Some of the texts, sounds, and sights currently swerving and breaking my thinking.

Reading

The Jukebox and Other Essays on Storytelling by Peter Handke — Tiredness from frisson. Music for idlers. A night-long motionless image.

City Dog: Essays by W. S. Di Piero — Fathead. Pocketbook. Bonnard. Thunderbolt.

The Sovereignty of Good by Iris Murdoch — M and D.

Listening

May a soft sun bless your sky while you wait for the inevitable by Charbel Haber — Time as chewing gum.

Sol.Hz by Seefeel — Chewing gum as time.

Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band — Out of out of time.

Seeing

“Iain Sinclair: The Last London” from the LRB — Vanishing in plain sight.

“Hashem Shakeri’s Portrait of a Climate Hotspot in Iran” on Aperture — Gados swim away.

Legends created by Neil Forsyth — “He smokes, I don’t.”

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PAST Currents

Reading

Juno Loves Legs by Karl Geary — Bravado as pain and love and desire.

The Moon Is a Pill by Aušra Kaziliūnaitė — Trolleybus sparks as fighting dog.

“Seam and Pattern: Thinking Forms” by Dirk Lauwaert — Impure making as healing, loving.

Listening

Demilitarize by Nazar — Shed your armor.

“Boots on the Ground” by Massive Attack x Tom Waits — Spit on your shoes.

The Collective by Kim Gordon — Blow out your dub.

Seeing

“Post-digital psychogeography,” a lecture by Herbert Wright — “Setting out a subjective, emotional dimension to our interaction with the urban environment—I think that sounds pretty good, it’s also analog.”

“1982 News Special: The South Bronx | Wasteland” on the Way Back Archives — “They stole the pipes out.”

The Apartment dir. by Billy Wilder — “Four apples, five apples…percentage wise.”