Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Roger Rosenblatt on terrorism
The airports are closed due to a heightened awareness of lovers worldwide, who are consuming everyone's attention as if it were consummé. What shall we do about this -- what should one call it -- threat? Terrorists will be terrorists, the little devils. The Taliban will be Talibananas. Lovers will be lovers, that's a given. The world will always welcome them, etc. etc., but there is such a thing as overabundance, you know. You can't have too many terrorists, but lovers reproduce like rabbits, and if you're not watching them every second, they will take the attention of the world away from the bombers and bludgeoners, if you can imagine such a thing. So, I ask you, comrade, what is to be done?
-- from Roger Rosenblatt, The Book of Love
-- from Roger Rosenblatt, The Book of Love
Saturday, January 28, 2017
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Natasha and Andrei's Waltz: War and Peace (Война и мир)
The ever-delightful Lyudmila Savelyeva brings all her ballet skills to the role, and Pierre's facial expression - HALF-glad! -- before the dissolve is quite perfect (one i find myself wearing all too often).
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
Plastic Idols - I.U.D. -
current
mood: #allgonnadie #dietofroadkillinTrumplandia depressor human scum
mood: #allgonnadie #dietofroadkillinTrumplandia depressor human scum
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Friday, January 20, 2017
Primo Levi
“WAITING”
This is a time of lightning without thunder,
This is a time of unheard voices,
Of uneasy sleep and useless vigils.
Friends, do not forget the days
Of long easy silences,
Friendly nocturnal streets,
Serene meditations.
Before the leaves fall,
Before the sky closes again,
Before we are awakened again
By the familiar pounding of iron footsteps
In front of our doors.
*************
2 January 1949
by PRIMO LEVI from his COLLECTED POEMS
translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
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Or to remain for a long time without one.
The time has come not to be alone,
Or else we will stay alone for a long time.
This is a time of lightning without thunder,
This is a time of unheard voices,
Of uneasy sleep and useless vigils.
Friends, do not forget the days
Of long easy silences,
Friendly nocturnal streets,
Serene meditations.
Before the leaves fall,
Before the sky closes again,
Before we are awakened again
By the familiar pounding of iron footsteps
In front of our doors.
*************
2 January 1949
by PRIMO LEVI from his COLLECTED POEMS
translated by Ruth Feldman and Brian Swann
+
from AFTER RM RILKE (PRIMO LEVI)
The time has come to have a home,Or to remain for a long time without one.
The time has come not to be alone,
Or else we will stay alone for a long time.
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
WON’T
YOU CELEBRATE WITH ME
by Lucille Clifton
by Lucille Clifton
won’t
you celebrate with me
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
what i have shaped into
a kind of life? i had no model.
born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?
i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand holding tight
my other hand; come celebrate
with me that everyday
something has tried to kill me
and has failed.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Carlin on Repugs
“The
neutron bomb is very Republican; it leaves property alone and
concentrates on destroying large numbers of people indiscriminately.”
— George Carlin
Monday, January 16, 2017
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Federici
"Witch-hunting did not destroy the resistance of the colonized. Due primarily to the struggle of women, the connection of the American Indians with the land, the local religions and nature survived beyond the persecution providing, for more than five hundred years, a source of anti-colonial and anti-capitalist resistance.This is extremely important for us, at a time when a renewed assault is being made on the resources and mode of existence of indigenous populations across the planet; for we need to rethink how the conquistadors strove to subdue those whom they colonized, and what enabled the latter to subvert this plan and, against the destruction of their social and physical universe, create a new historical reality." Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch
In the last few months of his life Martin Luther King Jr. confronted the fact that civil rights alone could not solve the problems of poverty and he roamed the South looking to ignite a poor people's movement with demands for full equality, full employment, guaranteed income, black-owned redistribution, and decent housing. Echoing the discourse of the Panthers, his final speeches recognize a promise broken by the government and the Northern civil sphere since the time immediately following the civil war. He was assassinated just a couple of months before the first major march of this emerging poor people's movement was planned on the mall in Washington, D.C.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Bei Dao
“If
fresh blood could make you fertile/ The ripened fruit/ On tomorrow’s
branches/ Would bear my colour.” Bei Dao (1986)
Friday, January 13, 2017
10 albums that shaped my teenage years:
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Husker Du -- Zen Arcade
AMM - Laminal
Huggy Bear -- Weaponry Listens to Love
John Coltrane -- some budget compilation i forget the name of
Dinosaur Jr. -- You're Living All Over Me
MBV -- Loveless
György Ligeti – Continuum / Zehn Stücke Für Bläserquintett / Artikulation / Glissandi / Etüden Für Orgel / Volumina
Guv'ner -- Hard For Measy For You
Replacements -- Stink
Husker Du -- Zen Arcade
AMM - Laminal
Huggy Bear -- Weaponry Listens to Love
John Coltrane -- some budget compilation i forget the name of
Dinosaur Jr. -- You're Living All Over Me
MBV -- Loveless
György Ligeti – Continuum / Zehn Stücke Für Bläserquintett / Artikulation / Glissandi / Etüden Für Orgel / Volumina
Guv'ner -- Hard For Measy For You
Replacements -- Stink
honourable mentions:
Ride -- Going Blank Again
Derek Bailey -- Aida
Minutemen -- Double Nickels on the Dime
Spontaneous Music Ensemble -- Biosystem
Ride -- Going Blank Again
Derek Bailey -- Aida
Minutemen -- Double Nickels on the Dime
Spontaneous Music Ensemble -- Biosystem
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Riot Squad :Fuck the Tories :AUDIO Punk Vinyl.
s'up. NHS CRISIS: overstretched spin doctors at breaking point as Theresa May admits demand for excuses at record high: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-GhcVpU9_E
Spheeris on 1990....
“The
shrinks should be prepared when the neuroses and psychoses of 1990
materialize.” (Pam Spheeris)
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Lorca on ecocatastrophe
“Now
there’s no one to mourn the wounds of elephants. There are only
millions of blacksmiths forging chain for the children to come…”
Lorca
Monday, January 9, 2017
Princess Mononoke: Pulling San out of the Demon Boar — Critical Commons
Princess Mononoke: Pulling San out of the Demon Boar — Critical Commons
#ecosocialism #dialectics #systemchangenotclimatechange #waterislife
#ecosocialism #dialectics #systemchangenotclimatechange #waterislife
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Slavoj Žižek: Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridled Capitalism - YouTube
Slavoj Žižek: Why There Are No Viable Political Alternatives to Unbridled Capitalism - YouTube
As Walter Benjamin said, behind every reign of fascism is a failed revolution.....
As Walter Benjamin said, behind every reign of fascism is a failed revolution.....
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Peter Cook - Sven From Swiss Cottage 1/7
in many ways not the 'best' but the essential (warts n' all, pre-long-time [belated] loving) Cook.... AND a grand (semi-secret: look up the context, please) return to the early experimental improv tape work that was such an important influence on my early (~1995-2004) poetry (along with, importantly, Huggy Bear)......
Ringo Deathstarr | Sweet Girl
for HER, who lights my life so i will set the world on fire with HER....
Friday, January 6, 2017
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Monday, January 2, 2017
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