Sunday night's set at Tonic -

2006-04-04 Thread Alan Sondheim

Set at Tonic

Azure recorded this; I wanted, at least for myself, a video record of my
guitar-work. The file (37 megs, highly compressed, apologies) is from
Sunday's set at Tonic. http://www.asondheim.org/Tonic.mp4 Enjoy -


the thing

2006-04-04 Thread Uh Ak

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The Thiruthani Psynami w/ Black Goat Detractor (incense in its wrinkles)

2006-04-04 Thread phanero

In the Shankara  meter
as so many wavelengths
of light of a certain frequency
orca orca orca
would stain

Ohm
entering a
burning bush

Rebok'd in
Husserlsome time

perhaps like a gallery
exposed to galactic
rumination

the orca orca orca
Edward R. Murrow
and Husserlsomehow
Mary Mollineaux's eyes
aglinting
for Jonathan Wild

no ice
in  Mother Clap's molly house
or much truth
to Pliny the Elder's
Killer whale police

some Africanized bee
never landing on the neck
of Spicer's blind camera of poetry

since the Blood of Satan
was filmed in the charmonium dread

the Crisco skull bowl
the ninja grotto pouch

of this golden golem
of harp-playing putti

whose stylus
is the granite VEL
of Lord Muruga

whose head
like a glittering Cincinnati
a Szászcsávás
of Bengali tiger worms
electing some primal (sch)muck
so that Tokhaapsalu
might remember in metaphor
the amber broth
of  Algoth Niska
in the brightly colored
jerkins worn by the proctologists
of  Aegna (O fevered Turnip trough!)

one of whom
might peer up out of this
cauldrone of gypsy tentacles
turn her apparat
to the rheos of the cosmogonic night

to the Dendera light

whose inaesthetic molecules
didn't form chemical bonds like
other drugs, but bound only
by very weak quantum forces known as
van der Waals London forces
would stage a loving memorial to
the good luck of  Wilhelm König,
the German director of
the National Museum of Iraq
who in 1940 after some illness
would publish a paper on the

Strange virtue of a Baghdad Battery

that we have not heard any recent
news of  Khujut Rabu'

but note the strange complexity
of the composition

minivan parked at the foot of kuan yin
whose customized license plate reads simply

Tyspwn

Transcendental Y Spawn

Emit us Paradoxica, We were Partthhians

Those with glowing teeth
as if to say

This God was just some stupid blissed out Raver
with a glowstick in its mouth

some tranced out computational universe
like a hit of ecstasy from Goa
on the tongue of a diving pteradactylune chimère
est une chimère est une chimère
as Sacred Emily
is to See Emily Play

so

2

is

The fate of the Radiolarians
intimately tied to Alphabets and Birthdays

whose Gabardine motherwatches in their genital organizations
would turn each week to their favorite soap opera,

What indeed did happen after Adolf  Reinach fell
outside Diksmuide in Flanders on 16 November 1917

 especially 4 the dream sequences of Charles Manson
in his all white Trans-Am delivering oranges to the Home
for Retired Eagle Scouts and singing his song Garbage Dump:

Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump

You could feed the world with my garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump

That sums it up in one big lump
like everything else

like the everything asp
coiling up out of the everything lotus

The Amphulectric Mathmamtitian buttering its nuts
with Bok globules and Fiction


hush now wrath while nude it coils

2006-04-04 Thread dv
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Re: o+

2006-04-04 Thread John M. Bennett


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2006-04-04 Thread John M. Bennett


 
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2006-04-04 Thread John M. Bennett


 
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83/365, Frank

2006-04-04 Thread Dan Waber
Frank was a salesman who worked for me. You could tell when he was
shooting from the hip with information by watching his posture. When
he'd slide into full recline, arms akimbo, hands behind head, he was
making it up.

40 words, 40 years
365 days, 365 people
http://www.logolalia.com/40x365


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Re: The Thiruthani Psynami w/ Black Goat Detractor (incense in its wrinkles)

2006-04-04 Thread phanero

Clarence Wolf Guts takes [yo]U[rl]lama by the hand~*

It's all German propaganda..

