LA BONNE DISTRAITE +

Who lives here?

2010-08-17T23:49:00.002-04:00

New piece/thing/what in PANK out now.

No turn there, I think, just a brief bit of concentration running vertical-wise.

More soon (Unsaid). Listening for now:

Gucci Mane: Burrpoint 3D
Rick Ross (??x2)
Wild Nothing: Gemini
Ipod on Random= Only Ones. Emeralds. Die Bohren and Der Club of Gore. Gucci Mane.

Ready to work on some longer things once Exams are done. A week + 2 days to go and waiting to go at 3 longer stories already begun/novel stuff.

More exam reading:

Althusser
S. Hall
R. Williams
F. Nietsche
Robinson Jeffers (ugh)
Maryanne Moore (morals + mortality. a finishing school unto herself.)
Hart Crane

Some Mer Water

2010-06-12T11:51:00.003-04:00

Actress, Splazsh
Eddie Bo, In the Pocket
Abner Jay, One Man Band
Roky Erickson, I Have Always Been Here Before
Mount Kimbie, Maybes EP
Sleigh Bells, Treats

Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go

Speak Spell

2010-04-12T14:48:00.006-04:00

New strangeness out in Witness. More things forthcoming.

Listening:

Scratch Acid, Greatest Gift
AFX, Chosen Lords
Masta Killa, No Said Date (first half is brilliant, not so much the rest)
Pierre Fournier, Six Bach Cello Suites
Timber Timbre, s/t
Simone White, I'm the Man
Bill Withers, Just as I Am
Leonard Cohen, Live Songs
Mixes by Linger & Quiet
Demdike Stare, Symbiosis

Sunk Then

2010-04-04T19:03:00.002-04:00

William Backhaus: Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas

Annie Fischer: Beethoven, Complete Piano Sonatas

Bill Fay: From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock

Atlas Sound: Rough Trade EP

Replacements: Let it Be

VA: Watch How the People Dancing (Honest Jon's)

VA: Marvellous Boy (Honest Jon's

VA: Pomegranates, Music

Faust: IV

VA: Boogaloo Pow Pow

Return of Return

2010-02-21T22:46:00.002-05:00

Listening (Winter Noise):

Kevin Drumm, Imperial Horizon + Imperial Distortion

Yellow Swans, Live During War Crimes #3 (looking forward to hearing "Going Places" on Type Records)

Yellow Swans/John Wiese, Portable Dunes

Grouper/Roy Montgomery, Split

Grouper, Cover the Windows and the Walls

Wayne Shorter, Juju

Grant Green, Idle Moments

Ella Fitzgerald, Sing the Rodgers and Hart Song Book

Jorge Ben, Samba Esquema Novo

Esthete Cardosa, Cancao do Amor Demais

Joao Gilberto, Joao Gilberto

Arthur Jones, Scorpio (BYG)

Sam Rivers, Contrasts

Snow everywhere. Then water everywhere. Trying to catch up on work.

Ah

2009-10-27T13:40:00.003-04:00

Somehow discovered Bradford Cox's (Deerhunter) Micromixes (all 22 of them) and so have been making my way through those. So far, they're excellent (22-17). I am now in love with the Fleetwoods. Am awaiting the future triumphs of the Phillies over the much-despised Yankees.

Reading Richard Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. This book has been responsible for my last two (of three) headaches, though I've actually enjoyed reading it.

Read, Eat, Write

2009-10-23T14:51:00.004-04:00

Taking notes and listening to Bill May's self-titled album (1970). The orchestration sounds a bit like Scott Walker's, though it's not nearly as strange. Still, there's drama drama drama.

Watched Oldboy. Not sure what I think about it. Read Manohla Dargis's review, which is particularly scathing, and while I'm not sure that OB is a totem par examplar of cultural emptiness and pulp style, I'm not sure that I enjoyed it all that much. Tough film to like, like most Tartan releases.

Got the galleys for a forthcoming story in Witness, which is exciting. Can't wait until December.

Read two fantastic articles:

1. Padgett Powell in New York Times Magazine

2. Brock Clarke on the recent John Cheever biography and why it doesn't matter in the slightest.

Winter boots are here (picture soon?). Have sno sealed them. Now just waiting for winter.

