The Ideas Are Still the Same, and They Expand to Fill Vast Antique Cubes

Crocus Behemoth's birthday is the day after tomorrow, Friday the 14th, he'll be seventy, today is Danny Husk's 65th birthday

Now NOT an ongoinggag, or at least now now-and-then and NOT an obsessive always as once, Pere Ubu, Two Pale Boys, and all David Thomas projects were and are one of two permanent members of My Silly-Ass Deserted Island Five Game for music, and if I don't deliberately play Pere Ubu now (as I don't Kate Bush, the other of two) it's not divorce but not needing to play, not boredom with the music, I can play any song I want in my head when I want to hear one, and ones begin playing in my head without my putting quarters in my mind's jukebox. But choose an album and put it on and listen end-to-end, no, no no no

This is true also of some of the innermost circle of musicians and bands that shuffle in and out of the three rotating seats in MSADI5G - I don't need to play Lindsay Buckingham or Grateful Dead or George Harrison or Roxy Music or the first five Peter Gabriel solo albums or New Order or The Fall or Swans or PJ Harvey or This Heat or Morton Feldman or Shostakovich or Richard Thompson or XTC of any of the dozens I'm forgetting, and I'm getting close to never needing to play Destroyer and Lambchop, at least the older albums, ever again. I have no idea who the three members of the rotating seats are now and have no interest in thinking about it and less than zero interest in naming the current three





Was at that show in Harrisburg. I hadn't planned on making a standalone birthday post of Thomas on Friday - that's another ongoinggag, the birthday standalones, I've ceased honoring the obligatory - though if there IS a post on Friday I'll play more Pere Ubu or a Two Pale Boys song, but I doubt there will be a post since my daughter will be in town and I'm spending time with her tomorrow through Saturday, I'm almost 65 myself, am I finally weening myself from the ongoinggag that is this shitty blog (while insisting still that every post IS a poem)? I tell myself I'd like to kill the clusterfucklust that relentlessly drives my mind and imagine a year of me and mine homesteading digitalessly and know I'd last a week. Bleggalgazing remains an ongoinggag and the reason this shitty blog won't shut the fuck up. Scott Thompson has one of five permanent seats in My Sillyass Deserted Island Five Game for favorite Kids in the Hall members, and Buddy Cole is 65 today

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NO LONGER VERY CLEAR

John Ashbery

It is true that I can no longer remember very well
the time when we first began to know each other.
However, I do remember very well
the time we first met. You walked in sunlight,
holding a daisy. You said, "Children make unreliable witnesses."

Now, so long after that time,
I keep the spirit of it throbbing still.
The ideas are still the same, and they expand
to fill vast, antique cubes.

My daughter was reading one just the other day.
She said, "How like the pellucid statues, Daddy. Or like a...
an engine"

In this house of blues the cold creeps stealthily upon us.
I do not do what I fantasize doing.
With time the blue congeals into roomlike purple
that takes the shape of alcoves, landings...
Everything is like something else.
I should have waited before I learned this.