Looks Pretty Good To Me...

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Songs

that make me look dumb when I am driving my car

1 heartbeats by the knife

2 the part of int'l players anthem when the late pimp c comes in and talks about his choosy sister

3 michael jackson's i want you back with jackson 5

4 anything by roxette (listen to your heart, fading like a rose)

5 anything by lil wayne but especially ask em hoes with window down

6 someone saved my life tonight

7 save a horse ride a cowboy by big and rich

8 mia paper planes

that make me look cool when I am driving in my car:

1 songs by can

2 songs by sly/family stone

3 donny hathaway any songs

4 neil young live stuff rust never sleeps or massey

5 david crosby off of if i could only remember my name

6 gram parson return of grievous angel

7 edith piaf

8 father figure by george michaels

9 songs for fucking by big black/steve albini

10 stuff that is experimental

11 disco music

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
h h hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
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!!!

i have to work now

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Robots in Disguise

Portion of Transformers Redux...

Powerful Man

I am the king of bombs. This is my plan. We bomb everything.

I will take my helicopter and bomb everything.

Scene: Two helicopters flying over the desert.

They are obviously laden with bombs. They are licking

their lips like wild Mexican Chihuahuas.

Scene: Back to Washington. Geriatrics receiving unsustainable

doses of Prozac. Square dancing. Irish drinking songs.

Powerful Man

Yes, cheer on the bombs. They will be coming for every

life form. Oh yes, and my wife left me. For another man.

Oh yes, where am I? Speak to me now you blond angel.

Tell me all about the voices you hear. I hear them too.

(gestures to screen. Once again, Yael

Naim sings gently over the cosmic footprints

of the human race.)

Blonde Angel

(thinking, not speaking)

Despair?

Powerful Man

I can drop bombs all day and all night on arms and

legs and baby ears and children’s stuffed animals. But

I cannot save my wife, and I cannot eliminate this song,

which radars across the sonic spacestations of our brains like

catatonic little mice feet. Chimney sweeps! Prepare!

(the faces of the mice children stare

unknowingly)

We are wandering through the thick vines of psychopathology.

Please. Tell my brain what to think.

Scene: Battle ships. Hundreds of them. O calamity!

I will give you twenty four hours, people. Tell me

what my brain thinks.

Scene: Billy Ray’s House. In a Rooms To Go showcase neighborhood.

Top 40 radio on every dial, chickens climbing out of pots,

chattering dentures warmed by the cathode rays of television.

A dog bakes in the window glare. Billy Ray signs on.

Scans ebay.

Billy Ray

(the Fonze)

Heeyyyyyy...

Billy Ray stands up. Billy Ray walks to mirror. Billy Ray

begins to talk to himself.

Billy Ray

Self. Gun-toting self. Isolation of self. I want to take

you out on a date, lovely pornstar self.

Billy Ray gussies himself up. Then he begins to talk to his

animal.

Billy Ray

Wait for me. I’ll keep feeding you as long

as you can eat.

Scene: Billy Ray’s front lawn is inhabited by mister and missus Ray.

They seem inordinately interested in the grass. They whisper domesticated

blandishments to the grass.

Mrs. Ray

(insistent)

Feng Shui...Feng Shui...Feng Shui...

Mr. Ray

I should have had a son like you, green green grass.

Spreading out over the earth so thick and warm and green.

Billy Ray comes huffing across the grass.

Billy Ray

Bye mom. Bye dad. Be driving now. You’ll see.

Mr. Ray

First the car, Billy Ray. Then the highways. Are you

always going to be leaving my life like this? Couldn’t you

just learn to stand still and attach your self to the topsoil and

absorb the sun for nutrients?

Billy Ray

Effervesce, family! Mom, that means you. Leave the

dog alone.

Billy Ray climbs into car.

Mr. Ray

I’m as empty as a shell now, Mrs. Ray.

Scene: Infidels crossing the desert. Children dressed as

contestants on America’s Most Wanted. Benny T and co.

cross a jagged rock. They represent the core American

values of leadership, persistence, and respect for others.

Scene: A woman stands listening to a radio. She is allowing the

television set to make a carbon copy of her brain. This brain

will be sold to J.C. Penney.

Scene: Washington. Holy fuck. A powerful man!

Powerful Man

We learn every day more things about ourselves that

are new and interesting and full of promise.

Baby starts to cry.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

TAship

So Temple gave me a TAship for (what will likely be) the next two years. Tuition remission and a 15k stipend. Now I won't be ass broke in Philly.

I'm going to have to work on a good reading list for students. I think you get all the books for free, if you put them on a reading list.

