Friday, February 18, 2005
geometry rock
listening to a bootleg tom ze and tortoise recording makes me wish moments could be downloaded--gestures, thoughts, the soft twitching of eyelids, etc.
I noticed that Javier Marias still writes with a beat-up typewriter and makes all corrections by hand. then, I thought about (and this is the last time I'll bring it up, really) how weird it was for someone to reject my work because it was too bulbous and wasn't stream-of-conscious enough, when a hundred years ago (roughly...) everyone from THE MODERNISTS were cranking this stuff out and getting heat for it. how much has happened in the last century that we dont think something should have changed in writing? (what was Brion Gysin's quip to William Burroughs in the 60's: writing is 50 years behind painting. I guess its now 100 years behind animation, graphic art, web art and the wealth of electronic music that writers act like doesn't exist).
beepbeep.
autumn breaths&satellites in the sky.
