While cleaning my family’s place in Chula Vista, my brother stumbled upon a few writing assignments from when I was in first and second grade.
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Rain
The rain is raining all around,
It falls on feild and tree,
It rains on the umbrellas hear,
And on ships at sea.
[January 30, 1981. Second grade. A literal drawing of the poem is [...]
(That’s a sentence I never thought I would type.)
This blog is named for 4′33″, John Cage’s famous “silent piece” and a work with which I’ve been mildly obsessed ever since reading Cage’s book/manifesto Silence as a college freshman. Today, iTunes offered part of 4′33″ as a free download. Which, of course, is awesome. If you [...]
Oh, wow. Meghan McCain’s column in The Daily Beast is worth reading and rereading. The alchemical experiments that fuse narcissism and incoherence to pure lack of content have finally borne fruit. Fun fact: She went to Columbia.
Via gnat: The Rev. Ivan Stang, founder of the satiric Church of the SubGenius, is running an online course called “Running Your Own Cult: Dos and Dont’s.” Best quote: “At the end of the course, students will have designed and developed their own religious cult to the point of marketability.”
This is one for the “Things That Only Bone Would Find Funny” file. Photographed in the Eagle Rock neighborhood this afternoon: an eyeglass shop named for a famous book by Guy Debord, which was one of the manifestos of a Marxism- and Surrealism-influenced group in Europe called the Situationist International (the ideological forebears of today’s [...]
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“She’s Love, she loves and yet she is not loved.”
[Wm. Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis]
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Ten years ago, the Magnetic Fields (a project by Stephin Merritt; the band is apparently named for Les Champs Magnetiqués, a Surrealist novel published in 1920) released 69 Love Songs, a three-part genre- (and gender-) bending collection of songs that are by [...]
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(Click on the paintings for larger versions. More about the paintings: Waterhouse, Dali.)
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It could be said that the typical World Wide Web surfer today, sitting alone in front of a PC screen, is increasingly a monad with no direct windows onto reality, encountering only virtual simulacra, and yet immersed more than ever in a global [...]
Georges Bataille. Surrealist, philosopher, anti-fascist. My fourth-favorite thing about him is the fact that, although he considered himself a medievalist and a librarian and not a philosopher per se, he ended up being influential upon the likes of Foucault, Baudrillard and Derrida, which is kind of badass. My third-favorite thing about him is the writing he [...]