Get Happy!
i sleep a ton
i read a little less
i wrote two poems
or 3 if you count this
inhaling turbulence
sweaters touching grace and infinity
skies of devine suggestion
deliberate plumes mount as abrasions
delicate hypotheses are soon subsumed in all that is understood
hands, fingers tremble in uncertain accusation
eyes sting and clamor for release
which is not granted which is forever denied
internal understandings, the new religion
on the surface selfish and callous
oh
you slay me/i am complicit
i am complex and idiotic
sand about pockets and fingers
my bed is uninhabitable
the sun is rotund
all girls are vegetarians
all ghosts are reactionaries
the latest and lithe philosophy
if you are pleasant in comport there will be no trouble in your employ
if you reverse the set things/people you know will
a) mirror with no discernable difference
b) behave in jerky, unintelligible playback
c) appear as swimmers
d) glisten about the corners of your perception
sad about pockets and matchbooks
the future is unattainable
the moon is standard
all sets are reversing
all matter expanding
they are sort of dumb but not really any more than reviewing the rapture's album for no one.
i've done some good summer reading. i'd like a discussion group to outline this and trade ideas. and maybe the same for summer vids
standouts are
a confederacy of dunces
the unbearable lightness of being
whit stillman
some excellent music docs (sex pistols, capt. beefheart, minutemen, townes vanzandt)
russ meyer (i watched faster pussycat kill kill, this could go with ms. 45 and baise moi in a study of femininity and violence over time. how have perceptions and attitudes changed? i have some interesting ideas and i'd like to share them. what place does femininity have in the revenge fantasy? obviously a solid and lasting one...how does it change? does it evolve?)
the moviegoer (this can go with confederacy in understanding fake new orleans with vlad wormwood)
essays by joan didion (this goes with walker percy in the halting steps by which vlad wormwood increases his vocabulary in a presentation i call "stepping up yo literary game: smart authors and dictionary.com")
i sleep a ton
i read a little less
i wrote two poems
or 3 if you count this
inhaling turbulence
sweaters touching grace and infinity
skies of devine suggestion
deliberate plumes mount as abrasions
delicate hypotheses are soon subsumed in all that is understood
hands, fingers tremble in uncertain accusation
eyes sting and clamor for release
which is not granted which is forever denied
internal understandings, the new religion
on the surface selfish and callous
oh
you slay me/i am complicit
i am complex and idiotic
sand about pockets and fingers
my bed is uninhabitable
the sun is rotund
all girls are vegetarians
all ghosts are reactionaries
the latest and lithe philosophy
if you are pleasant in comport there will be no trouble in your employ
if you reverse the set things/people you know will
a) mirror with no discernable difference
b) behave in jerky, unintelligible playback
c) appear as swimmers
d) glisten about the corners of your perception
sad about pockets and matchbooks
the future is unattainable
the moon is standard
all sets are reversing
all matter expanding
they are sort of dumb but not really any more than reviewing the rapture's album for no one.
i've done some good summer reading. i'd like a discussion group to outline this and trade ideas. and maybe the same for summer vids
standouts are
a confederacy of dunces
the unbearable lightness of being
whit stillman
some excellent music docs (sex pistols, capt. beefheart, minutemen, townes vanzandt)
russ meyer (i watched faster pussycat kill kill, this could go with ms. 45 and baise moi in a study of femininity and violence over time. how have perceptions and attitudes changed? i have some interesting ideas and i'd like to share them. what place does femininity have in the revenge fantasy? obviously a solid and lasting one...how does it change? does it evolve?)
the moviegoer (this can go with confederacy in understanding fake new orleans with vlad wormwood)
essays by joan didion (this goes with walker percy in the halting steps by which vlad wormwood increases his vocabulary in a presentation i call "stepping up yo literary game: smart authors and dictionary.com")
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I read the rapture review.
