Treat your ears right. Listen to this album.
I can be the one to tell you which floral dress
goes best with your jean jacket.
Or hold your hair back when you run warm water off your face.
You don’t need a clip.
I’m your faithful servant.
I can pack your school books
or writing pad
if you let me.
In fact, I’ll mold myself to you like a small droplet of water on your kitchen counter, you’ll only see yourself.
You can take me out whenever.
I’m alright with being in the dark
Just to hear you shuffle from wash-room,
to sofa,
to bed is plenty.
I can make my body a temple to yours so much that our bodies become one body negating our individual bodies.
Our Body loses itself in it’s fleshy oneness.
I can make my hands into yours. You’re double-hands.
Fuck
Double everything.
Double big heart and eyes.
Guts get large and I’ll die inside you.
Or die on top of you.
Or die for you.
Or die for nothing and no reason and you can see my face in the paper.
“Man dies insignificantly”
You’ll read my name—spelled wrong—and feel anything for anyone you know and that’s enough.
The road was so black the car’s headlights—which flickered softly and weren’t all-too-bright because of the shot alternator—couldn’t light the path. They didn’t even produce enough light to make the road suitable for a cautious walker. It just stumbled along the country road lined with trees, children’s soccer fields, and a farm-pond overgrown with invasive algae. How could anyone possibly ever find their way roaming around the road (covered in disregarded flower petals) and possibly ever find the dirt road that led to the cavernous house hosting this particular evening’s gathering of friends and he. He was an outsider. Or a new-comer who wasn’t familiar with the architectural intricacies of the surrounding homes, farms, and granite stone walls. It was easier just to turn into every dirt path he saw leading off the road; following them until they eventually led to something or it was clear they only went out into the woods likes some inf of hiking trail or scenic look-out for cars.
being born and thinking, “I’ll never be a cartographers son now!”
[I like this line, and I think it has a lot of potential to be story of some sort]
He came to the realization he knew nothing; nothing really interesting or wholly important in his life or significant and entertaining about the lives of the people around and it made him—the charging feelings of dullness, empty-headedness and stupefaction with the characters in his own reality—feel special. Feel like maybe ignorance isn’t bliss, but rather mindless apathy.
So I’ve just been writing these singles lines, or short paragraphs that I want to turn into something long (or maybe not). Here are a few:
”’ When, much later, the other will have perceived with a keen-enough ear what I will have addressed or destined to him, or her, then my signature will have taken place.’ In this way, the autos, the self as the subject of biography is displaced into the otos, the structure of the ear as a perceiving organ, so that ‘it is the of the other that signs.’”
-Christie Mc Donald (Preface to The Ear of the Other)
i hadn’t dreamed i wont dream
i cant bring the lucid thoughts rushing
towards me out of nothing
made from nothing completing nothingness
helping me out of the tub, my brother—younger than me—
reached forward gripping and struggling
surging and splashing bubbles
hand over hand clawing at hair
i’m the one reaching, pulling him from temperate
pool water—muddled dog bath—stinking chemical pit
—pulling outward palm trees crackle in the
glassy vision of nothing
kraftwerk - computer world
i’ve been trying all morning to get tix to the kraftwerk shows at MOMA to no avail. so i guess maybe i’ll have kraftwerk listening parties for everyone who couldn’t get tickets. i know its no at as good but still, there needs to be more kraftwerk appreciation. i remember the first time i hear them. i was 17, and was trying to figure out what the beat was for the afrika bambaataa song. then i stumbled upon the original kraftwerk song. i subsequently listened to trans-europa express for weeks and have wanted to go to germany every since. hopefully in the next month i can make two dreams come true: see kraftwerk and go to germany.