Read, Eat, Sleep

2009-10-20T18:49:00.002-04:00

Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic

Student Essays+

Been watching Wire in the Blood, a BBC crime drama about a somewhat antisocial psychologist who happens to work almost full-time helping local Bradfield police solve a somewhat perplexing amount of serial killer cases (one per episode). Cliche topics so far: voodoo, cross dressing, s&m, multiple personality, etc. Not the best show, but it's leaps and bounds better than Criminal Minds.

Notes +

2009-10-09T13:56:00.003-04:00

Taking notes from David Harvey's excellent book The Condition of Postmodernity.

Read the latest Paris Review interview with James Ellroy of L.A. Confidential fame. Kind of awesome and nauseating at the same time.

Listening to Blind Willie Johnson. Waiting for my winter boots to come in the mail.

Listening + Reading, pt. 2

2009-10-04T15:11:00.005-04:00

Girls, Album
Johnny Hartman, I Just Dropped by to Say Hello
Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks
Atlas Sound, Sheila (single)
King Sunny Ade, Juju Music
Cass McCombs, Catacombs

Charles Jencks, ed., The Postmodern Reader (Huyssen, Hutcheon, Harvey)
This months 1000 word stories for the Sinkhole story group

Saw Doubt recently (film) and thought it was quite good. Same with I've Loved You So Long. Tried to watch My Beautiful Laundrette (Daniel Day Lewis) and got through it by not paying much attention.

Also trying to revise+write a few newer things . . .

Listening + Reading

2009-09-27T21:17:00.003-04:00

Count Bass D (Dwight Spitz)
Jorge Ben (Forca Bruta)
M83 (Saturdays = Youth)
Marissa Nadler, Songs III
Sunburned Hand of the Man, Double Puberty cdr

Charles Lemert, Postmodernism is not what you think
Padgett Powell, The Interrogative Mood
Charles Jenks, ed., The Postmodern Reader
Wallace Stevens, Harmonium

Alabama

2009-07-12T22:31:00.000-04:00

"Men are lived over again"

2009-07-12T22:19:00.001-04:00

I like this. It's from Sir Thomas Browne. "Men are not only themselves," he says. Well then.

Things I taught in the last three weeks

2009-07-12T22:15:00.002-04:00

The Big Sleep
City of Glass
"The Simple Art of Murder"
"The Literature of Exhaustion"
Brick
Chinatown
Blade Runner
Gun With Occasional Music

Initiation

2009-06-08T18:54:00.001-04:00

Ideas nixed by the author

2009-06-08T18:24:00.006-04:00

Enclaves in the ocean, comprised of drowned people who live out death underwater. Water-based problems?

Couple find door in a dead Aunt, set off search for more doors. People start finding and using doors (found in the bodies of the dead) so frequently that the world (living) begins to empty of people.

Group of folks in space, where space is simply an endless number of rooms that open onto other rooms. Domestic comedy?

Been thinking about: Fleischer Brothers (Their Art Deco version of Superman? Anyone seen this? Pretty amazing. Or their collected works? Weird, wonderful animation). The new Phoenix album, which is surprisingly fun. Contemporary fairy tales. My not-yet-arrived daughter, who is as-of-yet unnamed. But due in two days.

Sword of Doom

2009-05-20T11:13:00.000-04:00

Yoww Yoww Yoww, pt.2

2009-05-19T12:32:00.008-04:00

May is Short Story Month, and EWN, Ninth Letter, and others have been running a really fine series dedicated to writers' takes on particular works. I feel really grateful to have had Brian Kornell, assistant editor over at Ninth Letter, post an incredibly generous piece on my stories "The Cortege," which was part of Mississippi Review's issue on literary magazines, and "The Countrymen," featured in the 5.2 issue of Ninth Letter.

Also at Ninth Letter are pieces on Dan Chaon and Keith Lee Morris, who I've been fans of for some time. If you haven't yet read The Dart League King (Tin House, 2008) or Among the Missing (Ballantine, 2002) go out and grab them. Both rich, beautiful works.

Here's Jorge Ben. For springtime.

Yoww Yoww Yoww

2009-05-07T12:11:00.003-04:00

In which the lake does not make itself

2009-05-03T21:22:00.008-04:00

There being no lake, or one (we) having to imagine a will-to-lake of the lake. The lake, pre-lake, wanting itself, assembling its forces, and thus A Lake (itself)! No, the lake does not make itself.

lake requirements:

1. a sustained change in elevation such that might fall then rise to at least the height of its previous elevation, e.x. (V), and support the holding of a large amount of water (a body!)

