a bit about a lot

i’m pretty scuppered from the hottentotting i’ve been doing. sleeping around the coast and dangling from great heights with salted peanuts and vaguely insubstantial party-favors.

went here for a spell and listened to the reedy voiced guide voice things about things. old furniture and old curtain grinders (i mean sausage boxes) and wooden girders and stanchions and just about all the

[funny clock woman]

household things from long ago. i’m thinking there’s some kind of hiker and she’s… and it’s funny how the eye frames a thing and makes it so. or maybe contrariwise, what’s with all those light bulb arrows flappering in to the brain? it’s passive/active and makes the work so crunchy.

luckily, there was a time later when we had time to …., because or otherwise something like a self-consuming might have overwhelmed and listening to that pacific theme music crashing in the distance or clampering over the rocks and daisyfruits (i mean icicle plants) while the sunmirror shines its cool light down upon and all the light on water seems like a (nearly) cheap digital effect in some badly dubbed 1960s italian (or russian) cinematick. but that’s okay. and though rocks are hard and crunchy, yet we are soft and feel those fingers…

even now, that dance of fingers crashing makes my helmet crumble and feel that sconce. or, even that day when a pink delight approaches. sheesh. shall the heatsweat of summer be amelting me? can i even bear another hour of closet isolation in this gray bespeckled booth?

but to put it differently, there was a great playing of games. a great hotchpotch of ’em. and all the time, whittling or whistling with my old uns, those favored amigos from days past. who can say how old they are? or how long since they’ve occupied? it’s a curious thing. a kind of thing which makes us smirk around the edges and wobble as though the electronickal cloud vizzes just a bit. then we’re solid all again. and even the meself begotten once in the hotseat there, questioning all t’others: what is it about pianos with you people!??

and then, with a great munkey, i’m playing another game with myself…. trying on for size, some other type o’ thing. it’s all wrong from the getgo. even with those magnetic soles and mattress which might be floating on air, given half the chance. it’s the worst dreamlike state and that nightmare cloud just draws out lengthwise into a drawling span of spittle. and there’s no nightmare people, it’s just so so so… dull. i’m bored and i’m never bored. it’s a chemickally induced boredom, how sad. and all i’m thinking is what a doom is this? watching the brain crumble and poke along through the ravelling spic of time. it’s the lowpoint, sure, but we all have ’em. the only regret: what a waste of time, and i’m no humptyfriend, then.

all in all, in spite of the lowp, it was grand grand mellons all the way round. forever and ever and none of us wanted to come home again, through we did anyhow, in spite of some slack efforts by the universe, its agents.

Dark Star

I just finished reading Dark Star by Alan Furst. (I ran into a recommendation/review of it on Brad Delong’s site.) It is an excellent book. It made the horror of Nazi Germany come alive in a way that I had never quite experienced before; an entire people going utterly and irrevocably insane. (It does seem like such an awfully long time ago for such a spring chicken as myself.)

Also, a brilliant description of the intricacies and mundanities surrounding spycraft and that whole ignorant left/right hand thing. (Not that I would know personally, but it seemed utterly right on.)

As always, you can find it here as well.

incoming whirlies

all the searchings in the world

grant morrison interviews
right side of the brain
thorn tattoos
dance on the head of a pin
irrational rationality
magnatune
brain left half right half
caftan 2003
filtration tanks
grant morrison
grant morrison interview
hand painted photographs
right side brain
sculpting clay
the irrational rationality
achewood
alien hand syndrome
amy hempel now i can see the moon
bishop allen article interview
brain half