokyo will see action under the lights. Tiger Johnson (5-0, 4 KOs) makes his New York City debut in a six-round junior welterweight bout, featherweight silver medalist Duke Ragan (7-0, 1 KO) steps up in his first scheduled eight-rounder, and Troy Isley (7-0, 4 KOs) tests the junior middleweight waters in an eight-rounder. Cleveland-born lightweight sensation Abdullah Mason (4-0, 3 KOs) will fight in his first six-rounder, while junior lightweight Haven Brady Jr. (7-0, 4 KOs) makes his division debut in an eight-rounder.

On this last day of the week, we are saddened to report the highly anticipated clash between Savannah Marshall and Claressa Shields, and a card of other female fighters, has been postponed for a month; however, upcoming fights scheduled to take place in Montreal and Atlantic City will proceed; the former headlined by unbeaten Christian Mbilli in action against DeAndre Ware, while the latter will feature Joseph “Blessed Hands” Adorno taking on undefeated Argentinean Hugo Alberto Roldan for the IBF Latino Junior Welterweight Championship in the main event, as well as undefeated Filipino prospect Bernard Angelo Torres who'll go toe to toe against Frency Fortunato.

MARX MADNESS - WEEK 2

well i fucked up the first one so this is just gonna go on for a bit longer i guess. vote again and marx madness will move to fridays unless there are obvious winners here in which case ill just cut these short

Pensamientos de sensaciones emotivas:

Desde la “gran altura” ella dirigió su pensamiento

a la “gran profundidad”,

La diosa, desde la “gran altura” dirigió su pensamiento

a la “gran profundidad”,

Inanna, desde la “gran altura” dirigió su pensamiento

a la “gran profundidad”.

Mi señora abandonó el cielo, abandonó la tierra,

descendió al mundo inferior,

Inanna abandonó el cielo, abandonó la tierra,

al mundo inferior descendió.

Abandonó el dominio, abandonó el señorío,

al mundo inferior descendió.

El héroe de las mil caras, Joseph Campbell

 Si hablamos de un dios, hablamos de un culpable, el creador es creador de todo,

de todo el dolor y la miseria de la sociedad.

El creador de la tiranía, la mirada única,

perspectiva central.

Absolutista.

Miguel Ángel el publicista del Papa y del Rey,

¿cómo la ves?

El creador, del silencio (¿y la impunidad?) aunque fue palabra sonoridad de nada. Esa nada que nada dice, ese ruido que –en este caso- no comunica.

La tiranía de la imposibilidad de comunicar, del diálogo, del cambio de opinión.

¿Podes decir no sé?

Cómo Zeus podré ser lluvia dorada,

algún día volveré del vació, renacer.

Ser coagulo y trombosis.

Parado estropeado.

¿Cómo poder confiar en mi yo del pasado?

Anticuado tarado enervado; desgraciado y abatido.

Desde el nadir del olvido te escribo.

Pensamientos de sensaciones emotivas, vidas corroídas, personas podridas, agrietadas aferradas a la nada.

En tu cama el karma.

En un mundo de emboscadas, de callejones sin salida.

Fechas límites y puntos de no retorno.

Entorno la puerta y desespero, y…

¿Y?

¿Y?

¿Y?

Pausa y contrapausa.

Abortera y próvida.

¿Y? Áspero aspiro, ya no respiro y deliro.

Pensamientos de sensaciones emotivas, vidas corroídas, personas podridas, agrietadas aferradas a la nada.

La mirada que es mirada y que cambia la mirada del que mira y del mirado –mirador aterrador-.

(Un nazi asesino en masa stremiando la masacre en vivo que vos estas esperando, recordatorio fijado)

Algo complicado, como fotografiar, como soñar, como delirar, como aspirar pegamento.

La bolsa de leche en tu jeta y jalas

y jalas y jalas, paras y miras:

(Más yo kiero, más yo kiero, más yo kiero más!!)

La gente, como hormigas que deambulan en la ciudad gris monotonía, el estático sur.

El sur también insiste ¿persiste?

Corderos del señor temerosos.

Realmente la vigilia es la muerte. Y vigilar es castigar.

Y castigar puede ser tu placer BDSM.

Placer por saber, saber es poder.

Invertebrados prados negros de cuerpos huecos tirados al azar en una fosa común. Bajo el pavimento los cadáveres están.

