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LINER NOTES: PERE UBU, “30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO”

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Great reggae’d punk shiv of a riff, stab and scratch. Discord arpeggio strings nailed dirty uncoiling into super-compressed worm of a counterpoint-riff. Like that. Bass lags a beat. The low-grade grating of an ambient theramin hum building up underneath, onomatotechnopoetic big-string-rib-pick-drags thru vacuum tubes & charcoal gray paperboard cones (twin Wright R‑2600 radials on a B‑25 Mitchell). It’s a claustrophobic space, collapsing […]

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Query No. 2: LETHAL WEAPON

Saturday, January 19, 2013

In our movie we play these people who are in this movie about how they don’t know they’re actually in this other movie 

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Conspiracy Query No. 1

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Conspire… to breathe with? What’s the etymology? “It’s in the air,” phrase functions both as idiom and figure for info spread, of meaning, of memes (mememememe a chain of me-peeps linked, subverted we people w/ myth flipped, domination in the mix, an oscillating morpheme dependent on a Saussurean whir of m w m w m w m wmwmw feeding into (and […]

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Watching the watchers watch you watching…

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

It’s not often that I’m able to write something for my current corporate day job that I really like. But along with the travel guide copy and any and all other conceivable copy writing and editing needs an enormous Chinese travel company with a rapidly growing English-language website might require, my colleagues and I are blogging a bit on […]

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“Is China Scared…?” Alex Pasternak on the disappearing of Ai Wei Wei

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

He puts it pretty well, the feeling that I’ve been trying for some time to describe: “After living in China for awhile — I was there from 2006 to 2009 — you get used to so many shocks that they’re no longer surprising. The combination of breakneck development, deeply rooted cultural ties and the giant panopticon of an unpredictable […]

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Shanghai report No. 2 for Lungfull! Magazine

Monday, February 28, 2011

Missed the fireworks in Shanghai as the Year of the Rabbit hit. Instead, Malacca, staying first in a hostel just down the street from a 18th century Kampung Kling mosque and a riot of Chinese temples full of incense and oranges. Malaysian tourists everywhere for the New Year holiday. Checked the situation in Egypt daily on my Kindle. […]

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