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Apr
24
narrative
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Not long ago “American independent film” meant Stan Brakhage, Yvonne Rainer, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, Maya Deren. Now it means Sundance and big expensive mediocrities supported by the same old media giants on dress-down day.
Not long ago modern literature meant modernist literature, intelligent language constructs that challenged our sensibilities and explored the mysterious deep […]
Apr
7
night
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Photography, film: images hidden on celluloid until chemically tricked into revealing themselves. I could not know exactly what would be brought to light — the time between shooting and processing was a pregnancy, an artistic silence full of potential energy.
It was not so different with writing. I wrote by hand in a barely readable scrawl. […]
Apr
4
The “rock and roll moment” coincided almost exactly with my youth, and so I really have to write one of these songs:
I was born in nineteen fifty-four
when rock and roll came knocking on the white man’s door.
Through the driving New York snow
I heard some noises on the radio.
With a sound that promised to set me […]
Apr
4
the mind is a terrible thing to cut and paste
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Check out this literary ebook that I just put together, the mind is a terrible thing to cut and paste. It’s a selection of my older writings, mainly from the 90’s, written for my own amusement and the amusement of friends. Enjoy!
Apr
4
one leaves a daughter
one leaves a son
one leaves a prayer in the muzzle of his gun
one leaves his innocence
one leaves his sin
one leaves his childhood dreams
one just leaves his skin
one leaves his dogtags
one leaves an arm
one leaves the parents who kept him from harm
one leaves the sisters who taught him to be kind
one leaves his […]
Apr
2
on not voting
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Already the news media are announcing the run-up to the presidential election. Thank goodness, at last they’ll have a really good excuse to avoid reporting on the slaughter in Darfur, the AIDS epidemic in Africa, populist insurgencies in Mexico and South America, and other distasteful topics. But there’s one personal announcement I better get out […]
Apr
2
it’s allah, and yaweh, and jesus h. christ
killer gods on the loose, better run for your life
it’s the gangbanging ghosts with their capitalist-t Truth
better run for your life, killer gods on the loose
they wanna kill free speech, they wanna kill free love
cause nothing can be free when there’s accountants up above
they wanna kill evolution in […]
Apr
1
piano
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The central fact of a piano is its weight. Its immobility. Its inertia. Its monolithic thereness. A keyboard that you can pick up is not a piano, no matter how well it imitates the piano’s sound. It’s the ghost of a piano.
I suspect there is not a piano player in the world who has not […]
Apr
1
intellectual property damage
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Long term strategy: To change the world, change the culture. Short term strategy: To change the world, fuck shit up. Intellectual property damage combines these two strategies.
1. To change the world, change the culture. Yes, I believe that through cultural work — art — we can temper selfishness and greed by promoting a gentle and […]