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wallow in silence

Posted on January 12, 2021 by istsfor manity

Overheard at the John Cage Symposium Every time there is a large gap on radio or television,John Cage is paid a royalty of $4.33.This is why people sit and listen to rain.I’ll make a presumptive statement…I want to hug this … Continue reading →

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seething altered state

Posted on January 8, 2021 by istsfor manity

film drama is the opium of the masses dziga vertov’s camera eyedetaches its retina – click, whir – a reddish yellow massof seething altered state kino-kism: glowingwhite-hot to-blue eye, the whirring swallows the grayincandescent sky “What we remember from childhood … Continue reading →

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eating the universe (redux)

Posted on January 7, 2021 by istsfor manity

Exiles In the Land of Kakistocracy I.  A Conversation in the Time of Galamatias: Our salad days are filled with bitter herbs and intractable roots —Not so much a salad, but a melangeOf weeds and thistles —Indelicate things in our … Continue reading →

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