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| Thursday, July 9th, 2009 | | 12:57 pm |
One surprises with coconut milk and cilantro; another blooms with lavender and fresh flowers. To help you be the star of your summer barbecue, ... | | Wednesday, July 8th, 2009 | | 3:24 pm |
~ April Bernard
That's What I Said
It pricks the arms like poison,
knowing that some things, once chosen,
are yours and that meanwhile the night comes
much too soon this time of year.
There are things you will not be allowed to say.
You think them anyway, until they become you.
The two boys in shirt sleeves are in the street
again, skateboards balking
where the sidewalk buckles in geologic fault.
They seem mirthless, as they yell and fall
and the cold mist tries to veil them from passing cars.
Yesterday’s storm slammed the leaves to the ground.
Hiss, hiss, the tires go, against the scraps
of piano music, not Chopin today, from upstairs.
Someone tried to understand you once
and he’s dead, though not from trying.
Clunk, clunk, goes the landlady’s daughter,
trying out her new boots on the back stairs.
Things have narrowed to a point
and no gorgeous diction can get you out of it.
There’s just the flats of your feet,
willing each new step out of empty pockets
where change, keys, pens once rattled.
You threw them into the bushes on the next block
and then came home with the grey linings hanging
from your jacket like socks.
You forgot to check the mail
and when you opened the door
you brought the night in with you |
| | Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 3:58 pm |
Can Sartre and Gandhi really make a Tube journey fly by?London Underground plans to regale passengers with philosophical sayings. Stina Backer tries them out "Hell is other people" – something London commuters may be forgiven for muttering to themselves on their daily Tube journeys. It is certainly not a phrase they would expect to hear the driver announce, not without feeling a slight pinch of panic. Yet these words, from the Parisian existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, are part of a book of sayings given to London Underground staff, who are being encouraged to dispense them over the Tannoy to try to spread some joy and intellectual inspiration. At the moment these pearls of wisdom are only being communicated to the lucky passengers on the long and winding Piccadilly line. So, to ensure travellers on the rest of the network did not miss out, we decided to spread the word on the Circle line – one of London's most-hated Tubes because of its infrequent service and frequent signal failures. Nearing rush hour on a hot and sweaty day, I try out one of the Gandhi quotes chosen by Transport for London (TfL) to create a relaxed and soothing atmosphere. "There is more to life than increasing its speed," I announce loudly to my fellow commuters, only to be met with endless death stares mixed up with the odd why-did-I-have-to-choose-the-carriage-with-the-crazy-person sighs. Perhaps the idea of being told to slow down when stuck on a packed and clammy Tube does not sit well with everyone. "I think it's a ridiculous idea and a waste of money," moaned Jo Byrne, 37, a payroll officer from Romford, Essex. "Surely it's not safe either, the Tube driver should be concentrating on driving the train rather than reciting some philosophical quotes." Others seemed to love the idea of having their minds expanded by the wisdom of Einstein and Dostoevsky. "I think it's great as long as they don't do it too often, because then it risks becoming a bit annoying," said Anna Waterer, 34, an architect from Putney. "I always like it when Tube drivers say something spontaneous, it brightens up your day a bit. Commuting can be such a solitary experience so when you share a laugh with a stranger because of an announcement, it takes your mind off the slightly absurd situation you face when you are on a packed train deep underground." The quotes are collected in a passport-sized pamphlet, What is the city but the people? (from Shakespeare) that has been handed to Tube drivers and platform staff on the Underground. The project is the brainchild of the Turner Prize-winning artist Jeremy Deller, who said he was motivated by annoyance at the recorded announcements that bombard Tube passengers, such as "mind the gap" and "stand clear of the closing doors". His original idea, a day with no announcements, was rejected by Tube bosses, "so I came up with the idea of giving staff a collection of quotes