April 2010
9 posts
“A little reflection soon shows how inconceivable it is really to love others...”
– Alice Miller, The Drama of The Gifted Child
Making the most of a sticky situation /
Seeing something delicate come to an end
On Being A Fan
There is something so very special about the mentality of the devoted fan. At a certain point the context of the subject (music, art, film, etc.) is subsumed within the personality of that fan and the two become inseparable. I’m not sure everyone gets that sort of connection, but I wish they all did.
—Erik
Erik is my new email friend. He recently contacted me about a band website I...
March 2010
10 posts
“Fire without smoke, the warmth of a seat which has just been left, reflection from a mirror or glass, watered silk, iridescent, the people who go through [subway gates] at the very last moment, velvet trousers, their whistling sound” - Duchamp
full circle!
totally. i went to a talk he gave at the bfi with a couple of screenings, he’s well cool…
I’ve been thinking a lot about the hierarchy of communication—especially with all this online stuff.
What means more: a public sweet comment on some social networking site or a post on a semi-secret blog you share with your lover? An long email or a short phone call? I don’t know.
our horoscope for tomrorow
“Dreams are just goals you’re afraid to commit to. You can have what you want.”
February 2010
21 posts
RE: MYSTIFICATION AGAIN
so, if there’s a general mystification of digital technology, it gets even bigger on the internet. if the information processed on the computer you’re using is already seen as immaterial then the internet is on another level, where you don’t even think about the computers and servers physically exchanging information. it gets to the point that it’s viewed as another plane,...
minor upside to having email hacked?
Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy-Casares
Trying to console him, I said “Of course, of course. North-Northeast is a work of art—” “That’s another mistake,” pronounced Bonavena. “I deny my work any artistic value. It occupies, so to speak, a plane of its own. The emotions awakened by it, the tears, the acclaim, the grimaces, leave me quite indifferent. It has not been my intention to instruct,...
Molly Nilsson “More Certain Than...
Yo La Tengo “Decora”
"And I try not to hide from what is true"
So I had this realization today while at my old school: I am comfortable being uncomfortable around the people I went to college with.
I figure it’s similar to Yo La Tengo feeling comfortable with how boring their live shows are. Because despite that fact, Electr-O-Pura will always be one of my favorite albums. I also happen to love a lot of the ex-classmates I feel uncomfortable with and...
i hope that was the image you bid on when you got it off ebay..
oooh can i have it?
just kidding
kinda
January 2010
27 posts
