| Hide and seek on BART |
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| 07:27pm 13/05/2008 |
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I, alone, sat
next to you, alone.
quiet desperation. |
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| rubber and ink, paper and glue |
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| 09:29pm 11/05/2008 |
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Several things seem in some sense to be falling into place like pitakora suitchi pieces; but this is anticipation, never a good idea. Especially since I am, as things stand, overdrawn. Still until moments ago I was feeling fairly good; and now I look to the postal system, and stamps of two kinds, with some fair hope. I have also been dirtying my fingernails with some satisfying rooting around in the soil which has also cheered me. God willing in some few months we will have fresh strawberries and won't that be nice.
But those moments happened and, whatever happened therein to chill my mood (I have no idea) they were doubtless attributable to the Internet; so in a defensive posture I will withdraw to the library. I want to read classical authors, Marcus Aurelius or Cicero or something. |
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| the world turning to crystal, My Little Pony |
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| 01:04pm 08/05/2008 |
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Damn, I've been keeping an eye for the steampunk scene for years now, but I didn't realize it was old/big enough to get in the New York freaking Times. That means it's totally over already, right? Crazy. Why is my every interest being co-opted by the Man? It's not even just things that I let sit and influence like Betelgeuse perturbing Earth's orbit, like steampunk and bentos; apparently with FES coming out we've got Megaten in Entertainment Weekly...{SIGH}
What's next man? Will Class of '88 become hip? Will I face competition trying to buy a high school science textbook from the 50s? Will Hijokaidan be played on the radio?? Heaven above forbid it! |
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| Wanna see Mike Relm Saturday? |
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| 06:57pm 07/05/2008 |
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I bought tickets ages ago for Mike Relm's show this Saturday at The Independent. He's playing with The Instant Messengers & Vin Sol. But it's finals so I've done absolutely nothing to make this actually gel into plans. Anybody want to go with me? Or want both tickets? Specify which.
In case you don't already know about Mike Relm, he's a lot of fun. Mash ups.
Above links to myspace. Normal website. |
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| adventures on the island! |
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| 07:12pm 05/05/2008 |
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there are lots of robbers and bandits here... bair has to do night guarding with gun and flack jacket. not very nice. but it is almost comical. 4 guys with guns robbed a small very nice kind of long term hotel near here... some people i know were staying there..the thieves came in, and my fiends only speak russian and the one old guy who spoke spanish was deaf and blind a little so he kept shouting at the robbers and then he put his blood pressure machine on the table and went into his room. the robbers were upset, but the russian couple didn't understand them either so they went to their room too. the thieves made off with the blood pressure machine and sausages from the refrigerator. Guns for that. Its a little crazy. In previous years, I always had my chicken stolen. I thought I was hallucinating buying chickens because then they were always gone, but the guy didn't use any guns for that thankfully, and also I was never home when came.
So life here is very nice, but it has its down sides. Last year, it was some old mexican pacifist who took a gun from the guards to protest violence, but we all thought maybe he was a violent lunatic, because nobody really knew him. Always some wacky thing... laugh.. cry.. sometimes its both |
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| More on the same |
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| 12:19pm 03/05/2008 |
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Reflecting on our last theme, I was thinking about music. Somewhat like drawings, when I record a song, I don't really want to show anyone, I just want to sit and listen to my own music on a boombox, on a summer's night with the lights off and the windows open. Sort of like Lou Reed claimed (at least at one time) about Metal Machine Music, I only make music so I myself can have something to listen to.
But! there is some sort of pressure or something (or there was; I am out of the game now, mp3s and all that) to 'press a bunch of copies' and give/sell them away; so I always end up with a few CDs or tapes that no one wants after giving a copy to the two or three people who might possibly like what I've made. And also there is some strange anti-egotism code, I think, that you are not supposed to enjoy the fruits of your own artistic labour, just as you are not supposed to laugh uproariously at your own jokes (which I also do.) In interviews you will never find anyone say "Oh yes, I listen to/read/admire/etc my own work all the time", but you will very often find people who claim "I can't listen to my own stuff" or "Once it's done it's done and I never go back to it" blah blah.
What do you think, my faithful readers? Are you a consumer of your own art? Do you think a reaction from "the audience" is important? |
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