October 2010
44 posts
Watch“My Impatience”
I’m sad we missed him last week.
Owen Pallett →
Tonight at the Echoplex with Little Scream
Breathe Owl Breathe →
TED Prize Goes to J R, Who Gives Slums a Human... →
Cape Coast Castle by Yusef Komunyakaa
I made love to you, & it loomed there. We sat on the small veranda of the cottage, & listened hours to the sea talk. I didn’t have to look up to see if it was still there. For days, it followed us along polluted beaches where the boys herded cows & the girls danced for the boys, to the moneychanger, & then to the marketplace. It went away when the ghost of my mother ...
maya hayuk →
it’s all you need
WatchOMG
The Creativity Crisis →
Is Consumerism Killing Our Creativity? →
Ahhh, I’m obsessed with this article.
Museum Soundtrack →
The Combo by Joan Larkin
In barlight alchemized: gold pate, the bellmouth tenor, liquor trapped in a glass. The e-flat clarinet chases time, strings shudder, remembering the hundred tongues. Here comes old snakeshine, scrolls stored in the well, here comes the sobbing chazzan. O my lucky uncle, you’ve escaped the Czar’s army. Thunder is sweet. Here comes the boink, boink bossa nova slant of light....
Testy Pony by Zachary Schomburg
I am given a pony for my birthday, but it is the wrong kind of pony. It is the kind of pony that won’t listen. It is testy. When I ask it to go left, it goes right. When I ask it to run, it sleeps on its side in the tall grass. So when I ask it to jump us over the river into the field I have never before been, I have every reason to believe it will fail, that we will be swept down the river to our...