(g) -  Mannegishi Shakespeare

and by that I took him to meme
the little flower Frankenstein offrerered
our playful Emily in which hid some anxious
Dicopomorpha echmepterygis

which isn't so much a fly in the ointment
as a Burke in our little Revolution,

flowery tho it bee..

and tufted

with feathered crocodile knights who played red glass theorbos,
big purple bottoms, Yetipedes and Yetipedias of the Yetipaideia,
tranquilizer guns, yellow things,  Rana subaquavocalis etc..







- Original Message -
From: david divizio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 9:11 AM
Subject: Re: The Thiruthani Psynami w/ Black Goat Detractor (incense in its 
wrinkles)



fi dreamt o0f  yo ulast night...
you shoudda been theere.

--- phanero [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


In the Shankara  meter
as so many wavelengths
of light of a certain frequency
orca orca orca
would stain

Ohm
entering a
burning bush

Rebok'd in
Husserlsome time

perhaps like a gallery
exposed to galactic
rumination

the orca orca orca
Edward R. Murrow
and Husserlsomehow
Mary Mollineaux's eyes
aglinting
for Jonathan Wild

no ice
in  Mother Clap's molly house
or much truth
to Pliny the Elder's
Killer whale police

some Africanized bee
never landing on the neck
of Spicer's blind camera of poetry

since the Blood of Satan
was filmed in the charmonium dread

the Crisco skull bowl
the ninja grotto pouch

of this golden golem
of harp-playing putti

whose stylus
is the granite VEL
of Lord Muruga

whose head
like a glittering Cincinnati
a Szászcsávás
of Bengali tiger worms
electing some primal (sch)muck
so that Tokhaapsalu
might remember in metaphor
the amber broth
of  Algoth Niska
in the brightly colored
jerkins worn by the proctologists
of  Aegna (O fevered Turnip trough!)

one of whom
might peer up out of this
cauldrone of gypsy tentacles
turn her apparat
to the rheos of the cosmogonic night

to the Dendera light

whose inaesthetic molecules
didn't form chemical bonds like
other drugs, but bound only
by very weak quantum forces known as
van der Waals London forces
would stage a loving memorial to
the good luck of  Wilhelm König,
the German director of
the National Museum of Iraq
who in 1940 after some illness
would publish a paper on the

Strange virtue of a Baghdad Battery

that we have not heard any recent
news of  Khujut Rabu'

but note the strange complexity
of the composition

minivan parked at the foot of kuan yin
whose customized license plate reads simply

 Tyspwn

Transcendental Y Spawn

Emit us Paradoxica, We were Partthhians

Those with glowing teeth
as if to say

This God was just some stupid blissed out Raver
with a glowstick in its mouth

some tranced out computational universe
like a hit of ecstasy from Goa
on the tongue of a diving pteradactylune chimère
est une chimère est une chimère
as Sacred Emily
is to See Emily Play

so

2

is

The fate of the Radiolarians
intimately tied to Alphabets and Birthdays

whose Gabardine motherwatches in their genital
organizations
would turn each week to their favorite soap opera,

What indeed did happen after Adolf  Reinach fell
outside Diksmuide in Flanders on 16 November 1917

 especially 4 the dream sequences of Charles Manson
in his all white Trans-Am delivering oranges to the
Home
for Retired Eagle Scouts and singing his song
Garbage Dump:

 Oh garbage dump oh garbage dump
Why are you called a garbage dump

You could feed the world with my garbage dump
You could feed the world with my garbage dump

That sums it up in one big lump
like everything else

like the everything asp
coiling up out of the everything lotus

The Amphulectric Mathmamtitian buttering its nuts
with Bok globules and Fiction




d^Vizio

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Stops

2006-04-04 Thread John M. Bennett



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sleeping it
lawn
distance


John M. Bennett
Watching Ivan Arguelles' heraclitus


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Fw: Stops

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Dalachinsky




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A note from dv's biceps, who thinks it's a RODIN biceps

2006-04-04 Thread Dirk Vekemans




http://www.vilt.net/nkdee/sisforstanzas.jsp#rodin


greetings,dv @ Neue Kathedrale des erotisches 
Elends
http://www.vilt.net/nkdee


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Action deadline:   April 7, 2006

