Showing posts with label nocturne communique/nocturnal e-mission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nocturne communique/nocturnal e-mission. Show all posts

19 April 2010

NOCTURNES
the romantic is born of extremes

it didn't fit, so i rearranged it

a gothic trajectory of pubic hair
dressed in drugs
wet drama

a sensual shyness
an afflicted dreamer

IN DREAMS (MARCH)
you tweet about catching a bear and/or a bass and tell yrself not to eat it

betty white's technicolor coat made of cereal. i am hang gliding from a plane for a bouncy landing

something apocalyptic is coming and keeps changing forms. we're running up a hill into a prison of a building to escape it but they find us. we realize we must trick them into thinking we're one of them. i don't know where my family is. i smell a minty soap and make a bad sound imitation and they buy it. i see you as i am leaving the building. i cannot break character

flowers for mom. e-mails from mom

he got drunk. he got sick. you got a linear buffet

you're posing like the cover of nevermind

we're dog sitting, you go somewhere (the bathroom?), yr boyfriend goes elsewhere (the dogs?) i go into mom's closet for the sequins

LOOKIN AT
april in sweden - twigs, jigs, and pagan rites
brain splits to multi-task
calls to reduce light pollution backed by cpre survey
cameras capture secret life of the highland tiger
caterpillar communication evolved from walking
census offers glimpse of oceans' smallest lifeforms
cobra hood mechanism revealed by electrode study
courtroom chaos as rabbit torture trial opens
diets may determine dementia risk
do toddlers need cake as well as carrots?
duann scott
eco-labels showing us how it's done
gothenburg sweet shop selling cannabis
hallucinogens have doctors tuning in again
how to brush up yr debating skills
iamamiwhoami - o
kung fu empowers nepal nuns
low solar activity link to cold uk winters
mirror man
nacho carbonell
new species of nose-dwelling leech discovered
note design studio
petropolis
shoes - people movin
speed of light
studio job + pieke bergmans - wonderlamp
uk water use worsening global crisis
were the mad heroines of literature really sane?

LISTENIN TO
baby alpaca
blur - fools day
cold mailman
keepaway
lazercrystal
mary onettes - the night before the funeral
supercute!
telekinesis
thurston moore - (there's) always something there to remind me
yoko ono - give me something (junior boys remix)

11 April 2010

NOCTURNES
here's how i imagine it:

and here's the reality of it (some things never change):

WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS, HUG YR TEDDY!

different concepts of appreciation. looking one way before you cross the street and the looking ignores traffic

spidery cherubs saving their summer candy

search and destroy vs. stretch out and wait
i'm not sayin vs. got all this waitin

LOOKIN AT
a&v
agile roadrunner dinosaur fossil discovered in china
bernat cuní
blue diamond on sale in hong kong
blueprint of the songbird genome
bo reudler studio
chocolate can cut blood pressure and help heart
chris o'shea
complicated universal cum - i can hardly wait
emotion lab - moonwatch
first oxygen-free animals found
folk medicine poses global threat to primate species
garden birds at risk from feeders
greenpeace issues warning about data centre power
hunting mosquitoes from space
hyena laughs and giggles decoded
israeli mp launches snack attack on pricey popcorn
james nizam
li hui
matthew picton
probe sees pac-man in the moon
sleater-kinney's corin tucker announces solo album
stockholm's green city award: it's what you can't see that counts
sushi may transfer genes to gut
turtles killed in millions by fishing gear
us teenagers in iowa find body on egg hunt
vivian girls & male bonding - perfect day
venus still volcanically active
why machines do not understand human speech
world needs a barometer of life

LISTENIN TO
blank dogs
gayngs
girls on jetskis
how to dress well
leisure
love is all - bigger bolder
ponys
sandwitches
seinking ships
soft healer
teen inc.

