The stairway is metal and it isn’t safe. The way it is rusted and spiral it isn’t safe. Make it for real. Make what you said real.
On Tuesday nights they go to this meeting. Every other Tuesday. There’s this girl there, and she looks at him, and she doesn’t brush her hair. She looks at him [...]
Yearly Archives: 2008
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It’s a book about a man who builds in order to feel
From Anthem:
I found a lot of similarities between Synecdoche and this novel, Remainder, by Tom McCarthy…
This script, for the record, [was] written before that novel came out. I saw a review of that thing [Remainder]; I was freaked out. I intentionally did not read it. I have not read it. I hadn’t made the [...]
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As lively, and as vigorously productive
They’ve replicated fireworks on my drive home. On displays placed high on poles, the lights in the middle begin to heat and then the lights surrounding do the same outwardly, then retreat and repeat again: a simulated explosion. It isn’t an occasion but a constant thing, though we make of these things what we want. [...]
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What we can make of the mess we have made of things
That world! These days it’s all been erased and they’ve rolled it up like a scroll and put it away somewhere. Yes, I can touch it with my fingers. But where is it? - Denis Johnson, Emergency
One of Eno’s Oblique Strategies:
In total darkness, or in a very large room, very quietly.
My mother was mostly deaf when [...]
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He wanted to write “stuff about what it feels like to live. Instead of being a relief from what it feels like to live.”
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Benign Fascination Syndrome
The diagnosis of exclusion means to rule everything else out first: A) We are not friends. B) We are not related. C) We do not want each other.
D) Muscles twitch from over-exertion — eyelids spasm from not enough sleep; lips twitch from too much use; legs from standing; there have been documented cases of it [...]
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Two things that aren’t all that related and that I want to talk about but only tangentially
1) “Neuroses can be explained as fake-meaning creation. When the lives of some people get overly secure and lack in danger or primary survival goals, they will start to make up pseudo-dangerous environments that have to be fought with strange self-made rituals.” Koert van Essan, Therapist
2) In an article about fetishes I recently read, the woman [...]
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Short-tailed albatross
I mean there are a lot of different ways to tell time without looking at a clock. Hearing one, that’s one way. Sometimes then you have to sit and wait and count out each hour with every chime which can be very suspenseful. I kind of like this: it means not being allowed to forget [...]
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