This is the partner song of Mojo Pin for me.
And I think there’s an accordian playing!
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Watch “Jeff Buckley – Mojo Pin” on YouTube
it’s raining, I just woke up
heard this in the absence of the person I miss
Paying homage / don’t own rights
Remember it-it Rhymes
(Claude) Levi-Strauss did not invent denim, but rather anthropological stucturalism.
P.S. my audience is myself here. feel free to disapprove
Fin de Siècle & Lebensraum (words on index cards you are trying to discern)
Fin de Siècle is French for “end of century.”
Reference the English idiom “turn of the century” (turn of the screw?)
Re: the closing of one era and the onset of another
Term refers to the end of the 19th century – period of ‘degeneration’ but simultaneously a period of hope for a new beginning.
Spirit of fin de siècle: refers to cultural hallmarks that were recognized as prominent in the 1880’s and 1890s
i.e. ennui, cynicism, pessimism.
Artists catalyzed this as impetus for movements like Symbolism and Modernism
Also, a general belief that civilization leads to decadence (see Freud. Civilization and Its Discontents).
Also, became a major influence on fascism. (?)
Watch “Nile Rodgers on Bowie, Madonna and Chic’s first new album in more than 25 years” on YouTube
Super fun.
Hey Gents: How do you shut up a guitarist? Ask ’em to play from sheet music!
How do you shut up a pianist? Take away the sheet music!
Favorite quote: bring me the disco king!
Harmony not unison.
Steve Winwood (sp?) Back in the High Life, anyone?
Here’s to the long breakdowns; let’s take the Good Times and try to hop on it..
Hey,
Oh, 1982 Bowie: quite! Very interesting indeed.
Vitamin C(an) D(o)
My sister once (and repeatedly since!) insists Vitamin C by Can sums up the grey months in Seattle. She’s not wrong. Ok, fine. She’s right.
That’s hard to say as an older sister.
She also told me about this
Sadness Hides the Sun thing.
Too sad, sister.
Party foul!
Party fowl.
I’m chicken o’ that kinda sad.
Cut it out.
Now
Pitter Patter
There’s blue sky
and the sun’s jutting outta the grey
but it’s not gonna last all day!
Sometimes you gotta run at it
or walk at quickly
(seriously girl-don’t blow them knees out!)
ha
Zagreus (oft confused with a dude up a tree)
Camus’ Zagreus once “laughed and added, ‘You see Mersault, all the misery and cruelty of our civilization can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history,’ ” incorporating time and nations into the excruciatingly existential search for ‘metaphysical truth.’
Troubadoursome
This is how she came to know he was Troubadour,
true.
She had loved fellows of music, letters, substances, and substance.
not quite men, yet.
She listened to their odes to women,
other.
Just as lovesome as anything else she had heard.
Love is effortless, but not always loving of itself.
(in-) sufficient.
(not) entitled.
(not) privledged
(dis-) content
At least there was content.
but troubadour’s don’t flee but rather
they incline to persue.
Perhaps it was a simple matter of time.
Some move through it more quickly than others.
She looked 150 years younger than she probably was.
(and still she felt she looked too old! ha!)
but, he had gotten it just right, at least in her eye.
What is a book but manual?
Is it just, using an alchemical apparatus within a story?
Just
an alchemical apparatus used to drive the plot, scaffold the story structure, and/or function, also, as a skeleton key?
Transmutate to into art.
The reader and/or audience undergoes the Cathartic process,
like enzymes provoke.
The Apparatus drives the substance of letters/words toward catharsis.
Our story’s technical equipment enables a bunch of words
to BeRead by an audience or reader of the collection.
In this way, words transmutate to a collection, set, Sum, somme
that somehow be-came greater than the sum of its parts
This alchemical thing is but primarily a piece of technical (albeit ‘unscientific’) apparati that is taken-up, in itself, and then applied to a bunch of words such that when those words are taken-up [sic. in the abstracted sense], an epiphenomenon emerges on a different level of scale.
res ges’tae (Latin)
Inclination of the Needle
(dip of the magnetic needle)
illude
(trick, delude)
illudere
(promising)
illywhacker
(confidence trickster)
Illocution
(an action performed by saying or writing something. promise)
idempotent
( < math. an element of a set which is unchanged in value when operated
on by itself )
idem
( < Latin. ‘same‘ ; French. ‘somme‘ )
idée fixe
( obsession < French lit. ‘fixed idæ‘ )
idée reçue
( generally accepted concept < French lit. ‘received idæ’ )
Foucault’s Pendulum (Quotes from 1st reading)
Umberto Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum is DENSE and cryptic. Will not be through this one anytime soon.
Had to stop by page 18! mainly because my brain exploded when I read that last quote.
The Pendulum told me that, as everything moved-earth, solar system, nebulae and black holes, all the children of the great cosmic expansion-one single point stood still: a pivot, bolt, or hook around which the universe could move.
