Vim Lowenstein


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Vim Lowenstein
City: Hobart
Country: Australia
Joined: Mar 2008

HUMANITY IS MY RELIGION BUT
I AM SLOWLY LOSING FAITH

“find enough holes in the world
you’ll eventually fall through”

”...any other way feels fake”

“Questioning is Strengthening”

VIM

Some of my Influenza’s include: Charles Bukowski,
Bret Easton Ellis, Noam Chomsky, Bill Hicks, Kingsley/Martin Amis, Hunter S. Thompson, David Lynch, Trent Reznor, Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Shaun Micallef, John Pilger, Naomi Klein, Ernest Hemingway, Corey Taylor, Gus Van Sant, George Carlin, Coen Brothers, Peter Beste, Henry Miller, and alcohol

For the gallery go to Vim’s Den

Send lawsuits and hatemail to vimreepa@gmail.com

Favourite quotes:

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind
Jim Morrison

Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. mediaNoam Chomsky

I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?Ernest Hemingway

The less you talk, the more you’re listened toAbigail Van Buren

The more one is hated, I find, the happier one isLouis Ferdinand Celine

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has no meaningHenry Miller

We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be freeBill Hicks

Sometimes I think the only thing ready to accept me is deathJack Kerouac

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity -
Edgar Allan Poe

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom…for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enoughWilliam Blake

Time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the timeCatherine Zandonella

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex and picnicsChristopher Hitchens

Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe itAdolf Hitler

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quitGeorge Carlin

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a criticRichard Pryor

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in
- Amy Lowell

Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his picturesHenry Ward Beecher

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it
- Frank Zappa

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools speak because they have to say something
- Plato

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt
- Mark Twain

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company
Mark Twain

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the worldRichard Dawkins

The concept of absurdity is something I’m attracted to -
David Lynch

Faith: not wanting to know what is true
Friedrich Nietzsche

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madnessFriedrich Nietzsche

Journal Entries

The Wreckage Of My Flesh (MY DYING BRIDE - LYRICS)

Posted 8 months ago.

The Whore, The Cook And The Mother - My Dying Bride (lyrics) my fave song at the moment

Posted 8 months ago.

dried up

Posted 8 months ago, 11 comments so far.

anyone remember pop tarts???

Posted 9 months ago, 19 comments so far.

me don't like...

Posted 10 months ago, 14 comments so far.

the unorthodox scary dreams

Posted 11 months ago, 6 comments so far.

I am so fuckin fatigued

Posted 11 months ago, 2 comments so far.

Rove

Posted 11 months ago.

the truth and nothing but

Posted about 1 year ago.

hallelujah

Posted about 1 year ago, 5 comments so far.

Writing

media focus on suicide

I, although journalism at university, always wondered why suicide stories are so carefully handled to the point of shunning the subject so we are almost blind or become complacent with the subject. In…

we're all going on a summer holiday

how gay was that song?...Cliff Richard what a nonce anyway, I digress, I am going on a summer holiday to Torquay in Victoria / with my home boys (not really home boys, I just like to try and sound …

my own loathsome soul

masturbation a means / to bring sleep and its dreams / remove me of here / and this warm empty beer

small talk

girls think I’m weird / when I don’t shed a tear / I’m such a boy so coy / and aloof girls think it’s novel / when I cry and grovel / my tolerance for normality / not what it used to be …

good, bad and ugly (a short account of metal music)

A friend of mine in flippant fashion commented that I always only listen to angry music. Although her comment was a mere observation and made with no real longevity I’m sure, it has managed to stick…

top ten albums for the 2000's

My Dying Bride – The Lies I Sire DarkThrone – Dark Thrones and Black Flags Slipknot – Vol 3 (The Subliminal Verses) Porcupine Tree – Fear of a Blank Planet Placebo – Meds Quee…

Watchlist

  • Jessica Walker
  • Melissa Vowell
  • Chocolat
  • Rebecca Tun
  • MrSardonicus
  • Dan Verkys