January 2011
58 posts
December 2010
29 posts
Happy Birthday
Like the lantern on a tree Your burden bright as weary be Periwig on parakeet You’re God’s great paramour and sweet I’m happy, I’m happy Your birthday brings a pardoning I’m happy, I’m happy You’re like a bird that will not be Yours will number, yours will be A paragon, a Paraclete Keep your bed warm, keep your humor Keep your proverbs short and sweet...
Excerpt from "Altamont Pass"
An “i’ is a suburb of it
i sat on the hill
To contact the spirit world
They do what they want
And also use geometry
Their style is post-anonymous
Pollen disguised as echo
The goats have been sacrificed
To minotaur manifestoes
Aspects of the broken fan
Like Horace’s philyra
Circle the worlds, il viento mio
There’s a little shudder
At the end of seeing
You...
All we! like! sheep! Have gone... →
The happiest tune about forsaking one’s Creator/Savior ever written.
I've been thinking about bridges lately...
Three in particular.
1. I realized yesterday that I always feel very sympathetic toward famous schmucks from literature.
He felt that the stood face to face with something illogical and senseless, and he did not know what to do. Alexei Alexandrovich stood face to face with life, confronting the possibility of his wife loving someone else besides him, and it was this that seemed so senseless and...
I have become content to see music as a mystery, and I leave it at that.
– Philip Glass, from Glass: Portrait in Twelve Parts
Weekday Update
“You have requested the following update on various aspects of the location known as ‘Berkeley, CA’: weather- cold & gray for the most part. some sunny afternoons. random bits of cold breeze people- working a lot, but otherwise enjoying the existence of real nights/weekends and reading in bed an awful lot. also catching up on tv shows via various legally dubiously internet...
"Government denies knowledge..."
…of what made Dana Scully/Gillian Anderson so damn sexy.
The truth is out there.
Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers →
“Close reading,” she continued, “will become even more crucial in a world in which we can, potentially, read every word of Victorian writing ever published.”
Why does Netflix mock me?
It is repeatedly recommending that I watch two Nat Geo documentaries. One is about solitary confinement in prisons and the other is about stress. Their “best guess” for how I would rate these two spectacles of depression is 3.3 stars, or “really liked it.”
Does Netflix know that I am a 22-year-old living friendless with my parents? Is Netflix the Devil? Oh, I’m...
Letter D
Caricature together of love strong automatically togetherly love love again love. Love one another’s little children love each other love love again love. Together to tether up sextets in favor of together together in each other’s together love again for again love again starts together up sex titling about in each other’s together again and again again. Love is imminent...