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@line b posted about this recently and then deleted I think it was about how he was always having to pull tinder dates into his orbit his gravitational field. But that it took work and made things more serious, less light, it couldn't just be casual. He is welcome to correct my account.

Posting on the Music board but it's more eclectic than that, a whole culture movement Tiki bars, paperbacks, films like Gidget I think my interest in this stuff started when I went to AO Hawaiian Hideout in Chicago for drinks (pictured above) Then @line b recommended the brilliant...

Tyler Volk is a biologist who wrote a book in the 90s called Metapatterns which I quite like. It works through these abstract forms—sheets, spheres, tubes, gradients, spirals, etc—across many, highly varied domains. Art, indigenous cosmology, astrology, biology. E.g. a sphere is...

"How could the butterfly convince the caterpillar that this change is OK?" There is a phrase in philosophy, "transformative experience." The idea is that the experience radically reshapes your values and preferences and self. So maybe a friend offers you a transformative experience. Maybe it's...

I am not, for the record.

Terribly embarrassing but when lit profs talked about "voice" I never made the connection to the literal throat and tongue, it was always prose style in my head, silent read-it-to-yourself, more like tics and personality than intonation. And then listening to Pound read I realized he does this...

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Keeping back the great Sahara with a buffer of vegetation. Herbert was inspired to write Dune after visiting coastal ecology sites where they were trying to reclaim dunes through planting European seagrass. Something very archetypal/mythological about keeping the sand back. The sands of time...

...begins now. And I am learning from the masters, of course. On the banks of the 20th century. Beginning with the Pound Era. I am going approximately in order from the beginning of Modernism, although I may backtrack from my starting point into Symbolism. The idea is to get a sense of the...

OK Gang it's time to try out the latest technology in the exquisite science together, we can all try and report out, share notes Actually it's quite old technology but it fell into memory around the 10th century and has only semi-recently made a real comeback Jhāna 1, the euphoria stage, has...

How permeable are your boundaries Do you shut the world out or welcome it in What is your attitude towards openness

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. I was thinking about it watching...

The Fisher Family, in Essex, has done well for itself. The family business had long been wholesale cheese supply, though the paternal line for four generations consisted of wrestlers and boxers. Great-granddaddy Fisher is alleged to be last British sailor to receive a cat o’ nine tails—a...

I was reading Blackbird Spyplane this morning which is basically a consumerism column for New York neohipsters. They have a feature called V.I.P. R.A.D.A.R.,” ie. "Vibey Illustrious People with Rare And Dope Ass Recon." Basically they interview scenesters and ask for clothing/scent/furniture...

What are your cycles? Cycles of work and play. Cycles of city and countryside. Cycles of building and losing drug tolerance. Cycles of reading and writing. Cycles of finding new music and listening to what you already know and love. Cycles of cleaning and dirtying the flat. Seasonal cycles of...

My galpal read me some lines from Octavio Paz, Art of Mexico this morning that were lovely: And here is the stepped fret referenced Some connections to Grapejuice numerology themes and Joycean time-as-a-block ideas. Anyone been to the Anthropology Museum in Mexico City? It's got an...

Who will read with me and discuss? Erik McLuhan has called this essay a greater contribution to humanity than Einstein's general relativity. Papa Marshall was heavily influenced, discussing it with Lewis and Pound. Link.

Not capital-P Political but more like, everyday political. Soft trauma, ambient gaslighting. What are the ways you've been warped and changed by power? The ways you feel less curious, less free? The voices you introject? The ways abusive (in the banal way) landlords, bosses, partners have...

What are the classic posts? What are the underrated B-sides? Memorial & archival thread.

Okay I have been meaning for weeks now to write up catalogs SMOG zine, the idea is to liveblog reading it in real-time, like a YouTube reaction video I'm making this basically to put a timer on the project, it is a public commitment of intent Why should you care? Not solely because catalog is...