2. water (cycling, that is water and the replenishment of water via ground (earth), air (condensation), etc.

forthcoming: (a) In Which Lake (V) Meets Anti-lake (^). (b) Lake Superior. (c) In Which A Lake Makes Itself, or The Immaculate Lake.

Ordinary family, ordinary problems

2009-05-03T20:47:00.010-04:00

Like aging in general, and what to do with the amount of trash that makes its way once a week to the curb. Who will pay the ordinary family's bills? What will the ordinary daughter wear on Tuesday? Will the ordinary son remember to bring the necessary resources home in order to complete his homework? Will they sleep every night? Will the night come? The day? Will she lie awake, her brain unable to stop its doing doing doing? Will the will like a wheelbarrow carry and carry, adding nothing, having only itself? Will the mail come on time? Will willows whisper in the eaves? Will a new addition suffice? Will the counter tops be granite? Who will break whose heart? At what time, and in what instance? Or may they break their own?

forthcoming: Church Trip, or The Ordinary Family Visits Antigua.

In Which a story (unwritten) entitled "The Mistress Trembles" is discussed

2009-04-26T17:40:00.008-04:00

Is singing in the morning, having just woke. Everybody wakes. That is, of those who are sleeping. And so she is awake and singing. This story will have a setting. It will take place in more than just a bedroom. Some possible settings for the story of the mistress: cafe, rectory, waterfall, sidewalk. The song is quite a basic example, the melody simple, re: the song she will sing before (during) the trembling episode to which the title alludes. We will have to decide, at some point, if the song is a real or fictive song. Some questions: why is the mistress at choir practice? for whom is she a mistress? if we call her simply "Mistress" does that imply a judgment of some kind? Why the (figurative?) trembling? Should the title be remade? Must this trembling be a part of the story. Why not "The Mistress"? "The Girl," or "Lady"?

forthcoming: In Which the Story Formerly Known As "The Mistress Trembles" is Renamed and Instead called "The Lady".

In Which a Number of Characters Appear*

2009-04-23T16:15:00.008-04:00

Including Featherhead, for which a system of belief must be erected in order to hew some coherence from the plot, of which he seems a major part. Said plot being that a drought is occurring, and that Featherhead, being in advanced age, has advised the capturing of the gods in hopes the gods might relent and bring said drought to a close. The problem being that the gods, once captured in animal form, do not relent, may be unable to relent, which puts strain on the belief in the power of the gods.

Other characters scheduled to appear: A stag. A fox. A doe. A bear. Each tied to a picnic table and with eyes covered over by rabbit pelts (of course).

*Also, some nice people have said some nice things about some recent work. Like over here and over here. For which I am very grateful.

Tunneling to the Center of the Earth

2009-04-06T16:09:00.007-04:00

Have been waiting for Kevin Wilson's collection, and now it's arrived. Really excellent work. Go see the very fine Times review here: nytimes. A writer I admire I great deal. Now go buy the book.

People W/O History

2009-04-03T10:58:00.003-04:00

from Ben Brantley's review (nytimes.com) of the play by Richard Maxwell.

Mono

2009-03-28T22:56:00.002-04:00

from "Drummer Wanted," written and directed by R. Maxwell

Musique

2009-03-21T17:56:00.004-04:00

No money, but I want music. Like:

Sunn O))) Monoliths & Dimensions
Fever Ray s/t (from Knife)
Pains of Being Pure at Heart s/t
Field Yesterday and Today

I got Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou The Vodoun Effect for my birthday, which was wonderful. More beautiful music from analog africa.

Also got kind of excited about Willie Isz's new album, Georgiavania, coming out on Lex. The leak single "Grussle" is amazing, but I've also heard another track that wasn't as strong. Have to wait and see.

There's an Honest Jon's release coming out that I really want to hear. I think it's calypso music. I don't remember the name of the comp though (edit: it's called Marvellous Boy: Calypso From West Africa).

I'm tired of the internet lately. Tired of its little communities.

Had an idea today of beginning a site like Pitchfork, but being only book reviews. Something with a house style that works under the umbrella of pushing the art of book criticism over publicity. Only smart book reviews, maybe an article every now and then about something important.

Ronnie van Hout

2009-03-04T22:21:00.003-05:00

Ersatz (Sick Child) 2005. Mixed media. Collection of Christchurch Art Gallery, purchased by the Friends of Christchurch Art Gallery, 2007.

