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NOTES FROM UNDERGROUND

  And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better—cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?---Fyodor Dostoevsky ---Notes from Underground There are certain people of whom it is difficult to say anything which will at once throw them into relief—in other words, describe them graphically in their typical characteristics. These are they who are generally known as “commonplace people,” and this class comprises, of course, the immense majority of mankind. Authors, as a rule, attempt to select and portray types rarely met with in their entirety, but these types are nevertheless more real than real life itself. For instance, when the whole essence of an ordinary person’s nature lies in his perpetual and unchangeable commonplaceness; and when in spite of all his endeavours to do something out of the common, this person ends, eventually, by remaining in his unbroken line of routine—. I think such an individual really does become a type o...

Hope

To be human is to be a miracle of evolution conscious of its own miraculousness — a consciousness beautiful and bittersweet, for we have paid for it with a parallel awareness not only of our fundamental improbability but of our staggering fragility, of how physiologically precarious our survival is and how psychologically vulnerable our sanity. To make that awareness bearable, we have evolved a singular faculty that might just be the crowning miracle of our consciousness: hope.-- Erich Fromm



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Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love


Release Date: 11th December 1984

Songwriter/s: Leonard Cohen & David Campbell

Producer: John Lissauer

Label: Columbia

Music Video Release Date: 1994

Music Video Director: Mark Pellington








Fatboy Slim - Weapon Of Choice


ArtistFatboy Slim

AlbumHalfway Between the Gutter and the Stars

Released2000

NominationsMTV Video Music Award for Best EditingMORE


     Genres: Alternative/Indie, Dance/Electronic


The music video, directed by Spike Jonze, features actor Christopher Walken dancing around a deserted hotel lobby


Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice (2001) IMDb









Nick Cave-Fifteen Feet Of Pure White Snow 


The music video directed by John Hillcoat.



 




Beastie Boys - Sabotage 
Released1994
GenreHip-Hop/Rap
 
The music video directed by Spike Jonze and nominated in five categories at the 1994 MTV Music Video Awards. 



Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime

Released1980
GenrePop







Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Henry Lee

Released1996
GenreAlternative/Indie

The music video directed by Rocky Schenck.







Florence + The Machine - No Light

Released2011
GenresNeo soul, Alternative/Indie, Pop

The music video was directed by Icelandic duo Arni & Kinsk








Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Do You Love Me? 


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Stromae - quand c'est ?


Artist: Stromae
Released: 2013
Genre: Pop

Tourné à Seraing, et co-réalisé par Luc Junior Tam et Xavier Reyé, « Quand C’est ? » est le septième clip extrait de l’album √ (racine carrée). Shot in Seraing (Belgium), and co-directed by Luc Junior and Xavier Reyé, « Quand C’est ? » is the seventh video from the stromae album, √ (racine carrée).







Stromae - L’enfer

Artist: Stromae
Album: Multitude
Released: 2022




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