Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Mechanical Hyperbole Government



  • Give us one day to say our peace.
  • Second eye whiteness.
  • No one gets out alive.
  • Fair and square.
  • Shutting Up: Day Seven.
  • About Hollowtide: now that I've tuned it - please, look at the Fleabus photo (I am now Fleabus' official photographer) on header now there (though there will be a new header - or at least a different header - each new post, it's one of Hollowtide's attractions for me. But now the downhill - in blogging, as in hiking, I'd rather go uphill than down, knees-wise. But true: this may surprise you, but I'm remarkably unorganized and confuse tablets and otherwise poorly archive myself. I don't timestamp tablets, and I want a timestamp sometimes.Whether I'll ever need one and/or use one.... So it's more than the bibloggal mania.
  • Speaking of that Fleabus photo - the camera on my iPhone is vastly superior to the the Canon I've used past couple of years, but I am unable to download content to my laptop because I haven't updated iTunes in at least three years. The last time I did it fucked up everything. Now, I know all my music is in the cloud, so I'm going to upgrade tonight - if you have any advice (including DON'T DO IT) please send along.
  • Assuming the upgrades go smooth, I will order THIS to celebrate.
  • >>  BRT!    <<
  • The errant eye: on Pollock and fake Pollocks and how to tell the difference. After my relatives mock Rothko at a holiday table someone brings up Pollock, some dinners visa versa.
  • Carnival theory.
  • Lyrical knowledge.
  • And I will consider the yellow dog.
  • On C.D. Wright.
  • This Heat interview. Songs:








NATIONALIST OPERA

Amanda Calderon

It was a party
Built for the minuscule elite
Lost amid acres of scuffed marble, wanderers
Newspapers & schoolwork
People knew
To speak in surreal, mechanical hyperbole
Government, of course
Monuments, behemoths
Of relative luxury
I know what you want to ask
I want you to take the truth to the world
Down in the city, loudspeakers
Disappearing into a hidden gulag
Centuries ago
The monks appeared
Every morning in the lobbies of our hotels
A minder was beside them
The monks followed us out into the parking lot




6 comments:

  1. First things first: Sunbathing Fleabus on WFMU coaster is the best Fleabus.

    Second: back your mp3 files up on an external hard-drive beforehand. Just do it. Don't fucking argue with me, all right? I know what the fuck I'm talking about, okay? Cloud? Shmloud! Sorry to yell. Comes from painful, person experience. don't have one? you can get a terabyte for like $25. And you fucking want one, you hear me?

    Also, ever hear of iPhoto (aka Photos)? It does that thing with the pix from your iPhone to laptop automatically.

    Oh yeah: And back up all your fucking photos to your new god-damned external hard drive. I'm not fucking around with you BDR.

    Just sayin'. ;-)

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  2. I used Apple Photos but switched to Google Photos for the unlimited storage (so long as you're just using your iPhone camera, there should be no reduction in quality).

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  3. All my music is on my iPod so I'm not worried about losing music, and I was just able to download without the iPhone telling me it won't until I upgrade it, so enough victory for tonight.

    Windows 10 keeps badgering me to upgrade, itunes keeps badgering me to upgrade, this reminds me I need to get a youtube of Olive at feeding time, she's Windows 10 x itunes in badgering.

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  4. I'm still trying to imagine going to a dinner where Rothko gets mocked that *doesn't* end in a night street full of ambulances and some CNBC anchor using phrases like "seemed senseless tragedy", and "a misunderstanding over an American artist which led to an incomprehensible act of piekill."

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    1. "The problem isn't Rothko, it's the zillions of Rothko imitators," says another bad poet imitating Ashbery.

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    2. There is that, but I'm still directed by the U.S. Federal Court for the Northern District of California to remain two and a half meters from any pie until August, 2024.

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