October 2010
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Buddy Holly - Learning the game
Demonstration without demonstration →
September 2010
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Can't Dance, then a period.
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Instead of taking the blue line, sometimes takes the Fullerton Bus to the red line because, it was like, there.
Still drives a Honda he doesn’t anymore smoke cigarettes in.
Talks about his friends in NYC and SF and Austin and Louisville but loves Chicago, because it’s a beautiful city.
Owns Tortoise record and Boris record.
Knows very well the unqiue blend of tail smell...
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Goals for falling forward
Even though the fierce August winds made them fall prematurely, see the leaves.
Get drunk enough to eat a Carrot & Mushroom Burger with a side of fruit in cheescake at Windy City Burger.
Find the fairest fit.
Don’t get all Belmar about white skin.
Until it is just sickening, cue up Country Disappeared on the escalator ride up to State and Madison.
Before the Super Bowl, watch any...
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Lee Lozano on Getting Money
May 13, 1969
PAUL BIANCHINI LAYS A CHECK
FOR $500 ON ME FOR DRAWINGS
HE HASN’T PICKED YET. AFTER HE
LEAVES (WITH SIMONNE STERN) I
HAVE UTTERLY EMPTY FEELING.
EMPTY FEELING IS NOT BECAUSE
OF VISIT, WHICH WAS A LOT OF
FUN, BUT SOMEHOW (THE
EMPTINESS) IS RELATED TO
GETTING MONEY.
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Beaux Arts Trio - Haydn: Piano Trio #44 In E - 2....
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Lines from popular slam poem
And the driver of the M15 looks like a Gil-Scott Heron convention.
In your new girl’s eyes you start to realize what it is that made your mama cry the last time you two said goodbye.
The Dow ain’t what causes my frowns.
On Avenue B and Charlie Bird Parker Place the hipsters start to bleed from their face when they catch a nail, in, their, consciousness monstrous confirmation...
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Experiences in Espression by Lavazza
Fun furniture. Great coffee. Love the location.
When it was my turn at the register, I was treated without any passion, and I must say rather rudely, and without a hello or welcoming smile.
The chai was good, but I’ve had better.
It tasted like I would expect a Pillsbury frozen quiche to taste (if there is such a thing). Very cheesy, but not goat cheesy.
They had no tea menu posted...
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Repetition/Reiteration
Repetition serves symbolic mastery; it implies a series. Reiteration, like a cursor on a screen, goes nowhere; it simply registers over and over again.
from David Schwarz’s Listening Awry: Music and Alterity in German Culture
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Chopin, Prelude #18 in F minor - Rubenstein
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Ways to stop being insufferable
Say instead: Vimeo never loads on my computer.
Stop watching I am Trying to Break Your Heart, or at least revise your opinion.
Never forget: The only men who wear perfectly tailored clothing are the men who sell clothing that needs to be tailored.
Sue her? Sue her? Get your mind out of the gutter!
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Played Twice
[Webern’s music] reaches a truly austere kind of perfection; but as with Mondrian when you see it again at a later date, it offers you nothing further.
Boulez, from Orientations
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Learning From White Castle →
Viewing this painting with an order of White Castle French Toast Sticks and a small black coffee ($3.11, 460 kcal) in your system will make you a little jealous of these men and women. You’ve eaten a quick-service meal, experienced the total separation of food from its sources, and patronized a place where food preparation has been cleaved from tradition and natural processes. Compare this to the...
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Highlights of new breakfast place in Silver Lake
Can someone please tell me what’s the value proposition of paying $3.75 for juice that comes from a plastic Odwalla jug that costs $3.75 a gallon?
And the over medium eggs were cooked PERFECTLY!
My partner had the Cobb Omelet. He thought it was very good. He also loved the coffee cake.
$12.50 for a slimy salad.
And my chicken sandwich? You be the judge. I posted a picture for you to...
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S. Malkmus - (Do Not Feed the) Oyster
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How to Tell You're Losing Your Integrity →
Our century began with “too good to be true” before tumbling into “too big to fail.” …. With Gordon Gekko returning for an encore in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps on Friday, we’re reminded that this cycle inevitably will repeat.
Maybe. Or, as Frederic Jameson once remarked, “It seems to be easier for us today to imagine the thoroughgoing deterioration of...
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Traven on World Police Diction
The tune of the words and the gestures, and the lifted eyebrows that always accompany the question are so unmistakably alike among all bureaucrats and policeman of the world that there never can be any doubt about what is asked.