21 March 2010

trash is for anyone who wants it, who picks it up. it's a specific question with an unclear purpose; it's maybe a flirtatious thing to ask?
—harold brodkey



stoned in space. zeus. christ. it has always been rock and so it is and so it shall be. within the context of neo rock we must open up our eyes and seize and rend the veil of smoke which man calls order. pollution is a necessary result of the inability of man to reform and transform waste.
the transformation of waste

the transformation of waste

the transformation of waste

the transformation of waste is perhaps the oldest pre-occupation of man. man being the chosen alloy, he must be reconnected—via shit, at all cost. inherent with(in) us is the dream of the task of the alchemist to create from the clay of man. and to re-create from excretion of man pure and then soft and then solid gold.

—patti smith



the power of objects. power between objects. and power between objects and people. the magick of strong emergence. transubstantiation. what genet did with words. this excites me, so i pick it up and put it next to this other thing that excites me, and then i tell you a story and the story excites you excites me excites the object.

i like objects, but i don't have/keep a lot, so it's nice to be able to encounter objects in yr friend's bedroom or to go to a gallery and see some nice objects.

i first saw ethan's show when it was at envoy this past september. then i went and got some ice cream. if you're in new jersey now, i might suggest you do the same.

LOOKIN AT
augmented reality in a contact lens
henry crouch
internet threatens rare species
is it wrong to swim with dolphins?
johansson / heidi nilausen
kit webster - enigmatica
mars moon phobos seen in detail by european probe
monkeys learn more from females
tiny vipers - dreamer

LISTENIN TO
dazzle ships
dinosaurs are still alive
robyn - fembot
sleighbells

14 March 2010

NOCTURNES:
leaving ghosts
reflections and refractions of light in diamonds
buildings built like trees, nomads of the golden sand

thank god i'm an acid freak
thank god i'm a country girl

this parking lot could be a hardwood floor
these pants could be a dress
this walk could be you and mom dancing in the living room

i want you walking around me
i want you smelling of laundry

feel the vibration. this is a picture of texture, of hair and leather:
the new wound
the bind of being bound
a big blackbird—sticky and spinning candied rope of spun sugar—is suspended in the middle of the room. i've been ignoring it

we meet each other in the center. i think of what you are, and in so doing, give you away

IN DREAMS (JANUARY + FEBRUARY):
taking the elevator up in tribeca. the door stops in between floors. i do pullups holding on somehow. you hold on to me. we get to the top where my room is. i have perfected the lighting. but the electricity is not working. we are just sitting in the dark. waiting for the lights to come on

you are moving away cuz you were cast

the two of you are riding the blue tide. i don't know what that means. but the beach and the rest of the earth is covered in snow

the driver's side door of a red pickup truck is slammed in my face

we are both working as hustlers to the same famous artist

we're sitting in a chamber on a boat and i am cold. you have designs on me and slowly move yr body under mine in a sitting position. this warms me up

LOOKIN AT:
ari marcopoulos
björk talking about her tv
black cobra gang steals selection of small cakes
blue bottle coffee in brooklyn raises brewing to a science
cottweiler
dead pigs used to investigate dead zones
dean chalkley
deep sea fish eat their greens
dinosaur extinction link to crater confirmed
earth's true colours in nasa's blue marble images
elijah burgher
eternal order of the sons of peregrine
hugging salford university students break world record
james lourenco
laurent milon
lip reading mobile promises end to noisy phone calls
memory marathon
moon duo - killing time
new jersey snow sculpture gets frosty reception
olaf otto becker
oliver schwarzwald
probe may have found cosmic dust
ripped: t-shirts from the underground
sex infection frankness is key to long relationship
simon birk
swedes extend warm embrace to cuddle party movement
swiss ask whether animals need lawyers
vogue hommes jajpn - julius gerhardt by josh olins
yoko - a quiet revolution

LISTENIN TO:
bitters
chills - pink frost
class actress
cosmetics
damien jurado - where lies my tarp
darwin deez
leo carrillo
lou reed - ecstasy
morning becomes eclectic - el perro del mar + taken by trees
peepholes
pure ecstasy
robyn - dancehall queen
sabbath assembly
summer camp
surfer blood
throwing muses - milan + sunray venus
veronic falls
woods

15 February 2010

nocturnes:
pine incense is burning and i'm forgetting how the world looks like. causing as much sorrow. creating a block that's justified. not necessarily tender and sweet. la la la la. everything's much lower and flatter, like how boring the drive was when you did it all the time and all the cars had bike racks, and that's what i'm forgetting.

music low, slow, soft, smooth. ash wood and leather. asocial animals. rolling around in a pile of jeans. arms of line and volume. sticky networking. louise bourgeois' notebooks. spreading you out on a beautiful table. polarization and discipline. sleek little sneakers. smoking grass in yr briefs. brief puffs. whispers of hair.

call me pale. i'm waving a purple scarf in the wind. a sacred scarab fluttering dead wings on dirty bits of snow.

yr vocal chords convey a physical space. i can tell we're in a vacant lot and it's sexy. i can see the not knowing, like a magnet, in yr eyes. so keep me on the periphery.

punks are romantic
concordance is like a prayer
to write without sentiment or lying seems impossible

lookin at:
belle + sebastian - wrapped up in books
brain clue may explain condition's hug avoidance
climate change will make world more fragrant
corroboree
d.a.t.e.
exercise cuts risk of developing painful gallstones
food chains disrupted by earlier arrival of spring
giant bizarre deep sea fish filmed in gulf of mexico
haute romantics
high-energy large hadron collider results published
hugh holland
ice house detroit
jan von holleben
jonsi - go do
julia chiang
niall o'brien
rintala eggertsson architects - onsen bath boat
sweet-toothed children may have depression
whirlwind heat - purple

listenin to:
bo ningen
80kidz
evan voytas
kids on tv
oOoOO
velvet davenport
we are the world
wild beasts
yacht - holiday

07 February 2010

nocturnes:
i was born in the woods. i came from the woods. i come in the woods. i know lots and i wanna show you what i know and how i know. i know cuz i learnt and i learnt cuz i had to. i am showing you the artifice that makes me invisible, you know what i mean?

hit songs for lovers is not a hit no more. yr silence is overrated.

reach down. hand me a bowl full of candy. freshly shorn naked neck exposed. encased in a ball-baring chain. removing a red tie. tying it like a scarf. a red bolt of lightning. gun-shooting words.

you're so clean, you must be here to score. and you're right-handed, so, you know . . .

i came into a shot glass and made you drink it. an impression of boyish insouciance:


lookin at:
andy warhol photos are donated to us colleges

can the power of thought stop you ageing?
exorcism chapel opened in mexico
farmer loses high court fight to save hidden castle
fish oil supplements beat psychotic mental illness
geoffrey cooper - geocentric
grace jones - tomorrow
healthier lifestyles may add more years of bad health
hubble spots pluto blushing in space
insects migrate in wind highways
internet addiction linked to depression
is morrissey a poet?
keith haring x tommy hilfiger footwear
lemming
lucienne day
marina + the diamonds + gonzales - hollywood
matilda ringner
matthieu lavanchy
miranda july - interview
more cat owners have degrees than dog-lovers
morrissey - speedway
naples pizza makers celebrate eu trademark status
rescued blinded turtle homer is flown to newquay home
robyn: sweden's no1 style icon
saturn mission extended again
shuttle endeavour set for second launch attempt
sonic youth - death valley 69 ft. lydia lunch
strange powers
st. vincent - laughing with a mouth of blood

sunbathing ups men's testosterone
tamaryn - return to surrender
vegetative state patients can respond to questions
what is nostalgia good for?
xiu xiu - dear god, i hate myself
xiu xiu - la blogotheque

listenin to:
anna von hausswolff
beach house - daytrotter
feathers
gil scott-heron - i'm new here
kraftwerk - radioactivity
lo-fi-fnk
u.s. girls

