Archive for March, 2008

Pasted Words

March 4, 2008 in brushes

The opening sentence is always a fact. Words slowly catch and pitch in just the way one begins a drawing, that is, we always begin a drawing by following through (what else would apriori mean?). First you sketch the idea by tracing the subject, incidentally the lines are made straight so as not [...]

This! Room!, slowly now.

March 3, 2008 in brushes

Moving into a new room, you can see the dust against the window pane, but everything changes, slowly you forget the longer you stay— looking beyond the window pane. From one side of the room everything is moved, to another now, the chair is emptied and the table cleared. There is nothing left [...]

When along came . . . time.

March 1, 2008 in brushes

Sometimes when I look back and see the decisions I have made, I scream terribly, wanting everything in the world to do things over again, to take another route. I see a junction, somewhere between having done something wrong or right. It is unequivocal that none of these instances end up being settled for the [...]

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    • Cynicism and Opportunism
      Cynicism and opportunism, that's where it's ended up, W. says. We're all cynical, and we're all opportunists. The rules of the game, which we're all obliged to play, are artificial. Nothing means anything - we all know that. The rules...
    • Last Exit to Bovissands
      Our last visit to Turnchapel. Our last wander up Jennycliff. Up - to the bunker and the empty gun sockets - and then down, along the backs of the cottages, towards the path to Bovissands. Our last trip there, too,...
    • The Bus to Hell
      We're upstairs on a bus hurtling through the countryside. Branches crash against the windows. Where are we heading?, W. wonders. Why did I want to get on this bus, which is the opposite of the bus which takes us from...
    • Great Questions
      In the depths of the night, lying awake while the world is asleep, W. asks himself the great questions. Why did it all begin? Why, anything at all? It's the fact of existence that confounds him, as it has confounded...
    • Karma
      W.'s overwhelmed by work, he says, broken by it, by the prospect of it. 'Another day full of dread', he says to himself, as soon as he arrives in his office. Then he emails me: 'Another day full of dread'!...
    • Vomiting
      Sometimes, W. feels a terrible sickness, he says. He wants to vomit it all up - and not just everything he's eaten, everything he's drunk. Everything: his whole life, all that he is, his past, his present. To expel it....
    • Dereliction
      Sometimes W. wants to send up a great cry of dereliction. Not his dereliction, he says, but dereliction in general. Abandonment. Who has abandoned us? Who has left us behind? In truth, we left ourselves behind. We deserted our duties,...
    • I Don't Understand
      The 80s are coming back, we agree with the taxi driver as we are driven out from Liverpool Station. It's going to be terrible. W. lived in Liverpool in the 80s, W. says. He knows what it was like here....
    • Array
      For some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you had traveled alone on foot, let's...
    • Detachment
      God, your flat is filthy, W. says. You don't have any idea how to clean up, do you? W. suspects it's a Brahminical thing. I don't want to do any menial labour! I don't want to clean! Detachment, that's what...

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      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance your Autumn experience. This episode is brought to you by 530-POD-BEAR. Tracks include "The Great Pumpkin Waltz", "Thimble OF Sun", "Dust In Sunlight", "The Call" "Autumn Leaves", "88", "Jazzer Incisers", "1-800-POD-BEAR" and […]
    • Ep. 4: Music For Tree Climbing
      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to to accompany you on your next tree climb. This episode is brought to you by the sound of the letter P and B, which are very tricky to record. Tracks include "Curious Jungle", "Squirrel Commotion", "Dolce Beat (Light Filtered Through Leaves)", "Pink Blossoms", "Biplane […]
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      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance urban ambulation. This episode is brought to you by the words "homage" and "enhance". Tracks include "Floating Over The City" by Podington Bear, "Gnossiene 4" (composed by Erik Satie), "A Piece Of Me" (sung by Esperanza Spalding, written by Chad Crouch), […]
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      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance daydream activity. This episode is brought to you by the words "pretty" and "classic". Tracks include "204", "219", "Kitty In The Window", "226", "Wonder Happens", "Snowpack", "Gnossiene 1", "Hollow Gold" and […]
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