It proves the rotation of the earth. Since the point of suspension doesn’t move. p5
By fleeing to another; you cannot escape the revelation of the identical by takeing refuge in the illusion of the multiple.p7
It is as if the progeny of Reason and Enlightenment had been condemned to stand guard forever over the ultimate symbol of Tradition and Wisdom.p8
This catoptric theater was only contrived to take away your identity and make you feel unsure not only of the very objects standing between you and the mirrors.
Then suddenly I saw myself upside down in a mirror.
Intolerable.p13
I was penetrating to the heart of a secret message in the form of a rationalist theatrum.p15
The first Sefirah is Keter, the Crown, the beginning, the primal void. In the beginning He created a point, which became Thought, where all the figures were drawn. He was and was not, He was encompassed in the name yet not encompassed in the name, having as yet no name other than the desire to be called by a name.p18
Dream of a Dinner
My ex picked me up.
We picked his parents up. 4 people in a sedan.
I’m holding the pot of gumbo he made (it was good) on a towel on my lap in the front seat.
The lid is from another pot, and is too big.
The pot is filled high so I have to hold it just so as we drive to stop it from sloshing out.
He forgot the sourdough bread he bought.
He forgot to buy rice at all.
My parents had both on hand.
Resonant
adj. capable of returning sound; echoing back
n. resonant sound or body
Resonance
prolongation or increase of sound by means of sympathetic vibration
that property of objects having the same vibration frequency that tends to cause them to vibrate in sympathy
Resonator: anything that resounds
Hartz. American Exceptionalism: The Consensus Thesis. Introductory Notes
American Exceptionalism, as Louis Hartz writes about it, asserts that the U.S. varies qualitatively from other nations. As citizens of the first extended republic, white U.S. men were the first to enjoy nearly universal suffrage; and, also the first to form political parties. As compared to working classes of other countries, the American working class has been politically cautious. For example, the scope of America’s social welfare programs has been distinctly limited.
The U.S. is a paradox of change and continuity. Despite rapid political and economic development, there has been profound resistance to social movements and policies that were typically elicited elsewhere by a dynamic capitalist economy.
The most pervasive explanation for this pattern of development and resistance is that a belief in individual freedom, private enterprise, and republican institutions founded by popular consent has made it difficult for competing collectivist movements and policies to take hold. Hartz frames this as a constraining cultural consensus.
American Exceptionalism: The Consensus Thesis
Starts liberal, stays liberal.
This thesis is rooted in Tocqueville’s discussion of American social relations.
I think there is no other country in the world where there are so few ignorant and so few learned individuals.
Special material conditions, Tocqueville thought, helped produce this result.
Even though a “few great lords” migrated to the thirteen colonies, the soul of America absolutely rejected a territorial [landed] aristocracy.
But social relations and conditions were crucial factors. Even the southern planters lacked the traditional-and inherited-privledges distinguishing aristocrats from commoners, and because their workers were African slaves, the land Master lacked the usual patronage relations aristocrats had with ordinary citizens in Europe.
Tocqueville:
The inhabitants hardly know each other, and each man is ignorant of his nearest neighbor’s history…no man enjoys the influence and respect due a whole life spent publically in doing good deeds.
Americans enjoyed bourgeois liberty, “not the aristocratic freedom of their motherland, but a middle-class and democratic freedom.” (Hartz)
The U.S. had learned to combine liberty and democracy in a manner the French had not. They didn’t suffer a democratic revolution. They all belonged to the middle class. There had been no prolonged struggle to bring down aristocracy.
Americans are… born equal instead of becoming so.
This Night Tonight
Inscenced not indignant.
Indignity nonetheless.
Bemused not befuddled.
Bespoke not beholden.
Beloved not betrothed.
Vouchsafed by dint of condescension.
I am howling.
Interference for interference sake.
It’s raining, so I bought three pens for two dollars and ninety nine cents before tax.
What surprises Them about me, breaks my dummy heart.
I smile unconciously.
Caseface as Britt said back when we are all servers,
going home at night to the Isleland of Misfit toys.
And how my upper lift now curls upward.
trembling and pulsing up and down over white teeth.
A wolf’s mouth starting to growl.
Starting again to howl.
Fear? nah. maybe.
replete
the timbre was ash and cherry.
Cinnamon and cheesecloth.
Poetry is everywhere and we’re the only ones who can see it?
But then I read what I’ve written and its just word lists.
no pomp puffery, no pithy trick for the wolves playing sheep.
so I show it to you.
Why?
Cuz I’ve Written it regardless, despite, in spite of everyone and everything.
But, really, simply because you asked.
And I looked at you hard and cold.
the lip recovers my teeth.
my brow unfurrows.
infinitely written meets unwriteable.
effing idiots will never get it, will they?
Isn’t that wild?
Passing Time After Cancelling Dinner with the Parents of your Ex ( i.e. Saturday getdown)
Anon, anon.
tried to guess different ways to write it.
she’s cagey!
And so it goes. Great Vonnegut Quote
There was still plenty of food and fuel and so on for all the the human beings on the planet, as numerous as they had become, but millions upon milions of them were starving to death now.
