think about your direct bodily experience in life.
no one can lie to you about that.

how many hours a day do you spend in front of a television screen? a computer screen? behind an automobile screen? what are you being screened from? how much of your life come at you through a screen, vicariously while you sit and watch? is watching things as ( Read more... )

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10. i will play scrabble anytime, anywhere...seriously.
9. florida, below sea level, get out now!
8. every artist since the dawn of time has drawn a bird.
7. practice truly makes you perfect, or at least draws you closer.
6. art is not a popularity contest...yet.
5. somebody took the thing i needed.
4. there is a new oprah.
3. sight, by not, by faith.
2. ( Read more... )

If the rich weren't rich, the poor would have no one to long to be like.
If the prosperous weren't as prosperous, the famished would have no level of nourishment to aspire to.
If Rembrandts weren't as beautiful, high school students wouldn't hate what they drew.

Aborigines aren't sad people.
Aborigines with TVs are.

Why? Because the aborigines with TVs ( Read more... )

the indian smiles. he thinks that the cowboy is his friend.
the cowboy smiles. he is glad the indian is fooled.
now he can exploit him.

Pixies Tour Dates Announced
04-14 Winnipeg, Manitoba - Burton Cummings Theatre
04-15 Regina, Saskatchewan - Doris Knight Ballroom
04-17 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan - Prairieland
04-18 Edmonton, Alberta - Red's
04-19 Calgary, Alberta - MacEwan Hall
04-21 Victoria, British Columbia - Victoria Curling Club
04-22 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom
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there's no such thing as a good poem that the critic doesn't write themself because the writer is the only one that knows the thought process behind it. i mean, there can be words that catching as being attractive.. but it's still not like you know how the words came to the writer.. and that's the entire point of poetry- not the words themselves, ( Read more... )

In one camp we have those who believe that not only is rock dead, but that its last vestiges have been so completely removed from any discussion of vital and important music that even the reappearance of its egg-headed cousin post-rock is as embarrassing as the reappearance of Lollapalooza.

In another camp, we have those insisting that rock is ( Read more... )