An incident which renews my faith in the innate goodness of mankind: I step into the peep show at the corner of 42nd and 8th Ave, and lay out the wad of ones I have in my pocket on the ledge of the cash acceptor. I feed the machine a bill, and, before that bill's time runs out, I hit paydirt. Jump started by the rapid victory, I pull up my pants, ( Read more... )

Saw the Ian Curtis biopic last night, and could tell by the first minute of the movie that I'd be disappointed -- misled by a glowing Voice review ... the actor playing Ian being a bit too pretty and childish ( even as a teenager : can you really imagine Ian Curtis donning Ziggy Stardust makeup and furs? I always imagined him as conservative in ( Read more... )

Quote from touchyou, after seeing an "Amazing tree" on the street: "I was fixated on it and started to cry. You cannot judge a person crying on the sidewalk, you really can't".

I identify completely: I've spent months feeling like I was on the edge of tears. I'd say I developed this condition a few months into my year's homelessness in Maine, or a little ( Read more... )

Just found out that my old pal cedar sigo was in New York, and didn't contact me, even though we'd been exchanging the occasional mail recently ... feels like I really have become a pariah ...
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Kryptonite real

Just got out of detox ( again ). read an author I'd never read before in there: Umberto Eco. He teaches semiotics, which makes sense, as his narrative seems a web of languague-and-history relations...

"the monk who is despised and bears it is like a plant that is watered every day"

"those who perform magic, it so happens, finally are persuaded that, ( Read more... )

this is beautiful, with the dream-passage from Night of the Hunter and music by Scott Walker;

( also, this tribute; it's great when the Bowie kicks in...

Who's also played in Will Oldham's band, was in the 2006 biennial;

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I had a flag for Brian DeGraw, of Gang Gang Dance's show at the James Fuentes gallery last week ... This had me look around to see what GGD was doing, and found out that they were doing a tour where they made a video entry for each day, which they edited in their van, along the way ... Now, I've long admired these folks, thinking of them as some of ( Read more... )

After thinking about Mr. Supertramp, and his idealistic journey, I was reminded of a NY Times article I read about a logger who can't give up methamphetamine, on the show Intervention, which I have yet to see. This is truly the voice of the vast hidey-holes.

Perhaps related, but probably not, I had a dream last night that was incredibly vivid, due ( Read more... )

Recovered my radio from my old roommate today, and heard on WFMU that it's Crispin Glover's birthday. Happy birthday, What Is It?.