Welcome to fairgrounds earth
the wind is a wicker shell
sweeping the sidewalks
pushing sparks deep into cracks
the fire hydrants are all open
and filling the streets
but the sewers are full
and the ocean is rising from all sides
and from high ground
people stare from behind police lines
watching for a change in the color of the sky
they do this
once
every four years
ab.def.hi..l.no..rst.v….
.my knife has gotten duLl.
.i’ve been using it.
.cutting wire and lies.
.my arm is tired.
.i'Ve been using it.
.To scribble on the maps.
.my hammer’s got a ring.
.i've been using iT.
.to weakeN the chains.
.my future's realized.
.i've Been using It.
.to manifest my days.
.l-a'ro.
"Nada sino la luz. No hay nada, nada
sino la luz contra la luz rabiosa,
donde la luz se rompe, se desangra
en oleaje estéril, sin espuma."
Octavio Paz, ENTRE LA PIEDRA Y LA FLOR (1937)
Nothing but light. There’s nothing, nothing
only the light against the rabid light
where light breaks and hemorrhages
in frothless sterile billows.
(my meager translation)
"Real art is play, & play is one of the most immediate of all experiences. Those who have cultivated the pleasure of play cannot be expected to give it up simply to make a political point (as in an 'Art Strike,' or 'the suppression without the realization' of art, etc.). Art will go on, in somewhat the same sense that breathing, eating, or fucking will go on."
Hakim Bey, Radio Sermonettes
"So, there are different ways to make surprises happen. The other thing about the technocracy of it is, of course, destroying the ozone layer. It is destroying forests and trees. For instance, now the native americans are now thinking--a group of them are really quite open to receiving this atomic waste on their land--and they're going to get a lot of money for it, which I think is really a very curious turn of events. And when one of the Chiefs was asked, well, suppose certain things happen? And he said,'Well, we believe that if that were to happen, technically there would be some device that would be invented that would ameliorate whatever the danger was' Now that's optimism."
Cecil Taylor, being matter ignited...
sweeping the sidewalks
pushing sparks deep into cracks
the fire hydrants are all open
and filling the streets
but the sewers are full
and the ocean is rising from all sides
and from high ground
people stare from behind police lines
watching for a change in the color of the sky
they do this
once
every four years
ab.def.hi..l.no..rst.v….
.my knife has gotten duLl.
.i’ve been using it.
.cutting wire and lies.
.my arm is tired.
.i'Ve been using it.
.To scribble on the maps.
.my hammer’s got a ring.
.i've been using iT.
.to weakeN the chains.
.my future's realized.
.i've Been using It.
.to manifest my days.
.l-a'ro.
"Nada sino la luz. No hay nada, nada
sino la luz contra la luz rabiosa,
donde la luz se rompe, se desangra
en oleaje estéril, sin espuma."
Octavio Paz, ENTRE LA PIEDRA Y LA FLOR (1937)
Nothing but light. There’s nothing, nothing
only the light against the rabid light
where light breaks and hemorrhages
in frothless sterile billows.
(my meager translation)
"Real art is play, & play is one of the most immediate of all experiences. Those who have cultivated the pleasure of play cannot be expected to give it up simply to make a political point (as in an 'Art Strike,' or 'the suppression without the realization' of art, etc.). Art will go on, in somewhat the same sense that breathing, eating, or fucking will go on."
Hakim Bey, Radio Sermonettes
"So, there are different ways to make surprises happen. The other thing about the technocracy of it is, of course, destroying the ozone layer. It is destroying forests and trees. For instance, now the native americans are now thinking--a group of them are really quite open to receiving this atomic waste on their land--and they're going to get a lot of money for it, which I think is really a very curious turn of events. And when one of the Chiefs was asked, well, suppose certain things happen? And he said,'Well, we believe that if that were to happen, technically there would be some device that would be invented that would ameliorate whatever the danger was' Now that's optimism."
Cecil Taylor, being matter ignited...
posted by friars | Friday, October 06, 2006
1 Comments:
Loving it, election fever is in the air, but only baseball matters... In South Africa there was a commercial for national pride, <-- funny by itself, but the great quote was "When will Monday morning be more important that Saturday afternoon?" When will more people go to vote than to go watch the game?
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