March 2009
63 posts
Brief thoughts on staving off the death of...
partygoer #1: you know, I download that once in awhile, and--
partygoer #2: man, I'm too lazy to figure that out.
February 2009
22 posts
link: "tv party" documentary →
if you missed this when it was on pitchfork.tv’s “one week only” online documentary series, pick it up if you get the chance. as the new york times reported today, the overwhelmingly white male world of late-night television is largely a safe lowest-common denominator brand of “variety” in the states, at least as far as guests and formats are concerned. it’s a...
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notes on "crazy about love"
a quick blast of micro-fiction last night, for reasons unknown, followed by two songs by wire, maybe by way of apology, as we move towards officially opening this site on saturday (gonna make the general layout a little easier to read, and probably a little less busy in terms of the color scheme). some brief thoughts on the research and rationale behind the piece:
it should probably come as no...
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wire - crazy about love from the crazy about love...
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wire - 23 years too late from the read & burn...
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crazy about love
It was late 1979, or early 1980, and I was leaning against the back wall reading a Marxist analysis of drugs in Rotterdam in a smartly-stapled student journal. When I looked up, I found the room filled with a dangerous mixture of skinheads and artists of the kind you couldn’t take home to your mother but could rely on to vote for Thatcher.
There were precious few women, and they mostly wore...
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Link: Mark E. Smith, Living Leg-end, Breaks Hip... →
five years after his last excursion in pelvic disaster, which nearly killed him, the fall’s frontman has apparently re-broken his hip. for reference, here he is after last time (courtesy of stephen over at the fall online):
apparently his experience gave rise to the opiate-blurred lyrics of “blindness,” which is one of the best tracks out of england in the last twenty years,...
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tim geithner is lonely, part one
from new york magazine: "Essentially [U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy] Geithner is sitting over there by himself and does not have a staff . . . . Oh no! Also, he must be lonely."
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a lonely office in the treasury dep't
we see tim geithner at his stylish ikea desk, which is empty except for a macbook, a stylish ikea cup to hold his pens in (it currently one or two simple jet-black pens), and a white coffee mug. he is eating a banana.
tim geithner: (whilst eating banana) guess that economy sure still is sucking.
silence. tim geithner finishes eating his banana, then throws it over his shoulder.
tim geithner: *pulling out blackberry* maybe someone has left me a voicemail.
a moment's pause while tim geithner checks his voicemail.
tim geithner: not even the vice president. he calls everybody.
tim geithner pulls out a folder. it is labeled "the economy." he opens it. in the center of the single enclosed page is the word "bad," in stylish helvetica font.
tim geithner: maybe I should get a new suit in case I have to go to congress to explain this.
tim geithner puts his blackberry to his ear. a long pause. after a moment, tim geithner puts down his blackberry.
tim geithner: brooks brothers is closed.
tim geithner stares at his pens for a long moment. eventually he takes a sip of coffee.
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tim geithner: closed forever.
we see, for the briefest of instants, into the piercing depths of tim geithner's dark eyes.
-fin-
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the beatles - revolution (take 20; 11-minute...
Link: Dudes Don't Read →
as a “dude” and a reader I find this a touch sad:
Exhibit A: Jonathan Tropper. You’ve probably never heard of him even though he’s optioned almost all of his novels to major Hollywood studios for millions of dollars. He’s still never cracked the bestseller list, but I don’t blame him. His second novel The Book of Joe was hilarious and should have appealed to...
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“hamlet,” act V, scene ii (a dry run...
Link: Nuwaubianism →
The Illuminati have nurtured a child, Satan’s son, who was born on 6 June 1966 at the Dakota House on 72nd Street in New York to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis of the Rothschild/Kennedy families. The Pope was present at the birth and performed necromantic ceremonies. The child was raised by former U.S. president Richard Nixon and now lives in Belgium, where it is hooked up bodily to a computer...
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a few words on this project.
imitation sun is a small blog based out of washington dc, featuring written and recorded fiction, non-fiction, and visual art.
it serves as a repository for research material for larger projects as well as for a place to display both completed works and those in progress.
the design of the site is still in progress and as such it is not officially “open” yet even though it is...
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own...”
– marcel duchamp
SCENE II. London. An apartment of the Prince's. →
I know you all, and will awhile uphold The unyoked humour of your idleness: Yet herein will I imitate the sun, Who doth permit the base contagious clouds To smother up his beauty from the world, That, when he please again to be himself, Being wanted, he may be more wonder’d at, By breaking through the foul and ugly mists Of vapours that did seem to strangle him. If all the year were playing...
