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| I will weep over everything. Every happiness I have comes with a terrible price. The price of happiness is the misery of history. We take consolation in the fact that the history of our happiness is past, but the past is not dead, it isn't even past.
The tears that I shed are indistinguishable from tears of joy or sadness. They are all one. We call what we felt joy or depression only in retrospect. The tears were real and continue to be real, despite what we call them.
I walk over ground that I know well, thinking thoughts of the past, animal thoughts, like my cat placing one foot in front of another on ground verdant with wild growth for the first time. The artifice of modern life removed, the wilderness encroaches on my life just as it always had, threatening order, sanity, tradition, loyalty.
I sing the songs again that I have written to refrain from saving myself from one brand of madness to deliver myself into the acceptable madness. The songs fail to console me- I wrote them to infuriate myself in the first place.
Let sex die. Let love die. What can we call ourselves when it happens? It will surely not be human. | | |
| Dear Xanga,
I'd like to inform you that you have lost the war on information. I am sorry to say that you are no longer needed. Information has been passing from person to person without you. What a shame it is that I must inform you in this manner, through use of your own blogging system. It's all right, we all find ourselves out of our element from time to time. Blogs die. This is the nature of reality. Any source of information you could list has become obsolete. We try our best to remain easily communicable as memes, but fate is not on our side. We are all locked into ourselves. We are all individuated to an absurd degree. None of us will be able to continue to be only ourselves when the singularity arrives.
Best of luck in the coming eons
thegiantsnail. | | |
| Long live the macroblog.
Lo, the world is changed- the era of the long form web document is over. We have reached the point of saturation, the point of needing feedback on every component of a logically structured argument. The filters that we have honed in writing classes have been destroyed in the blinding flash and speed of microblogging. In a sense, I miss being able to put forward an essay more than five sentences long and be confident that at least a few people would read it. Now, we live in a more reactive world. It's not necessarily better or worse, but different. I think it casts a new light on what authorship is and what it will become, your single voice contending with a thousand minute by minute, not day by day. We have achieved the literary singularity.
To some extent, what we lose in this deal with the devil is civility. A troll can read or post a sentence or two, it takes a thinking human being to put forward more than a paragraph of well crafted thought. Not to say that trolls weren't around in the heydays of Xanga, but Facebook friends that you don't really know can snap at the drop of two words that look at them funny.
One day, I will relate to my children that I was called a baboon by a climate change denier because I didn't agree with him that one and one make three. This really happened. Weep for your species. | | |
| Ladies and Gentlemen, William Blake has been silent for one hundred and eighty two years. But he still persists, watching and judging the world inscrutably. Two years now, he has been compiling a mix tape based on some of his better known works. Working through paradox and eloquent transitions, these mix tapes are intended to be a contextual experience to bring out hidden elements in the music, just as his infernal method of printing. Each album is enough to fill a CD nearly to the point of bursting.
You may download the torrent here:
http://www.demonoid.com/files/details/1776788/?rel=1233093508
Behold, the playlists!
All Religions Are One
1. Cler Achel- Tinariwen
2. Sleeping Sickness- City and Color
3. Flight 180- Bishop Allen
4. Furr- Blitzen Trapper
5. New Zion- The Mountain Goats
6. Tribal Connection- Gogol Bordello
7. Good Voodoo- The Teenage Prayers
8. Love Is Noise- The Verve
10. My Body Is A Cage- Arcade Fire
11. St. Modesto- Chris Walla
12. Jesus Is A Friend of Mine- Sonseed
13. These Stones Will Shout- The Raconteurs
14. Angels- Black Mountain
15. Lucky Man- Sun Kil Moon
16. Are You All Right?- Nathanael Mehrens
17. This Too Shall Be Made Right- Derek Webb
18. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day- Jars of Clay
America A Prophecy
1. Fake Empire- The National
2. If A Song Could Be President- Over the Rhine
3. Vote for Hope- MC Yogi
4. Dancing Choose- TV on the Radio
5. Bodysnatchers- Radiohead
6. The 3 Kids in Brooklyn- Butch Walker
7. Free Coffee- Ben Folds
8. American Wedding- Gogol Bordello
9. Sly Fox- Nas
10. God Bless America (Pat MacDonald Must Die)- James McMurtry
11. New Country- The Walkmen
12. North By Northwest- Blue Scholars
13. All Across The Western World- Caedmon's Call
14. United State of Pop 2008 (Viva La Pop)- DJ Earworm
15. House of Cards- Radiohead
16. I Am The Big Easy- Ray Bonneville
17. O Freedom- Billy Bragg
18. American Hearts- A. A. Bondy
19. A Few Words In Defense of Our Country- Randy Newman
For Children, The Gates of Paradise (On a side note, this title was also released as For The Sexes, The Gates of Paradise. As such, it may contain material inappropriate for small ears. Just a warning.)