and the idea grew from there". "I often wish announcements were more personal and reflected the realities and absurdities of living and working in a big city," Deller said. "The travelling public enjoys some humour and unexpected insight during their journey." Drivers who agreed to take part were given tips on delivery by the stand-up comedian Arthur Smith. Piccadilly line driver Susy Wells told the BBC that the sayings helped liven up a job that "can be a little bit monotonous at times". TfL has asked passengers who hear the announcements to send in their reactions by email. Train of thought: TfL's philosophy quotes Trouble will rain on those who are already wet – Anon Never criticise a man until you have walked a mile in his moccasins – Native American proverb Those who lose dreaming are lost – Aboriginal proverb It is no longer the time of day for making plans, but for having them – Greek proverb Beauty will save the world – Fydor Dostoyevsky Nothing is worth more than this day – Johann von Goethe | | 1:14 pm |
Selected Later Poems of Marie Luise Kaschnitz translated by Lisel Mueller The White of Ships In our mathematical world who can still remember Anything that decays And anything that takes root? White whitest white Sooner or later we too Will get our coats of oil-base paint Then we'll stop getting older We'll eat blancmange The clocks will say white Except that the night Drums up hordes of unknown stars. | | Sunday, July 5th, 2009 | | 5:32 pm |
from The Work of a Common Woman by Judy Grahn from She Who: 1971-1972 She Who, She Who carries herself in a bowl of blood She Who holds a bowl of blood and swallows a speck of foam She Who molds her blood in a bowl in a bowl, in a bowl of blood and the bowl, and the bowl and the blood and the foam and the bowl, and the bowl and the blood belonging to She Who holds it. She shook it till it got some shape. She shook it the first season and lost some teeth She shook it the second season and lost some bone She shook it the third season and some body was born, She Who. | | Saturday, July 4th, 2009 | | 10:14 pm |
from Pieces: Poems by Robert Creeley Gemini Two eyes, two hands-- in one two are given. The words are messages from another, not understood but given. , Neither one, nor the other, nor of a brother--but in the one, two, restless, confined to a place ruled by a moon, and another one with messages, rather, sequences of words that are not to be understood but somehow given to the world. All this dances in a room, two by two, but alone. . From one to two, is the first rule. Of two minds the twin is to double life given. . What it says is that one is two, the twin, that the messenger comes to either, that these fight to possess, but do not understand--that if the moon rules, there is "domestic harmony"--but if the blood cry, the split so divide, there can be no company for the two in one. He is alone. . . . In secret the out's in-- the wise surprised, all going coming, begun undone. Hence the fool dances in endless happiness. . A circling with snake-tail in mouth-- what the head was looked forward, what backward is, then guess. Either way, it will stay. . . . "Time" is some sort of hindsight, or else rhythm of activity --e.g., now it's 11 days later--"also alive" like they say. . Where it is was and will be never only here. . --fluttering as falling, leaves, knives, to avoid--tunnel down the vague sides . . . . --it it-- | | Friday, July 3rd, 2009 | | 8:29 pm |
The Making of a Russian Revolutionist:
An Interview with Marie Sukloff
excerpt from The Survey June 6,1914
http://www.archive.org/stream/survey02yorkgoog/survey02yorkgoog_djvu.txt
Then she was told of the origin of the
revolutionary movement — how it had be-
gun within the memory of her own fath-
er and consisted at first of academic
discussion among students in the uni-
versities and technical schools, but pres-
ently took the form of secret societies
whose members, under the disguise of
doctors, midwives, school teachers, j[ov-
emesses, factory hands and common lab-
orers, went among the people with sedi-
tious pamphlets and oral arg
uments,
seeking to make proselytes. When suc-
cess began to attend these efforts, she
learned, the police interfered and there
were wholesale arrests of those who
preached anti-government doctrine.
Many, she learned, were imprisoned or
exiled, and so she came to have an espe-
cial horror of a power which would not
permit people to express their own views,
or even to have views of a particular
kind.