That would be wild.

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Satan

I think John Jacob Niles met the devil. Just like Jerry Lee Lewis. Only John Jacob Niles probably scared the shit out of the devil.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

In my continuing series on things that are good, i am watching the movie the new world on tv right now and damn is it good. terrence malick directed it, which explains why it is so good. at times it is pretty boretastic, and i tend to fall asleep for most of it, but the opening sequence is really good. i thought the soundtrack was like the greatest soundtrack ever. then i learned that it was wagner's the ring cycle, the opening section. which explains that.

i love how terrence malick's writing is pretty bad, but it still does the job.

i love that i am announcing that i am watching this movie right now. i am. that is weird.

ok.

man o man Mama's Boy is a good restaurant. man o man. i am working on a series of poems about being shipwrecked.

and dealing with institutionalized christianity. i can't park downtown on sunday.

damn, kara walker is a good artist. the slideshow on this site is intense.

i can't park downtown on sunday.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Silvery Decline

Silvery decline! We are one sweet thing together and we are lying awake

at night, us together down that silvery decline!

Steadier and steadier, our burning bobsled bodies, our grinning forest haircuts,

our Roman Empire fucking,

our arms locked, and our fists making tiny fetuses out of history,

together, and further down that silvery decline!

Fetuses Fetuses Fetuses of our past! You can feel their fingers

itching at your back, you can hear their babytalk,

their wailing birthmoments, their recitations of love poems I am

writing to you, on our trip down that silvery decline!

I am in love with everything, it all gets buried together

And then all the burials are all sucked into the blackness of space like a woman giving

birth on the internet in reverse.

Everything is forgotten and I am with you right now in the heart of the universe.

The universe is a gigantic throbbing heart and all the pain throbs together.

I am with you in the black heart of space in the universe.

In the black space between the colors of your eyes and the other parts of

your eyes that have color but I can’t see them.

It is a giant heart, and it is an artery, and it is veins, and it carries oxygen,

and it flows through the belly, and into every deep hole, waiting and breathing.

And a belly full of ashes and a belly full of clay, and dirt filled, and filled with sand

is what you have to look forward to, and filled up with many other things and

burned out like stars eventually and then drained and always waiting.

And babies floating in bellies full of rotten teeth. And cancerous lumps of

memories that are chemotherapied to death. You are always waiting.

Wait for me in your gold slip from heaven that I saw you buried in. I love you.

That silvery decline, the raw puked-up smell of flowers blooming, the oceans

licking the dog puke off the sand, the crabs and gulls shitting and eating and making

tracks everywhere along the beach,

tonight and tonight and tonight when the ocean pulls forward and foams all over itself,

I will imagine you are the flavor of the sand and the flavor of the saltwater

mixed in the dog’s mouth, mixed in with the soaked wings of gulls.

And up into the fleshy vulnerable flank of the sky,

the moon, a navel, a lonely crab shell, twisted melon skin,

underdeveloped baby tongue, a segment of finger, a white nail in a tugboat

that hoots at the other boats because it is so small. I watch the planets readjust.

Every time I move my feet gravity changes, the world shifts, the universe alters.

Monday, March 31, 2008

Ahhh

Achy muscles going on Lamination Colony. I am working on take home exams about Chaucer. Fuck. This sucks. And listening to lil wayne.

Fuck. Ahhh. I just don't want to do this bullshit.

I wish I had a lot of money. I would buy books. I hate libraries. I always get fines. I have a fucker of a fine right now. I lost a book. Apparently, it costs 60000000 dollars to replace the book. I didn't count how many zeros I pressed. Maybe I just tabulated the cost of a typical american invasion of another country. I don't know. The New York Times is writing about abstinent girls who want chivalrous guys. I see they haven't read any works of chivalry. Most chivalrous guys would rape them and then murder them. Unless they were already married. Then they would sing songs for them under their windows. I love people abstracting chivalry and hoping to find it in society. This is the way I think when I have to write a paper. Particularly one on Chaucer and Courtly Love. Ha.

In other news, I am considering moving to New York with Jess. She has a killer deal at Rockefeller, I have a not so killer deal at New School, and together we come out as comfortably mediocre. Or, I come out shitty and she comes out on top. Hmmm. I like New York ok. I think it has issues. The subway blows. Manhattan can be a bit of a frat party. But other than that, it has good restaurants and movies and music and a lot of activity and most writers seem to live there. So. Also, Rockefeller is a fucking upper east side womb.

This entry has a lot of curse words. A lot of meta-commentary as well.

Hmmm.