| KHftCEA 1999-08.3 August |
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KHftCEA 1999-08.3 August
Met with Kyle Parrish last night at Trident Booksellers on Newbury Street. Excellent conversation about art and computers and culture. (He mentioned that colonial era clocks had no minute hand, and his theory that our expectations for puncuality may relate to the accuracy of our time pieces.) At the orangeline T we let several trains pass before deciding to end our conversation. I encouraged him to send me a collection of his romance related poems that I could use as a Blender Digest Feature. Walking home from the T I noticed how loud the bugs were (I also noticed how different the orange line is from the red or green, seeing the red was like being back home.) The bugs made me think of how the original frontier explorations were not silent, but full of this noise. Did primitive Christians think there was something demonic in bugs? Or was that a later invention? 99-8-12 --- McDonalds is experimenting with "electronic ordering kiosks" in lieu of live counter people. Mark Gimein points out that it's a "weird devolution of Age of Industry automation: The manual work continues to be done by humans, who are carefully hidden away, while the job of meeting and greeting the customers is taken over by machines." 99-8-12 --- [On Y2K Survival Kits] Yeah, right! If the world’s grinding to a halt in a few months I really want to spend that time on some kind of goofy scavenger hunt for bottled water and band-aids. You’re even supposed to pack several months worth of pet food. Look, man, if it comes to that, the pets *are* food. --http://www.subatomichumor.com/ --- "Life's a bitch and so's my mom" --topic on Win Ben Stein's Money --- random memory: running up the *long* down escalator at porter to impress (?) R. (written on that same escalator) 99-8-14 --- My weight's kind of stalled again. Back in the 187 range where it was stuck before, despite seeming to drop to 186. 99-8-14 --- "*kiss kiss*" "There's not enough beer in the world, Spleen, I'm sorry-" --Spleen & Bowler, Mystery Men --- Mike W. telling about water system that actually used a tree as part of the pipework (easier than trying to remove the tree, or laying pipe that might shatter as the tree grows. 99-8-16 --- Watched "Crumb" (http://www.imdb.com - "Director Terry Zwigoff followed his friend Robert Crumb for 6 years with his camera.") Interesting. He and his family come across as *incredibly* disfunctional, but literate and (damn, what an irony! I'm trying and failing to think of this one word that means "is very well spoken, comes across as intelligent". I think it begins with a "c".) So anyway, the other day I go for a haircut and stop at Million Year Picnic to think about picking up some of his comic work, but then I realize none of it seems very appealing. But I think he's very important as an artist. Kind of like how I feel about most of Henry Miller's stuff. (On the other hand, his stuff really worked well on David Zane Mairowitz's "Introducing Kafka".) And his comics seemed really interesting in the format of the movie; maybe it's that the selection at the comic store was a bit overwhelming. --from letter to Kyle Parrish 99-8-16 --- >Cybersybar wrote: >"Who owns the fish?". The correct answer is "Yes". It's a Zen koan, get it? Come closer and I'll show you the sound of one hand clapping. --Bill Baldwin on a.f.c-a --- Sometime after their breakup, after they had each regained their strides with new love, they met. They discussed the idea that every person has a finite amount of love, that the other relationships they had found true romance in precluded the two of them from loving now. To their surprise, their goodbye kiss was greedy and passionate. All he could think of was "Well, there goes my affection for the country of China."- the feeling had to be coming from somewhere. 99-8-17 --- I am obsessing over the PalmV to such a degree that I've decided I need to get one ahead of schedule- namely, this week. 99-8-17 |