These were precocious ideas for a
girl of sixteen, but poverty and thwarted
ambition often put an edge to intelli-
gence. By dint of learning such things
Marie had become a hater of ciarism
and an avowed Socialist. As such she
was lonely in her home town. So she
moved to Odessa for the purpose of
meeting other and older radicals. The
Socialist Revolutionist Party, which was
the first to adopt terrorist methods, had
been formed the year before. Marie
met many of its members, including
Catharine Breshkovsky, the "grand-
mother of the revolution," who was one
of its founders. She had gone so far
in her own thinking that it was easy for
her Odessa friends to persuade her to
the philosophy of the new party. When
she joined it within the year she was the
youngest of its members. At this time
she was a revolutionist in theory only,
not yet ready to begin actual warfare
on, the government she had come to hate.
But events were at hand which were to
bring the transformation.
A Batch of Letters
Among the friends to whom she was
writing was a former playmate whom
the military requirements had taken
away and put in the army. He, too, was
a Socialist. For some reason the army
officials suspected this young man of
holding ideas unfriendly to the govern-
ment. They searched his possessions
and found a year's letters from Marie.
In one of these letters she had writ-
ten, in Yiddish: "I shall not rest until
I see the blood of the vampires." She
blushes now at the recollection. It was
a bit of youthful bombast of which she
is not proud ; in bad taste rhetorically,
she thinks. By it she meant merely to
express her hatred of all oppressors.
But the official translator, in chang-
ing the letter into Russian, made "vam-
pires" read "vampire." This was con-
strued as a direct threat at the czar.
That alone would have been sufficient to
brand her as too dangerous to be at
large, but the officials had another clue.
First Arrest
Each year, on the third of March, the
revolutionists of Russia commemorate
the famous "emancipation" of the peas-
ants which Alexander II was forced to
make in 1861. The beneficence of this
liberation was somewhat dimmed by sub-
sequent events and it wasn't long before
the peasants were calling their vaunted
freedom a mockery and were claiming
that they were being systematically
cheated of the promises made to them.
In harmony with this spirit the celebra-
tion of the revolutionists takes the form
of posting proclamations, on the anni-
versary of the manifesto, contrasting
Alexander's pretentious pledges with
the present condition of the peasants.
Marie had been involved in this work.
The government searched her house and
fotmd forty pieces of type which, on
comparison, proved to be from the very
supply that had been used in setting up
some of these proclamations. So, on
February 21, 1902, she was arrested at
Kishineff and thrown into prison to
await her trial. | | Saturday, June 27th, 2009 | | 10:03 am |
you no tice nobod y wants Less(not to men tion least)&i ob serve no body wants Most (not putting it mildly much) may be be cause ever ybody wants more (&more& still More) what the hell are we all morticians? ~~e.e. cummings | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 10:31 pm |
# LANTZ, Mr. C., watchman on the B&O railroad, was killed on the night of the 8th when he and Watchman RIORDON encountered "two colored men caught in the act of breaking open the door of a car" on the railroad in Martinsburg. Mr. LANTZ grappled with one of the robbers, who exclaimed, "What are you going to do with me?", turned suddenly and shot him in the abdomen. RIORDON ran to his rescue and the armed robber fired on him also, striking him above the knee, "producing a pain, but not dangerous," wound. Both victims identified the assailants were "desperate colored men who had been about Martinsburg for some time." From the first, LANTZ was not expected to recover; the surgeon Dr. J.H. HUNTER pronounced the wound fatal as soon as he was called and that night the sufferer died from the effects of the shot. Immediately after the occurrence, pursuit of the robbers started, with the authorities scouring the county and offering a reward of $150 for the apprehension. Yesterday, one