its always so heartwarming to hear somebody pronounce such clear thoughts and ideas that you had but didnt found a place to announce or time to develop!
We are prisoners of our misconceptions of who we think we are in the face of what we expect ourselves to be, what we wish we were and what we cannot admit to ourselves.
I wish I had an Alan Moore in my life to talk to! Like if he was my uncle or even grandfather! I don't have anyone like this in my life who one can discuss esoteric/random/interesting things and who also has such amazing life experience which has been lived in such an examined way. Despite his 'magical' persuasions, and quote un quote 'odd' appearance, Alan seem's like the most grounded and (to use a pop psychological term, as I can't think of one better for the minute) 'self actualized' man I have ever heard. I suppose the answer, really, is to be your own Alan Moore...or just be as fully and completely your own person as you can...but its very hard...when even creativity in my case becomes so onerous as to undo any healing power it might bring...I wish I had an older person in my life who could talk outside these boxes with me...oh well...just try and crack on I suppose and I suppose there is lots of Alan Moore interviews here on youtube so I will have to make do with those! Thank you for the upload though :)
BelatedCommiseration I totally agree, i've had 1 or 2 interesting close friends in my life, deep, interesting etc, but one'died, the other dissapeared, its a rare thing to find someone like Mr Moore, you could meet dudes like this in pubs and what not once, but they seem to be on the decline....lesser spotted Alamos Moruss or whatever lol
Yup,they have dumbed us down and actually,if you think about it,the pub culture that engendered that has disappeared to be replaced by gastropubs.You can take the wife and kids,no one is smoking (good) and you can enjoy a meal.But there won't be any sweary bastards challenging you,in a fun way,to defend yourself,politically or otherwise.
34:00 -- This is the most interesting minute, by my estimation. "Art is for asking questions, science is for answering them, religion is for avoiding them, and magic is the glue that holds it together." -- I'm not disagreeing with this at all, but I do wonder if perhaps magic is the social butterfly which everyone thinks is someone else's friend. That is to say, Magic seems more like religion to a scientist; to the religious, it's practically taboo to use magic means other than the miracles one's deity provides. So Magic has the most in common with Art, although there are plenty of artists who don't describe what they do in magical terms. Great interview and video, thank you so much and thank you, Alan, for making my life better, too.
And then there are those who accept the magic(k)al nature of reality and use it to create their own, like Alan Moore... But you don't need to be an artist to be a magickian.
He links magic to science because of alchemy. Not the ficcional magic, but the magic of changing physical things, mixing things to get an another new thing. Magic of making science, making medicine, making robots, technology, etc. He explains it on the Arte French channel!
I'm hoping to meet him and shake his hand when I come through England next year. I'm going to do an art tour of Northampton's historic churches and landscapes, because whatever it is that is so magic about Northampton that has kept him there is worth a drawn and painted study. I love this interview. So down to earth, and the interviewer isn't guiding really at all. Great content.
Hello Cat, I was born there and stayed there for 39 years, the only reason I stayed so long was the Indian food! Best wishes from a musical armourer in a French forest, and of course all the mice! ⚒️🇬🇧 🐁🐁🐁🐁
Thanks for posting this, great talk. I was writing to slap your wrist for leaving your phone on. But then it made that call possible... and it’s downright insane that we get to watch these two figures, Moore and Heathcote-Williams, talk to each other and profess their mutual respect for the first time, probably the last, as the date of this talk isn’t far from the latter’s passing. What an amazing, surprising gift you gave us, I am sincerely moved. Again, thank you.
I wish I could pick Mr. Moore's brain about the current state of literature, and in my opinion the decline of individuality, or the value thereof to the masses. It makes me worried for the future of Art.
I'm not sure I would call it "shit" but I think it was highly overrated. It was a star carried Hollywood money draw, made to make money, and that is NOT what art is about. If you make Art to become rich, or make large amounts of profit, you are doing it for the absolute wrong reason my friend.
