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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Zombie Boy’s Death Accidental?
So now Lady Gaga has given a public apology for wrongly “assuming” that her friend Zombie Boy’s death was a suicide. It is now being assumed and asserted that he accidentally…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
The Responsibility of Demi Lovato
The following extracts are taken from Demi Lovato’s recent public statement she gave at Instagram. The full statement is easily accessible online in many places. I have quoted…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Our Suicidal Nation
Here are some of the sufferings St. Paul endured: 2 Corinthians 11:23-28, “… in labors more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Rimbaud’s Hunt for Heaven
The following excerpts are taken from my book Martyrs of Art: The Poison of Idealism: “Everything society stood for, Rimbaud opposed. Did it want him to dress appropriately? He…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
The Truthful Fantasy of Rod Serling
Earlier tonight I revisited one of my favorite old episodes of The Twilight Zone, in which Donald Pleasence had starred as Professor Fowler, an English teacher who’d become…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
The Suicide of Zombie Boy
Just 15 hrs. ago, Rick Genest — aka “Zombie Boy” — posted a poem on Instagram before he took his own life. He called it THE WELL. It is a prayer to the Voodoo spirit Damballa. It…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
On Prenatal Cognition
The following excerpt is taken from my book Keeping a Sound Mind in a Chaotic World, which is a philosophical treatise on the mind, written from a biblical basis: ==Luke 1:41…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Caught in the Middle: Baudelaire’s Perpetual Swing
“Rhythm and rhyme answer man’s immortal need for monotony and symmetry, as opposed to the vanity and danger of inspiration.” –Charles Baudelaire Baudelaire mocks order and…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
On Men & Women
The following is from a rant tonight on Fakebook: ==We are living in a time in which the women envy, and are jealous of, men. And I mean men that have knowledge, men that are…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Is being blind worse than being dead?
I have been active at the website Quora as of recently, and decided to share an answer of mine which is receiving the most attention. Here was the question: Is being blind…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
The Responsibility of Jeffrey Dahmer
==Jeffrey Dahmer was a genius with a body at odds with his mind. He was one who allowed himself to be controlled by his impulses. At his trial he was declared legally sane.…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
The Importance of Mental Athleticism
“The athlete … never surrenders his rational self-control to impulses of diet or leisure, nor does he abandon his thought-out program.” –Peter Masters This is a fascinating…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
The Insanity of Gérard de Nerval
My latest book is available for $5.38 + shipping here: Here is its cover, including its description:
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brandonrburdette (27)in #art • 6 years ago
Adolf Hitler’s Art
The following excerpts are taken from my recent book Adolf: Artist & Antinomian. After learning today that the book has generated a little bit of interest in Europe, I decided to…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #art • 6 years ago
Art & Truth: Mozart by Dora Stock
The following is an excerpt from my book Martyrs of Art: The Poison of Idealism: “As for his appearance, the actual Mozart was ‘under 5 feet tall, terribly thin, and with a…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #art • 6 years ago
Ian Curtis: A Disorderly Mind
Today let us consider the lyrics of the song Disorder by the band Joy Division. The words were written by Ian Curtis, who’d hanged himself at the age of 23 in 1980. His suicide…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #art • 6 years ago
Arthur Symons Quote
Here is an excellent quotation about the deception which can occur within the theatre. By extension, this has implications for the movies we allow into our minds as well: “The…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #art • 6 years ago
Charles Baudelaire & the Unhealthy Prioritization of Beauty
Baudelaire wrote in his My Heart Laid Bare, “In childhood and still today, the most beautiful thing I found in a theater is the chandelier — a beautiful luminous crystalline…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Anthony Bourdain: Emotional Highs & the Selfishness of Suicide
The following excerpt is taken from my book Man of Masks: A Study of Robin Williams: ==What truth, what information, can emotional highs render? That is the type of atmosphere…
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brandonrburdette (27)in #life • 6 years ago
Excerpt from “Man of Masks: A Study of Robin Williams”
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