Dear Alan,

**Urge your senators to oppose cuts in endangered species funding.**

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Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked -

2006-04-04 Thread Alan Sondheim

Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked -


Interagir, Avec les technologies numeriques, Nouvelles de Danse, 2004.
This is a Belgian journal special issue devoted to dance and technology;
there are articles by Johannes Birringer, La Danse et la perception
interactives), Sandrine Chiri (Panorama des capteurs - which I've found
highly useful in thinking through activated dancers/environments),
Patricia Kuypers and Florence Corin (Entretien autour d'Isadora, avec Mark
Coniglio et Dawn Stoppiello), etc. There is an accompanying DVD with trial
software (including Isadora), and video/photography of some of the dance-
work. Isadora alone makes it worthwhile, although the whole issue is
excellent and important if one is working with the intersection of dance
and multimedia.

Handbook of Inaesthetics, Alain Badiou, Stanford, 2005. I've been reading
'into' Badiou, at first because of his intersection of mathematics, math-
esis, ontology, and philosophy, but this book is a good accompaniment to
the Interagir above; there are useful articles on dance, cinema, and
theater, among other things. At first I resisted his list of six
'principles of dance,' but then I found them useful, precisely through
this resistance, in working out my own position. There are articles on
art, poetry, Mallarme, etc., an excellent volume.

Mind Performance Hacks, Tips and Tools for Overclocking Your Brain, Ron
Hale-Evans, O'Reilly, 2006. This reads as an fascinating sequel to Mind
Hacks, with stress on practicality - mnemonics or mental arithmetic for
example. There are strange hacks such as 'Predict the Length of a Life-
Time' and 'Turn your Hands into an Abacus.' I don't feel I have the
stamina to carry out any of these on a regular basis, but then I don't
have the stamina for meditation either. On the other hand, the book makes
for fascinating reading, and the presentation of mind, as in Mind Hacks,
seems to be opening some new territory of thinking between cog. sci. and
phenomenology that is definitely worth following. I recommend both these
books highly (if you belong to Safari and/or have the money). Now I have
to 'Stop my Memory-Buffer Overrun' (hack 56) and move on.

Running Linux, Fifth Edition, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer and Matt Welsh, 5th
Edition, O'Reilly, 2006, now around 970 pages long. I remember the first
book from O'Reilly w/RedHat 2+ or some such years ago; it was maybe 70
pages in length (max). Now linux is full-blown, the articles in Linux
Journal are more technical, less hack, aimed to some extent at Windows
users and the enterprise. Linux is absolutely wonderful; I gather that
Fries, the large L.A. computer store, is now selling desktop computers
with Lindows for under $200. And linux is becoming increasingly multi-
media as well; it's an exciting time - think of linux as a kind of green
OS or software - it runs on just about anything, and runs well. Anyway,
Running Linux is the one essential book, I think; it covers just about
everything, from the usual chapters on programming and text processing,
to chapters on multimedia, office suites, productivity, etc. The nice
thing about the book is that it seems to work on every level - a beginner
can use it, as well as someone extremely familiar with linux. The book is
expensive - now up to $49.95 USD, but you probably won't need anything
else.

The Official Blender 2.3 Guide, Free 3D Creation Suite for Modeling,
Animation, and Rendering, Ton Roosendall, Stefano Selleri, et. al., No
Starch Press. The Blender guides have also grown in size - this is now 768
pages in size, and as expensive as Running Linux. Blender is amazing - an
incredibly small 3D modeling system that, again, runs on just about any-
thing, from Mac (OS X and higher) through Linux and Windows. This book
doesn't cover game creation, but everything else; there are very lengthy
sections on the interface (absolutely necessary), mesh modeling, Python
(Blender runs on Python and you can use programming directly if you want),
radiosity, character animation, and more. I use Blender a lot; spectacular
effects can be created in an hour or so, and you can use both still image
and video for texture-mapping - the latter lends itself to a total fluid
projective environment. If you want to use Blender, I'd suggest you down-
load it (it's free), and experiment; read whatever information is
available on the site and chats. You may well end up with the book, but at
least you'll have a good idea of the system at first.

