Christina Carter's 'Texas Blues Working'

I have been listening to this album all day,
walking in the rain, at school, in a library
writing, on the bus, back in the rain, home
by a fire. It's incredible. I've had it for a while
but it finally hit me today. It's like this space,
but also a feeling.

Christina, you are brilliant.
(See also her site many breaths)

This album was released on cassette and is
unfortunately sold out. I was turned on to it
by Jonathan Mayhew (aka bollo).

West African Masquerade

Photo by Phyllis Galembo

Briefs

Samo Apocalypse Balloon

Claudia Rogge

Rapport 220705 ⚬Lambda auf Alu-Dibond / 2005 / 150 x 200 cm Preis auf Anfrage
(via brightstupidconfetti and Galerie Voss)

Not as good as the laughing clip

"Where there's life, there's hope. Wishes can come true.
-Whistle while you work, so hard, all day
-to be like other girls, to fit in in this glittering world.
-Don't give me songs."

"Give me something to sing about"

"Please."

From Lolita Chronology

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December 25, Thursday, Christmas Day – Lolita dies in Gray Star, Alaska, "in childbed, giving birth to a stillborn child" (p.4).

november series

Self Portrait Day (Halloween 2009)

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A costume which makes the wearer appear to each viewer as someone that they loved but could not satisfactorily express that to; moreover, someone they were terrified to express that to, would be the one I would wear, especially to a party.

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fig.

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Dinosaur versus deadtime
--by Bradley Bent
-he had to beat up
-his loneliness
-so he took it
-to a corner
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Don't Do It

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--A coffee lecture, virtual travel doesn't need poor education only pictures. Besides, that's what makes it a fantasy. There is no difference in knowing things. A walk in the rain will get you wet either way. The glass pan still holds too much heat for fingers. It's not the same as a bruise which lasts months, but I guess it's still a symptom of distraction.
--The photo made her look overtly together. I was intimidated in a different way than I was after we'd first talked two years ago, when she had definitely not looked too much together. I had been so flattened after meeting her that I walked into a steel door frame and bruised my hip. Which, as you might imagine, is not something that happened after seeing her photo just now. Similarly though, there was rain.
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Cherry Red's RA

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Spinning gloriously out of control,
collections of frontier lore
presently I found myself approaching
populated places
you think fires start by themselves?

This is the best part of the edge
where one is not oneself.
The warm bath of physical
dissolution, the one real part
of one's temporary personality.

Where does the desire for ethical
action come from? What makes
us want to be ethical?

The great satisfaction of seeing
someone else punished for a deed
of which we know ourselves
capable.

They just mean to be insulting.
I don't know what you want me to
say. What? Whatting a what?
Wanting a what? When you
kiss me I want to die.

Winner and still champion.

And, I realized this was
my thing. To let it fill up
and - don't get hurt or dead -
just as nice - to let it
all run out again.

The rest was easy, well, this is
what the voice whispered to me:
"There was a time when I couldn't
complain, but now it's you."

There was no top bolt, the catch
gave, there was a time I was happy
to know you, I climbed in and pulled
the drapes off my face. No, there is
no good here.

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Collaged from: Californication DVD box back copy, Nabokov's Lolita and Pale Fire, Gaddis's Carpenter's Gothic and the Recognitions, Mary Jo Bang's Alice in Wonderland, Weisenburger's Gravity's Rainbow: A Companion, Schutt's All Souls, Whedon et al's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Roche's Wetlands, Ralph Wiggum the Book, Fiery Furnances's Lost at sea, Baudelaire's Beat Up the Poor, Chandler's The Big Sleep. RA = Reappropriated Ambivalence.

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Question

Some anonymous person said my blog led them to think I was sexist. What do you think? If you think that I am, why do you think that? If not, why do you think this person would suggest that?

November Mixromix

(cover photo courtesy James Greer!)

mixromix two

01. stove - eric's trip
02. hurricane - thinking feller's union local 282
03. these days - times new viking
04. heaven's stranger - eat skull
05. catholicked - dum dum girls
06. dickshaker's union - surf city
07. your will - gun outfit
08. getting out of bed - hospitals
09. i'm just a person in this roomy verse - broadcast
10. leavin' here - ramleh
11. false jesii part 2 - pissed jeans
12. the crawl - mayyors
13. good clues - gary war
14. the trees grew emotions and died - cold cave
15. soft return - labradford
16. sunlit - woods
17. water on the boater's back - tobin sprout
18. i.s.w.y. (lavender edition) - ai aso

(also, if you missed it... mixromix one)

painting

This is a 6' x 6' painting that I finished this Halloween.

divorce

grief b