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Dec 08 2008
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“ The short story should be a sacred form, since it’s the most common way we tell our lives. That’s why, in my opinion, the most effective kind of story is short indeed, very short & pointed. Short enough & pointed enough to make your teeth curl.
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The short story is a breath of life. Both dimension and basic function. Like the lungs expanding, retracting. The circle of transbluesent spirit in and out, connected like a wheel, a circle, how we go, our role.
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The rhythm is the dialectic that creates description. Everything is a story. Rhythm is the most basic, the shortest of all stories, the Be & At.
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The short story is a breath of life. Both dimension and basic function. Like the lungs expanding, retracting. The circle of transbluesent spirit in and out, connected like a wheel, a circle, how we go, our role.
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The rhythm is the dialectic that creates description. Everything is a story. Rhythm is the most basic, the shortest of all stories, the Be & At.
— “Northern Iowa”, Amiri Baraka in Tales of the Out & the Gone
Dec 03 2008
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APOCALYPSE THEMES
- Science gone wrong
- Ordinary man as hero
- End of urban living
- Need for old-fashioned skills
- Competing political visions
Dec 02 2008
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Jun 26 2008
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“
I’ve said before that every craftsman
searches for what’s not there
to practice his craft.
A builder looks for the rotten hole
where the roof caved in. A water-carrier
picks the empty pot. A carpenter
stops at the house with no door.
Workers rush toward some hint
of emptiness, which they then
start to fill. Their hope, though,
is for emptiness, so don’t think
you must avoid it. It contains
what you need!
Dear soul, if you were not friends
with the vast nothing inside,
why would you always be casting your net
into it, and waiting so patiently?
This invisible ocean has given you such abundance,
but still you call it “death”,
that which provides you sustenance and work.
— I’ve said before that every craftsman, Jalaludin Rumi
Jun 06 2008
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Write On! Musings on Music Journalism
“With alarming frequency, music marketers and their PR minions spew forth contrived monikers to classify the products they are trying to push. Haphazardly coined genre names are universally nonsensical —neo-grunge and emo are but two examples. Tacit approval of industry wango-slango enables the cycle to continue unchallenged and shows the accepting writer to be gutless and wholly devoid of imagination. If Bob Pollard can write 17,863 songs without grammatical (or thematic) repetition, music journalists can avoid using a single word of inane corporate-speak in their reviews and essays.”
