March 2011
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Untitled Soaked by fog thoughts like a flock of birds shake out of the cold drafts you must endure aging watch over the fields listen closely to the circuitous paths through powerful music perhaps you were ignored by the orchestra desolation no, simply not at all superfluously that praise that kiss on the water’s surface between sky and earth
— Bei Dao
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The Grapevine
Of who we and all they are You all now know. But you know After they began to find us out we grew Before they died thinking us the causes Of their acts. Now we’ll not know The truth of some still at the piano, though They often date from us, causing These changes we think we are. We don’t care Though, so tall up there In young air. But things get darker as we move To ask...
November For being, and for habit, you go, tall-legged, into the November grass. To do with less a long river stumps itself into the breeze. My body, if ever you loved me, was wrong: I would have missed you if you were perfect. Please, steel this report: I consume photos everyday that look like Nanking, 1937. You say nothing foolish is proof against art, and, for you, I will agree. — Jamie...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-27) →
Broken Social Scene (51)
Bruce Springsteen (38)
Kanye West (34)
Talking Heads (18)
Tegan and Sara (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Thematically, it’s about the very simple idea that, in this Postmodern world of ours, human beings—all of us—are worth less. We’re worth less every day, despite the fact that some of us are achieving more and more. It’s the triumph of capitalism. […] Whether you’re a corner boy in West Baltimore, or a cop who knows his beat, or an Eastern European brought here for sex, your life is...
“Stephen Harper didn’t hesitate in the past to deal with dangerous socialists and separatists.” - Gilles Duceppe, professional antagonist (CBC)
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Election looms as [Canadian] government falls →
liams:
Alright. Let’s get rid of these Draconian idiots. It’s time for a new set of Draconian idiots.
‘You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?’ ‘No,’ said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, ‘nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-20) →
Broken Social Scene (23)
Arcade Fire (22)
The Decemberists (15)
R.E.M. (13)
Kanye West (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Excerpts from a project on found photography the constraint — female one female skin face forehead nose nostrils mouth lips upper teeth canines incisors premolars right left eyes cheeks neck ear shoulder arm breast torso hair eyebrows wrinkles bags squinted highlights old short styled earring necklace cardigan buttons blouse ribbed open auburn brown preach white pink black red...
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“I write because I have the urge to record, to make sense of the world. I am a writer because at some point I made a conscious desire to turn that desire into a practice. They aren’t the same things.”
- Sina Queryas in conversation with Daniel Zomparelli, Poetry is Dead vol. 2, issue 1.
A selection of some nice lines from the Hinton translation of Li Po (Li Bai) (from Wandering T’ai Mountain)
I bow, then bow again, deeper, ashamed I haven’t an immortal’s talent. And yet, boundless, I can dwindle time and space away, losing the world in such distances! (from Something Said, Walking Drunk on a Spring Day) I pour another drink. Soon, awaiting this bright moon,...
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Stencil Artist
There was the covert summer fling — rail bridges, back lanes, blue dust of building sites — with the NSCAD dropout (b.68, Khanesetake) who worked at night with stencils and spray paint, enlivening the poured forms of the capitol with red and black silhouettes of ordinary people. Meridians, bank walls, light poles, high rises. I asked her to outline clearly her emotional...
Wooden Buildings The tests are good. You need a million of them. You’d die laughing as I write to you Through leaves and articulations, yes, laughing Myself silly too. The funniest little thing… That’s how it all began. Looking back on it, I wonder now if it could have been on some day Findable in an old calendar? But no, It wasn’t out of history, but inside it....
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-3-13) →
Broken Social Scene (33)
Kanye West (29)
Arcade Fire (21)
Elliott Smith (18)
The Rolling Stones (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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The Hour Light Streams through the House Nothing is itself the whole way through, pass your sword into a fog, you’ll hear metal clink on metal. Even the lofty personages wrapped in furs have insides of seashores. Your glacier became a glacier because something happened then it wanted to be alone. The berry thinks it’s different from the thorns it grows among but the seed knows better....
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I mean, we’re looking down on Wayne’s basement. Only that’s not Wayne’s basement.
- Garth Algar, American man of letters.
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Sea Gull Rock ree-eawk / ree-eawk! oraoraoraoraORARA —- Eawk! eh eh haw / ek ek kaw wai - wai - wai - suwrah suwrah - suwrah / beck - heck - hraw ree-eawk kaw mora haw-aw kereow law / aw suwrah! suwrah! bee kay kaw beh kah braw o0o0o - hraw! ehy ehy ehy ehy ehy / ehy ehy ehy / ehy ehy kraw? yea yea yea ock-ha ock-ha! sawruh. ehyyyyyyyyy(ah)yyyyyyyyyyy(ah)yyyyyyy(ah)...
Still Life Or mobiles: that the wind can catch at, against itself, a leaf or a contrivance of wires, in the stairwell, to be looked at from below. We have arranged the form of a formula here, have taken the heart out & the wind is vague emotion. To count on these aspirants these contenders for the to-be-looked-at part of these actions these most hopeful movements needs a strong & constant...
“Most people think I’m Danny Glover’s son when they meet me. So when they ask, I...”
– Donald Glover (via sam, roman-numerals) 