Night-Sea Journey by John Barth

2009-02-26T23:21:00.005-05:00

"Perhaps, even, I am drowned already. Surely I was never meant for the rough-and-tumble of the swim; not impossibly I perished at the outset and have only imagined the night-sea journey from some final sleep. In any case, I'm no longer young, and it is we spent old swimmers, disabused of every illusion, who are most vulnerable to dreams."

Tatonka cries Kevin Costner!!!

2009-02-22T22:58:00.008-05:00

Did my best August Kleinzhaler impression this weekend while reading 'The Countrymen' at University of Louisville. Felt quite good.

A+W+P

2009-02-10T16:07:00.003-05:00

I'm off to Chi-town. Come by and visit The Cincinnati Review table at the Book Fair. I'll be there Friday and Saturday afternoons.

Koffie+

2009-02-07T13:24:00.007-05:00

Coffee and caramel flavored hard candy made by Leaf Holland and brought to us from Den Hague by my mother-in-law. I am now in need of these at least once every hour and worry what will happen when my stash runs out.

Repetition

2009-02-07T12:39:00.007-05:00

Went to see the Tara Donovan exhibit at CAC last night w/homeboys/girls (those are stacked plastic cups set in different elevations + foam cups glued in the above). Interesting work. DJ was playing a bunch of great 45s. All the pretty people were out. That means us.

USPS+

2009-02-04T16:46:00.005-05:00

Came in the mail today. Blake Butler's EVER. I've read the first 30 pages so far and am into this. I like writing informed by Beckett and this seems to be in that mode (and in other modes as well, not only that) but in a way that's different from writers like Auster, Barthelme, Lutz, Evenson, Powell, and Ball. I'll have more on this maybe. I don't want to talk the book into a corner. It's doing a lot of things that seem unrelated to my point above, but at first glance it's got a toe in that camp. For some reason too this reminds me of Les Murray's animal poems and the pieces I've seen lately by Jenny Hanning. Really interesting stuff. It's in the air, and it's good.

Listen

2009-02-04T15:33:00.007-05:00

Un Dia by Juana Molina (really amazing)

Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective (yes)

Uproot by dj/rupture (yes yes)

Solo by Henry Grimes (i don't have this yet but am imagining its greatness)

Geodaddi by Boards of Canada (revisiting this)

Headz 2A and 2B which is part of a Mo wax collaboration from 1996 that features early dj shadow, dj krust, peshay, air, and a lot of other folks.

Flying Girl (1) + Dog Girl (1)

2009-02-01T12:57:00.003-05:00

Details of miniature pieces my wife painted.

Santa as Bill Pullman as Fred Madison

2009-01-31T20:20:00.006-05:00

Why is santa hurting that saxophone?

Kiosk + Stick

2009-01-31T19:32:00.009-05:00

To see Kiosk go here.

Baby Visual ID = 95% XX (daughter)

2009-01-30T19:02:00.001-05:00

(a rather skeletal photo of my daughter, in utero, should be right here). fatherhood, yo!

OTR (Light+Snow)

2009-01-29T20:01:00.000-05:00

Sloth Control

2009-01-25T13:24:00.000-05:00

Am *slowly* reading through the following:

Wallace Stephen's The Palm at the End of the Mind

Ninth Letter, 5:2

Paris Review Winter, 2009

Keith Lee Morris's The Dart League King

Three Lines

2009-01-25T13:20:00.000-05:00

Saw this at Half Price the other day. A novel composed entirely of headlines and clips from newspapers. I got about twenty pages into it. I would like to read the rest. Just when I feel stuck . . . Am now figuring out what to do with this . . .

Bundles for Them

2009-01-14T22:56:00.001-05:00

Not sure I'd read Stein's poetry before. I'm sure maybe that I hadn't. I've read now about all of the poems in the NAOMP (Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry), and now she's one of my favorite poets. I think. For now at least. For this week.

