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He also said that it was really about his friend Edward Thomas, who when they walked together always castigated himself for not having taken another path than the one they took. When Frost sent “The Road Not Taken” to Thomas he was disappointed that Thomas failed to understand it as a poem about himself, but Thomas in return insisted to Frost that “I doubt if you can get anybody to see the fun of the thing without showing them and advising them which kind of laugh they are to turn on.” And though this sort of advice went exactly contrary to Frost’s notion of how poetry should work, he did on occasion warn his audiences and other readers that it was a tricky poem. Yet it became a popular poem for very different reasons than what Thomas referred to as “the fun of the thing.” It was taken to be an inspiring poem rather, a courageous credo stated by the farmer-poet of New Hampshire. In fact, it is an especially notable instance in Frost’s work of a poem which sounds noble and is really mischievous.
Posted on June 3, 2009
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The models that don’t change are religious models because they’re defined so that they can’t be tested. Some people find great comfort in this, but I don’t find any comfort at all in a model that cannot be tested.
Posted on May 20, 2009 with 1 note
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I discovered that my cassette deck in my Toyota is playing both sides of cassettes simultaneously — one backward, one forward. In some cases it creates rather psychedelic effects, but I can’t take it for very long.
Posted on May 18, 2009
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Consider the whole of your life, what you already do, all your doings. Now please exclude everything which is naturally physiologically necessary (or harmful) such as breathing and sleeping (or breaking an arm). From what remains exclude everything which is for the satisfaction of a social demand, a very large area which includes foremost your job, but also care of children, being polite, voting, your haircut, and much else. From what remains exclude everything which is an agency, a “means,” another very large area which overlaps with others to be excluded. From what remains, exclude everything which involves competition. In what remains concentrate on everything done entirely because you just like it as you do it.
Henry Flynt
Posted on May 16, 2009
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Posted on April 21, 2009
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Umm, that came about just ‘cuz I’d read a review of a record which said, “and this group really got us wild, there’s echo on everything, they’re screaming their heads off.” And I just remember thinking, “Oh, it’d be great to do one. Pity they’ve done it. Must be great — really screaming record.” And then I heard their record and it was quite straight, and it was very sort of sophisticated. It wasn’t rough and screaming and tape echo at all. So I thought, “Oh well, we’ll do one like that, then.” And I had this song called “Helter Skelter,” which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
Posted on April 17, 2009
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Awesome Tapes from Africa
Also, I want to hook speakers to the top of my car and play this music by an African griot all the time as I drive around.Posted on April 16, 2009
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Sound system (Jamaican) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I call for an intrusion of music into public space. Like the sound systems of Jamaican lore. This Wikipedia entry says that the sound systems “were big business, and represented one of the few sure ways to make money in the unstable economy of the area.” We face an unstable economy. What we need are more trucks, each with a turntable and huge speakers in the back, driving around our communities and putting up cheap parties and selling food and drink. Mobile community parties. Stress relief. Pair bonding. We are gonna turn this shit around.
Posted on April 16, 2009
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When you are thinking of saying an idea that you know came from someone else, let go of it.
Posted on April 8, 2009
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America is well supplied with remarkably talented writers, musicians, philosophers, and scientists whose work will survive for some centuries. Such people have no relation whatever to our greatest communication medium.
Posted on April 2, 2009
Mike Janssen's tatters and thread-ends
