Where is my mind? [a la Lisa's glass ink pen]
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night Mare [a la Bic's iPad app]
"Cummings, like quite a few modernist contemporaries, objectified langauge and even committed what we might call organized acts of violence against it. But this is violence with a cause, as Cummings’s linguistic innovations and typography serve poetic means within his philosophy. Theodore Spencer is accurate when he writes that through his typography Cummings “wants to control the reading of the poem as much as he can, so that to the reader, as to the poet, there will be the smallest possible gap between the experience and its expression” (120). Gorham Munson, writing as early as in the 1920s when Cummings was just at the beginning of his career, already realized that “Cummings makes punctuation and typography active instruments for literary expression” (10). The operative word here is active, action, process, and movement being prized concepts in the Cummings metaphysics. Norman Friedman highlights Cummings’s “obsession” with Making: “Experimental technique is the means whereby the poet tries to reproduce in the reader’s mind the vital flux of becoming which he (the poet) sees in life” (Growth 49). Something of this spirit is revealed by Richard Cureton when he says that “Perceptual immediacy for Cummings was not just an aesthetic principle: it was a central theme of his art” (“Iconic Syntax” 184)"
-E. E. Cummings’s Parentheses: Punctuation as Poetic Device - Roi Tartakovsky http://www.engl.niu.edu/ojs/index.php/style/article/viewFile/18/15
11/11/09 - "IDEARS.txt"
on the transfer of energy between oneself and ones surroundings. CHi, AUras, comes somnipressure, a new technology invested in sleep therapy purposes finds your best potential mate on best communal sleeping arrangements. ONE TRUE LOVE=PERFECTLY COMPLEMENTARY PILLOW???!! >>> dating service ("Refreshing the tried and true meaning of 'SLEEPING TOGETHER!'"
Criticisms/THeoryies: Is it an ultimate equilibrium or does it change and flow as people change and grow? It's like the new "forever" is really "forever for now"
"Sometimes I feel like 'I love you forever' now really means 'I love you forever, for now.'"
"No, it makes sense. I just need to think of a better way to say it"
Technology junkies.
Okay, I do this a lot. It's basically this thing I do in my head, where I run a concept by, around and around, exploring it from head to toe, like wikipedia in my head and then I come up with the search term. Like reverse google search.
Sort of like a reverse processing flow of information.
Owie, thinking all that hurts my robo heart
What if you compared evolution to data decompression like an unzipping of a file? OoOoOoo like technology and advances are unfolding. But you know how an old computer can't always handle the file it's working on and so it works harder to open it and sometimes it crashes? That's evolution. Life is God in the ultimate zip file. We are the computers and life is the file we are processing. Or something.
Lady Gaga makes me realize it's really all in how you market it.
Would you rather live without ever knowing sweet? or salty?
I love my dad!
HA HA okay. Breakie time.
11/20/09 - "ambiennight.txt"
GREAT night
apparently involved getting loopy around 11:30, as evidenced by IMs to [person]
then decided to pull the mattress on the floor, best decision ever, slept so goood
then had a great draem involving me being a vampire and my parents handing me a gun for protection except it was the end of the world i lost my mom, met a girl, her turning into a vampire was pretty convenient though, then she died from eating an infected heart (or so i thought) then i ended up wandering around in dc trying to not get killed and not eat an infected heart.
found a stoner couple who i figured i could separate but they were nice and as it turned out i stumbled onto a vampire meeting area, made friends with the girl who's day it was to get the first kill ("glass day")
;eanred about jessica girl who went to csuci (ucsf) who's mom died but stayed with dad who hated her so she could pay rent
went to raid the houses and find people to eat
woke up
haha
hotdamn!
"I did that thing I do in my brain when I try to figure out if I can act like I’m OK or not, which lately has been one of my strongest indicators of overall health — not health or happiness itself, but my ability to imitate those emotions or project those impressions or inspire those reactions. I am not certain that I am wrong to describe health that way."(via autowin)
"I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth." - Lady GagaA lot of people have been asking me what made me go for it, to actually cut my hair. I usually answer with how I felt it was time for a change or that I donated 10 inches to Locks of Love. And while those are legit responses, the new 'do has seriously been a long time coming. I've wanted to for so long but never did anything about it. And the truth of the matter is, I got the final boost I needed because Gaga made me brave.
"When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."Lady Gaga's been likened to a modern-day Trickster. Similarly, in the Manifesto of Little Monsters, she relegates herself to the role of the Jester. Yes and yes but as far as archetypes go, I can't help but think of how much Gaga is a modern-day Jesus.
"I just I felt like a freak. I guess what I'm trying to say is I want to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can create their own space in the world."As I understand it, historical Jesus must have commanded a great presence to have been able to inspire such intense affect in people that they would give up everything at his simple call to "Follow me [him]." That same mesmerizing, bigger-than-anything-we-know kind of presence was what elevated Jesus from man to movement and it is the same presence that I feel emanating from Gaga, stirring the hearts of all the Little Monsters, transfiguring art into revolution and it is that very same presence which I have found myself unwittingly yet profoundly affected by.
"...I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much."I don't have any special insights about her or what may or may not be her "true agenda," but I see that and I believe it. What is faith other than unwavering trust in the face of the unknown?
"It is in the theory of perception that we have established our bond, or the lie I should say, for which we kill. We are nothing without our image. Without our projection. Without the spiritual hologram of who we perceive ourselves to be or rather to become, in the future.
When you are lonely,
I will be lonely too.
And this is the fame."