house-blogging with the mad

[poncif]

when i was in college, i was briefly and traumatically courted by a gone-off-his-meds schizophrenic, who left me gifts (a box full of incense cones, a child's shoe, and long rants in the margins of a book [italo calvino's baron in the trees, i htink it was], a cassette tape with calculations read over schoenberg), which i would pour over, trying to

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Thank you. I especially like the car with hilariously unaerodynamic vehicle

[poncif]

USA TRIED KILL ME 4/21/07

[dobrovolets]

Calvino, Schoenberg and Suzanne Vega all systematized together: If I had ended up schizophrenic, I might have become that guy.

[poncif]

he was sweet and intellectually generous, when he was on his meds (i had my introduction to a number of 20thC composers from him). off, he had a terrific thrumming force-field of intention around him that was hard to witness, bear.

he sent vega masses of letters as well as the packages, and even arranged for a rendezvous at the bronx zoo on some to-him-significant date. at the time (winter, in utah), his parents had him in a kind of lockdown, out of which he nevertheless escaped, and went crosscountry to meet her there. he told me later (when medicated) that at the appointed time, he saw a woman with her back turned whom he was convinced was vega. for some reason, he couldn't approach her, and left. why could he not? i asked him. was it that it might not be her? that it might be? he could never decide.

fwiw and btw, reading your post this morning regarding your first dream about labor, at first glance i thought, SURELY NOT, thinking, of course, about marx and not pregnancy.

[profane_stencil]

There's nothing I could possibly say that would do this entry justice. And I am resisting the urge to suggest I wish someone would do that to my house.

So, what do you think of Natural?

(cool bomb icon you got there)

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thank you - encounters with psychotics tend to produce good prose, i've found. and hey, what if your house was covered in dry-erase-board material? it would transform/expand by orders of magnitude the impact of that old favorite, "PASSIVE-AGGRESSIVE NOTE LEAVING FOR HOUSEMATES" game.

and i love the new mekons album. just go get it. or if you don't buy it, at least dl the track on pitchfork ("dickie chalkie and nobby").

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/45020-natural

one of the best uses of children's voices on a track (along with smog "hit the ground running" and that laugh, oh that laugh at the end of cerberus shoal's "ding").

Re: (cool bomb icon you got there)

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(I thought it would be easy to find bomb-throwing anarchists on the internet, but it wasn't.) (Pictures of bomb-throwing anarchists, that is.)

I did get Natural, and I love it. The Pitchfork review described it pretty well, but I don't need any coaxing when it comes to the Mekons.