Sun
Jul
5
Wim Wenders Palermo Shooting
Tue
Jun
30
Very low key and very touching.
Fri
Jun
19
“The beautiful woman in the players’ box fans herself with a Thomas Pynchon novel. Fifteen feet below, her partner is sweating it out in the quarter-finals of the French Open.” and on
There is only one novel by TRP that can be used as a fan.
Wed
Jun
17
Anger is a gift.
Zack de la Rocha
Sun
Jun
7
Sunset at Iririki Island in Vanuatu - a propos reading Le Clezio’s Raga. Approche du continent invisible - a brilliant book.
Fri
May
29
Not having enough as a kid and thankful for it … meeting Mkka in summer of 1990 … realizing what it is that Oedipa really found … 10am to 2am shifts in a theatre in Edinburgh … listening to “Ugra Karma” for the first time … H3O … Hakim Bey … Pullman and Wazzu … unholy musicks … “The sky above the port was the color of television tuned to a dead channel” in a book with the cover I didn’t really like … the first view of the Pacific … Edward Alexander and his path … Smashing Pumpkins’ “Disarm” in a cab between parties in San Francisco on the New Year’s Eve … Winterson’s
The Passion … more London than I care to remember …
House of Leaves … Jackson Pollock in MOMA … the saddest man in the world and his words … empty roads west of the Mississippi … COIL … a small hand always holding mine in the street … Steve Erickson … a chemically-assisted July night in Borrego watching the Milky Way … Takeshi Kovacs … finding out that forgiveness is the ultimate sign of caring … 45 minutes in a hotel lounge after a wedding in Buffalo with snow falling outside before a cab came … starting to half-heartedly watch
Southland Tales and dazedly asking myself at 3:20am whether I’ll be able to like any other movie after that … the desert … the Louvre at 10pm on a cold December night … always my students … Oceania … feeling at home in the world …
So many memories that will always be only mine.
It’s been a good ride so far. Thank you.