of the robbers who did the shooting was caught almost 6 miles southeast of Martinsburg by Messrs. F.J. FOREMAN, J.E. O'NEAL, and John RHOADS and was safely lodged in jail. "Great excitement prevailed and a crowd of masked men forced their way into the jail about eleven o'clock and took the Negro SMITH out to hang him, but were persuaded from doing so" — HTL 16 Oct 1878. SMITH was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years — HTL 18 Jun 1879. # LANTZ, Mrs., widow of C. LANTZ, the watchman who was killed in Martinsburg, has received $100 and a cow worth $50 from the B&O railroad — HTL 18 Dec 187 | | Sunday, June 14th, 2009 | | 11:10 am |
thrifted A Race Is A Nice Thing To Have: A Guide to Being A White Person or Understanding the White Persons in Your Life 98pg pb, going for $75 on Amazon London's Pavement Pounders: Geoffrey S. Fletcher folio hb 1967 textual and pencil sketches of street dwellers Fletcher also wrote The London Nobody Knows as a similar book which became a movie Goldfish in public toilets, meths drinkers, Italian caffs ... Bob Stanley on an extraordinary documentary that captures the seamy underbelly of 1960s London <article The Fear of Women ~ Wolfgang Lederer, M.D. An Inquiry into the enigma of Woman and why men through the ages have both loved and dreaded her 1968 pb | | Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | | 10:34 am |
 tagged on 3rd st ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`  | | Thursday, June 11th, 2009 | | 6:20 pm |
prison tarot deck 12 signs 10 planets 01 sun/moon 23    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~pips sanded off regular playing cards | | Wednesday, June 10th, 2009 | | 8:22 pm |
A multi-layered work featuring animation, archival footage and interviews with the likes of William Burroughs, Carolee Schneemann and Richard Hell, this is a thoughtful biography/essay on the late outlaw writer and punk icon, whose formally inventive novels, published from the 70s through the mid-90s, appropriated texts from Great White Male writers and challenged assumptions about gender roles, sexuality, and the literary canon. This film captures the essence of both Acker the writer and Acker the person, while celebrating the avant-garde legacy of an artist who forever expanded the limits of self-expression.
Please credit all uses of this video as follows: "Courtesy of Women Make Movies, www.wmm.com." | | Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 | | 7:12 pm |
i watched last fox cartoon lineup sunday i'm tv slumming, feeling the channels dwindle, pbs first and hardest a month ago i guess all gone friday, what box?
| | Friday, June 5th, 2009 | | 8:14 pm |
Dark lil lit textbook from '69
Unknown Worlds ed. Lawana Trout (Holt, Rinehart & Winston 0-03-071620-9, 1969, $2.20, 157pp, tp); Textbook, also available with a teacher’s guide and LP record. General editor: Charlotte K. Brooks. - ii · Flight Into the Unknown · Alfred Tennyson, Lord · pm
- 1 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
- 13 · The Automatic Pistol · Fritz Leiber · ss Weird Tales May ’40
- 28 · The Term · William Carlos Williams · pm Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, 1938
- 31 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping Oct ’52
- 62 · The Warning · Adelaide Crapsey · pm Verse of Adelaide Crapsey, 1922
- 71 · Man Chooses Death, A Tale from Madagascar · Anon. · vi
- 72 · How the Three Young Men Found Death [adapted from “The Pardoner’s Tale”, 1387] · Geoffrey Chaucer & Gail M. Griffin, adapt. · ss, 1969
- 77 · The Cremation of Sam McGee · Robert W. Service · pm Songs of a Sourdough, Toronto: Briggs, 1907
- 82 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales, J.M. Dent, 1910
- 91 · Because I Could Not Stop for Death [c1863] · Emily Dickinson · pm
- 93 · Lament · Edna St. Vincent Millay · pm Collected Poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1921
- 94 · Midnight Charm [from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer] · Mark Twain · ex American Pub. Co., 1876
- 99 · Plague Burial · Jerzy Kosinski · ss Painted Bird, 1970
- 111 · Men Are Different · Alan Bloch · vi Science Fiction Thinking Machines, ed. Groff Conklin, Vanguard, 1954