This summer I really tried to focus on calling my everyday life into question by absorbing works of art (text, motion pictures, sound, images, environments, objects) which, unavaoidably, operate as an intervention of forms into the real, but for the most part avoid the conventions of persona, narrative, or argument. Because art is the transformation of the real (social, discontinuous, unstable, opaque) into forms, the problem of procedures is how to keep the problem -the inherent falsification of reality- manifest. In other words, taking a stance towards the activity of composition, towards actual writing, editing, composing – detail is cast upon detail, minute particular against minute particular; not only does the angle change through this juxtaposition, but the subject is switched. Much like life itself, these works cannot be said to possess an “overall theme”; rather, A has a relation to B, and B to C, but A and C have nothing in common. For instance, in Ron Silliman’s Sunset Debris, each new sentence is an unrelated question that can often be taken in multiple directions, but are connected by the reader’s answers or expectations of answers. Although unrelated, these sentences are gathered into one work (a book) and the reader tends to see them as one thing – as facets of existence, as Silliman’s poetry, as the reader’s own thought and life >>> a unified piece of writing. While not entirely devoid of hypocrisy (dang our universe and its paradoxes), these works are certainly less hypocritical than, say, poems organized in a hierarchal manner from forms of the past, with a huge corporate publisher, ranting about the power structures of capitalism.
I have an earnest faith at the moment in living politically and thinking politically as opposed to just thinking about politics and “how whack the administration is”. This often means seeking out more obscure and new forms of media, which I find very worthwhile. So I tried to find creative works or texts about creative works that embody my beliefs, as opposed to just saying ‘oh yeah, I believe in that” and then delving into 60’s pop hits for the summer. All the following works operate within this theory to varying degrees – they speak to a person in the world, as opposed to something like “Me and You and Everyone We Know, which is directed towards the young and the quirky (yes, I enjoyed it).
books, stories, sentences, signs:
-N/O, Sunset Debris by Ron Silliman – a hefty slice of the ongoing poem he wrote for 25 years-politically written, not political writing about the overlooked phenomena of reality
-Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon
-Parallax View by Slavoj Zizek – although an argument, a theoretical variety show- the equivalent of academic noise music in text
-Haunted Weather by David Toop – a sprawling exploration of new music forms for the 21st century
-Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology by David Graeber – a great introduction to calling the way you live into question (unless you’re an anarchist)
moveez:
-Trinh T. Min-Ha – Shoot for the Contents, Naked Spaces: Living is Round
-Jean-Luc Godard – Numero Deux
-Michael Haneke- Code Unknown
-Harmony Korine - Julien-Donkey Boy
-Peter Greenaway – The Falls (Hilarious, puzzling, puzzle. Greenaway before he went all ba-roque on us)
Music:
-Otomo Yoshihide – Ensemble Cathode
-David Behrman – Unforseen Events
-John Zorn – Songs for the Hermetic Theatre
Honorable Mentions, although not really calling convention into question formally
--Hou Hsiao Hsien- Three Times (absolutely DAZZLING, fresh perspective on Taiwan, especially for me, previously knowing nothing of Taiwan except cheap labor)
-Capote – Bennett Miller
-Pastoralia, In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders – tee hee
and more music, organized roughly from most accessible to least:
-Prince – The hits
-Akron/family - Akron/Family
-Jim O’rouke - Eureka
-Fela Kuti – Confusion and Gentleman
-Broadcast – HaHa Sound
-early T-Rex = Tyrannosaurus Rex
-Robert Wyatt - Shleep
-Ariel Pink – Worn Copy
-Man Man – Six Demon Bag
-Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
-Sunburned Hand of the Man – Headress
-Excepter – Alternation, or KA
-Fennesz – Venice
-Black Dice Manoman EP
-Soft Machine – Third
-Sightings – Absolutes
-Sword Heaven – Sacred Door
and my uncle gave me his EXTRA copy of Miles’ In a Silent Way
and I must mention the art museum Mass MOCA, in North Adams Massachusetts. I had much more fun there than San Fran MOMA, NY MOMA. I would highly recommend a trip.
The serpentine database of thesaurus.com comes hand in hand, click on click, yet still deserves mention.
Nuck if ya Buck if you have experienced any of the aforementioned brain treats, or have any comments.
Silliman poem "Sunset Debris" online FOR FREE:
http://www.ubu.com/ubu/silliman_sunset.html
Let me add that I did download about half (100) of the songs on pitchfork's "top 200 songs of the 60s" list. The point is I focused more on stuff that sounded perverse to me at first but became better once I understood 'method to its madness', because I've been listening to those 60s songs since I was driven home from the hopsital back in 1983. So this entry is not to say that 'pop' is worthless, especially when looked upon or listened to with vladimir wormwood's critical eye and ear connectors- it influences massive amounts of people (who could use some interpretation). I don't think one can avoid absorbing a lot of media that is in these traditional forms, I just think it's nice to also throw in some radical stuff to keep your brain more in check with a heightened sense of reality ( if, a lot of your reality is media)
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