24 January 2010

nocturnes:
the inventor of the most infamous machine gun says he wanted to be a poet in his youth

the anatomy of distance is romance. wait, i'm sorry, that sounds really vague, doesn't it? but maybe you understand. what i wanted was a specific metaphor:

vicissitude

motive of love

hemeroscopium

anchor made of sand

holding you is like the new past

you are nothing but a place where dust is dancing

how suddenly it seems our life together has escaped from us so entirely

the pleasantness of a place, the strength of an oath, the ability of a person

water, corsage, related, shelter, fairytale, landscapes, almost safe, summer camp

to the genius of the people, to the genius of this place, to the genius of our master

lookin at:
abiah hostvedt, jamil ramirez, + isaiah colbert by takahiro ogawa
baggy
candy magazine - roy pratt, collin tennant, + clinton weber by david armstrong
doomsday clock
elding oscarson
esa mission concepts vie for position
experts stunned by swan divorce at slimbridge wetland
fever ray tar emot priset för Årets dans på p3 guld
frankie morello
how did quakers conquer the british sweet shop?
jorge manilla
just kids: punk icon patti smith looks back
meet the creatures that live beyond the abyss
meteorite colour mystery solved
michel omar
patti smith - the beginning
physical exercise helps brains grow, mouse study finds
queer music heritage
quinnford + scout
rintala eggertsson architects
ruth van beek
spain aims to boost eu gender equality
stanton miranda - love will tear us apart
staygold + robyn, spank rock + damien adore - backseat
xx - vcr

listenin to:
beaters
david byrne + fatboy slim - please don't (feat santigold)
john cale - waiting for my man (feat patti smith)
missions
patti smith - fire of unknown origin
patti smith - just like you
patti smith - kimberly (live 1976)
thick pigeon - subway

10 January 2010


nocturnes:
reconstituting my days

the last time you touched my cock
it's a gesture, dear, not a recipe

bending you over a folio of folding chairs in the basement of a rare books collection. vaseline. moth-eaten balls. smells like formaldehyde

in dreams (dec):
i'm driving my grandmother's manual shift car. the boot is full of compost. somewhere in the compost is a chanel bracelet. i could draw it for you. it came from the ocean where we had been earlier, where the seafoam surfspray was brushing my ribs

yr sickness is giving you a friar tuck haircut

auntie is in a documentary professing the wonders of western buddhism

you have had too much fun this week

i dream the temperature is sixty-eight degrees fahrenheit. when i wake up it's really eighteen. you would never love me now

i was sleeping in yr bed in the library and i did it there and i got in trouble. i have a couple of my own teeth that i'm binding in gold wire and i will wear around my neck on a chain

lookin at:

cleopatra's eye make-up had health benefits
clubfeet - count yr lovers
eddie ness
erik de vahl - friendly fire
ffw mag! - pablo lorenzatto by fabio bartlett
funbrella
girls - heartbreaker
hafsteinn juliusson
islands - no you don't
katharina fritsch
kiki smith + deborah gans - museum @ eldridge st
li wei
markus georg
neanderthal make-up containers discovered
one in six children have difficulty learning to talk
pontus lidberg - the rain
prince's trust fears jobless youth face mental scars
rokin
sruli recht - ring
survival of the fittest: exercise can fight ageing
taking off
teresa monachino - around the world with the bodoni family
urnatur
vincent fournier
white ribbon
xx: a sculpture of the album
yochai matos

listenin to:
autechre
ballet
brahms
bye bye bicycle
clifton
eluvium
hanne hukkelberg
knife + mt sims + planningtorock - colouring of pigeons
lake
lesley gore - i'm coolin, no foolin
love is all - kungen
pocketknife
scanners
sinead o'connor + karen finley - jump in the river
wake
warpaint
white hinterland
xiu xiu - gray death

20 December 2009

a saint in any form:

nocturnes:
i was disoriented in a train station. turning circles. walking lines. i fell into a car and you were there. it must have been six in the morning. i don't know what time it was. i sat down. i sat next to you. i sat backward on the train and suddenly . . . i sat down. maybe you were coming from the gym. you were awake and clean and you were wearing a lot of hoods. yr track pants were rubbing against my leg. the music sounded like gym music. and yr hair was shorn. i can almost see you handcuffed to the handholds, splayed at right angles worthy of modernist movements (and in such colour!). what i mean to say is that there is an abstract richness about you.