For some reason I like this one:

Bundles for Them

A HISTORY OF GIVING BUNDLES

We were able to notice that each one in a way carried a bundle, they / were not a trouble to them nor were they all bundles as some of them were / chickens some of them pheasants some of them sheep and some of them / bundles, they were not a trouble to them and then indeed we learned that / it was the principal recreation and they were so arranged that they were / not given away, and to-day they were given away.
I will not look at them again.
They will not look for them again.
They have not seen them here again.
They are in there and we hear them again.
In which way are stars brighter than they are. When we have come to this decision. We mention many thousands of buds. And when I close my eyes I see them.
If you hear her snore
It is not before you love her
You love her so that to be her beau is very lovely
She is sweetly there and her curly hair is very lovely
She is sweetly here and I am very near and that is very lovely
She is my tender sweet and her little feet are stretched out well which is a treat and very lovely
Her little tender nose is between her little eyes which close and are very lovely.
She is very lovely and mine which is very lovely.

-1922

No?

Rap semi-Nostalgic Quote of the Day

2009-01-11T23:35:00.002-05:00

Run up in your crib like my name was Search Warrant

Mailman+

2009-01-10T16:29:00.000-05:00

My contributor's copies of Ninth Letter came in the mail today. It's the new Fall/Winter 2008-9 issue. I feel really lucky to be in here. It's worth picking up for the music section alone. Cheers.

Put Some Deez On It, or Songs I Listened to 08

2009-01-07T22:57:00.000-05:00

In no real, meaningful order . . .

01.) Master of None, Beach House

02.) State Trooper, Bruce Springstreen

03.) Beaux Dimanches, Amadou and Mariam

04.) Good to Me, Otis Redding

05.) Most Beautiful City on Earth, Magik Markers

06.) Sweet Love for Planet Earth, Fuck Buttons

07.) I Got Your Ice Cold Nugrape, The Nugrape Twins

08.) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me, Ella Fitzgerald w/ Duke Ellington

09.) Easy Lee, Ricardo Villalobos

10.) Spring Hall Convert, Deerhunter

11.) Hip Priest, The Fall

12.) Repetition, The Fall

13.) Katie Cruel, Karen Dalton

14.) Mr. Me Too, Clipse

15.) Erik Satie, Gymnopedie I-III

16.) The Worst (That Comes Out Of Me), John Terrill

17.) Veni Vidi Vici, Black Lips

18.) The Great Pine Tar Scandal, Paul Flaherty/Chris Corsano

19.) Chipo Choroorwa, The Green Arrows

Pinter speaks Pinter to Pinter

2009-01-07T22:26:00.000-05:00

I'm curious about this (see below). I remember having a conversation with a professor that I liked a great deal about whether speech can ever be peaceful, and I for some reason would not quit saying that speech is always coercive, though that has little to do with the quote below.

Pinter crescendo: "The speech we hear is an indication of that which we don't hear. It is a necessary avoidance, a violent, sly, and anguished or mocking smoke screen which keeps the other in its true place. When true silence falls we are left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness."

Echo. I like that.

Man Record Man

2009-01-06T13:22:00.000-05:00

Memorious 11

2008-12-26T23:28:00.001-05:00

which is beautiful

Webster +

2008-12-26T11:25:00.001-05:00

Field Work

2008-12-26T00:04:00.001-05:00

Tin House Wilson

2008-12-25T23:43:00.001-05:00

Retired Knee-Basketball Star Kevin Wilson has a story in Tin House this month that people should read right now. Includes: ice fights, brief remembrance(s) of failed, same-sex incest, and a girl rubbing ice-cream on her own face. And much much more. Go here.

Vault

2008-12-17T01:30:00.001-05:00

I saw this video a long time ago (9 years ago) at a show in Philadelphia at the Trocadero. I've looked for it everywhere. Have no idea where it came from or who made it. It looked a bit like it could have been a Bill Viola video, but I don't think it was. It was simply incredibly slow motion shots of people pole vaulting, but the only part you saw (this is how I remember it at least), was the bodies going over the bar, both of which were shot close, so there was no relation to the ground, or how high up they were. It just looked like people arching and reclining with great effort and grace while flying through the air (and also featuring the weird, leotard-like track uniforms and culturally-required facial hair). Does anyone know what I'm going on about?

Hackett

2008-12-17T01:29:00.001-05:00

Phases

2008-12-17T01:21:00.000-05:00

King

2008-12-12T13:18:00.000-05:00

from DIAGRAM 5.2

I really love this.

here

from the author: "This poem draws on sculptor Tish Quisenberry's assessment of the PACT, Tim Bovard taxiderming a gorilla, Dr. Samuel Pollock's thoracic surgery expertise, something scribbled on a napkin at the Spoke in Amherst, and the many times I have wondered, which blue surgical footie goes on which shoe, and being happy as I recall that it really does not matter."

