September 2011
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“I think welding was really my talent—but I sort of swished it aside.”
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Wes Montgomery
(via leadingtone)
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Comments on the World As Will
Oh to shy away from days of oppulence Of fakings and false starts Open up the chests of all our best men We don’t demand villainry We demand a new dawn Girls are foxes Boys are boxers His and hers troubled ambassadors Whose times have yet to come There are no locks There are no keys Only executors and executees What will our cut come to With minds so new with mouths so clean?
Dan...
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To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee -
Emily Dickinson (1879)
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On Hospital Gowns
My bare
(darrie) derrière
is out the air
when I’m not aware
aware
several
Handel Concertos
Vivaldi Concertos
Benny Goodman
My (pair)
Marilyn Monroe
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Troy Davis, or Lawrence Brewer
We have lost sight of the key lesson of all politics, which is that origins of political order are either insupportable, mysterious, or both. To know everything about the US Supreme court, the Georgia Supreme Court, the Butts County Superior Court, the Georgia Pardons Board, prosecutors and protesters, is to still know nothing about why the state should ever have a monopoloy on the unpunished use...
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Vegan for your Love
No chicken or chops, No burgers with chow mein with pork,
No milkshakes thick as wet cement, No buttered bread for my favorite beef jerky.
“I’m hardly hungry at all,” I say, And smooth the blanket where we lay in nature,
Ants with their antennae up and feeling for handouts. I’ve lost four pounds
In two weeks, and by the end of the month, I’m going to be like that red ant-
Waist so thin, I’m a...
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Vandals pillage Miles Davis' boyhood home →
Vandalism at Miles Davis’ boyhood home has escalated in recent weeks to include nearly all of the aluminum siding being stripped away from the home. Windows also are broken and pipes have been taken.
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CTA to Spiff Up El Stations with Private Company... →
Greg Heinz: If you know what the North and Clybourn station looks like on the Red Line after being spiffed up by the Apple computer folks, you get the idea.
Oh, great. Because if anything could transform the No-Ko sexual-assault tunnel of the North & Clybourn Red Line station into a spiffy folk-paradise, it was three glycerine advertisements by Apple Computer of a decapitated human being...
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“Extraordinary, how potent cheap music is.”
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Noel Coward (via leadingtone)
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“It’s not going to work. This is just the beginning.”
– Philip Eytan —- the good-looking, well-endowed French and/or Saudi businessman who orders Sasha Grey in the Girlfriend Experience (2009) —- on the bailout.
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ripbrowniemountain:
“It’s Raining” - Quasi
an...
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“If, while at the piano, you attempt to form little melodies, that is very well;...”
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Robert Schumann, Advice to Young Musicians (via thaiguy20fromla)
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Spoon - Chicago at Night
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Chick-fil-A architecture
In the mid 19th century the lives and deaths of animals would pass mostly unobserved by the majority of the European population, and the new meatpacking industry would embrace a lesson that classical art had long imparted to its audience: represent your victims as if they were taking pleasure, or at least accepting the rationality of their own annihilation. Laughing cows and dancing pigs have ever...
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“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking...”
– Alexander Theroux, 1981
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Shit-flooring
One of the first things Eugene gave to Laura was a small male canary whom they called Criminal after a dim, crapulous novel by some hack named William O’Rourke entitled Criminal Tendencies that they once found for a dime, stained and cellar-damp, in the bin of a Salvation Army thrift shop, the pages of which she used, two at a time, for shit- flooring.
Alexander Theroux, from Laura...
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But only first cousins of the opposite sex →
Under Illinois state law, first cousins older than 50 years of age may marry.
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“More people should fail at art.”
– Dan Bejar
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Suicide Demo For Kara Walker →
“By the way, what it’s been like to be a black woman in America over the last 400 years had to be an idea that popped into my head for at least a split second before I went “brown paper bag, don’t stop me now, I’m on a roll,” even if at the time I was thinking about huffing glue. It goes without saying, I know nothing about either of those things.”
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Destroyer - I Want This Cyclops
Pazz-jop at its...
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Hollywood's Magical Negros →
“Hollywood has long been enamored with the magical negro—the insertion of a black character into a narrative who bestows upon the protagonist the wisdom they need to move forward in some way or as Matthew Hughey defines the phenomenon in a 2009 article in Social Problems, “The [magical negro] has become a stock character that often appears as a lower class, uneducated black person who...
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“Hospitaility means the right of a stranger not to be treated as an enemy when he...”
– Immanuel Kant
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Unimpressive Failure
“The first and second movements were listened to without the slightest display of feeling. At the end, three pairs of hands were brought together very slowly, upon which a perfectly distinct hissing from all sides forbade any such demonstration….This failure has not impressed me at all. After all, I am only experimenting and feeling my way. But the hissing was too much.”
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Cheney, Dick
Cheney is now very ill with a very bad heart, which, after at least five heart attacks, has finally pretty much given out. He is being kept alive by a pump that makes his blood flow. The man who championed waterboarding (and gay marriage) no longer has a pulse.
Jon Robin Baitz, in New York Magazine
