February 2012
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4/18/12 — Explosions in the Sky @ The Glasshouse, Pomona
6/2/12 — Mogwai @ The Music Box, Los Angeles.
Call it strange, but the two bands I cannot pass up when they roll through town are Explosions in the Sky and Mogwai. I’ll travel anywhere within a forty mile radius to see both of them unquestioningly because they never have an off night and are extremely dedicated and appreciative of...
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Robert Crumb on Occupy Wall Street →
“I think they should stay there, and persist and persist until they have some effect. I don’t know what effect they can have. I was thinking about it last night, I was laying in bed, thinking, ‘Can this thing have any effect on the wealthy establishment?’ They’re so entrenched, they’re so powerful. I don’t know if they even care that people go there and demonstrate. What will...
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“Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Unpublished Fragments, 1882-1883.
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all....
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“Life… the shit that happens while you’re waiting for moments that never come.”
— Lester Freamon, The Wire.
Ledger of Demerit: Tonic of Torpidity
What do you do when every minor offense you commit is automatically added to your list of offenses and counted against you permanently? You drug yourself with tonic of torpidity, for the fear of failing is enough to dilute the ego, strip it of purpose, and drag the body it previously lead, down as if a weighted mass were attached at the neck, the head deflated of vitality, then inflated again with...
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It may be more oft of truth, that the narrow minded of us claim the opposite of those who are inclined towards broad mindedness. Actuality might provoke that, when pointing their fingers and loosing their tongues, these of narrow, shiftless statutes would better understand the nature of things through mindful self-evaluation. The fruits of conversation and accusation are better loosed from the...
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January 2012
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I think my dream last night was influenced by Burroughs’ “cut-up” technique. I’m a bit dazed just thinking about it. I remember prying my mouth open to check my teeth in the mirror, as if I could detect cavities; later being in a strange classroom with some friends and some unknowns on presentation day; my (black?) teacher requiring me to do a 10 page book report on The...
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In commemoration of the artwork, cynical...