Degunking your Home, Joli Ballew, Paraglyph, 2006. I asked to review this
book, and Azure and I have been reading it. I can't find anything, my
bureau drawers are a mess (I guess they're bureau drawers, in a second-
hand thingy that came with the place), I keep finding batteries everywhere
(which have to be repeatedly checked), etc. etc. This is a practical and
relatively cheap ($19.99) book to help you organize your home. It's good.
We're starting to put things in place. Most of the 

Re: Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked -

2006-04-04 Thread Allen Bramhall

Alan Sondheim wrote:

I read FoS recently. I thought Lethem's localism was authentic, if that
means anything. the story lagged into the normative, which disappointed
me. I guess I was prepped for something more surprising. Lethem's book
of essays shows someone close to obsessive about comix and Philip K Dick
and other things but FoS struck me as well done but ordinary. Lethem did
send me to read Dick, which I hadn't done, and that's been lots of fun.


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Dalachinsky
incest


Re: Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked -

2006-04-04 Thread Alan Sondheim

Have you read Motherless Brooklyn? I want to read more of him, just not
sure what/where to begin? - Alan


On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Allen Bramhall wrote:


Alan Sondheim wrote:

I read FoS recently. I thought Lethem's localism was authentic, if that
means anything. the story lagged into the normative, which disappointed
me. I guess I was prepped for something more surprising. Lethem's book
of essays shows someone close to obsessive about comix and Philip K Dick
and other things but FoS struck me as well done but ordinary. Lethem did
send me to read Dick, which I hadn't done, and that's been lots of fun.




For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt .
Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General
directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .


Re: Review of some recent books and a couple of things, mostly liked -

2006-04-04 Thread Allen Bramhall

Alan Sondheim wrote:


Have you read Motherless Brooklyn? I want to read more of him, just not
sure what/where to begin? - Alan


I read Occasional Music, or whatever the title of his futuristic noir
detective novel, which was good if not as fantastic as it might've been.
I guess I'd recommend it to you. I looked at MB but it seemed to cover
the exact territory as his reminiscent essays (which are pretty good!).
I didn't think there'd be any surprises. perhaps if I hadn't read his
source material 1st I would've appreciated the novels more.


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Ciccariello
test temp u usOn 4/3/06, Steve Dalachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
incest


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Sheila Murphy
  est ee LAUD 'erPeter Ciccariello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  test temp u us  On 4/3/06, Steve Dalachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:  incest

Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread mIEKAL aND
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 On 4/3/06, Steve Dalachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

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Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Ciccariello
testymonyOn 4/4/06, mIEKAL aND [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
testtostterttone test temp u us On 4/3/06, Steve Dalachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: incest
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image for a stage-prop

2006-04-04 Thread phanero

Festive and utterly empty image for use
as stage prop in an English remake of
Octave Mirbeau's Grand Guignol era
Morality Farce, _Scruples_
about a gentlemen thief who gets caught
stealing from a wealthy art connoisseur, but
who charms his victim with his elegant style
and philosophy. A comedy.

http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/3d/qqsm.jpg


I only have Mirbeau's Torture Garden, a NY edition from
1931 with decidedly racist deco/expressionist (sinister chinese caricatures)
end-papers and illust. by Jeanette Seelhoff trans. by Alvah C. Bessie,
but there's a short descriptive blurb about Scruples in Mel Gordon's
The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror which is
a decent infotainment book if not a scholarly work per se,
similiar to his book Voluptuous Panic on Weimar sexuality.
What Mel seems to be good at is putting together some
pretty interesting bits of material culture to give a flavor of
a milieu. The synopsis sections are just the right length and pretty fun
to read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Mirbeau

Some interesting and humorous quotes from Octave can be found translated
at wikipedia.


