I never understood what made your lips on my neck such an intimate affair until your teeth grazed my pulse and I realized you could tear open my throat and make me bleed out in your arms, but instead you chose to kiss.
hi fellow Crash 1996 fanatics I made some bumper stickers to let everyone else on the road know what kind of freak you are :] available here! (I only made 30 but if there’s interest I can make more in the future)
the holy wound, attributed to jean le noir / the incredulity of saint thomas, guercino / the body of signification, elizabeth grosz (in: abjection, melancholia, and love: the works of julia kristeva) / hannibal nbc / the incredulity of saint thomas, caravaggio / saint catherine drinks the blood of christ, francesco vanni / the body of signification, elizabeth grosz / crash, david cronenberg / side wound of christ (england, 15th century) / the terror amc / the terror of pleasure: the contemporary horror film and postmodern theory, tania modleski (in: the horror reader)
"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.
"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash
JAMES SPADER as James Ballard
CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg