recent descents into melancholia

(music-wise)maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das platinzeitalterwilliam basinski: shortwave musicearth: hibernaculumarve henriksen (with helge sten & stale storlokken): strjoniron & wine: worksjóhann jóhannsson: ibm 1401, a user´s manual (esp. the track: the suns gone dim and the sky's turned black)roy orbison: best of earth: hibernaculum maurizio bianchi & jozef van wissem: das

la mélancolie et le christ mort

hans holbein the body of the dead christ in the tomb 1521andrea mantegna the lamentation over the dead christ c. 1490dostoyevsky said after viewing hans holbein's the body of the dead christ in the tomb, one might lose their faith and proceeded to write the idiot. that holbein's painting was so visceral then (and still is), is quite wonderful.paintings of - beauty, melancholia, love and