no, but seriously, the truth of the matter is
it's cold,
i'm hungry,
my pants smell like pee,
and if i saw you accidentally,
i'd probably start to cry.

conjuring and conveying. but it's really weird and kinda hard. cuz on the one hand, i'm really into the materialities of feelings, like, the physical imprints. but on the other hand, i'm basing this on unfounded imagination. elevation is one word. transcendence might be another (but i'm still not certain). commuting, definitely. like, the train, the bridge—in between spaces where you can, like, really hope for that intervention that keeps you from yr destination or takes you to a new one.

i wanted this to be a decision, but now it's just a disadvantage.

lookin at:
atlas sound - quick canal
boat could explore saturn moon
data to expose ghost mountains
deepest volcano caught on pacific ocean video
diller scofidio + renfro - hirshhorn museum bubble
first glimpse of dark matter
fried egg may be impact crater
i blame coco - caesar
jakob hellman
life term for homophobic murder
matias faldbakken
moz apologises for swords, hopes for a steadier 2010
obscur
patti smith at art basel
patti smith at pratt
platonov pavel
spanish dig fails to find grave of poet lorca
stoned wallabies make crop circles
super-earths orbit nearby stars
twist portable espresso machine

listenin to:
beach fossils
el perro del mar - change of heart (rakamonie remix)
family band
millionyoung
mvsclz
notwist - come in
yellowfever

13 December 2009

nocturnes:
i am usually always comparing almost every social relation i have to this and asking myself who is who.

---

i'm throwin these keys away
cuz they were never openin
a door you were walkin through
i was never headin home
this way with you
anyway

alone and without money
i could be yr silent film star
and you could animate me with yr piano music
and we could live together bravely and patiently

---

every nite on manhattan
every nite on an island
how many?
there are such things as stupid questions
i should know cuz i ask them

---

let me
gently
use you

my sex
between
yr eyes

---

the way into my pants is through the mixtape transition from black eyes' eternal life to the goxxip's and you know

lookin at:
ancient site reveals signs of mass cannibalism
artist wright wins turner prize
bischof design - designated public urination area
deep space x-rays
elizabeth fraser: the cocteau twins and me
hero zine - callum wilson by leon mark
hubble sees most distant galaxies
humans have six-hour window to erase memories of fear
jim skull
la belle personne
massive attack - paradise circus
pk arkitektar
portishead - chase the tear
shigeki fujishiro design - adidas stansmith remake
sruli recht - carbon dater
taken by trees - anna

listenin to:
boat club
gigi
jónsi - boy lilikoi
memoryhouse
women of the avant-garde

06 December 2009

nocturnes:
class dictates our choice of partners and our choice of positions. when fear, shame and prudery condemn the poor and ignorant to copulate in the dark, it must be obvious that sexual sophistication is a by-product of education. the primal nakedness of lovers is a phenomenon of the middle class in cold climates; in northern winters, naked lovers must be able to afford to heat their bedrooms.
—angela carter

one dressed and one not. what does this say about me? obviously. you are clean and well-dressed and you've just emerged from yr hotel room. sneakers and a brightly coloured backpack. some sort of woolen topcoat. nice jeans.

and i'm:


panic of the square

anxiety of articulation
jimi hendrix's boyfriend


in dreams (nov)
i'm at a wedding with el perro del mar, lykke li, and robyn. el perro gives me a big kiss that leaves lippie stains on my face.


lookin at:

another man - decadence to dystopia by leblon
best lgbt books of 2009: 56 writers select their favourites
delphic - doubt
dtours
feld hommes - aj & steffen by markus pritzi
kit men keung - long-d dual time wall clock
leon mark
lhoas & lhoas architectes
luxury scandinavian wilderness
marilyn monroe film shows actress smoking marijuana
skunk bigger psychosis risk than other cannabis types
sweden woman's murder committed by elk not husband
tori amos on midwinter graces, family connections, and the birth of light
vnfold zine - cockfight

listenin to:

giana factory
hollow tongues
o. children
reading rainbow
spider and the webs
unkle