There is no There.

Because you have a responsibility to be reachable in case of emergency.
Because this responsibility is supporting your lifestyle.
Because your soul hangs loose in your skin.
Because there really is no long-term solution.

*
It was in front of kids, etc.
It wasn't like debbie gibson singing I think we're alone now

but you drink from passion's cup
so it played well against yr scorpio instinct
to externalize repression

*
Pneumafevr (3:37:22 PM): (I never thought the point was to get anywhere as much as it was to put comforting hands on the anxious arms of my day allocated to being here daydreaming)
smadeleineb (3:38:41 PM): that's a long sentence
Pneumafevr (3:39:03 PM): well, it's a tale of two cities
Pneumafevr (3:39:06 PM): invisible cities
Pneumafevr (3:39:22 PM): two loves I have of comfort and despair
smadeleineb (3:39:56 PM): that sentence is unclear
smadeleineb (3:40:01 PM): PULL YOURSELF TOGETHER< despair =" 2">

Vermont Weekend, pt. 2

Some images from Jenna Levine's film, Black Box, as taken from the wall.

Vermont Weekend.

We had a magnificent weekend in Vermont with our friends and loved ones. Saturday evening the group attended an art show by Jenna Levine. It knocked our fucking socks off: completely uncanny. It was SO GOOD. We'll post some screen grabs from her work and other photographs soon.

Later that night, we played a set in the famed Gamut Room. We also walked around in the snow and saw the sun come up. A great adventure. More soon.

Alphabet Forest.

The Scottish Gaelic Alphabet is named for different trees native to that locality.

ailm (elm)
beith (birch)
coll (hazel)
dair (oak)
feàrn (alder)
gort (ivy)
uath (hawthorn)
iogh (yew)
luis (rowan)
muin (vine)
nuin (ash)
onn/oir (furze/gorse)
ngetal ("reed")
ruis (elder)
suil (willow)
teine (holly)
ura (heather)

More than simply beautiful, this is sensible and provides an ontology for language that's rooted, quite literally, in the ground beneath your feet.

Vermont

Upon thinking about our trip to Vermont this weekend for a show at our alma mater, I remembered one of the many great charms of the state. It's a simple yet startling example of what environmental stewardship looks like. There are no billboards anywhere in Vermont.

No billboards?!

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the legislation which outlawed roadside billboards across Vermont. Although it's hard to imagine today, many people at the time were strongly opposed to this ban, particularly the farmers who leased their land to advertisers and the businesses who utilized and/or profited from advertising. Fortunately, one man tenaciously spearheaded the effort to rid the state of billboards, one Ted Riehle. Mr. Riehle passed away a few weeks ago on New Year's Eve at the age of 83. I hope his legacy remains forever untarnished.

http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/78949/

Artist Discovered.

My friend Tyler just alerted me to this artist, Xavier Cha. I love her work, and I wanted to share it with you.

www.holidaycruise2006.com

Typical.

Paraffin.

This is from when we cleaned out our ears.


It took over 40 minutes, so we listened to Sigur Ros.
A good opportunity for the buddy system.

The Heart of the Matter.

True confusion: when a person dies he seems for a moment more alive than ever before. Life flares up around him. The entire chronology of his life becomes encased in crystal.

The last thing he might have been doing, he might as well do this for eternity. Every instance of his life suddenly resembles a kind of "final moment." Each memory breaks apart from the interweb of the others, calcifies and is ascribed with a sense of weight and worth. Those moments, which once were free for us to manipulate, have become finished moments.

In death he lives his life over and again in a tandem sequence of moments, time out of mind.

Dinner With Friends.

Genealogy of Morals.

Everything That Rises Must Converge.

Greetings,

We take our initial post title from the eponymous Flannery O'Connor short story, which Andrew made me aware of in 2003 in the backyard of our former house in Middlebury, Vermont.

"Everything That Rises Must Converge."

Let's let that be our working hypothesis.

Thus begins the new blog for the musical outfit, Friends Academy.