01:02:03 04/05/06

2006-04-04 Thread phanero

01:02:03 04/05/06


free ECF articles

2006-04-04 Thread phanero




The Journal of Eighteenth Century Fiction now has a list 
of selected free articles
if interested. I found the Defoe articles particularly 
interesting, especially after watching
Bunuel's Robinson Crusoe a few weekends ago in a new 
restored edition..
It was also one of my favorite books in high 
school.
There's also a nice article on William Beckford's Arabian 
Tale, whose Vathek
I recently had the pleasure of reading. I haven't yet seen 
the new Tristam Shandy 
film, but it sounds like a success. Should be out on dvd 
soon enough..

http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~ecf/Back%20Issues%20Online.html

Some of the articles I thought were 
interesting:

"On Sterne's Page: Spatial Layout, Spatial Form, andSocial Spaces 
in Tristram Shandy" by Christopher 
Fanning, in 10:4 (July 
1998) 

"Ending in Infinity: William Beckford's Arabian Tale" by John Garrett, in 5:1 (October 1992) 


"Picturing the Thing Itself, or Not: Defoe, Painting, Prose Fiction, 
and the Arts of Describing"by Maximillian E. Novak, in 9:1 (October 1996) 


"Real and Imaginary Stories: Robinson Crusoe and the Serious 
Reflections"by Jeffrey Hopes, in 8:3 (April 1996) 

"Sterne among the Philosophes: Body and Soul in A Sentimental Journey" by Martin C. Battestin, in 7:1 
(October 1994) 

"Is There a Turk in the Turkish Spy?" by Virginia H. Aksan, in 6:3 
(April 1994)"Crusoe in the Cave: Defoe and the Semiotics of Desire" by Geoffrey 
M. Sill, in 6:3 (April 
1994) 

"'Trash, Trumpery, and Idle Time': Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and 
Fiction"by Isobel Grundy, in 5:4 (July 1993)
"Warfare and Its Discontents in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: Or, Why 
Eighteenth-Century FictionFailed to Produce a War and Peace" by Maximillian E. Novak, in 4:3 (April 1992)"The Myth of Cronus: Cannibal and Sign in Robinson Crusoe" by Dianne Armstrong, in 4:3 (April 1992)
"Théorie du chaos et structure narrative" by Patrick Brady, in 4:1 (October 1991) 


"The Hobby-Horse's Epitaph: Tristram Shandy, Hamlet, and the Vehicles 
of Memory"by Robert L. Chibka, in 3:2 
(January 1991) 

"Sir Charles Grandison and the 'Language of Nature'" by George E. 
Haggerty, in 2:2 (January 1990) 


"Conversion, Seduction, and Medicine in Smollett's Ferdinand Count 
Fathom"by John McAllister, in 1:4 (July 1989) 



Re: image for a stage-prop

2006-04-04 Thread Alan Sondheim

I can see this with a Shakespeare comedy! Really lively! - Alan


On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, phanero wrote:


Festive and utterly empty image for use
as stage prop in an English remake of
Octave Mirbeau's Grand Guignol era
Morality Farce, _Scruples_
about a gentlemen thief who gets caught
stealing from a wealthy art connoisseur, but
who charms his victim with his elegant style
and philosophy. A comedy.

http://www.phaneronoemikon.org/images/3d/qqsm.jpg


I only have Mirbeau's Torture Garden, a NY edition from
1931 with decidedly racist deco/expressionist (sinister chinese caricatures)
end-papers and illust. by Jeanette Seelhoff trans. by Alvah C. Bessie,
but there's a short descriptive blurb about Scruples in Mel Gordon's
The Grand Guignol: Theatre of Fear and Terror which is
a decent infotainment book if not a scholarly work per se,
similiar to his book Voluptuous Panic on Weimar sexuality.
What Mel seems to be good at is putting together some
pretty interesting bits of material culture to give a flavor of
a milieu. The synopsis sections are just the right length and pretty fun
to read.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_Mirbeau

Some interesting and humorous quotes from Octave can be found translated
at wikipedia.




For URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt .
Contact: Alan Sondheim, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] General
directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org .


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Dalachinsky
pests?


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Steve Dalachinsky
yeasty money


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread Peter Ciccariello
Testy killOn 4/4/06, Steve Dalachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yeasty money


Re: test

2006-04-04 Thread david divizio
yer can sir

--- Peter Ciccariello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Testy kill

 On 4/4/06, Steve Dalachinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
 
  yeasty money
 



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