From The Death Ship (1934)
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Simon Joyner - Roll On
Now you’re...
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Themes-in-a-box: Catfish
Shallow Hal for hipsters.
The disposability of photographs vs: the permanence of painting.
The duty of being a “good-looking man” on the Internet.
The dangers of collaboration.
The empowerment of women in the home.
The “true story” cannot be offensive.
The horror of Michigan’s recession.
The winner in the race against chemistry is chemistry.
The end of...
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Last look at the Japanese cucumbers
Final four Thursdays of Farmer’s Market produce. Before the pigeons get their flame.
I can’t bring myself to buy anything. This is Tom’s peach brutally clear.
The tomatoes are too mushy. The green peppers through a war.
(Farmers say “for baking!” like brokers say “for growth!”)
Only the apples sit like North Shore debutantes. The fat squash are trying...
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Traven on the Dutch Police
What a man! He was a thinker. I wonder where the Dutch get people like that for their cops. Back home he would have the capacity of solving problems of national economy, or be dean of Princeton. That’s the difference between those European countries and ours.
B. Traven, from The Death Ship (1934)
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“Everything old can be sold to pay the rent.”
– Simon Joyner (Sunday morning song for Sara)
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Traven on Passports
I would give money to find out who it is, in reality, that makes the laws about passports and immigration. I have not so far found an ordinary human being who would say anything in favor of that kind of messing up of people’s private affairs. It seems to me governments have to mess up things to create new jobs for officials and to produce evidence of their god-given right to collect more...
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Traven on Money
Only those people who have lots of money learn to appreciate the real value of money, because they have time to find out. On the other hand, how can people who have no money, or very little, ever find out what money really means? It is in their hands so short a time that they have no chance to see what it means. Certain people, however, preach that only the poor know the worth of a cent. This...
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Study finds iPhone owners want to switch to... →
Demonstrating that iPhone owners are like Stephanie in Saturday Night Fever, who wants to ditch her scratchy Brooklyn boyfriend for a crummy apartment in the Village.
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Alma's Diary
If only I were somebody - a real person, noted for and capable of great things. But I’m nobody, an indifferent young lady who, on demand, runs her fingers prettily up and down the keyboard and, on demand, gives arrogant replies to arrogant questions, likes to dance… just like millions of others. Nothing pleases me more than to be told I’m exceptional. Klimt, for instance,...
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“To be hungry is to be human. To have papers or not to have papers is inhuman. It...”
– B. Traven, from The Death Ship
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Yes, I do.
I think the first lyric on the first song of the Deerhunter record is: “Do you recall breaking up on a dirty couch?”
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Definition of Literature
More and more the poet has been made to conform to literature instead of literature conforming to the poet—literature being the name given by criticism to works inspired by or obedient to criticism.
-Laura Riding, from Contemporaries and Snobs (1928)
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Things I did this weekend I never have to do again
See The Room
Take Grace instead of Addison
“Crispy” Pad See Yew
Watch Seth Rogen “act” by moving his arms around
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“That’s how the Schoenbergians are. On the one hand very arrogant and then on the other full of feelings of inferiority. I don’t understand how those two things go together.”
Helene Berg, via Soma Morgenstern.
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I’m starting to think that Stuart Murdoch is... →
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Atonement
Rawkblog apologizes for his best review ever.
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Simon Joyner - Love is Worth Suffering For
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Elements of Hangover
Contempt for the subjunctive mood.
Take things out of under bed bins too soon, and now what.
Wanting to hold Ecrits in your hands all day, read a page from time to time.
By 9:30, wearing shirt never worn before; wearing jacket never worn before; wearing expressive socks. Taking it all off before noon.
Find the soups behind the other soups.
Wonder what people who are not in college but...
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The National - Fashion Coat
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“But please tell that
To your friend in the cowboy hat
You know he keeps on...”
– Dylan, She’s Your Lover Now
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Tornado in Queens
(via BBM)
Jenny from the block: Thanks for asking how I am!
Me: What?
JFTB: There’s a tornado here?
Me: Really? Shit.
JFTB: A tornado!
Me: That’s why there were all these weather maps on the NY blogs today.
JFTB: Don’t you read the paper?
Me: No.
JFTB: It took me two hours to get from Middle Village to Corona.
Me: Why would you ever leave Middle Village to...
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“I don’t want any scraps in my scrapbook.”
– Phil Leotardo
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“You, you just sit around and ask for ashtrays, can’t you reach?
I see you...”
– Dylan, She’s Your Lover Now
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Morrissey - The World is Full of Crashing Bores...