
Archive for June, 2009
Image Craving
June 19, 2009Hypothesis
June 18, 2009Audra: i feel like sometimes if i had just done the complete opposite of what i wanted to do i would end up better off
Jenny Holzer Truisms from “Survival” (1983-1985)
June 15, 2009…which I will let speak for themselves…
YOU ARE TRAPPED ON THE EARTH SO YOU WILL EXPLODE WHAT URGE WILL SAVE US NOW THAT SEX WON'T? PUT FOOD OUT IN THE SAME PLACE EVERY DAY AND TALK TO THE PEOPLE WHO COME TO EAT AND ORGANIZE THEM SAVOR KINDNESS BECAUSE CRUELTY IS ALWAYS POSSIBLE LATER DANCE ON DOWN TO THE GOVERNMENT AND TELL THEM YOU'RE EAGER TO RULE BECAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU THE BREAKDOWN COMES WHEN YOU STOP CONTROLLING YOURSELF AND WANT THE RELEASE OF A BLOODBATH SPIT ALL OVER SOMEONE WITH A MOUTHFUL OF MILK IF YOU WANT TO FIND OUT SOMETHING ABOUT HIS PERSONALITY FAST MOTHERS WITH REASONS TO SOB SHOULD DO IT IN GROUPS IN PUBLIC AND WAIT FOR OFFERS OUTER SPACE IS WHERE YOU DISCOVER WONDER AND WHERE YOU FIGHT AND NEVER HURT EARTH IF YOU STOP BELIEVING THIS YOUR MOOD TURNS UGLY DIE FAST AND QUIET WHEN THEY INTERROGATE YOU OR LIVE SO LONG THAT THEY ARE ASHAMED TO HURT YOU ANYMORE IF YOU HAD BEHAVED NICELY THE COMMUNISTS WOULDN'T EXIST TRUST VISIONS THAT DON'T FEATURE BUCKETS OF BLOOD IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY IF YOU'RE CONSIDERED USELESS NO ONE WILL FEED YOU ANYMORE WHEN YOU EXPECT FAIR PLAY YOU CREATE AN INFECTIOUS BUBBLE OF MADNESS AROUND YOU YOU ARE SO COMPLEX THAT YOU DON'T ALWAYS RESPOND TO DANGER MEN DON'T PROTECT YOU ANYMORE WITH ALL THE HOLES IN YOU ALREADY THERE'S NO REASON TO DEFINE THE OUTSIDE ENVIRONMENT AS ALIEN WHEN SOMEONE BEATS YOU WITH A FLASHLIGHT YOU MAKE LIGHT SHINE IN ALL DIRECTIONS FINDING EXTREME PLEASURE WILL MAKE YOU A BETTER PERSON IF YOU'RE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT THRILLS YOU USE A STUN GUN WHEN THE PERSON COMING AT YOU HAS A GOOD EXCUSE IT IS IN YOUR SELF-INTEREST TO FIND A WAY TO BE VERY TENDER THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR WILL BE SECRET THE CONVERSATION ALWAYS TURNS TO LIVING LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE FUN WHAT COUNTRY SHOULD YOU ADOPT IF YOU HATE POOR PEOPLE? USE WHAT IS DOMINANT IN A CULTURE TO CHANGE IT QUICKLY PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT YOU ARE CAUGHT THINKING ABOUT KILLING ANYONE YOU WANT IT'S HARD TO KNOW IF YOU'RE CRAZY IF YOU FEEL YOU'RE IN DANGER ALL THE TIME NOW YOU CAN'T REACH THE PEOPLE WHO CAN KILL YOU ANY TIME SO YOU HAVE TO GO HOME AND THINK ABOUT WHAT TO DO THE FUTURE IS STUPID HIDE UNDER WATER OR ANYWHERE SO UNDISTURBED YOU FEEL THE JERK OF PLEASURE WHEN AN IDEA COMES SOMEONE ELSE'S BODY IS A PLACE FOR YOUR MIND TO GO WHEN THERE'S NO SAFE PLACE TO SLEEP YOU'RE TIRED FROM WALKING ALL DAY AND EXHAUSTED FROM THE NIGHT BECAUSE IT'S TWICE AS DANGEROUS THEN IT'S EASY TO GET MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ON EVERY CONTINENT TO PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO EATING AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY GO WHERE PEOPLE SLEEP AND SEE IF THEY'RE SAFE HANDS ON YOUR BREAST CAN KEEP YOUR HEART BEATING TURN SOFT AND LOVELY ANY TIME YOU HAVE A CHANCE IT IS FUN TO WALK CARELESSLY IN A DEATH ZONE YOU LIVE THE SURPRISE RESULTS OF OLD PLANS LET YOUR HAND WANDER ON THE FLESH TO MAKE POSSIBILITY MULTIPLY IT IS EMBARRASSING TO BE CAUGHT AND KILLED FOR STUPID REASONS SHOOT INTO INFINITE SPACE TO HIT A TARGET IN TIME AND CALL IT INEVITABLE YOU HOVER NEAR LOVELY UNCONSCIOUS LIFE-FORMS THAT OFFER NO IMMEDIATE RESISTANCE PEOPLE LOOK LIKE THEY ARE DANCING BEFORE THEY LOVE BODIES LIE IN THE BRIGHT GRASS AND SOME ARE MURDERED AND SOME ARE PICNICKING SILLY HOLES IN PEOPLE ARE FOR BREEDING OR ARE FROM SHOOTING YOUR MODERN FACE SCANS THE SURPRISE ENDING
