March 2008
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ANSWERING MACHINE (CALL BACK MID-APRIL)
CURSIVEBUILDINGS: this phrase was first a songwriting moniker. for years i wrote & wrote & played for only good friends & lovers. but such things are meant to be heard eventually & so…
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PREPARATIONS
it’s cool tonite in s.francisco. i sat on the stoop, warmed by the fire of a cappuccino & the calories of an oatmeal cookie. the moon was a flashlight on the streetlights on the nightlife… the spotlight tracking swarms of indistinct taxicab rides. so funny to think all this swirls around the sleepiness of my apartment from sun to stars & back again. i am oblivious. i like...
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IF I COULD LISTEN, I THINK
my soul is an unfocused collaboration of l.cohen & the velvet underground.
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German fighter ace claims he shot down the French... →
“Horst Rippert, 88, said that he had suffered remorse all his life after discovering that Saint-Exupéry was the pilot that he blew from the Mediterranean sky on July 31, 1944” (an anecdote illustrating the stupidity of war… i wish it were an antidote) via The Times ps. saint-exupéry wrote le petit prince.
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when i get up in the morning… my real concern is to discover whether or...
– LEONARD COHEN, 1964 (“if i’m not in a state of grace, i try to go to bed.”)
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DRUNKEN IDIOTS: A PARABLE
they appear, these men, every holiday weekend… drunk in the streets & yelling because they want to be seen. here, in the neon scenes of a city. oh suburban sports bars, please take them home again. i watch them grab at asses that pass in the street, drooling. &, for once, i hope they get what they’re after… as this is s.francisco & that ‘girl’ has a penis....
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SUN’S NOT RISING YET hear a recorded demo version here. (via vimeo)
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€U > U$
the american economy is no longer the largest in the world. it feels sort of nice. maybe now we stop trying to maintain some pompous fairytale & focus instead on being 300 million basically-good folks in a world of 6.7 billion basically-good folks.
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REACHING FOR THE OUT OF REACH
i’m breathing new life into the past using old digitized photographs from the new york public library. i’ve spent hours rekindling these moments. & they will not be the last. i’m so so deep on these funny little things… it’s like the past has rediscovered a dimension!
please note: these are made from old stereographs. i’m happy this series has somehow...
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it was only a setup. a hookup involves more action.
– OVERHEARD: 1st & Mission.
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ALL'S FAIR IN LOVE & WAR
i have a habit of reaching out & running my hands along the sides of automobiles as they pass in the street. sometimes i tap out drumbeats on a sidedoor. there’s a funny disconnect, i think, in the mind of a driver that renders them unattached to the wider world past the dashboard, where they watch the road like a television set… half a finger stuck up their nose & staring like...