Art takes what it needs---the excess of colours, forms, materials---from the earth to produce its own excesses, sensations with a life of their own, sensation as "nonorganic life." Art, like nature itself, is always a strange coupling, the coming together or two orders, one chaotic, the other ordered, one folding and the other unfolding, one contraction and the other dilation, and it is because art is the inversion and transformation of nature's profusion that it too must participate in, and precipitate, further couplings.

--- Elizabeth Grosz, "Chaos, Territory, Art", p 9-10, as cited in "Life Beyond Biologism" by Ted Toadvine, p 264-5

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Leonard Cohen - Nevermind



Leonard Cohen - Did I Ever Love You
One of the saddest songs I've heard in a while, but then also one of the damned funniest and cheesiest.



Leonard Cohen - You Got Me Singing
Another beautiful and sad song.

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Valerie June - Wanna Be On Your Mind

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Valerie June - Workin' Woman Blues

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