So yes, i don;t write for a long time, then i write a little bit in response to a months worth of stuff. is that ok? first: HELLO!!! WHAT'S WRONG WITH RUVI? Nothing really, except for talking a lode of cack about necrophelia and pretty girls vs. smart girls...Ruvi is pretty Rad. yes, his first post about square-dancing was NEARLY PROUSTIAN. only much shorter. significantly shorter. he brought up sylvia plath who at least had the guts to stick her head in the oven unlike that dreadful elizabeth smart woman who lived forever and ever and wrote terrible books. the best thing about sylvia plath so far is that talk of her compelled jillian locke to post! rah!

Pinefox asked: Is it true, by the way, that Pynchonians just don't like Salinger?

yes. PF also mentioned David Lodge. i don;t like david lodge. he's no Ruvi whatsisface is he? with his nudge nudge wink wink i've heard of structuralism before sort of nonsense. fuck that shit. it is not the nation of ulysses! it's not even Komeda B-Sides.

Peter Miller said: You can get Deep Purple wallpaper!

and i was amazed to discover that you can purchase a YES earthenware beer stein! http://shopping.artistdirect.com/artist_catalog.asp?catalog=YES&store=YesDir ect perfect for all those times you get together with other prog-rock/role playing games friends of yours and drink yourselves into stupours while loudly exclaiming 'i am the dungeon master!' or 'you shit head! you killed my orc commander! now taste my steel!' etc... then you wake up with beastly hangovers and have to crawl back to the computer engineering building in yr semen stained track suit dreaming of your next chance to listen to music about trolls and gobblins and shit with your other dandruff-y friends while playing roleplaying games and griping about how you never get any 'action'. Youn J. Noh mentioned me, so i'll quote the entire paragraph:

Who is the person who said something like the response to a work of art should be a work of art? What were his exact words? A former professor quoted him and emphasized the role of inspiration, but I think of it as a conversation. Where is Steven Kado when you need him? Maybe he could say something enlightening about Wittgenstein at this point. There's an endpoint to criticism that isn't always recognized: you can never get at the work itself. I think Jason McKinnon was saying something like this. And the correspondence between words and things in the world is imperfect. It would be useful to talk about something on its own terms, but what are these terms? And what are non-artists to do? Offer mixtapes and quote other people's poetry?

right: here's what i say. 1. i don't like the way people throw words like 'art' around. people could lose an eye or find themselves deligitemized by an entire cultural system! fuck that shit. 2. i side with Renzo Piano and say that intuition doesn't exist, its just the fact that people who know about things can make judgements about those things faster without having to recourse to 'external' systems of reasoning. 3. Wittgenstein would ask how you know when you're inspired and if you are how do you know that its called inspiration to tell someone else that you're inspired and such and so on...colour incompatibility...etc. 4. no you can t ever get at the work of art. i agree. what was the work of art anyway? 5. its important to be sure that when talking about the imperfect connection between words and 'reality' that we don't lapse into rude and lazy platonism...in these modern times this can only lead to baudrillard and thats sucky, since he's really just an old reactionary shit-head who wants to go back to a time when men were men and women were women and reality was reality...what a tired old fart. i'm out of juice on this one. i need more kimchi to get any real thinking done, but its still early afternoon as i write so i can't possibly eat kimchi just yet. i don't think i even addressed the question at all. clearly. i'm going to see some joseph cornell films tonite! rah! yes, its a wonderful world within these cinema walls. The Dave Matthews Band is bad like Israeli Trance. boo! did anyone else find that the new baxendale joint is like a kind of anthem for a new tomorrow? a mission statement even...a kind of flashlight of hope? no? sorry. someone didn't like physicists. i take great umbrage at this statement since a) one of my best friends is in physics b) my girlfriend is also in physics. and they are nice people and not at all creepy or stupid or lax or anything, to be frank they're probably acres cooler than you, so there! of course me and the rest of the young barthesians in the wanky semiotics dept. find anything remotely sciency to be mind-bendingly exotic so maybe i look at physics with rose coloured glasses or something. Greg Pallis is pretty fucking rad too, despite having made an ass of me to his teacher by printing out one of my hamfisted drunken rants...oh well. the remarkably named dairy fairy said:

I am going to see arab strap this friday. Which should be very good. Although not necessarily a gig to cheer myself up with. >Aidan Moffat never seems very happy, despite the fact that the content of his songs would suggest he's having an awful lot of >sex. which is always nice.

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