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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 11:09:45 -0400

sudama:

Report tyrannical activity.

‘Run On for a Long Time’ by The Blind Boys of Alabama is my new...

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 10:55:43 -0400

‘Run On for a Long Time’ by The Blind Boys of Alabama is my new jam.

Old Men at the Library

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:37:45 -0400

Old man sleeps over book, with long white hair.

Old man plays chess on a public computer.

Old man puts on respiratory mask.

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Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:39:48 -0400

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Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:51:04 -0400

It Is All Over With Now Bill, and Well That It Is As It Is I realize I have been dreaming about the...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:40:53 -0400

It Is All Over With Now Bill, and Well That It Is As It Is

I realize I have been dreaming about the dump again —
seems so full of possibility.
Tonsils in a jar
smelling of damp salt
and then: swarms of old chairs.

My mother said
“All these things dissipate.”
You said “Keep your lamps
trimmed and burning”
and to measure the width of my finger.

So this is how we find ourselves.
Haven’t you lost the tune, yet?

—Mike Janssen and Robert Johnson

"There a lot of things that go into what I do. I draw upon my life’s experiences and those of..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:55:40 -0400

“There a lot of things that go into what I do. I draw upon my life’s experiences and those of my friends. Much of it is private, but the emotions that these conjure up are ones we all can share, should we spend a little time listening. Life, loss, love, and smoking etc.”

- Uprooted Music Revue: Kurt Wagner of Lambchop Chats Up “Mr. M”

"Visual is dangerous."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:50:49 -0400

“Visual is dangerous.”

- Stephen Malkmus | Music | Interview | The A.V. Club

‘Willing to Wait’ by Sebadoh is my new jam.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 17:48:40 -0400

‘Willing to Wait’ by Sebadoh is my new jam.

“We Got a New Pope,” a ditty I wrote and recorded...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:26:15 -0400

“We Got a New Pope,” a ditty I wrote and recorded last time around. I think it still applies.

absurdlakefront: Seven BathersPaul Cézanne, c. 1900

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:40:57 -0500

absurdlakefront:

Seven Bathers
Paul Cézanne, c. 1900

"Frank Zappa had a more extreme reaction: “When I heard ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, I..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 20:37:44 -0500

“Frank Zappa had a more extreme reaction: “When I heard ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, I wanted to quit the music business, because I felt: ‘If this wins and it does what it’s supposed to do, I don’t need to do anything else …’ But it didn’t do anything. It sold but nobody responded to it in the way that they should have.””

- Like a Rolling Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"I’m unable, for some reason, to read books from beginning to end. I have to go to what interests me..."

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:22:10 -0500

“I’m unable, for some reason, to read books from beginning to end. I have to go to what interests me most in the book. And if I like that, I start going backwards and forwards. And it starts to become a really complicated endeavor of just reading the parts of the books once and not sort of overlapping. I don’t know why I have to sort of re-edit the books myself. I don’t know why I can’t read a prologue and read a first chapter.”

- Whit Stillman: What I Read - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire

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Tue, 12 Feb 2013 22:19:44 -0500

"Another notable example of this eccentric behavior was reported to Johnny Marr of The Smiths by Karl..."

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 00:40:03 -0500

“Another notable example of this eccentric behavior was reported to Johnny Marr of The Smiths by Karl Bartos, who explained that anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer, since during recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring.”

- Kraftwerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Tarantino’s attempt to craft a hero who stands apart from the other men—black and white—of his time..."

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 23:36:13 -0500

“Tarantino’s attempt to craft a hero who stands apart from the other men—black and white—of his time is not a riff on history, it’s a riff on the mythology we’ve mistaken for history. Were the film aware of that distinction, “Django” would be far less troubling—but it would also be far less resonant. The alternate history is found not in the story of vengeful ex-slave but in the idea that he could be the only one.”

- How Accurate Is Quentin Tarantino’s Portrayal of Slavery in Django Unchained? : The New Yorker

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Wed, 05 Dec 2012 23:15:34 -0500

"More than 90 of Smith’s poems from the mid-1960s Unitarian workshop — along with nearly..."

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:37:27 -0500

“More than 90 of Smith’s poems from the mid-1960s Unitarian workshop — along with nearly 70 of Bukowski’s — were discovered in 1994, not long after Bukowski died of leukemia, in a gold-painted metal file box that had been left on a trash heap at a Los Feliz curb.”

- FrancEyE dies at 87; prolific Santa Monica poet - latimes.com

BUSKING GHOSTS: Like the idea of travelling by foot? Here are Nick Papadimitriou’s 6...

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:38:14 -0400

BUSKING GHOSTS: Like the idea of travelling by foot? Here are Nick Papadimitriou’s 6...:

buskingghostszine:

Like the idea of travelling by foot? Here are Nick Papadimitriou’s 6 top tips to kickstart your deep topography experience…

Go walking. Stay away from bright lights.

Explore second hand bookshops. Buy books on topography – on areas, regions, counties. Study them. Then walk around and see…

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Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:46:48 -0400