matador resurrection

"Mêlent à leur azur amer" --Gautier ('Blend with the bitter blue')

tnglegloamy

The thought i should be somewhere else, making prose, where the action is.

a visitation from Jack Chick

"...hustle of rug vendors
      comply with no one
the shadows
      nor the dire air"

--Mông-Lan, Song of the Cicadas (2001)

runoff rivals chase

Discard studies.

“Meanwhile, to boost sales of Moby Grape, the label’s marketing executives organized a ‘poetry-writing contest’ in collaboration with the radio station KRFC, with the promise that the band would select a winning poem and then transform it into a song for their second album. ...The result was one of the band’s least-liked songs, ‘The Lake,’ as featured on the following year’s Wow/Grape Jam. As Don recalls, ‘We really picked a song called “Hairy Mary” …and the suits at Columbia found it very scary. They put the kibosh on the song we picked.’ “ --What’s Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?

Footnote: “During the Summer of Love, Los Angeles radio station 93-KHU Boss Radio also beckoned listeners to send in their poems to compete for the prize of writing a lyric for the Buffalo Springfield’s next album…becoming ’The Hour of Not Quite Rain’ on Buffalo Springfield’s third and final album, Last Time Around...” --ibid

miasthma

Brass thread.

"The Meissen's ware has expired, its passage is written in oppidan stone. Maillol may neither force the standard clay. The corporeality of the earth is imperiled, its sedimentary cup filed with incommodious libation, with the Segercone of industries tear, basalts with biscuit leaves constitutes lead procaine. The Geyser's Panicum languishes in the chlorine silt, its delicate stem immersed in a poison communion with the challis of aphoristic ground. To the precursors mouth assume the primordial faience, the historical requiem of fragrant arboretums."

--Kristin Ryling

opiophobia

"The idea of a messenger is a mistake, a necessary mistake." --Michael Cisco, Unlanguage (2018)

luftwafel

Hedgehog speech. (thread)

"The mysterious alternative Moby Grape were still merrily touring the Midwest, playing the Cellar in Arlington Heights, illinois, with the Nova Express opening on Friday, January 17, and Saturday, January 18. On the latter date, the mystery of the second Grape took an unexpected turn with a third Moby Grape performing at the same time at the Valley View YAK in Frankfort, Ohio." --Cam Cobb, What's Big and Purple and Lives in the Ocean?

gathering of the winds

"No wizard has ever made himself useful by magic, or, if they've tried, they've only made matters worse." --Kelly Link

this only works if they stop

"For shadows offer all the safety
left in life."

--McKuen

lives of the incubus

(via criss cisneros on retro rockets fb)

Gojiro.

"Security, the friendly mask of change
At which we smile, not seeing what smiles behind it..."

--Edwin Arlington Robinson

ichthulhus

(via)

"It is apparent from anyone who has been in contact with this culture that the first iterations of the Inunabula catalog as we know it today came from/was tailored for this underground movement."

A religion without a book. A religion that is only a book, without precepts.

St Germain's triangular book. The original, online. Another triangular book (we have at the store right now!). Mario Lara's In Side Out is described as "Triangular shaped artist's book" in Folder 19 of Box 11 here. (It may be the one i saw in conjunction with Xerox Sutra sometime during the 80s.) The only appearance of this book on Google...

theology of the antibody

A book without words. A book that is only words, without content.

Sacred monster.

of perished joy

"The last time the earth saw 415 parts per million of CO2 was the Pliocene era between 3 and 5 million years ago."

Nada marrow or Ramadan.

What Mongolian sounded like.

euayen

(pic by alice hualice via miekal on fb)

"If grime were architecture it would be brutalism, because brutalism is concrete."

Certainly a landscape of editor-free books & half-educated readers is a good place to hide a work of determined nonlinearity.

tresting

(thelema abbey today, via)

From the depths of the sea.

Becalmed can most puissantly grok the meaning of the storm.

opera shredder

Sino-grime explained.

Why is it so hard to understand that the magic is not in the paper trail but the one who made the paper trail?

schnitzel und spätstil

Extinction Rebellion symbol.

Can the sweep of a windshield wiper serve as a wave?

misfix of a fitbit

(via @SwanRiverPress)

Severed.

"And all the summer travail of the trees
And all the winter sickness..."

--Swinburne

"In this case I had contact with Robert A. Heinlein's attorneys. I said, 'I want to write a song with the title, "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress". [sic] Can you ask Mr. Heinlein if it's okay with him?' They called me back and he said he had no objection to it."

the gig economy

I remember i used to wear grease paint around my eyes, like the character in Blade Runner. I called it "raccoonface."

Doomas. (via feuilleton)

placebo studies

(via memories of dallas)

Throwback Friday.

Reading Patricia Highsmith on snails (Eleven). That very day, we get a record by a group named Snail.

"Mal Canto" written in my own runes.

life expectancy

(by @SwanRiverPress via @JoyceCarolOates on tw)

On Wurlitzer's novels.

Six months their water was turned off.

"Silliman's initial formulation of the hypotaxis/parataxis distinction as applied to poetry was essentially part of a Marxist critique, by which poetry demonstrates that hypotaxis is a kind of capitalist conspiracy."

view offer

(winning sand sculpture by damon langtois at texas sandfest 2019, via avantgardens via keli vaughan on fb)

"I’ve just finished April 1876 and am already dreading the onslaught of mad apocalyptic prophecy (laced with copious outbursts of anti-Semitism) that’s going to come with the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War."

         "Poem XCII
You took the lamp, but the light remained with me. Or something more subtle and tenuous, like the shadow of the light."

                  --Loynaz

"....it all makes for a past history that is philosophically significant and unendurable." (via this-space blog)

experience murder

(via)

"Everything is not going to be okay."

You can get them to question one of the rules of the game. You cannot get them to question the game.

a highway made of link-rot

Language-game & Group-mind. The former suggests gamelike goals (or at least gamelike outcomes). The latter is a way of being in the world. For saktra, it is a world of things,--among them, people. To the group-mind, things impinge or can be part of its purposes (or block them); otherwise they don't exist.

" These are the stakes. These are the fables on my street."

"In 1939, the German state came to knock on the study door of Hegel. He wasn't in, but the Nazis knew how to make even a dead man change his story." --Clive James, op cit

scenes from the other endgame

Al-Qadiri overview & update.

      "POEM XXIX

In every grain of sand there is the collapse of a mountain."

--Dulce Maria Loynaz, Poems Without Name (1953; tr Harret de Onis, 1993)

" In Hell, one says everything and it must be for this that we recognise it."

the poetry of being half-understood

(by weird5cience via vapormaeve on tumblr)

Makemake symbol.

More precarity. One grows tired of the succession.

braille for the sighted

Naked brunch.

For saktra, complaining can only insure the dislike of others. It's like having a bad smell.

more than a felon

(via gordon hilgers on fb)

War by comedy.

"Austerity" is our Moloch.

After Steampunk. (thread)

    "THE CITY (Palindrome-Haiku)

Go flat, urbanised....
A cradle here held arcades
in a brutal fog."

--Anthony Etherin

silo polis

You understand the fundamental undecideability of pre-crime methodology?

Robot country music (thread).

torrential caplock

The shadow of the group-mind begets the longing for the imaginary friend.

A woman who no longer exists.