- 112 · The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street · Rod Serling · sa Stories from the Twilight Zone, Bantam, 1960
- 135 · Fire and Ice · Robert Frost · pm The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1916
- 137 · House Fear · Robert Frost · pm The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, Henry Holt, 1916
- 138 · Southbound on the Freeway · May Swenson · pm New Yorker Feb 16 ’63
- 140 · Locomotive 38, the Ojibway · William Saroyan · ss My Name Is Aram, 1937
- 153 · Ride a Wild Horse [“Into the Sun”] · Hannah Kahn · pm Saturday Review of Literature Mar 21 ’53
- 154 · High Flight · John Gillespie Magee, Jr. · pm Studies in Poetry
- 156 · Eldorado · Edgar Allan Poe · pm The Flag of Our Union Apr 21, 1849
| | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 8:37 am |
tskorrrrrrr Mata Ortiz Today vhs ~ distinctive mexican pottery location docu Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy hardback Only You Can Save Mankind ~ Terry Pratchett hb 1. Friend of the Devil - Jerry Garcia/David Grisman
2. Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow
3. Sweet Jane - Lou Reed
4. Too Much - Dave Matthews Band
5. Think - Aretha Franklin
6. I Don't Want to Wait - Paula Cole
7. God Give Me Strength - Elvis Costello/Burt Bacharach
8. Funny How Time Slips Away - Al Green/Lyle Lovett
9. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You - Van Morrison/Sinead O'Connor/The Chieftains
10. You Were Meant For Me - Jewel/Flea
11. Reason to Believe - Rod Stewart
12. Crush With Eyeliner - R.E.M.
13. Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
14. Who Do You Love - Patti Smith
live on letterman cd 1997 | | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 4:57 pm |
Macy Gray - Relating to a psychopath (Pinkpop 2007) <<youtube John Peel Stagei'd huff silver spraypaint with macy gray...but only her, ever...i doubt the opportunity comes up.. work is attempting to fold a circular level of hell into a square...origamicubists are always suspect....i'd rather weave | | Saturday, May 30th, 2009 | | 8:56 am |
my youtube acct featured other places.......bigchoppachop site's full o dubbiouss http://bigchoppachop.blogspot.com/2009/04/blue-riddim-band-alive-in-jamaica.htmlhttp://lorrainecrescent.blogspot.com/2009/04/another-great-song-from-around-same.htmlburroughs' caretaker/agent/editor/heir james grauerholz produced The Blue RIddim Band's grammy award winning album... allen ginsburg appeared on an album by local Lawrence, KS band The Start back in same early 80s ~~ yesterday's cd discount bin snags from Circles, still in downtown Phoenix (in Edsel dealership building) The Teardrop Explodes featuring Julian Cope ~ Wilder listening to now, listent to a thousand times in the 80s, and a hundred since probably "you could always be the mistress of my schemes" and i never questiont who Leila Khaled was...from song "Like Leila Khaled Said": i followed through less on unanswered questions in the 80s, there was only so much time could be spent in libraries She has been called the "poster girl of Palestinian militancy." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leila_KhaledJane Siberry ~ Temple ~ cd single....she's canadia's tori! 1992 (*thinks*...okay, she's canadia's kate bush) Dead At Birth ~ Genesis of a Madman Book 1 ...i'm certain that track 18. 50 Ways to Pimp Slap Yo' Bitch just might be redeemed by last track 19. Kill Yo' Self .....very little info on Loco or other perps on this juggalo mugging 1992 Dave Stewart & The Spiritual Cowboys ~ Love Shines cdsingle The Aquabats ~ Charge! street date promo...the aquabats also produce a children's show Yo Gabba Gabba, ...Biz Markee as puppetmaster...sweeeeet..i picked up Show #1 dvd thrifting i think before it even aired...a first!...i do grab tv vhs as i see them....special vhs release of Larry and Darryl and Darryl two episode from Newhart the latest...i have a horrifying MTM episode where chloris leachman and ted hook up...i officially declare elaine stritch the first broad of broadway...since no one else has..at least googlyably | | Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | | 10:14 pm |
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