| 1/30/2006 01:13:00 AM |
[ thisconnect ]
I had this dream... where I could teleport... sort of. All I had to do was close my eyes, spin the nearest pinwheel, think of the place I wanted to be, and... without any sort of onomatopoeia, I was there. I just opened my eyes and things came alive-- no poofs, zams, zips, thunks needed. But there's coarseness of course: doubt and you're dead. If I didn't know where I was going or if I let that slippery question -- can I really do this -- get asked... then nothing... really... and no amount of thunking, zipping, zamming, or poofing on my part could change-o that stale-y stuckness.
... Then there was the plot. The teacher, robed and pretty useless, but happy-happed in that deranged mystic sort of way. The masked man who I keep trying to kill. The old man frowning at me in that he's-a-deranged-mystic sort of way, and telling his grandson that at my age people should not, under any circumstances, be playing with pinwheels. And then the giant windmill that I'm circling around, where every lap brings something new and completely unknown. And then the ritual. The ceremony. Carved in stone. Changing as I look at it. What's meaningful now, Nasca? What's written on the wall other than your google-able name? Hisatsinom? Crazy Horse, my 4th-grade-project-of-a-warrior? Shamana-nana-banana fee-fi-monana? Where's the myth?... except in my goddamn dreams. Where is the living religion? Where's the bloody hair, baba? Here, all I'm bloody hearing is "then it gets philosophical". |
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| 1/24/2006 08:26:00 PM |
[ we'll set this place on... ]
this spirit speaks in tonsa tongues.
lilting... over the batty beats of too smart hearts.
coding and decoding again the trends it can't amend.
What makes you smile? What do you do to stay awake in class? What do you think of as you fall asleep? Do you ever get confused between dreams and re-al-i-tee? Do you ever feel like you lack a certain... funkiness? Let me clarify that one. Do you ever wish people saw you, and without knowing why, imagined they were smelling coffee and books? Do you ever want to sit down in traffic and start playing invisible bongo drums? Do you ever want to talk in rhyme or iambic pentameter or some such mushy-mellow(dramatic) suchness? Does presence... take something out of you? |
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| 1/17/2006 11:48:00 AM |
[ suggestive incoherence ]
The things Basquiat told me:
crowns and haloes
crayons and griots
we come and go
and despite what we wear
there's nothing to be gained here
copy what's right,
history is history,
people are perishable,
the terrible is tenable.
hip-hop is lost on the hip.
the dance is not about the dance
but a state of mind.
and speaking, painting, straining that mingly mind,
even when it's broken, beaten, va-po-rized,
is better and wetter than the tired alternatives. |
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| 1/12/2006 02:12:00 AM |
[ slightly amused, slightly confused ]
in the case of ian vs the state of constant flux
we find the defendant guilty
of bumbling in the first degree.
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When I truly listen. When I think carefully and question. When I hold back the laugh that has become such a habit, the laugh at every hint of reality. Then I'm more of... a dancer. A bad one... but at least I'm not spectating. And I gotta get that pattern etched in this brain o' mind. I gotta soak it in. I gotta make the leaps... so it all keeps spinning. Because, you're right, it's out of balance now... |
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| 1/05/2006 11:00:00 AM |
[ a samp-samp-sampling ]
Here's a cd I made for my dad. For some reason, because too many of these songs are too good not to(o) share, I was inspired to up put with it:
1. Thao Nguyen - Chivalry
2. Elliot Smith - Condor Ave
3. Norah Jones - Lonestar
4. Big Strides - Strangely Inclined
5. Beck - Bottle of Blues
6. Cake - Mexico
7. Built to Spill - Distopian Dream Girl
8. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain
9. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again
10. Alfie - You Make No Bones
11. Badly Drawn Boy - Bottle of Tears
12. Stephen Malkmus - Vague Space
13. Spoon - Take the Fifth
14. Blur - Coffee & TV
15. I Am Kloot - Bigger Wheels
16. Stephen Malmkus - Animal Midnight
17. Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees
18. Wilco - Pot Kettle Black
19. The Shins - New Slang
20. Mariza Monte - Beija Eu |
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