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Bayou - Cherry Cola

Mon, 06 May 2013 22:19:48 -0400

Bayou - Cherry Cola

"[Saudade] describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone..."

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:35:07 -0400

“[Saudade] describes a deep emotional state of nostalgic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves. Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing will never return. A stronger form of saudade may be felt towards people and things whose whereabouts are unknown, such as a lost lover…”

- Saudade, from Wikipedia

syzygy

Wed, 01 May 2013 17:33:00 -0400

SYZYGY, definition from wiktionary:

1. (astronomy, astrology) A kind of unity, namely an alignment of three celestial bodies (for example, the Sun, Earth, and Moon) such that one body is directly between the other two, such as occurs at an eclipse
2. (psychology) An archetypal pairing of contrasexual opposites, symbolizing the communication of the conscious and unconscious minds

What will remain for us at the end?

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:57:28 -0500

What will remain for us at the end?

"At Pegasus by Terrance Hayes They are like those crazy women who tore Orpheus when he..."

Thu, 24 Jan 2013 19:38:00 -0500

“At Pegasus by Terrance Hayes

They are like those crazy women 
   who tore Orpheus
      when he refused to sing,

these men grinding
   in the strobe & black lights
      of Pegasus. All shadow & sound.

"I'm just here for the music," 
   I tell the man who asks me
      to the floor. But I have held

a boy on my back before.
   Curtis & I used to leap
      barefoot into the creek; dance

among maggots & piss,
   beer bottles & tadpoles
      slippery as sperm;

we used to pull off our shirts, 
   & slap music into our skin.
      He wouldn't know me now
	  
at the edge of these lovers' gyre, 
   glitter & steam, fire,
      bodies blurred sexless

by the music's spinning light.
   A young man slips his thumb
      into the mouth of an old one,

& I am not that far away.
   The whole scene raw & delicate 
      as Curtis's foot gashed

on a sunken bottle shard. 
   They press hip to hip,
      each breathless as a boy

carrying a friend on his back. 
   The foot swelling green
      as the sewage in that creek.

We never went back.
   But I remember his weight 
      better than I remember

my first kiss.
   These men know something
      I used to know.

How could I not find them
   beautiful, the way they dive & spill 
      into each other,

the way the dance floor
   takes them,
      wet & holy in its mouth.

”

- “At Pegasus” by Terrance Hayes. (Listen to him read it, I say.)

"kerf - The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision. The width of the groove made..."

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:57:42 -0500

“kerf - The groove or slit created by cutting a workpiece; an incision. The width of the groove made while cutting. From Old English cyrf (“a cutting off, a cutting instrument”).”

- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kerf

Jonti - Saturday Night

Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:14:48 -0500

Jonti - Saturday Night

"Polysemic - Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings."

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 21:25:00 -0400

“Polysemic - Having a number of meanings, interpretations or understandings.”

- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/polysemic

"MOUNTAIN DEW COMMERCIAL DISGUISED AS A LOVE POEM Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our..."

Sat, 06 Oct 2012 19:59:49 -0400

“

MOUNTAIN DEW COMMERCIAL DISGUISED AS A LOVE POEM

Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage
might work: Because you wear pink but write poems
about bullets and gravestones. Because you yell
at your keys when you lose them, and laugh,
loudly, at your own jokes. Because you can hold a pistol,
gut a pig. Because you memorize songs, even commercials
from thirty years back and sing them when vacuuming.
You have soft hands. Because when we moved, the contents
of what you packed were written inside the boxes.
Because you think swans are overrated.
Because you drove me to the train station. You drove me
to Minneapolis. You drove me to Providence.
Because you underline everything you read, and circle
the things you think are important, and put stars next
to the things you think I should think are important,
and write notes in the margins about all the people
you’re mad at and my name almost never appears there.
Because you make that pork recipe you found
in the Frida Khalo Cookbook. Because when you read
that essay about Rilke, you underlined the whole thing
except the part where Rilke says love means to deny the self
and to be consumed in flames. Because when the lights
are off, the curtains drawn, and an additional sheet is nailed
over the windows, you still believe someone outside
can see you. And one day five summers ago,
when you couldn’t put gas in your car, when your fridge
was so empty—not even leftovers or condiments—
there was a single twenty-ounce bottle of Mountain Dew,
which you paid for with your last damn dime
because you once overheard me say that I liked it.

”

- from Rattle #31, Summer 2009
Matthew Olzmann
via theanchorsong

There’s just something mesmerizing about this…

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:38:51 -0400

There’s just something mesmerizing about this…

Cat and Girl: Sustainability.

Thu, 07 Jun 2012 12:38:43 -0400

Cat and Girl: Sustainability.

Amanda Palmer: WHERE ALL THIS KICKSTARTER MONEY IS GOING, by amanda fucking palmer

Tue, 22 May 2012 14:08:46 -0400

Amanda Palmer: WHERE ALL THIS KICKSTARTER MONEY IS GOING, by amanda fucking palmer:

amandapalmer:

my dear comrades,

this is a long blog, but i have something important i’d love for you to read first.
save it for later if you have to, but READ IT. (a lot of you, especially the music-biz types, probably already have.)

it’s a now-famous piece of writing from the early 90’s by producer steve…

Something about this.

Wed, 09 May 2012 13:25:48 -0400

Something about this.

scottlava: “Hey, there’s something down here… ”

Tue, 08 May 2012 15:48:40 -0400

scottlava:

“Hey, there’s something down here… ”

Fun with Maps (from Land That I Live)

Sun, 06 May 2012 11:38:17 -0400

Fun with Maps (from Land That I Live):

I like pretty much everything about this post. All three links are beautiful.

beatonna: Scott C. is well known for his super delightful...

Sat, 05 May 2012 13:06:17 -0400

beatonna:

Scott C. is well known for his super delightful paintings and pop culture themes but this scottc’d version of “The Anatomy lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp”is one of my favorite things… ever? From a show at London Miles.

Video

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:01:03 -0400

scottlava: “You have to invite me in.”

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:06:05 -0400

scottlava:

“You have to invite me in.”

scottlava: “What is the meaning of this outrage?”

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:18:53 -0400

scottlava:

“What is the meaning of this outrage?”

how did I miss this?

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 12:33:36 -0400

how did I miss this?