December 2010
41 posts
“IT is partly the loss of the insight that human rights can only be secured by an...”
– National Interest review of Samuel Moyn’s The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History by John Gray. Smart, smart overview of why the concern with human rights since the 1970s has not made the world much more peaceful or free. Had the deeply pleasurable side effect of introducing me to...
“Hey, Soul Sister” was the only rock song to land in the Billboard Hot...”
– This Village Voice article on why “Hey Soul Sister” is the worst song of 2010 does not hold back.
Joni Mitchell - River. Off of Blue, 1971. Best...
Also
my sister asked for a decomposing human foot for Christmas.
Just came from celebrating a wonderful milestone in a friend’s life, marked by the public removal of clothing and consumption of the classiest of nonalcoholic sparkling grape beverages, then devolving into a Simpsons marathon. Walked in the door of my house to find my roommates arm in arm, engaged in a Sinatra Christmas song dance party in my warm, bright kitchen. Sometimes things are pretty...
“They’re together because they’re separate. What they call love is a...”
– The Samurai, Julia Kristeva.
This is an apt description of the only way I think I can coexist with another human being.
Last night I had a dream that Deleuze was coming to teach a class at the U of R. French theory has obviously fucked me all up.
“He lived a simple life in a small cottage, where he taught himself falconry and...”
– The more I read about T.H. White, author of The Once and Future King and The Goshawk, the more I like the fella.
—Jessa Crispin on T. H. White, from The Book of English Magic
(For the record, I agree.)
What a goddamn badass. Even better than Prof. Brooks opening the door with a bottle of Jack in...
Apophenia
n. A state in which one finds patterns in meaningless or unconnected data. Coined by psychologist Klaus Conrad in 1958. A function of both psychosis and creativity.
“p-Bingo Night is Punch Brothers’ creative process (made slightly more...”
– So…this is happening in January at the Bowery. I will be there. That is all.
Pete Seeger - Going Across the Mountains...
You, Darkness
You, darkness, that I come from I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything- shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people- and it is possible a great presence is moving near me. I have faith in nights.
-Rilke
