Jul 21

Thou shalt not steal if there is a direct victim;
Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets;

Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Dekker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barrat in vain;
Thou shalt not think that any male over 30 that plays with a child that is not their own is a pedophile, some people are just nice;

Thou shalt not read NME;
Thou shalt not stop liking a band just because they have become popular;
Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry;
Thou shalt not judge a book by its cover;
Thou shalt not judge Lethal Weapon by Danny Glover;
Thou shalt not buy Coca Cola products;
Thou shalt not buy Nestle products;

Thou shalt not go into the woods with your boyfriend’s best friend, take drugs and cheat on him;
Thou shalt not fall in love so easily;

Thou shalt not use poetry, art or music to get into girls pants……use it to get into their heads;

Thou shalt not watch Hollyoaks;
Thou shalt not attend an open mic and then leave as soon as you have done your shitty little poem or song you self righteous prick

Thou shalt not return to the same club or bar week in & week out just because you once saw a girl there that you fancied that your never going to talk to anyway;
Thou shalt not put musicians and recording artists on ridiculous pedestals no matter how great they are or were;

The Beatles. Were just a band.
Led Zeppelin. Jjust a band.
The Beach Boys. Just a band
Sex Pistols. Just a band.
The Clash. Just a band.
Crass. Just a band
Minor Threat. Just a band.
The Cure. Just a band.
The Smiths. Just a band.
Nirvana. Just a band.
The Pixies. Just a band
Oasis. Just a band
Radiohead. Just a band.
Bloc Party. Just a band.
Arctic Monkeys. Just a band.
The next big thing. Just a band.

Thou shalt give equal worth to tragedies that occur in non-English speaking countries as to those that occur in English speaking countries;
Thou shalt remember that guns, bitches and bling where never part of the four elements and never will be;

Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music;
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music;
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music;
Thou shalt not make repetitive generic music;

Thou shalt not pimp my ride;
Thou shalt not scream if you wanna go faster;
Thou shalt not move to the sound of the wickedness;
Thou shalt not make some noise for Detroit;
When I say “hey” thou shalt not say “ho”;
When I say “hip” thou shalt not say “hop”;
When I say, he say, she say, we say “make some noise”…..kill me;
Thou shalt not quote me happy;
Thou shalt not shake it like a Polaroid picture;
Thou shalt not wish your girlfriend was a freak like me;
Thou shalt spell the word phoenix : P-H-E-O-N-I-X not P-H-O-E-N-I-X regardless of what the oxford English dictionary tells you;
Thou shalt not express your shock at the fact that Sharon got off with Brad at the club last night by saying “is it?”;

Thou shalt think for yourselves;
And thou shalt always kill.

Jul 21

I can shoot photos and drink beer at the same time. Kinda like Shiva, but without the extra arms.

- RDM Flickr, Siren Festival

Jul 20

What is Laird feeling in this moment? Incredible.

Jul 18

Been scribbling lots of notes in my Moleskine
don’t have the time to go back and read them.

Like chunky water
15+ new poems purged
that and $2 gets me a ride on the subway
speaking of, need to buy a new Metro card
find a new home
the right coast.

Brick and mortar/brick and clicks
Brian the EV record store cat
got me to buy
that Chap album with half a song
blaring through the humid air
he had me at “squirrelly.”

I am impulsive.

How to Draw a Bunny is
great but sad.
Ray Johnson lived in my neighborhood
in an apt on a street I perused today
Killed himself but was incredible and prolific
in his approach to art.
Always creating infinite loops
and juxtaposition
made his communication with others very challenging.

I like this song.

With cameras, size does matter
I like the way this one feels
heavy with curves
confidence of the flash
the (wo)manual lens
strap she is on
loan for a two day tryst
I must master her mysterious ways.
Fuck the point and click.
Outgrown.

Duende
the tide turns Paris into Madrid
act fast
it’s not full of shit. yet.

Tan covers the
black and blue
under my eyes.

Save your/myself
and the rest of it for the book.

Writing makes me feel right
in a way I could never explain.
Nor do I have to.

Learn/document. Keep going.

Jul 14

Ce film est si beau et futé et bon et triste et drôle et a le coeur. Mot additionnel n’a pas eu besoin. Je l’ai adoré et pas simplement parce que j’aime la France, mais parce que je choisis l’amour et la vie. Netflix. ASAP.*

*Le film a des sous-titres en anglais - Obvs.

Jul 14

Radiohead, “House Of Cards”

Radiohead and director James Frost have used Geometric Informatics and Velodyne Lidar technologies. The former is a method of 3D motion capture, using structured light to detail images at close proximity. And so we get contoured 3D versions of Thom Yorke’s face, like the computer simulation of a mountain range.

Jul 8

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Jul 7

something weird happened last night
again
crackling and blinking light
failing across ludlow
sparks
random astrological sign mash-ups
it’s strange when you don’t know
who you are talking to
still you discuss art
and metaphysical connections v. perception
because that is what you do
sarcasm, it’s funny!
cynical, boring and guarded

play the role of the offended female
you could care less

i say finite
he says forever
blinders i gravitate to
fickle/submersion

it’s all the same in the end

is it a pattern
or a phase?
this weather
is making me melancholy
if the sky doesn’t change
above us all soon

we may just end up like this forever

Jul 7

Ryan Adams - So Alive

Ryan Adams was buying vintage boots while I sat upstairs in the window on a paint-streaked blue chair.*

*literal; not a metaphor

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