John Water's A DIRTY SHAME is one of the worst & most sociopolitically dangerous movies I've come across in recent memory. It's representation of sexual deliquents as uncontrollable and socially destructive is potentially catastrophic and will doubtlessly be utilized as repressive artillery by the right. I think its supposed to be sexual satire ( Read more... )

On Tuesday morning, I walk toward the L and notice that the bus that stops in front of our pizza place is crammed full. Around the corner, cellular holdouts chat on pay phones and flustered media-executives stand about huffing. The L Train must be delayed. I ask a woman who doesn't speak English and a nearby man answers instead. The L Train is ( Read more... )

For certain times in our lives, pharmacies really should gift us with tranquilizers in a Pez dispenser: Operation Lounge!

I quit. My last day is September 24. I feel a closeness to universal signifiers & archetypes of late and on that day I'd like to shave my head. On that night, I hope to have a party. This is just another fracture, another step in life that goes on every day in countless lives. Im piggish in terms of importance, the shameless way I feel my ( Read more... )

The Faint: "Desperate Guys ( Read more... )

That East Village Howl Festival recently kicked off and as Benji & I walked down E 10th street toward 2nd avenue with his lemon bicyclette, we spotted one of its events ( Read more... )

I find my logorrhea charming. Others may not, which puzzles (arrogant?) me. I'm aware of inclinations. I'd go so far as to say I relativize to a fault. Remember how lowbrow liberalists & every nature of conservative abominated relativist/post-structuralist theory post 911? With America functioning as their epistemological cap, they renounced ( Read more... )

I have a blog so that my pristine revelations can become the precocious tap-dancing of narcissism were it a child ( Read more... )

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Id really like to see Wilco & Fiery Furnaces at Radio City; I just cant justify 30/40 bux...also Pixies at Hammerstein; yes, yesh, but will I be in nyc on Dec 13rd? Alas, this is unsure, so I must desist

Also, Ryder use yur Saddle contact and get Faint CDs for all you love

I just lost 7 pounds in the bathroom and feel light & clean