A Poem, by I.D.
June 15, 2009I am on an airplane
The TV screens are flashing white every five seconds or so
And I fear I will have a seizuofpoapwierpfoadisjrfieosoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Overrated Things
June 11, 2009San Francisco
Community Service
Skiing
Jobs
Emotions
Rationality/Intelligence
Sample Sales
Encores/standing ovations
Cocaine
One night stands
Purell
Angelina Jolie
Postal Service (the band, not the actual U.S. Postal Service)
Compliments
Thanksgiving
Lot 228/Sale 2020
June 11, 2009I have a very meticulously maintained list of my style icons, past and present, one of which is the bombass sixties/seventies fashion model Penelope Tree. Penelope had quite the late-sixties life: she lived in a trippy London townhouse with photographer David Bailey (upon whom the protagonist in the fantastic Antonioni film Blow-Up was based), played a lot of I-Ching in their purple living room, experimented with heavy eye make-up and was described by John Lennon as, “Hot, hot, hot, smart, smart, smart!”

Tree, from the Top
Any way, Penelope’s first professional portrait was taken by the well-known chronicler of the bizarre, peripheral and deformed, Diane Arbus. Legend has it that Arbus took Penelope’s portrait when she was a tender thirteen years old, and her aristocratic parents threatened to sue if the pictures were ever released.
For years, I have been searching for this picture, fantasizing about the aesthetic orgasm I might have if I saw the product of the collaboration of two complete weirdos. And by searching, I really mean “Google Imaging.” Today, I gave it a shot again, and for some reason, this time I found it no problem! (I am aware of my technological limits, so please spare me. I figured out how to get pictures in this shit, didn’t I?) Turns out Ms. Tree’s photo sold for $15,000 (estimated price prior to auction: 6-8 thou) at Christie’s in April 2008. Just a wee bit out of my price range.
A Good Day Subtitled: Plagiarism?
June 11, 2009While reading “Daumier” a short story by Donald Barthelme:
“A man was swearing fine-sounding swearwords at a small yellow motorcar of Italian extraction, the same having joined its bumper to another bumper, the two bumpers intertangling like shameless lovers in the act of love.”
From my own writing:
“Slowly, slowly the two cars, now joined together like lovers dancing, move toward the sidewalk right where I am standing, frozen. Next to me stands an elderly Italian tourist couple. The woman gasps as she watches the two vehicles inch towards the horse and buggy that is positioned between us and the cars.”
Gadsby
June 10, 2009This is a link to the book written entirely without the letter “e.” It’s actually sort of nauseating to read, which makes me think about biochemistry.
The Shortest Poem in the English Language (Allegedly)
June 10, 2009“Hope is dope.” ~Ogden Nash
Driving in my Minivan
June 9, 2009You know the pop music industry is in trouble when someone samples “Blue (Ba Ba Dee Ba Ba Die I Want To Die I Could Flyafewopifjdpsodfija)” by Eiffel 65.