Yes I read it last year. Imagine having that level of understanding of the English Language and Literature? An awesome imagination. A wonderful knowledge of his surroundings. Probably the first time "Woolworths" has been mentioned in a novel I imagine. 😀
@@Olliebear38 I think it took him ten years to write. His writing career has clearly enabled him to master character voice. And yes, hahaha definitely the first time a novel has opened with the remembrance of Woolworth's!
Well, you can't have it both ways. We left the phone on so Alan and Heathcote could finally talk to each other and express their admiration for each other's work. Either we left it on so that could happen, or we didn't, and I think we made the right decision. This is not slick corporate product, this is an informal chat between two very clever people with a lot to say to each other. When I had to pack up and leave, they talked for another two hours. Don't worry about the phone, Alan's look of disdain when it goes off is priceless. Relax be happy, life is too short to get uptight about things that really don't matter! Thank you for your feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed it, you're welcome.
This is only one-third of the original interview. You can read the rest here: internationaltimes.it/ode-to-the-eternalist-a-litera-matic-encounter-with-alan-moore/
It was The Strange World of Gurney Slade, a short-lived pet project for Anthony Newley, written by Dick Hills and Sid Green - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Strange_World_of_Gurney_Slade Pilot episode here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-urVuUNLe46w.html
Gurney Slade with Anthony Newley. It was way ahead of its time and didn't last long, sadly ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-urVuUNLe46w.html
So . . . . Who'd win in a fistfight, Alan Moore, or Grant Morrison? I know Alan looks laid back and placid here but he's a big lad, with a long reach, and hands like shovels. He's got a scarier thousand yard stare too. Morrison is younger and Scottish, but I don't think he's much of a scrapper for a porridge wog, but I may be wrong. What I do know, is that I wouldn't like to get in between them when it all kicks off.
I think Grant's a softie really, a nice man, raised by very progressive anti-war, evironmentalist parents. He would cast a protective ward, but that would'nt save him. Moore's got more experience and he's still a beast. He's bigger, hairier, more brooding, and would intimidate the hell out of Grant
If everybody had the same amount of money, the government wouldn't be able to keep the roads maintained, do it's paperwork, provide healthcare -- nothing. No central body would have enough resources or manpower to run everything, so everyone would have to be a city-state unto themselves. Everybody would have to embody the entire culture at once instead of leaving it up to other people who are specialized in each role. It's like action potentials in a cell or electricity in a circuit: what makes the thing work is not energy but the _flow_ of energy. People misunderstand money and think that it's an abstraction of commodities and services, as though these were discreet things, and not links in a wider holistic process. Money is completely worthless until it is spent. So true equality of resources is complete stagnation because there's no gradient; no pathway for transfer and diffusion.
A nice conversation indeed. Sad that he doesn't even want to be friends with the artists of those works he disowned. The bad energies from them must be too much. Best to move on, anyways. Guy should have turned off his phone after the call happened. Such a shame to not even have it on vibrate the whole time. But the interview was good regardless.
🗣 *That’s the pot calling the kettle black with your ‘amateurs’ comment,you need glasses or to clean your screen because that is no mass produced cigarette!* *Mug!*
Descartes buggered up western thought for a long while with his "I think, therefor I am" red herring, quoted endlessly without understanding by so called thinkers. The "I am" came first because you were long before you could think. "I am" therefore I can think, and breathe, and walk, and argue and enjoy. "Am - ness" appears when life enters the body, leaves when life leaves. Thought does not go near consciousness which is forever escaping it. The closest it may come is "attention" pure and without qualities. If it had qualities it would colour perception which is essentially itself. If directed inward it perceives thought, if directed outward it perceives the senses. Will may direct attention but not control it. Once the fire is lit it can not be extinguished. Death does not extinguish the fire, it just separates it from the empty husk that is left.
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But because the thought takes whatever fraction of of a second to process, it should be "I thought, therefore I was"
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Or Schrodinger's thought, "I think, therefore I am both 'I am' and 'I am not' at any given time".
yeah I think Alan Moore is a pothead I'm pretty sure I've read something where he mentions it. But in this video I think he may just be smoking a handrolled ciggarette or maybe it is a spliff lol
