it loved to happen

He really is in there. So are EVE and M-O.

Thu, 24 May 2012 02:59:00 -0500

He really is in there. So are EVE and M-O.

Middle-schoolers' Confiscated Notes

Tue, 22 May 2012 06:20:00 -0500

Bon Iver saxist Colin Stetson performs “Judges,” his...

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:48:10 -0500

Bon Iver saxist Colin Stetson performs “Judges,” his piece for solo bari featuring circular breathing, multiphonics, and lots more awesome extended techniques.

iPhone Dock Zarathustra

Fri, 18 May 2012 02:26:47 -0500

iPhone Dock Zarathustra

Nikola Tesla

Tue, 15 May 2012 02:58:01 -0500

Nikola Tesla:

The man deserves recognition. (The Oatmeal)

Photo

Thu, 10 May 2012 03:34:16 -0500

wild things: mvt ii (Daniel Leonard 2010, crappy MIDI output)....

Wed, 09 May 2012 11:53:14 -0500

wild things: mvt ii (Daniel Leonard 2010, crappy MIDI output). The text: “His mother called him ‘Wild thing!’ And Max said ‘I’ll eat you up!’ So he was sent to bed without eating anything.”

Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:43:05 -0500

Please don’t go. We’ll eat you up. We love you so.

"There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m..."

Tue, 08 May 2012 09:40:09 -0500

“There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.”

- Maurice Sendak, who died today at 83

jazz. (Big Jay McNeely on sax; photo by Bob Willoughby; click...

Mon, 07 May 2012 03:06:00 -0500

jazz. (Big Jay McNeely on sax; photo by Bob Willoughby; click for hi-res)

"I now warn the reader not to mock me and my mental daze. It is easy for him and me to decipher /now/..."

Sun, 06 May 2012 05:30:21 -0500

“I now warn the reader not to mock me and my mental daze. It is easy for him and me to decipher /now/ a past destiny; but a destiny in the making is, believe me, not one of those honest mystery stories where all you have to do is keep an eye on the clues. In my youth I once read a French detective tale where the clues were actually in italics; but that is not McFate’s way—even if one does learn to recognize certain obscure indications.”

- Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 239

"The dedication and sustained energy that go into true perspicacity and expertise were exhausting..."

Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:45:00 -0500

“The dedication and sustained energy that go into true perspicacity and expertise were exhausting even to think about. It now lately sometimes seemed like a kind of black miracle to me that people could actually care deeply about a subject or pursuit, and could go on caring this way for years on end. Could dedicate their entire lives to it. It seemed admirable and at the same time pathetic. We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan, politics or grammar, topology or philately—the object seemed incidental to this will to give oneself away, utterly. To games or needles, to some other person. Something pathetic about it. A flight-from in the form of a plunging-into. Flight from exactly what? These rooms blandly filled with excrement and meat? To what purpose? This was why they started us here so young: to give ourselves away before the age when the questions “why” and “to what” grow real beaks and claws. It was kind, in a way. … The original sense of “addiction” involved being bound over, dedicated, either legally or spiritually. To devote one’s life, plunge in. I had researched this.”

- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, 900

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

Wed, 25 Apr 2012 09:59:46 -0500

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

- Anne Frank

[PDF] Essay by DFW, age 21, about his depression: "THE PLANET TRILLAPHON AS IT STANDS IN RELATION TO THE BAD THING."

Thu, 19 Apr 2012 07:37:20 -0500

[PDF] Essay by DFW, age 21, about his depression: "THE PLANET TRILLAPHON AS IT STANDS IN RELATION TO THE BAD THING."

2001: A Space LEGOdyssey. “Open the pod brick doors,...

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 17:29:00 -0500

2001: A Space LEGOdyssey. “Open the pod brick doors, HAL.” More on Flickr: Discovery, Discovery side, Discovery details 1, Discovery details 2.

"The truth that discloses itself in the work [of art] can never be proved or derived from what went..."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 08:39:34 -0500

“The truth that discloses itself in the work [of art] can never be proved or derived from what went before… . What art founds can therefore never be compensated and made up for by what is already present and available. Founding is an overflow, an endowing, a bestowal… . Whenever art happens—that is, whenever there is a beginning—a thrust enters history, history either begins or starts over again. History means here not a sequence in time of events of whatever sort, however important. History is the transporting of a people into its appointed task as entrance into that people’s endowment… . The origin of the work of art—that is, the origin of both the creators and the preservers, which is to say of a people’s historical existence, is art. This is so because art is by nature an origin: a distinctive way in which truth comes into being, becomes historical.”

- Martin Heidegger, “The Origin of the Work of Art,” in Poetry, Language, Thought, 72-75.

Cage Does Cage: in this string of clips from various films,...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:12:28 -0500

Cage Does Cage: in this string of clips from various films, Nicholas Cage performs John Cage’s 4’33”.

Sad as a Ship in a Bottle

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 03:34:22 -0500

Sad as a matchbox in a house
Where they’ve stopped smoking.
Sad as a soap of a movie queen
After she steps out of the shower.
Sad as the love pill
In a pocket of a dead man.
Happy as a mouse in a rocking chair.
Happy as a pair of dentures …
No, wait a minute! Something’s wrong here!
Sad as a maybug in June.
Sad as a hotdog-eating champion
Having dinner in a fish restaurant.

—Charles Simic

Spring

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 04:10:51 -0500

It would be
good to shrug
out of winter
as cicadas do:
look: a crisp
freestanding you
and you walking
off, soft as
new.

—Kay Ryan

R E A D

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 19:39:53 -0500

R E A D