September 29, 2007

Excellent Alejandro Jodorowski interview on the Arthur blog. Here’s three chunks of quotage:

Hitchcock, in movies, is an ill person. Why? Because he has disguised himself as a genius of movies, but in reality, he’s making his movies in jail, because he’s saying, “That is a system that will make terror. This, the public will love. There, they will be anguished.� He’s directing your emotions; everything is done to hypnotize you in order to react in a certain way. In a healing picture, they don’t say you need to react like that. You will react as you react!

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MP: You’re 77 now. How are you coping with growing older?

AJ: It’s fantastic! I like it a lot. I don’t want to change myself. If you said, Do you want to be 40 years old [again] and I would say, maybe my body, but not my mind. It’s a nightmare, a social nightmare to get old – to get Parkinson’s, to become an idiot, but every day the brain is making new connections and is developing, like the universe. Your soul is getting better and better because you are losing what is not necessary. It’s fantastic to get old! It’s an incredible feeling of freedom, incredible!

Now, for example, to make love, sometimes I have erectile problems. Sometimes it’s not so easy. But it’s not [a problem] because I can use my hands, I can caress – you can satisfy a woman in an incredible way, as the lesbians do it! What is the problem? Even at 80 years old, you don’t have sexual problems! [Laughter]

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Civilization can come to an end. But I believe that if man was created, it’s not because man wanted to exist, it’s because the universe wants consciousness. And there are all these threads of the universe working for us in order to make a new mutation. We are creating a new brain. Because we have three brains, no? The Reptilian, the mammalian and the cerebral cortex. We will make a fourth brain.

Now go read the whole thing.

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  1. 1 Hg
    Sep 29th, 2007 at 10:28 pm

    I watched The Holy Mountain for the first time a couple of months ago. It’s probably the most astonishing film I’ve ever seen. Every single frame is beautiful.

  2. 2 matt b
    Sep 30th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

    He has just written a book about the Tarot which looks interesting. I don’t think it has been translated yet. It seems quite readable. An interesting guy. On the other hand I seem to recall he wrote “the caste of the Meta-barons” which looked like complete sci fi trash??

  3. 3 Pete Ashton
    Sep 30th, 2007 at 1:34 pm

    The Metabarons is sci-fi trash done fantastically well. The premise is dumb but what he does with it is fucking bonkers. It’s what you wish all sci-fi was like.

    I’d lend you my copies but you’re in France. Check the library.

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