Quote swap
Changing my one-line Twitter bio (YOU CARE, DON'T LIE) and logging it here, because I think it's interesting to see later what sentences I like, and why.
Yesterday: "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance." - Jean Genet. Chosen because I dig Genet and his cheerful raunch, and there's something pleasingly John Waters about the whole thing. My own habit of grossly oversharing sits on the knife edge between endearing and tasteless, so anything that reminds me to do it gracefully can't be a bad thing.
Nearly made the cut: "Honour thy error as a hidden intention" -- from the first edition of the Oblique Strategies, because as much as I make fun of them, I love those damn things. And thanks to work, the more I learn about UI and the way the brain wants things to operate, the more I learn that you might as well work with it, instead of fighting it.
Today: "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it." - John Cage. This quote was on the wall card in the room at the Tate Modern lined with Gerhard Richter's "Cage" series of paintings - the room where I spent nearly half an hour with Aphex Twin on the headphones in noise-fuelled itchy-brained bliss - and I liked the quote enough to punch it into my iPhone. It is an accurate description of my Twitter stream.
The complete quote is "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it, and that is poetry, as I see it," which is a slight but important distinction. I think it is an accurate description of the intention behind my Twitter stream, because I am a sap.
Yesterday: "To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance." - Jean Genet. Chosen because I dig Genet and his cheerful raunch, and there's something pleasingly John Waters about the whole thing. My own habit of grossly oversharing sits on the knife edge between endearing and tasteless, so anything that reminds me to do it gracefully can't be a bad thing.
Nearly made the cut: "Honour thy error as a hidden intention" -- from the first edition of the Oblique Strategies, because as much as I make fun of them, I love those damn things. And thanks to work, the more I learn about UI and the way the brain wants things to operate, the more I learn that you might as well work with it, instead of fighting it.
Today: "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it." - John Cage. This quote was on the wall card in the room at the Tate Modern lined with Gerhard Richter's "Cage" series of paintings - the room where I spent nearly half an hour with Aphex Twin on the headphones in noise-fuelled itchy-brained bliss - and I liked the quote enough to punch it into my iPhone. It is an accurate description of my Twitter stream.
The complete quote is "I have nothing to say and I'm saying it, and that is poetry, as I see it," which is a slight but important distinction. I think it is an accurate description of the intention behind my Twitter stream, because I am a sap.