January 2012
5 posts
Siri takes the 5th.
Ira Glass: Siri, where do you come from? Siri Software: I, Siri, was designed by Apple in California. Ira Glass: Where were you manufactured? Siri Software: I’m not allowed to say. Ira Glass: Why? Siri Software: Good question. Anything else I can do for you?
(From This American Life #454)
December 2011
5 posts
Advertencia
Yo no permito que nadie me diga Que no comprende los antipoemas Todos deben reír a carcajadas. Para eso me rompo la cabeza Para llegar al alma del lector. Déjense de preguntas. En el lecho de muerte Cada uno se rasca con sus uñas. Además una cosa: Yo no tengo ningún inconveniente En meterme en camisa de once varas. ...
November 2011
7 posts
Roy Spivey (en español) →
I recently translated a short story by Miranda July for Letras Libres. I read it in The New Yorker, kept it in my mind for four years, and asked her if I could translate it a few months ago.
Translating is my new found love, it is arduous and delicate and all about words. It is an affair between you and the story where the author stops mattering, until you, the traitor, disappear.
“Es cierto”, dijo, “que si hago discursos es porque estoy solo y me paseo por...”
– Ricardo Piglia: (más) Respiración Artificial.
mrstsk:
Singing at the College des Bernardins, Paris.
(my photo, our momus)
October 2011
2 posts
«I would like to stand on one side of the ocean and dump a glass of water while you stand on the other side of the ocean and take a glass of water out.»
September 2011
1 post
1 tag
August 2011
4 posts
My name is Andy, I’ll be your multipurpose artstar.
The Love Boat episode (#200), in which Andy Warhol appeared, cannot longer be found online.
loserskeepers:
From a very young age I knew that she was going to die. I hadn’t met her yet but I knew I would and she would be perfect and eventually she would die. Then I did meet her, and she was indeed perfect. All love clichés were applicable to us: we were soulmates, she completed me, we made each other better. This, predictably, made the unavoidability of her death even more painful....
April 2011
1 post
Today
Today I watched “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead”. Later I rode bus 75 next to an older lady who looked just like John Cale. I went to a picnic at la Villette and got asked for beer and cigarettes three times. I gave the book “The Lyrics of Tom Waits: The Early Years” as a present and borrowed “Ella Minnow Pea”. I told, in chronological order, as...
March 2011
1 post
“- I feel all the time like a cat on a hot tin roof.
- Then jump off the roof,...”
February 2011
1 post
WatchMotherboard’s electronic music series visited Matmos at their Baltimore studio to learn about their collaborative process and the new album they are working on, The Marriage of True Minds. We got a tour their most important gear, then chats with the guys about rat cages, stress detectors, their love of Throbbing Gristle, and their love for each other.
January 2011
4 posts
Listen
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
6 posts
This Is Your Brain on Metaphors →
October 2010
7 posts
Sounds Tom Waits likes
An asymmetrical airline carousel created a high pitched haunted voice brought on by the friction of rubbing and it sounded like a big wet finger circling the rim of a gigantic wine glass.
Street corner evangelists
Pile drivers in Manhattan
My wife’s singing voice
Horses coming/trains coming
Children when school’s out
Hungry crows
Orchestra tuning up
Saloon pianos in old...
Edgy and dull
A week ago I took You Shall Know Our Velocity out of the public library in my neighborhood. After a couple of pages I decided my cup of hysterical realism was full.
Yesterday I read that Nan Goldin buys “ornamental pieces from the gorgeous window displays ” of Maison Clarté, a boutique I like and always thought to be only a Repetto show/shoe room.
I left the house with the intention...
September 2010
3 posts
If We Had To Ask For Permission, We Wouldn’t... →
August 2010
2 posts
