romp

i hath sunburn. its given me a fever, didn't know that was possible, but apparently it is. it may be that awful. im reading about some folk remedies and things other than aloe to use. ive come across milk, cow manure, witch hazel and black tea. can you guess what im not going to try?

rantadelphia

i get bothered by the free market folks regularly, daily, hourly.

no need for the federal government to intervene, the market always finds a way. --yes, a way, but the right one?

no need for national forests, when lumber prices rise high enough, we'll use something else. --yeah thats plastics, and look at them. they give us cancer and are reliant on chemicals. and chemicals are reliant on things, which are reliant on other things. etc etc. trees are reliant on us being good to them. (oversimplification, yes, but a necessary one)

its through economic progress that we advance as a society.

--what does that mean? anything?

--drilling for oil didnt invent penicillin. we can still do STUFF without STUFF.

in defense of gardenias

I wish i had the gift of titling my stuff like wendell berry. im not even asking to be like dylan thomas or whitman or anyone like that. actually the more i think about it, dylan thomas didnt always have such great titles. and wendell, while he has 'the peace of wild things,' which i would say is certainly an excellent title, he also has 'renewing husbandry.' which subtly is a great title, but that is perhaps only revealed upon reading the work in its entirety. so then, what am i going for, with a title? The short of it is that I don't really know. like all things, titles contain multitudes, they are not separate from the work, but at the same time they are not an introduction, a summary, or an abstraction of themes and motifs. I don't think I know what title's are then, at least I don't have some cut and dry definition, a rule of thumb or what not. Its kind of the irony that Twain fit into some of his essays. I'm reminded of his list of protocols on what an eligible bachelor should do in the event he comes across a house on fire. In a nutshell, save the damsel first and the mother in law last. (notably, furniture comes ahead of the mother in law). Realistically though, we know Twain is in fact parodying that anyone would put themselves in a position to create such a hierarchy, less one so self-evident. but thats a tangent, kind of. What i'm saying is, who should place expectations on constructions like titles?never judge a book by its cover yes, but by extension, never judge a book by its title either. i think thats what im getting at.

extend it to record title's

sgt peppers lonely hearts club band- named for the subject, a fictional band

ok, computer-theme is angst of decentralization due to technology.

dookie-its green so i dont even rate it, but im at a loss here.

horses-a most significant punk record, never have i ever conjured up images of horses while listening to it. horses run free (in theory, though the horse we know today is a product of tens of thousnads of years of domestication) so maybe like its about a youthful need to run free? im in no position to say.

blah blah blah. i started this intending to write about how im sitting on the porch smelling the gardenia's in our backyard. and that they smell good, they do. and that was going to be it. nice and simple. gardenias smell nice. oh well.

just so its here-http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/article/160/

renewing husbandry.

thursday. new music video day.

Great video. this is the way they should be, sometimes.

Hello, mes amis.

what i think about

when i hear this

is this

Joe's came first.

Ive been playing all my dad's old jazz vinyls this week. so much fun.

earles

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2010/06/justin-townes-earle-talks-relocation-new-record.html

article on justin. first saw him when he was a drugged out 18 year old in knoxville on a whim with my aunt, uncle and mom. it was pretty spectacular. the guy is as good a storyteller as his dad, maybe better.

I dont want to get too far ahead of myself and overuse arcade fire but, at this juncture i really can't resist. vincent moon's one take on 'wake up' is just perfect.

I'm getting that giddy feeling down in my chest already.

scream

there are two screams that are memorable to me, that i can think of offhand. certainly, there are more. but maybe its just that two are worth discussing.

I had 4 reasons for going to norway last year. the first-to go to Flam, in the fjords. chances of going there were erased with a massive snow storm, leaving me stuck in oslo. Second, to see what a true liberal society looks like. third, to see hyerdahl's 'kon tiki' and amundsden's 'fram'. and fourth, to see one of munch's 'screams'.

Munch has long been a favorite of mine. I got to see a large travelling exhibit at the national gallery about 6 years ago in DC. It was good, it had some of his studies for the final 'scream' (there are 2 'final' screams.). it wasnt really enough though. i wanted to see it in the real. so i went to oslo.

the national gallery of norway is a very good place. its smallish. its free. and its comprehensive. it reflects the character of the nation. it has much indigenous art, which echoes the rough life of those who live within the arctic circle. it has art which is transcendental, heavily influenced the hudson river folks. its just all interesting. you wander, and eventually, you make a left turn, and directly in front of you is a painting, perhaps 30 yards away. a long way in front of you, for a gallery. its 'scream.' and you dont know how to react. youre drawn closer, pulled by some lacanian force perhaps. but you dont really want to be. you want to turn away, but you cant. the face is imprinted in your mind. you look away, but you still see him looking back. screaming.

I went closer, and i sat in front of him. for how long, i dont really know. hours? i wouldnt be in any position to say otherwise. what is 'scream'? Munch said it was a reflection of a hard time in his life, a time when he was maddened, and saw his personal angst reflected in the world around him. its striking. for me, no painting exists that can draw you in and push you away at the same time. i dont know if it evokes so much the ebb and flow of a tide as a cyclone. its a noisy painting. but its so loud that you often dont hear the noise. its that deafening, like krystof penderecki's sostenutos. screams can be like that. you dont always have to hear them.

Another scream. hichcocks. admittedly, ive only seen this once, and it came over a decade ago.to be fair, i only remember 3 scenes. the shower, the first time she met norman, and when hes down there cavorting with his dead mom. alex and i watched it on turner classic movies, then went outside and slept in a tent in my backyard. We didnt last long out there. every noise was noticeable. it was simply too much. screams can be like that too.

\\\\\after all that. gotta change the mood. scaring myself just by writing all that.

when daddy comes home you can always start a fight

so the neighbors can dance in the disco lights.

the arcade fire said that.

theyre coming august 11.

im jubilant.

theres little better than those canadians by way of elite new england private schools by way of texas.

sometimes origins are fishy.

thats ok.

not really though.

http://wonkette.com/415733/will-james-cameron-save-the-gulf-of-mexico

when in doubt.

this could be me