Yesterday, I spent the better part of the "work" day in spasmodic conversation with H concerning whether I was being an elitist (in light of an interaction with a stranger in the subway which I may or may not relate below); insensitive/unsympathetic; and defending this behavior with philosophy.

As for the last point, I maintain that one can dispose ( Read more... )

Areas of Sublime Gray Goo notwithstanding, we may apply to an object of human artistry a rubric whereby the ideas suggested by it are sorted and tabulated according to the manner of their expression: discursive (metaphor, simile, pun, etc.), visual (the Modernists examined these non-discursive relations in great detail, and it must be understood ( Read more... )

I won't tell you about what I've been doing because I you have already judged me by your talk before about these things.  And it would probably upset me moreso not to be judged by you, but by your outer indifference.  The hypocrisy of your friendship would be stunning and intolerable ( Read more... )

 So incredibly tired today, I am left to wonder if it has anything at all to do with sleep.  It puts me in a good mood, though, as the delirium keeps me from paying too much attention to the detail with which this city abounds, infinite fractal relations.  If I can keep myself careening around with a pleasant smile, the bags under my eyes are just ( Read more... )

isn't it disgusting to give me dinner if you can't give me a home?

i couldn't have you at my table if i couldn't have you in my bed.

warm is warm if it isn't cold.

cold is cold if i've got you going before you've gone.

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The best possible pen for writing and drawing on napkins exists; it's the role of the engineer to find the manufacturer whose product happens to fit the bill. ------

and it becomes as though the two were made to be watched, the circumstance of need and that which sates it: together, they make a FUNCTION.

GEMATRIA tends to reduce, as we factor from ( Read more... )

i can't get the chorus from app's "eye in the sky" out of my head.

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from the wikipedia entry on This Charming Man:

Snow puts forward the case that through the use of the dated word 'charming', Morrissey sought to rebel against the then mainstream gay culture from which he felt alienated. Morrissey told Hoskyns: "I hate this 'festive faggot' thing ( Read more... )

there are two kinds of coincidence: meaningful and non-meaningful. and then there is the human capacity to make meaning. meaning arises through likening. then there is the further capacity to value that likening. then there is a further capacity to weigh those meanings according to an ethic. ethics, taken for granted, are morals. morals lay ( Read more... )

This is my most Xenakis-like composition, not  in its use of granular synthesis so much as its basis upon mathematical forms.  Specifically, I used the Fibonacci sequence to determine section lengths within the 11 minute length stipulated by Aston.  Fortuitously, this worked out to an even 20, 20, 40, 60, 100, 160, 260 seconds each.  Furthermore, ( Read more... )

Xenakis <---> Cage ( Read more... )