"Theory - the seeing of patterns, showing the forest as well as the trees - theory can be a dew that rises from the earth and collects in the rain and returns to earth over and over. But if it doesn't smell of the earth, it isn't good for the earth."
- Adrienne Rich, Notes toward a Politics of Location
12.28.2008
12.01.2008
11.29.2008
11.24.2008
10.23.2008
10.15.2008
10.12.2008
10.01.2008
9.30.2008
words: david foster wallace
"A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life"
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
-- David Foster Wallace
When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each drove home alone, staring straight ahead, with the very same twist to their faces.
The man who'd introduced them didn't much like either of them, though he acted as if he did, anxious as he was to preserve good relations at all times. One never knew, after all, now did one now did one now did one.
-- David Foster Wallace
8.18.2008
8.12.2008
8.11.2008
8.10.2008
chicago: after the show
AT THE JAZZ SHOW IN CHICAGO
at the jazz show in chicago
i watched you watch the bassist
as he skimmed a piece of floss against the strings
something like sounds twisted out.
you caught your breath, closed your eyes,
then you were drinking it in the way i feel pictures,
all lusty recollection
somewhere, a bottle broke.
you didn't notice,
just slipped your hand inside your shirt
to hold your heart in.
after that i stopped watching,
i let it hit me, sunk back.
sound can turn the best eyes black.
8.01.2008
words: leon wieseltier
"We are living in a golden age of the pseudo-meaningful stunt"
http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c
http://www.tnr.com/toc/story.html?id=b816718d-9587-4b89-83c1-218d0060db8c
7.23.2008
7.02.2008
6.23.2008
6.05.2008
lush beginnings: soiled mattress & the springs
soiled mattress & the springs (who are breaking up, actually. que triste)
6.01.2008
5.28.2008
5.20.2008
new york city: the corner of my room
only when these stones topple into ruin - long after the strings of leaves and thorns wash away - will the work of art be complete.
5.17.2008
5.03.2008
new york city: these are my words, your words
we kiss on the blue sofa
and in the mirror, there’s smoke
rain tumbles toward oblivion
its hard to bear,
so we empty ourselves out
only i catch the shadow before it shifts.
i turn, curve myself against him
i, always
our pleasures are displaced
in the morning, we’ll drink milky coffee in front of strangers
but look now, the branches shiver, they swagger,
lurching like puppets
against the monsoon afterglow.
4.21.2008
3.30.2008
words: sogyal rinpoche
However Small a Spark
In simple terms, what does karma mean? It means that whatever we do,
with our body, speech, or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each
action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. It is
said by the masters that even a little poison can cause death, and
even a tiny seed can become a huge tree. And as Buddha said: "Do not
overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small
a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain."
Similarly he said: "Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they
are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a
huge vessel." Karma does not decay like external things, or ever
become inoperative. It cannot be destroyed by time, fire, or water.
Its power will never disappear, until it is ripened.
--Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
In simple terms, what does karma mean? It means that whatever we do,
with our body, speech, or mind, will have a corresponding result. Each
action, even the smallest, is pregnant with its consequences. It is
said by the masters that even a little poison can cause death, and
even a tiny seed can become a huge tree. And as Buddha said: "Do not
overlook negative actions merely because they are small; however small
a spark may be, it can burn down a haystack as big as a mountain."
Similarly he said: "Do not overlook tiny good actions, thinking they
are of no benefit; even tiny drops of water in the end will fill a
huge vessel." Karma does not decay like external things, or ever
become inoperative. It cannot be destroyed by time, fire, or water.
Its power will never disappear, until it is ripened.
--Sogyal Rinpoche, The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
3.23.2008
3.21.2008
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