And this famine was as purely a product of oversized brains as Beethoven’s Symphony.
It was all in people’s heads. People had simply changed their opinions of paper wealth, but, for all practical purposes, the planet might as well have been knocked out of orbit by a meteor the size of Luxembourg.
The financial crisis was simply the latest in a series of murderous 21st century catastrophes which had originated entirely in human brains.
More and more humans were saying that their brains were irresponsible, unreliable, hideously dangerous, wholly unrealistic— were simply no damn good.
Kurt Vonnegut. Galàpagos. 1999
Time to Revive Hartz & rexamine American Exceptionalism?
Embodying an absolute moral ethos, “Americanism,” once it is driven onto the world stage by events, is inspired willy-nilly to reconstruct the very alien things it tries to avoid. Its Messianism is the polar counterpart of its isolation. Americans seem to oscillate between fleeing from the rest of the world and embracing it with too ardent a passion. An absolute national morality is inspired to withdraw from “alien” things or to transform them-It cannot live in comfort constantly by their side.
Louis Hartz. American Exceptionalism. 1955.
Thoughts are with those hurting tonight after the violent events.
Let’s try harder to do better.
A Pretty Beautiful Poem
Conviviality: C17 from Latin convivialis “a feast”
“fit for a feast”
(of an atmosphere or event) friendly, lively, enjoyable
potential. hy/Poten/use
potentiate
potent. pot. Portia (circa Antigone)
portent (n) ; portend (vb)
– portentious
port
porter
Deceit…. disgust
Conceit…. disguise. (dis/g -)
Receipt… despise
(- cei/P/t)
DISAMBIGUATION
Pretext: ostensible reason (false) used to justify an action.
Pretense: act of pretending, false ambitions / claim
Pretend: imaginative same / fantasy
Pretension: claim of aspiration to something pretentious
Pretentious: attempting to impress with falsehood
Prevaricate: act or speak in an evasive way
Prima facie: (law) at first sight [ / site / cite]; accepted as so until proven otherwise
The Old English spelling of pretty = prættig, meaning
‘cunning or crafty’ coming as it did from a West Germanic base meaning
‘trick’.
By the Middle Ages, pretty had come to mean ‘clever, skilful, or ingenuious’.
The sense development [ deceitful, cunning, clever, skilful, admirable, pleasing, attractive ] has parallels in adjectives such as nice.
PRETTY
1. attractive in a delicate way, without being truly* (common) * beautiful. *author’s change*
2. used ironically to express displeasure: fairly ; trinket ; (used condescendingly) attractive person.
Pretty is to prevericate in order to increase Prestige?
A pretty face is a prentious face?
Pretty is pretension?
Beauty is.
Is being pretty pretentious? or prestigous?
The pretension of the face being ‘pretty’ was pretentious?
Pretty is prevarication to gain? [Prevaricate and procrastinate have similar but not identical meanings.
Prevaricate means ‘act or speak in an evasive way’.
Procrastinate, on the other hand, means ‘put off doing something’.
Prestigious.
A face being pretty is a pretension.
That’s beautiful, that is, Pretty!
PRESTIGE entered English in the mid 17th century (tricksy, cuz it means the 1600’s) from French, and ultimately derives from the Latin plural noun praestigiae ‘conjuring tricks’.
It took on its modern meaning in the 19th century (the 1800’s) by way of the sense ‘dazzling influence, glamo/u/r’, which at first [only] had a derogatory implication.
Aren’t we beautiful, Pretties?!
Extra Credit: speak the 17 words below aloud. Wild right? They kinda stopped making sense after a while. Lovesome.
Pretty ; Prettify ; Prettifies ; Prettifying
Prettified ; Prettification ; Prettifier ;
Prettier ; Prettiest ; Prettyish. . . . . Prettyboy.
Prettily ; Prettiness ; Prettyish ;
Pretties.
Prettied.
Prettying.
* Knock Knock…Orange… Orange you glad the other (stars) astericks didn’t make you scroll all the effing way down here? Hyuck.
I. All words cited from OED Concise (pic below-citations take forever)
II. All 17 “Pretty” derivations were taken from 3 dictionaries.
Mix tape to the World. Soul Funk. Rev. James Brown. A Maverick.
I did not know about James Brown.
Ha! I believed it was sexy-good-time music: good beat; easy to dance to.
It is.
It is also so much more.
Powerful medicine. I compiled a list of tracks to hike to.
Thought I’d share. Will continue to update as I find more.
It’s all good for productivity.
So take a walk, guys.
or destress and jam this when you carry wood (work).
Because like a ball on the bound,
you’ve got to get down, down, down!
Talking Loud and Saying Nothing. 1972. There It Is.
Blind Man Can See It. extended cut. bonus track. Jungle Groove.
Soul Power. 1971. “12 inch long version”
The Good Foot. Pts I & II.Mind Power. 1973Cold Sweat. 1967
Bonus points:
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars.
16 June 1972 (released).
8 November 1971 to 4 February 1972 (recorded)
Side 1
2nd track
cheers.
WrittenCasey 