July 2008
liars, be quiet mt. heart attack (drum’s not...
“Have you come?”
– Helen Remington (Crash, David Cronenberg)
Scott Walker, Face on Breast
“The world doesn’t need more warm bodies, it needs happier people.”
– Megatokyo Forums: Reproduction and Marriage
“kiss me and you will see how important I am.”
– Sylvia Plath (m)
“One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only...”
– Frank Zappa (somethingchanged)
James Holden, Lumpette (The Idiots Are Winning)
silent spring
TWENTY-TWO YEARS AGO, on 26 April 1986, reactor No 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, in Ukraine, blew apart, spewing radioactive dust and debris far and wide. Ever since, a 30 km ‘exclusion zone’ has existed around the contaminated site, accessible to those with special clearance only. It’s quite easy, then, to conjure an apocalyptic vision of the area; to imagine an eerily deserted...
“What will you do for me? Johnny Two-Toes says to Betty Groove.
I wait for the...”
– Pere Ubu
Pere Ubu, Stolen Cadillac (Why I Hate Women)
Frank Black Francis & Two Pale Boys, Velouria
“Les enfants seuls savent ce qu’ils cherchent. (Only children know what they are...”
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (l)
LIL →
The busiest time was 9 AM to 5 PM, so one figured that all those people sitting at desks in New York office buildings spend a lot of time on the telephone, then the second busiest time was 8:30 PM to 11:30 PM was the after-dinner crowd, then the California calls and those tripping on acid or couldn’t sleep 2 AM to 6 PM. So using an existing communications system we established a new poet-audience...
“The first image he told me about was of three children on a road in Iceland, in...”
– from Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (t)
“All of them began to laugh spontaneously because they knew it was still last...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (t)