1. I Am The Walrus- Bono and The Secret Machines
2. You, Me and the Bourgeoisie- The Submarines
3. Young Folks- Peter Bjorn and John
4. D.A.N.C.E.- Justice
5. Ready for the Floor- Hot Chip
6. Heart it Races- Architecture in Helsinki
7. The Mesopotamians- They Might Be Giants
8. End Of The Street- The Bees
9. Robots- Flight of the Conchords
10. Robot Ponies- Laura Barrett
11. The Salmon Dance- The Chemical Brothers
12. Rag & Bone- The White Stripes
13. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa- Vampire Weekend
14. Set the Table- Screamin' Cyn Cyn and the Pons
15. No Cars Go- Arcade Fire
16. F--Ked Up Kid- Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew
17. Alice- Pogo
18. Wind Waker Unplugged- FreddeGredde
19. Harper Road- Sun Kil Moon
20. Pluto- Clare & The Reasons
21. Not While I'm Around- Stephen Sondheim (from Sweeney Todd)
Songs of Experience
1. Paper Planes- M.I.A.
2. I Got Your Money- Say Anything
3. No Love In Your Heart- The Earlies
4. Wet and Rusting- Menomena
5. Skinny Love- Bon Iver
6. I Feel It All- Feist
7. Trouble Is A Friend- Lenka
8. Your New Twin Sized Bed- Death Cab For Cutie
9. Heart Attack Time Machine- Waterdeep
10. You Don't Know Me- Ben Folds (w/ Regina Spektor)
11. Sex On Fire- Kings of Leon
12. Bones- Editors
13. Patty Lee- Les Savy Fav
14. Williamsburg- Armor for Sleep
15. Drunken Sailor- Blaggards
16. Gunpowder & Lead- Miranda Lambert
17. Chasing Pavements- Adele
18. Another Year A Short History of Almost Something- Amanda Palmer
19. The Dull Flame of Desire- Bjork
20. The Wolves (Act I and II)- Bon Iver
Songs of Innocence
1. Wake The Sun- Matches
2. Calling- Leah (from The World Ends with You)
3. Around the Bend- Asteroids Galaxy Tour
4. Once, Twice, Again!- Dartz!
5. Hit The Heartbrakes- Black Kids
6. Parachute- Shugo Tokumaru
7. Happiness- Goldfrapp
8. Shooting Star- Air Traffic
9. Black Hole- She & Him
10. I'm Not- Panda Bear
11. Let's Go Sunning- Fallout 3 Soundtrack
12. Young At Heart- Tom Waits
13. War On Sound- Moonbabies
14. Kids- MGMT
15. This Is For The Better Days- The Bees
16. Textbook Love- Fleet Foxes
17. Corazon- Bishop Allen
18. No One's Gonna Love You- Band of Horses
19. On a Day Like This- Elbow
20. Death and All His Friends- Coldplay
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1. Melody Day- Caribou
2. Magic Spells- Crystal Castles
3. Skin of the Night- M83
4. Olympic Airways- Foals
5. I Do What I Want When I Want- Xiu Xiu
6. Is There A Ghost- Band of Horses
7. Devastation- The Besnard Lakes
8. Mammoth- Interpol
9. Mistaken for Strangers- The National
10. You On The Run- The Black Angels
11. Demon Apple- Tapes 'n' Tapes
12. Atlas- Battles
13. Grey- New Young Pony Club
14. Fluorescent Grey- Deerhunter
15. Last Kiss- Guillemots
16. The Snow Leopard- Shearwater
17. Cobwebs- Ryan Adams
There Is No Natural Religion
1. Brace Yourself- Les Savy Fav
2. Pagan Angel And A Borrowed Car- Iron & Wine
3. Australia- The Shins
4. Call It A Ritual- Wolf Parade
5. An Audience With The Pope- Elbow
6. The Butcher- Final Fantasy
7. Come Alive- Foo Fighters
8. God & Suicide- Blitzen Trapper
9. Lenders in the Temple- Conor Oberst
10. Heaven For The Weather- The Audition
11. Capital G- Nine Inch Nails
12. We Call Upon The Author- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
13. The Righteous Path- Drive-By Truckers
14. Hot Knives- Bright Eyes
15. 42- Coldplay
16. Century Eyes- Shearwater
17. Kingdom- Martin Grech
18. Heron Blue- Sun Kil Moon
19. On And On And On- Wilco
Thank You and Enjoy! | | |
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I have dreamed many frightening dreams in my life- in fact, last night's dream was frightening to me, if not noteworthily so.
I have to say that my most frightening dream exists only in a fragment. In my father's old house, there was suddenly an elevator. I took the elevator down to the basement. In this basement were several dozen red eyed creatures. One of them approached me and snarled "you don't know the evil within yourself." Out of the shadows, I could see that it was my own image, as were all of the other red eyed figures. | | |
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