Carreteras empedradas de almas atormentadas.

-Gracias, -de nada;

-Cómo amo tus nalgas (amargas).

Tomaron el gueto marchando al son de Wagner.

Y Napalm en Vietnam o en los ranchos de tu barrio.

Vino de limpieza el intendente ario.

Exposiciones de la exterminación por tv así no lo crees.

¿Ver para creer o ver para saber?

Instrumentalización de la muerte, llora Diderot, ¿cómo la pifiamos no? dicen que comento con Rousseau.

Adorno y Horkheimer gritaron –cantaron-;

Yo te avise y no me hiciste caso no no no.

Lennon y McCartney silbaron, with a little help from my friends; bombardeos de la otan.

La vida alegre de mirada triste frente a la novela y plena, la espalda encorvada, las cejas cansadas y el alma se quiebra de tanto apechugar.

El acero de hoy será chatarra,

el humano basura quedara en el camino,

la maquina seguirá;

la máquina no puede parar.

Autoreproduciéndose.

Pensamientos de sensaciones emotivas, vidas corroídas, personas podridas, agrietadas aferradas a la nada.

La historia de tus mascaras se confunden con los pliegues de tu piel;

la riqueza de las sonrisas y la fuerza del dolor.

El comic de tu vida no salió.

La sonoridad del látigo es pensamiento roto.

Pensar en la sonoridad de las lenguas muertas,

lenguas que ya no hurgan en entrepiernas,

piernas amputadas en la fábrica de comprar.

Caras frías, rostros sin parpadear.

Enloquezco en un cuarto de cuarto, vida de cuarta sin cuartadas; te curtís.

Veo como el humo tiempo pasa entre pitadas me marchito, capas tras capas caprichoso

se descompone el espacio, despacio, solo un sagaz escucha oirá el crack.

¡Crack!!

(Cenizas y a pitar, total has muerto ya)

Premonición de la imagen al margen del espectador expectante.

Caramba, Eros y Tanatos en frágil equilibrio.

Disolución condición de existencia,

el arte será hambre o nada o muerte –que es tiempo-.

Pobre como una definición de pobreza.

Pobre como la definición de mal de la cabeza.

La certeza de no saber si comes mañana no te engaña,

en la cara te golpea la cruda actualidad.

Pensamientos de sensaciones emotivas, vidas corroídas, personas podridas, agrietadas aferradas a la nada.

                                     -Un Punki Muerto-

Please please please give me more Richey book recs! Especially with suicide as a theme, but if you know of any others, I would love to hear about them too! Thank you for being a fountain of a Manic knowledge and sharing it with us <3

Here's two lists! List one is stuff Richey definitely read, as in it's something he mentioned or referenced in lyrics/interviews/album booklet or setlist quotes/etc. List two is stuff that I can extrapolate he likely read, due to the things I know he did read. Note that a fair amount of these come with various trigger warnings. Again, I've read most but not all of these, so I can answer questions about a good number of them.

Oh, also, this totally slipped my mind from the last list somehow. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides was definitely a book Richey read; the Manics use a quote from the film version (which came out after Richey's death but they said in an interview they thought he'd have liked it) at the end of Doors Closing Slowly.

