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[Wednesday
10.28.2009 ] |
Belief & Technique
For Modern Prose
by Jack Kerouac
List of Essentials
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
The chief value in going to college is that it's the only way to learn it
really doesn't matter.
-- George Edwin Howes
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[Wednesday
10.28.2009 ] |
thinking/observing vs engaging
economics & selling things
keeping things nice vs keeping things safe
conscious & analytical
question/understand vs memorize
I haven't been painting much I have been trying to paint pictures with words instead, but I'm afraid I'm not very good at it. George and I have been looking at houses in Durham; if any of you in the area are looking for somewhere to live through next semester, let us know, we need roommates!
here are some ( funny little blind drawings )
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[Monday
10.05.2009 ] |
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Iggy Pop & The Stooges |
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( 1234 )
I also have a nice download for all of you. Beck has started this new project called the Record Club, in which he and a few other artists get together and cover an entire album in a day, without any prior practicing or arranging or anything. I think it's a pretty sweet idea, and HERE is a download for the first album, a cover of The Velvet Underground and Nico. Be prepared, some of the songs (Heroin) are completely terrible, but some are pretty good. Their second album hasn't completely been released yet, but it is a cover of Songs of Leonard Cohen, done with Devendra Banhart and members of MGMT, Wolfmother and Little Joy. I have seriously high hopes for it. The songs are being released as videos on Beck's website HERE once every week or so. Check it out!
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[Thursday
10.01.2009 ] |
I received this mysterious card in the mail a couple of weeks ago.
The return address label says it is from a Footy Fontal in Boston.
( inside )
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[Monday
08.31.2009 ] |
i am not going back to school this semester because i don't have the money and cannot take out any more loans. going to get a job and go back in january.
i have been spending my time cleaning my room, reading (mostly re-reading), and watching movies. i should get out more. i should paint more.
( books read in august: )
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[Tuesday
08.25.2009 ] |
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leonard cohen |
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i am sick and tired of being sick and tired
i'd much rather be a golden ball of light
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[Tuesday
07.07.2009 ] |
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from Elegy for My Father
Mark Strand
2 ANSWERS
Why did you travel?
Because the house was cold.
Why did you travel?
Because it is what I have always done between sunset and sunrise.
What did you wear?
I wore a blue suit, a white shirt, yellow tie, and yellow socks.
What did you wear?
I wore nothing. A scarf of pain kept me warm.
Who did you sleep with?
I slept with a different woman each night.
Who did you sleep with?
I slept alone. I have always slept alone.
Why did you lie to me?
I always thought I told the truth.
Why did you lie to me?
Because the truth lies like nothing else and I love the truth.
Why are you going?
Because nothing means much to me anymore.
Why are you going?
I don't know. I have never known.
How long shall I wait for you?
Do not wait for me. I am tired and I want to lie down.
Are you tired and do you want to lie down?
Yes, I am tired and I want to lie down.
writing
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[Wednesday
07.01.2009 ] |
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ice age coming, ice age coming
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[Tuesday
06.16.2009 ] |
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I had the strangest dream in the car ride home last night about a tiny white schizophrenic airplane that I died saving from some institution. Also during the entire dream I could not make the S sound, my mouth would not close around it.
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[Thursday
06.04.2009 ] |
I have some poems, paintings, stories, feathers, pills, drawings, rocks, wine, hammocks, front porches, sweatshirts, flowers, cemeteries, churches, bicycles, dumpsters, beds, songs, candles, bibles, ice cream and movies I wish I could share with you.
this is absurd, just go to sleep
Bat for Lashes - The Wizard
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