What song do you think everyone should listen to once in their life ?
Irene:
The Ship – Brian Eno
Love Songs for Robots – Patrick Watson
Her Revolution / His Rope – Burial, Four Tet, Thom Yorke
GET UP – Young Fathers
Words – Low
Dan:
Chaconne – Johann Sebastian Bach, played by Jascha Heifetz
What book is a must read ?
Irene:
The Man Who Planted Trees – Jean Giono
If this is a man – Primo Levi
The King Bows and Kills – Herta Müller
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
The Daydreamer – Ian McEwan
Dan:
The Republic – Plato
What film is a must see ?
Irene:
The Wonders – Alba Rohrwacher
Capernaum – Nadine Labaki
Mustang – Deniz Ergüven
Roma – Alfonso Cuarón
Tomboy – Céline Sciamma
Dan:
Walking with Dinosaurs
What are you most grateful for ?
Irene: I’m grateful Dan is here, with me. I’m grateful I have friends around me and a loving family with whom I often keep in touch, and that I miss a lot. I’m grateful I have a job I love and a roof over my head. I’m grateful I’m relatively healthy, even though I passed through several hardships.
Dan: The people in my life.
Irene:
OUT OF –
Meaning-less.
Meaning.
Less.
Without, meaning.
Meaning, with-out.
Meaningless.
I can’t find.
I don’t see.
I can’t find.
Any meaning.
I don’t see.
The point.
I don’t see, the point, of anything – anything at all.
I can’t find, any meaning, any meaning at all.
There is just, no, no point – no point.
No point in anything.
Lost. I am lost.
I can’t be found.
I can’t be saved.
By anyone. By anything.
There’s nothing I can cling into.
Freefalling.
From the ravine, freefalling.
Maybe I should have – from the ravine. The other day, I should have.
And I can’t –
I can’t go on like this.
Silently, I cry.
One tear.
Two tears.
Three tears.
I rain.
Nothing, no one,
nothing makes sense.
Love-less.
Nothing-ness.
Empty-ness.
Again.
Here we go – again.
I fall in it.
I jump in it.
As if it was – a black hole – I am being sucked by it.
Everything, nothing.
Everything, nothing.
Everything – darkness.
Nothing – makes sense.
I fall in it, I am being sucked by it, the black hole of lovelessness, of nothingness, of emptiness.
Buildings, architectures
built upon
buildings, architectures
and cities, upon cities
empires, built upon empires –
of nothingness –
and all the human suffering –
being sucked by, from, by a blackhole –
centuries upon centuries
Of meaningless alphabets, meaningless architectures, meaningless statues, meaningless temples.
Empires, entire empires – empty.
All the human suffering – nowhere.
With a burst,
disappearing –
jumping –
jumping out of –
Meaning.
Less.
Without, meaning.
Meaning, with-out.
Meaningless.
I can’t find.
I don’t see.
I can’t find.
Any meaning.
I don’t see.
The point.
I don’t see, the point, of anything – anything at all.
I can’t find, any meaning, any meaning at all.
There is just, no, no point – no point.
No point in anything.
Lost. I am lost.
I can’t be found.
I can’t be saved.
By anyone. By anything.
There’s nothing I can cling into.
Freefalling.
From the ravine, freefalling.
Maybe I should have – from the ravine. The other day, I should have.
And I can’t –
I can’t go on like this.
Silently, I cry.
One tear.
Two tears.
Three tears.
I rain.
Nothing, no one,
nothing makes sense.
Love-less.
Nothing-ness.
Empty-ness.
Again.
Here we go – again.
I fall in it.
I jump in it.
As if it was – a black hole – I am being sucked by it.
Everything, nothing.
Everything, nothing.
Everything – darkness.
Nothing – makes sense.
I fall in it, I am being sucked by it, the black hole of lovelessness, of nothingness, of emptiness.
Buildings, architectures
built upon
buildings, architectures
and cities, upon cities
empires, built upon empires –
of nothingness –
and all the human suffering –
being sucked by, from, by a blackhole –
centuries upon centuries
Of meaningless alphabets, meaningless architectures, meaningless statues, meaningless temples.
Empires, entire empires – empty.
All the human suffering – nowhere.
With a burst,
disappearing –
jumping –
jumping out of –
Dan:
For my whole life I have had an idea of who I was and of the purpose of my life. At the end of university that all imploded. So I had to build myself back from the ground up, and I did, and I mostly like the person I am now. I’m glad the implosion happened because I think I am a better person. I learned to find the stability in change and the change in stability.