Definitely read: -Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger -American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis -The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides -The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart -1984 by George Orwell -Confessions Of A Mask by Yukio Mishima -The Plague, The Stranger, and The Fall, all by Albert Camus -A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams -Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus -The Birth of Tragedy by Friedrich Nietzsche -The Torture Garden by Octave Mirbeau -Borstal Boy by Brendan Behan -The Divided Self by RD Laing -Notes From Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky -Novel With Cocaine by M Ageyev -Bernice Bobs Her Hair by F. Scott Fitzgerald -Black Rain by Masuji Ibuse -Under The Volcano by Malcolm Lowry -Frisk by Dennis Cooper -Bartleby The Scrivener by Herman Melville -Homage To Catalonia by George Orwell -Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (which is what Apocalypse Now was based on, and the film was one of Richey’s major obsessions at the end of his life) -Brave New World by Aldous Huxley -Rumblefish by SE Hinton -Being And Nothingness by Jean Paul Sartre -Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z Brite -The Atrocity Exhibition by JG Ballard -High Rise by JG Ballard -Birdy by William Wharton -The Trial by Franz Kafka -Suddenly Last Summer by Tennessee Williams -Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov -The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin -The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon -Lord of the Flies by William Golding -Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis -One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey -Birdy by William Wharton -Thirst For Love by Yukio Mishima -Miracle Of The Rose by Jean Genet -The Drowned And The Saved/So This Is A Man/Escape From Auschwitz, all by Primo Levi -The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank -Last Exit To Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr -The Loneliness of a Long-Distance Runner by Alan Sillitoe -Four Quartets by Hart Crane -The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri -The Pursuit Of Loneliness by Philip Slater -Society Of The Spectacle by Guy Debord -The Naked And The Dead by Norman Mailer -Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl -Illuminations by Arthur Rimbaud -Dialectic Of Enlightenment and Minima Moralia by Theodore Adorno -The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan -One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn -The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell -Naomi by Junchiro Tanizaki -SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas -The Lives Of Michel Foucault by David Macey -Rethinking Camelot by Noam Chomsky -The Anxiety Of Influence by Harold Bloom -The Unrest Cure And Other Stories by Saki (HH Munro) -King Lear by William Shakespeare -Confessions by Saint Augustine -The Day Of The Locust by Nathaniel West -Tom Jones by Henry Fielding -Bird Man: The Many Faces Of Robert Stroud by Jolene Babyak -The Demon by Hubert Selby Jr -The Waste Land by TS Eliot -Songs Of Innocence And Experience by William Blake

Likely read: -The Outsiders by SE Hinton -Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury -Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (features a suicidal main-ish character) -Post Office by Charles Bukowski -The Prophet by Khalil Gibran -Knots by RD Laing -On The Road by Jack Keroauc -No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre -The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard -Junky & Naked Lunch, both by William S Burroughs -Valley Of The Dolls by Jacqueline Susanne -The Runaway Soul by Harold Brodkey -Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller -The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass -Austerlitz by WG Sebald -Betrayal by Harold Pinter -Invitation To A Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov -The Story Of O by Anne Desclos -Lucie’s Long Voyage by Alina Reyes -120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade -The Traitor by Andre Gorz -The Man Of Feeling by Henry Mackenzie -This Way To The Gas, Ladies And Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski -The White Rose by Inge Scholl -It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis -On Revolution by Hannah Arendt -Being There by Jerzy Kozinski -Heliogabalus: or, the Crowned Anarchist by Antonin Artaud -Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by Denis Johnson -Mysteries by Knut Hamsun -We by Yevgeny Zamyatin -Almost Transparent Blue by Ryu Murakami -Venus In Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch -How I Became One Of The Invisible by David Rattray -The Story Of The Eye by Georges Bataille -The Blue Of Noon by Georges Bataille

Also, there's a lot more of my ramblings and writings about the Manics on my other blog @meta-squash under the "manic street preachers" tag, if you're interested. (And I do love talking about them, and Richey especially.)

ETA: I went through all the (text) interviews of the Manics and wrote down every book they mentioned in interviews or lyrics and posted it up here.

Pero no puedo jurar ni prometer lo que no puedo darte. Todo lo que yo soy, es tuyo; mi honestidad, mi desnudez, este ser imperfecto que se siente perfecto cuando está contigo. No puedo darte más que eso, este desastre inigualable en este valle de mentiras y de seres con máscaras. ¿Para qué las estrellas si se ven tan hermosas brillando para sí mismas aunque pensemos que brillan para nosotros? ¿Para qué la Luna si se ve tan hermosa desde allá arriba; libre, inalcanzable, pura? ¿Para qué la inmortalidad, qué se gana viviendo para siempre? Amo tu brevedad como todas las cosas, fugaz como la mariposa, corta como toda vida que tienen las rosas, feliz como la ingenuidad del caracol. Dejémonos de juramentos y promesas, no sirven de nada, son ataduras para el alma o para el pensamiento, es someter, todo lo que yo puedo darte es mi corazón palpitando por ti. Todo lo demás son simples adornos para asombrar a la vista y yo no quiero sorprender a tus ojos, quiero estremecer a tu alma.

Este desastre que soy es tuyo, Joseph Kapone     21, Jul, 2021. (Cuaderno de notas, 1996 - 2021)