Listening + Reading

2008-12-09T22:23:00.000-05:00

Listening = Wu Tang Clan, Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers)

I don't know why, but I keep putting this in. It's this or Yabby You for the past few days.

Reading = Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy

I have trouble placing him. I'd put he and Barthelme in a similar category. Both taking on Beckett in interesting ways. His style is so clean (similar to Doctorow).

Complete Works

2008-12-05T22:55:00.000-05:00

From the new Iris Bookstore on Main Street in OTR. 1957 FSG $5

English

2008-12-05T22:40:00.001-05:00

Oxford boot made Grenson. They're a bit older than I expected; perhaps they've been resoled. They're on ITSHIDE of England Commando Soles that weigh a ton. I dig the cap toe on these. Good boots. And bench made since 1866.

Headphones

2008-12-05T11:33:00.000-05:00

More listening:

1) Ghana: High-Life and Other Popular Music (Nonesuch)

2) King Geedorah, Take Me to Your Leader (Big Dada)

3) Pavement, Wowee Zowee (Matador)

4) Yabby You, King Tubby's Prophecy of Dub (Blood & Fire)

Shameless Self

2008-11-30T12:39:00.000-05:00

Here

Casals v. Bach

2008-11-29T11:49:00.000-05:00

Cello Suites. Haven't listened to these in a while. EMI has great hiss levels. Casals has great Bach possession. I like Saturdays.

Other listening: Duke Ellington (Disc One of Complete 1944-46); No Age's Weirdos; DJ/Rupture's Uproot; and John Coltrane's Complete Africa Brass.

Militia

2008-11-26T15:03:00.000-05:00

Overheard on the SORTA Bus, No. 18

That's right. They have over there in Kentucky 154,000 people, and they are addicted to methamphetamines, and they are armed. It's like a militia. And they're coming. . . . No one knows this. And these people . . . They are on methamphetamines and they are coming and they are dangerously insane. . . .

Dr.

2008-11-19T19:51:00.000-05:00

from Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow

Teddy Roosevelt was President. The population customarily gathered in great numbers either out of doors for parades, public concerts, fish fries, political events, social outings, or indoors in meeting halls, vaudeville theatres, operas, ballrooms. There seemed to be no entertainment that did not involve great swarms of people. Trains and steamers and trolleys moved them from one place to another. That was the style, that was the way people lived. Women were stouter then. They visited the fleet carrying white parasols. Everyone wore white in summer. Tennis racquets were heavy and the racquet faces elliptical. There was a lot of sexual fainting. There were no Negroes. There were no immigrants.

Art Blakey: Mosaic not Moanin'

2008-11-18T10:32:00.001-05:00

Bought this thinking it was Moanin'. . . . It's not. I got confused. This is 1960. Still excellent. Freddie Hubbard is still in the group. . . . Curtis Fuller is in good form. And Wayne Shorter here is just four years away from Miles's Quartet and blowing asiatic strangeness. Not as good as Orgy in Rhythm, but that's a very different band and occasion. . . .

Cheeseburger

2008-11-17T18:02:00.000-05:00

here

Nelson Algren (Man with the Golden Arm)

2008-11-15T11:36:00.000-05:00

= (Nathaniel West * Postwar Dread) / Dragnet Epilogue

This is a Test

2008-11-14T19:55:00.000-05:00

from Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

The Man has a home office in each of our brains, his corporate emblem is a white albatross, each local rep has a cover known as the Ego, and their mission in this world is Bad Shit.

Colum McCann

2008-11-14T13:46:00.001-05:00

from "Phreak" The Paris Review no. 168

     There's a hum you get with a lot of computers going all at once. It's more than white noise. It's the sort of hum that makes you feel that you're the actual ground lying under the sky, a blue hum that's all above and around you, but if you think about it too hard it will get too loud or too big and make you feel no more than just a speck. You're sealed in by it, the wires, the piping, the electrons moving, but nothing really moving, nothing at all.
     I go to the window. It's a basement window that doesn't get any light. Once I tried to open it, but it didn't budge.
     The machines are whirling all around me.
     I bet the sun is coming up outside.

What this blog is =

2007-01-01T19:05:00.004-05:00

stuff about writing / objects / music / &^T^%^&T / photos / art / life of a ???? in cincinnati, oh.