[winter solstice at 6 am, drunk rambling excised ( Read more... )

Codes constellated differently. A semiotic landscape that leaves you disaffected and bemused, ultimately disaffected and unmoved by its cultural production, ultimately bemused at how the signs jar against each other and how they are misused. As if the culture through which you first encountered these forms, owns these forms. As if that culture were ( Read more... )

Walking down the street today laughing out loud remembering the trip to Lafayette when I told Mandrake that he needed to open his sex chakra. He was having a slow nervous breakdown, I wasn't interested in being friends with him, and we had to share a tent. In my experience people so emotionally needy latch on to anyone willing to consider and ( Read more... )

I was looking for a copy of Nick Land's article "Qabbala 101" from Collapse 1, and found this old Hyperstition post by Mark K-Punk, which "so perfectly is what it is". A vortical movement through trolling into a pointedly arcane discussion of gematria; and the commenters post many times a day, multiple posts per hour, over Winter Solstice 2004. One ( Read more... )

I couldn't remember the last day I didn't have a drink, so last night I just drank water, and danced until 4 am.

This is what we dance to:

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The Second Death of Ramon Mercader by Jorge Semprún is a masterpiece. Its structure is heavily influenced by Robbe-Grillet and the Noveau Roman. Events, characters, and passages of prose recur uncannily, gaining significance or shifting meanings entirely. The narrative, set mostly in Amsterdam and Cabuérniga, Spain, in April 1966, is interspersed ( Read more... )

Like the kid in Dhalgren I've been reading poems because they're short ( Read more... )

It's true that I'm in New Orleans. I don't know why I'm here, if we talked about it and you remember, please tell me. I spent most of October in California, Samhain in Wolf Creek, and came East through Montana and Chicago after very final goodbyes to Portland and Seattle. Memory is bothering me again after reading Harlan Ellison's introduction to ( Read more... )

The Stage--The Auditorium: We abolish the stage and the auditorium and replace them by a single site, without partition or barrier of any kind, which will become the theater of the action. A direct communication will be reestablished between the spectator and the the spectacle, between the actor and the spectator, from the fact that the spectator, ( Read more... )

Believe me, I ( Read more... )