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Generational breakdowns: Deep time fissures & abyssal geological vortices vs. Greatest Generation nostalgia vs. MAGA

Wednesday, June 12, 2019

It’s really something, isn’t it, to reckon with generational narratives, such as that of the Greatest Generation and the US role in WWII, in light of MAGA on one hand and, on the other, the end-Holocene transition into the [ ]? My father recently shared via group email a truly touching Memorial Day Salon column by US military family […]

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Argument from Silence

Friday, July 19, 2013

      We have nothing in that fanciful or speculative relation The gap between our ears — the air that vibrates with these words Vocal cords to ear drums, the nerve bundles, signal-to-noise, our Ratio, the incentive to know one another’s minds Drop predictable experience here, abandon all hope Of anything but change O — O — the poetic O of apostrophe Thinking […]

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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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