Relatively Unemployed, or How To Be A Poet

Shut up and deal.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:31:20 -0800

Shut up and deal.

Home.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:24:45 -0800

And there are dogs, and a Cantwell, and trees. And soon, a turkey.

Lindbergh’s powdered whole milk from his 1933 flight...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:53:00 -0800

Lindbergh’s powdered whole milk from his 1933 flight across the Atlantic.

(At the Air & Space Museum.)

seanbury: Oh man… they are so wrong!...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:47:28 -0800

seanbury:

Oh man… they are so wrong! Hilarious.

scottgairdner:

Enjoy this documentary about the Beatles made 1000 years in the future.

What’s going to be really funny is when there’s a documentary about Scott Gairdner made 1000 years in the future, and it talks about his famous defense of web video as a vehicle for truth and animal rights activism.

headunderwater: MetroDiagram-BiDirection (via...

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:21:09 -0800

headunderwater:

MetroDiagram-BiDirection (via tracktwentynine)

This excellent infographic accompanies this Greater Greater Washington post.

via fedward

Worst station ever: L’Enfant Plaza. I just hate it. Worse than Metro Center, I think. But Franconia-Springfield will always hold a special place in my heart.

I’m going to be back here SO soon! Less than 48 hours.

Ron Silliman on Poetry Prizes, Keith Waldrop, and The Good Guys

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:12:18 -0800

Ron Silliman on Poetry Prizes, Keith Waldrop, and The Good Guys: I love Ron Silliman because he...

filmosophy2: (Where the Wild Things Are)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:08:18 -0800

filmosophy2:

(Where the Wild Things Are)

Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better Stop making sense.

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:35:37 -0800

Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better

Stop making sense.

The Getty Address

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:52:05 -0800

The Getty Address : Just looked some stuff up because I felt like I should be more informed. This is...

Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move You know what’s...

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:49:28 -0800

Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move

You know what’s weird, is that I actually sang for Dave Longstreth on one of his SUPER WEIRD early projects at Yale. It was SO WEIRD. We recorded in a squash court. I remember feeling really uncomfortable the whole time. He kept asking us to make our voices sound less human. I showed one of my music friends the score for it (there are no words to describe how intricate, bizarre, and illegible this score was) and he said, “Well, this guy is either a genius or he is actually mentally disabled.” Looks like it was the former.

Wes Anderson Week: The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:14:07 -0800

chriscantwell: filmosophy: A SOLIPSISTIC TRAIN RIDE by Elizabeth Wilcox All right, let’s get...

damndanm: Marion Peck, “Fuck You” WANT. Fuck yes.

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:55:26 -0800

damndanm:

Marion Peck, “Fuck You”

WANT.

Fuck yes.

Page 2 of a letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo...

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:52:08 -0800

Page 2 of a letter from Vincent Van Gogh to his brother Theo written about 120 years ago (Arles, on or about Wednesday, 21 November 1888). From this amazing exhibit of all of Van Gogh’s letters.

Translated excerpt from this page:

As for me, I think more about Rembrandt than may appear from my studies.

[sketch]

Here’s a croquis of the latest canvas I’m working on, another sower. Immense lemon yellow disc for the sun. Green-yellow sky with pink clouds. The field is violet, the sower and the tree Prussian Blue. No. 30 canvas.

jwes: grayskymorning: New York City too bad it doesn’t...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:27:34 -0800

jwes:

grayskymorning:

New York City

too bad it doesn’t actually look like this.

Um, hi, Jenny. Can we talk about how I JUST NOW figured out who you are? I’m an idiot. And also I’m glad you’re making art and doing well. And that you survived BI. The end.

"The Luxury of Hesitation," by Keith Waldrop

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:37:54 -0800

things forgottenI couldburn in hell foreverset the glassdown, ouremotion’s momenteyes vs...

HOLY SHIT, WE'RE DEAD!

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:21:17 -0800

HOLY SHIT, WE'RE DEAD!: (via seanbury) Hey TTA guys - Just change the title of “Oprah is...

Now that Keith Waldrop’s book has won the 2009 National...

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:40:56 -0800

Now that Keith Waldrop’s book has won the 2009 National Book Award for Poetry, I think I’ll probably buy it. I heard him read from it about a month ago and really enjoyed it … but part of me still resists poetry that I know has been constructed mechanically. Then again, what I’ve read and heard really works beyond just simple collage, so … I guess the jury’s still out for me.

__________

Waldrop on his writing process:

“I decided to do some collage work with my poems, and the mechanical part of it, just getting words from somewhere, I thought would be something I could do without thinking, so I got a batch of books and put them on the table—the plan was very simple, I put three books in front of me, all prose, a novel, then something psychological, then whatever I happened to have around. I would take phrases from these three books and make some stanzas, four, five six lines. Once I had that I’d make more stanzas of the same number of lines, and when that gave out, after a page or two, I’d say alright I have this poem now and I would take it to the typewriter and type it up and in doing so I would rearrange the stanzas alphabetically. I wasn’t worried about keeping the words exactly what they were—sometimes I changed words. I wasn’t trying to prove anything about collage, I was trying to write poems. Then I would put a title on it and put it aside.”

Don't you love it

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:50:17 -0800

when you take your car in for an oil change and it turns out everything in the car is busted to shit...

sometimesagreatnotion: totallymorgan: The Lost Generation -...

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:19:00 -0800

sometimesagreatnotion:

totallymorgan:

The Lost Generation - Woody Allen

I think this is probably one of the best jokes of all time.

Awesome.

Take the Details Celebrity Poetry Quiz!

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:08 -0800

Take the Details Celebrity Poetry Quiz!: I think my favorite excerpt is: Women who suck their...