I didn't know Deux Filles dropped their third album, their first since 1983, in 2016 until two, three weeks ago, I have it now, it's the best thing my ears ate since the last best thing until the next.
Please put on your best headphones, turn volume tilt. Their loud quiet brackets everything.
Also too, official new Pere Ubu:
- I can get you into a concert.
- Every o my fucking god but noise at fake breaking kayfabe.
- The beautiful land.
- The terror news cycle.
- The sacrosanct legacy of Pershing's precious perspiration.
- Memo to Antifa: Fuck Chomsky.
- The Tedium Twins debate the crucifixion.
- What is to be done about the social novel? If you only click one of these click this one.
- I'm in.
- Um, just found...... - Kate Bush videos!
FORMULAS FOR OBLIVION
Mark Strand
1. Casting the first
stone after which the hands cast
themselves and the arms and so on until you
feel
you have cast yourself after the
first stone
into oblivion.
2. Eating your own
words by which you will grow thin,
depleted, finally, of even a mouth to
care for
the orphaned tongue or the tired
foot.
3. Turning yourself
inside out so the features you are
known by become obvious secrets and
the hidden
parts of yourself become a mask of
honesty.
Thus you will never know who you
are; oblivion
has begun to tell you who you are
4. Lending the
helping hand and keeping the other one
to yourself. The helping hand will
feed your
friend, the other one will feel
abandoned.
What happens is clear: you lose
your friend
and die alone, a victim of the
helping hand’s
selfish refusal to aid the other
one.
5. Cutting off your
nose to spite your face. For the
beauty of absence is catching and
the face will
want to spite the nose by having it
back and then
will beg to be cut off from it. This
will go on.
6. Taking everything
to heart and allowing yourself no
rest but what is impossible to
take, which is
oblivion.
7. Killing the thing
you love and spending each night
with its ghost. Forcing your
passion into an
absence is a common approach to
oblivion.
8. Sticking your head
in the lion’s mouth and seeing
the remnants of your past: the
tongue of your
father, the teeth of your mother,
your own head
grinning back.
9. Saving the best
for last while consuming the worst
at the start. For the worst tastes
better when
you know the best is to come.
Doubts will arise.
After a while you may not believe
the best will
be last and oblivion will take you
for better
or worse.
10. Giving yourself the
benefit of the doubt which is the
surest and truest formula for
oblivion.
at tom clark's post linked above as "the beautiful land" there is a photo of the monument put up by trump at a golf course he owns, memorializing a civil war battle that never happened
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_of_Blood_(monument)