Advice sought: I've a boatload of cassettes on shelves in my basement. All are at least twenty years old, most more. I've copied to CD most of those I knew I wanted to carry forward a long time ago, but I was browsing the crates over the weekend and discovered many that I mehhed once but want now - EIEOU, remember them? for instance, Soup Dragons? I put one tape into a player and SNAP! I put a second into a player and SNAP! Am I well and truly fucked? most if not all probably gone? I do have access to a university library's media center and their state of the art equipment. Advice?
- My/My/My.
- The vicious lie is vicious.
- I don't read Ross Douthat and you can't make me, but this guy did and responds and this guy did and responds.
- Obscenely rich fuckers.
- Fuckface Hiatt really wants your retirement money.
- An answer to the anti-anti-war Left.
- Monetary policy and metaphysics.
- Motherfucking Obama.
- Opening our aperture!
- Democracy v Democracy.
- Going up the country.
- Applied anarchy. I remember when Elric, who was two grades behind me in elementary school, was taught to read by an experimental program - ITA, Initial Teaching Alphabet - that spelled words phonetically. Kwak, for instance. I believe the experiment was dropped within a few years, though I'd have to do research to be sure, and fuck that. Elric just called (I'd emailed him to ask what it was called), said it worked wonderfully, he was reading at a 5th grade level in 2nd grade, then they yanked it out from beneath him.
- Book reviews and bleggalgazing!
- Good news! ::wood s lot:: returns.
- There once was a time when there was always a New Order song in my head. It's been a couple of years at least since it stopped, but verily, I never thought I'd reach the day I'd say Fuck New Order.
- New Eels?
- Heard this for the first time last night. HOLYFUCK! I love songs that KILL on first listen. Simple great joy of life.
LINE POEM
Caroline Knox
Long jetty, long shell-racked jetty, cracked warped planks.
Caroline Knox
Long jetty, long shell-racked jetty, cracked warped planks.
Beautiful fish, beautiful sea-bass poached with an August tomato, on
an ironstone plate.
an ironstone plate.
A snake's slough, a snake's spinal cord, a dry-rot stump.
A twill tape measure, an audiotape cassette unspooled and puckered,
shining.
shining.
Agate prayer beads, kazoos, whistles, rattles.
A bike-chain and a bungy cord. A moebius strip and a broccoli elastic.
Split vanilla pod inset with paltry-looking flat oily brown seeds.
Egg-and-dart molding of vitreous fake sandstone. Contrails, mares' tails,
mackerel sky.
mackerel sky.
