Bleeding followers at twxxter. Been posting, no more than three an evening to start then two and now one unless Israel commits some new unusually horrific atrocity (so two more than one on average), an image of a Harris *Flower Joy* poster above whatever horrific atrocity Israel committed to prompt posting
After a day I bathed in magafucks megafreaking the fuck out as only magastupid crackerchristers can I saw a twwxt of Hillary Clinton bragging earlier that morning that she's coaching Harris, Hillary Clinton the necessary ipecac when a bad dose of sloppy glee at the zany angst of Gomer Gantry blinds me to the equal evil that is my legacy team. This list is old but still yum
When was the last time you thought about Boo Radleys, the black licorice of shoegazer bands? I forget what was controversial about the band and looking it up would be research. You can't be a single-issue voter, you can't make the genocide the single-issue in this election, a tenured professor at Hilltop told me yesterday then launched into an impassioned argument that defeating Trump the *only* issue that matters. Think how much farther to the right the GOP will lurch between now and November, he continued then abruptly said Gotta go after I said the Democrats will leap to fill in the vacuum on the right the GOP abandons. Was curious and checked last night, he unfollowed me on twxxter, whether yesterday or at some earlier point during Joe's genocide I'm not sure
IMAGO
Franz Wright
From my cell I was staring at a cloud, a dog decaying in the woods, etc., as I took up the long-awaited sequel to my Confessions.
By this time my hand was so far away that it looked like a small
hairless spider whose progress I could hardly help but follow, from the
corner of one eye, as it went on filling page after page in a notebook
the size of a stamp with words too small for anyone to read. I looked up
and noticed my bars had turned to gold. And before I forget, I’d like
to be the first to congratulate everyone who has not committed suicide
up until now. Camouflaged and lightless congregation, the world will
never know your names, never know of its debt to you, or what you
suffered; with what uncomplaining anguish you sacrificed the one thing
all hold most dear, most have in common, the sense of being completely
different from anybody else—it just vanished at some point, having
attained its sexually mature and winged stage. You had a great vision
about it, but told no one. We have misnamed death life and life death.
You saw another world, and it was precisely the same as this one. This
time you told everyone, until someone asked you very nicely to quiet
down. And the weather—everything you have heard on that subject is a
serious understatement. The scarlet horrors were preparing to file in
for my ignominious obsequies, already they swarmed freely over my body.
Then, there was no weather. I can’t tell you how perfect that was. As it
happens I had been gazing up at the dusk stars, as I can be found doing
more or less day and night, for I like to think they are growing
younger as I die, come by some time and tell me what you think. Under
torture—some atrocious form of tickling, for example—I guess I’d
describe myself as a fairly good egg in hot water. Family motto roughly
translates, April wizards bring May blizzards. We tend to be
apprehended eventually, after a futile but all the more spirited attempt
at first degree self-impersonation; however, this is not the time for
levity, we happen to be speaking of a serious medical goodnight kiss.
Traditionally, we are then detained at a local mental facility known for
its celebrated alumni, though in recent decades secret and permanent
socialist elements in the government have seen to it that the lowest
scum of humanity now appear to have open access to those once hallowed
halls smeared with our shit and vomit. What I’m getting at is
this: after a relatively brief stay, we are invariably released with
some deranged doctor’s or other’s blessing, a mixture of relief and
disgust on the part of the staff, and the secret eye-signal that will
get you into any movie house in Milwaukee free for the next year. Some
of us like to get together once a day, rain or shine, and gather
furtively at the picnic grounds under those tall wavering candleflame
pines, where neither moth nor rust can reach, nor faintest scream, and
exchange ribald tales verging on satanic perversion, each drawing his
iridescent injection from the same oceanic martini, very dry, about two
tears’ worth of vermouth, in an unremembered dream.
1/google's large language model writes:
ReplyDeleteThe Boo Radleys were an English alternative rock band associated with the shoegazing and Britpop movements in the 1990s. While they didn't face any major controversies, their musical style and approach often deviated from the mainstream, which may have contributed to their somewhat underground status.
The band's music is characterized by a blend of alternative rock, shoegazing, dream pop, and indie pop. Their sound is often characterized by layered guitars, dreamy vocals, and a psychedelic atmosphere.
2/looking at wikipedia, i find
"In 1996, the Boo Radleys released their fifth album C'mon Kids. As explained by Rowbottom in an interview in 2005: 'We didn't want to scare away the hit-kids, we wanted to take them with us to somewhere that we'd not been before. All we wanted to do was make a different type of album than Wake Up... All we wanted to do was try something new – to keep ourselves fresh and interested. We were very surprised to find that it was seen as a deliberate attempt to scare away newly created fans. That would have been an extremely foolish thing to do.' "
3/spouse and self are watching the danish tv series "seaside hotel" via PBS passport - we are now in the world war ii era - and we have found that our understanding and appreciation of the series was expanded by the wikipedia article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark_in_World_War_II
3.2/gerald weinberg, in his book "secrets of consulting", expresses one of his principles as "things are the way they are because they got that way" - possibly this is a paraphrase - in other words stuff happens now because of other stuff that happened before now
3.3/as an example of historical antecedents only belatedly recognized, i offer as an example that i have recently learned of gerald heard's book "the gospel according to gamaliel" - which i now recognize as the antecedent of the title of a science fiction story which i found particularly memorable and admirable, michael bishop's "the gospel according to gamaliel crucis (or, the astrogator's testimony)"
the first boo radleys single released in 23 years was 2021's "a full syringe and memories of you" - the lyrics and the music video show that this song is what you might expect from the title - even Google's Gemini chatbot can seem to understand it, and offer helpline contact info
ReplyDeletei am reminded of a colorful experience in India - involving a syringe, and a drawing of a rainbow - which i read about in the autobiographical section of Daniel Ingram's Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha: An Unusually Hardcore Dharma Book.
https://www.mctb.org/mctb2/table-of-contents/part-vi-my-spiritual-quest/47-thank-u-india/
the chapter title is from the Alanis Morissette song, the last chorus of which is
Thank you India
thank you providence
thank you disillusionment
thank you nothingness
thank you clarity
thank you, thank you silence
4th-5th Grade Band, Invincible from the Riverfield Rocks School Band Program from Riverfield Country Day School in Tulsa, OK covering "Thank U" by Alanis Morissette:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbJN6t5CPBQ
"a tenured professor at Hilltop told me yesterday"
ReplyDeleteYou're tangling with Lifers in charge of aligning the iron filings, of malleable minds, to the lines of force of the Empire's imaginary magnet; nobly, you are slapping at piranhas with veggie hot dogs (hear this in Beefheart's voice). (Writing this, i had the sudden inspiration to Google "The Piranhas" and i got the kind of band i wanted to see). Where was i? Oh yeah: college educations...