Archive for the 'rhythm' Category

Wired, attn: love.

June 7, 2008 in brushes, figurative, rhythm

“You’re a lover,” she said, “that’s why you only care about memories.”  Memories, I thought to myself.  Is that what this is?  Like the last thing we did, I best remember it- so vividly, how three birds watched us drive by.  They were quick, those two crows, darting through the phone-lines trying to irritate the [...]

Inside the Rhythm

December 13, 2007 in rhythm

The music, my headphones permit, is only a screech: they are broken.  A drawn out musical, like nails on a chalkboard.  It’s frightening, I’m beginning to hear variations the longer I listen, there are sounds refracting, within this one sound.  Something is hinting at the moments, moments of hesitation, as in the hand drawing on [...]

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      Coming in Autumn 2010 from Melville House Books: Spurious, based on some of the older posts at this blog. I will be away until early January.
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      This was what I couldn't manage to grasp: the yawning gap, the absolute contradiction between the ease with which one can kill and the huge difficulty there must be in dying. The quotation central to Stephen Mitchelmore's reading of Jonathan...
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      I would wish it on no one to be me. Only I am capable of bearing myself. To know so much, to have seen so much, and To say nothing, just about nothing. Robert Walser
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      The role of servant accorded with Walser's passion for the minimal: elemental happenings and small private feelings which he calls 'the true truths'. Max Brod, one of his first admirers, appositely remarked: 'After Nietzsche, Walser had to come'. Or, as...
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      The first thing that struck me about Benjamin - indeed it was characteristic of him all of his life - was that he never could remain seated quietly during a conversation but immediately began to pace up and down in...
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      - What are these? - My life's work. My memoirs. My confession. - What have you done? - I've been bad. Repeatedly. But why brag? The details of my exploits are only a pretext for a ... far more expansive...
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      Have I spoken or announced anything worthy of God? Rather I feel that I have done nothing but wish to speak: if I have spoken, I have not said what I wished to say. Augustine (via)
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      We were struck, left for dead. Struck, knocked over, and our assailant zoomed away, and we wander in the wake, dazed, white-faced. What happened? Who did this to us? But we have no idea. We're out of ideas, and dying...
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      He's falling upwards, W. says. Is this the Rapture? But would angels really be carrying cudgels? Would they really have glassed out both his eyes?
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      Death slowed down for us. Death slowed down to pick us up, a maniac on the highway. And who were we, two hitchhikers? Where were we going? Too late now, anyway. Too late: we're bundled up in the back, wrists...

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      In which we discover airs for airliners. Songs include "Flicker & Burn", "Blossoming", "Mont Blanc", "Tentative Cloud", "Shapeshifters", "Cloud 8", "Unravel Slowly", "Gymnopedie #1", "Temporariness", "No Where" (Graves), & "Déjà Vu" (Blanket […]
    • Ep 9: Music For A Rainy Day
      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance precipitation preoccupation. Tracks include "Love Sprouts", "Steppin' In", "Formant", "Go By Train", "Proliferate", "Clouds Pass Slowly", "Prismatone", "Copper Kettles" (A Book About Elephants), "Fragile Do Not Drop […]
    • Ep. 8: Music For Cooking
      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance your culinary creativity. Tracks include Twitterflated", "Wavy Glass", Cookin", "The Dirt", "Dimensions", "Invisible Is Not Invincible", "Movin' On Up", "Algo Rhythm", "Sweet and Sour San'ich", and "Brie"
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      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance your Halloween 80's style. This episode is brought to you by Adolescence. Tracks include "Ghostbusters Theme", "The Monster Mash", "October Shuffle", "Boogie", "Le Monstre" , "Thriller", "Desperate Housewife Meets Ruffled Ostrich", […]
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    • Ep. 6: Music For Sailing On A Starry Night
      Wherein we discover a variety of songs to enhance your next nocturnal excursion. This episode is brought to you, once again, by 530-POD-BEAR. Tracks include "Night Vision", "Into The Unknown", "How Far Is Far", "Brightening", "Little Do", Dolphin Waltz", "Showers", "Perfect For Light" […]
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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 […]
    • Ep. 3: Music for City Walking
      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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      I'll be the first to admit, I'm no candidate for pro radio host (even in the trademark casual style of Ira Glass), so you'll have to bear with me as I begin to refine my narrative skills.  Having been a recluse for so long it's nice to open up a little, but I'm also aware [...]