we can no longer ask Éliane, but perhaps she left something useful behind
27.02.2026 00:37
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we can no longer ask Éliane, but perhaps she left something useful behind
🎵 Sabu was sad, the whole tour stunk / The airlines lost the elephant’s trunk 🎵
Inside the windowless van,
I might be anywhere. In space, perhaps.
Outside the van: frogs, stars.
😔. I saw Shrimp Boat live (!), but not with Vajarsky. But I did see him play once — in 1995, in an ensemble Weasel Walter put together as his graduation project from Columbia. Wish I’d had and/or taken more chances
it’s been raining here in Death Valley
Ken Russell would like a word
meanwhile, the epistemologists can’t find jobs
on LinkedIn today: “I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve heard ‘I have an ontology, and…’”
portal to the Black Lodge
I was there!
I don’t remember this episode of Twin Peaks
you’re thinking of Lionel Marchetti, I think?
“Often, while composing, there is the clear sensation of finding oneself in front of a pile of garbage. Every sound to which we try to give life leaves in its wake a stench beyond compare.”
*Unfortunately, Babies R Stupid cannot perform tonight due to incarceration for defacing personal injury lawyer billboards. I’ll book them again at a later date!
top notch noise show flyer footnote (source: @more-noise-please.bsky.social)
Scott Adams the man is gone, but the idea of the man, the thing he stood for above all others, is alive. Anywhere someone is fucking up their successful professional lives not due to middling talent or performance but entirely because of their awful personality and beliefs, Scott is there, too.
everyone tries but no one can touch Feldman’s pp
what, and lose my innocence and purity?
me
“We have some ontological problems and now I think a whole pile of shit is coming from the cosmos” — Béla Tarr answering some interviewer’s innocent question. RIP
* Los Lobos, X @ Silver Legacy (Reno)
* DKV Trio @ Elastic Arts (Chicago)
* Yan Jun @ three venues (California)
* Darren Johnston's Standard Issue @ Bird & Beckett (San Francisco)
* Iron Lung @ Holland Project (Reno)
* Ulrich Krieger & Jason Kahn @ High Desert Soundings (Twentynine Palms)
* Pedestrian Deposit @ High Desert Soundings (Twentynine Palms)
...
I didn’t get to as many shows this year as I would have liked but I saw some excellent ones, especially:
* Still House Plants @ Indexical (Santa Cruz)
* Jandek @ Aztlan Theatre (Denver)
* Jeb Bishop Quintet @ Constellation (Chicago)
* Obscuress @ Chess Club (Austin)
...
(and some nonfiction)
📭 Rainer Maria Rilke - Letters to a Young Poet (1929)
🏜️ Edward Abbey - Desert Solitaire (1968)
🎤 Bob Dylan - Chronicles (2004)
💀 Joan Didion - The Year of Magical Thinking (2005)
🌈 William E. Jones — True Homosexual Experiences (2016)
🛫 Lisa Carver — Lover of Leaving (2025)
🦚 Michael Moorcock — Dancers at the End of Time (1972/4/6)
👴 Barry Gifford — Landscape with Traveler (1979)
🏊 Alan Hollinghurst — The Swimming-Pool Library (1988)
✈️ Kaveh Akbar — Martyr! (2024)
🏩 Miranda July — All Fours (2024)
💣 Rachel Kushner — Creation Lake (2024)
(12 best books of fiction I read in 2025)
🚣 Mark Twain — Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884)
⛓️ Jean Genet — The Thief’s Journal (1949)
🍷 James Baldwin — Giovanni’s Room (1956)
🤓 Vladimir Nabokov — Pnin (1957)
📽️ Larry McMurtry — The Last Picture Show (1966)
🎸 Charles Portis — Norwood (1966)
...
Saddened to learn of the recent death of John Varley, a brilliantly talented writer.
😴 where is Seth sleeping?
(2025 edition)
🤠 Reno 219
🍷 California 48
🌃 Chicago 19
🎰 Nevada 18
🚠 Switzerland 15
🌳 Michigan 11
🥩 Texas 9
🥔 Idaho 9
🏜️ Utah 7
🏔️️ Colorado 5
🌵️ Arizona/New Mexico 3
🌽 Missouri 1
✈️ airplane 1
ponder it while listening to ONO or ENO
it might generalize to other adjectives but more research is needed