Saturday, February 20, 2010

What an amazing morning



Up at 5:00 to toss my junk in a bag to catch the 6 o'clock bus to NYC and Nikki. FIrst mate'
then one of those incredible songs I would have never heard of except that I turned NPR on at 5:30 on a Saturday when they think no one is alive and listening.

1909 Rebecca Clarke, Lullabye for viola

Then as I'm tromping through Hanover I hear this murder of crowing crows in the tree tops on both sides of the street, and suddenly understand why there's always birdshit all over the sidewalks when there aren't any pigeons this far north. So i cawed back at them for fun, and they all dispersed, from tree A to B and B to A, and luckily I didn't receive any warms wet replies to my face while I watched those crows with my neck craned. It looked just like this, and this, pasted together. 2 from right before Vince died in 1890. all 3 with that filthy azure of the thawing sky at dawn.

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

RIP JDS PBUH

"If you're going to go to war against the system, just do your shooting like a nice, intelligent girl- because the enemy's there and not because you don't like his hairdo or his goddam necktie."

"And I know, sir, that next to scripts that are Tender and Poignant, you love scripts that have Courage and Integrity. This one, sir, as I say, stinks of both. It's full of melting-pot types. It's sentimental. It's violent in the right places. And just when the sensitive subway guard's problems are getting the best of him, destroying his faith in Mankind and the Little People, his nine-year-old niece comes home from school and gives him some nice, pat chauvinistic philosophy handed down to us through posterity and P.S. 564 all the way down from Andrew Jackson's backwoods wife. It can't miss, sir! It's down-to-earth, it's simple, it's untrue, and it's familiar enough and trivial enough to be understood and loved by our greedy, nervous, illiterate sponsors."