May 2012
2 posts
July 2009
5 posts
Blues, Snakes, Mathematics, and Telling Lies →
A letter to S.
June 2009
32 posts
Letter to J R →
“There’s a little square. Old Madonna, E-I-O quack quack quack, here a...”
– N’Kisi the talking parrot
“A thousand pigeons, each with a two ounce explosive capsule, landed at intervals...”
– Lea Rayner, Royal Air Force
i can’t shop. something about resistance to commitment or opportunity costs or make-vs-buy or zero sum games or particularity or finite satisficing bounded rationality. and style is supposed to be a function of not even having thought about it in the first place. all epidemics find their prime movers confused. like the army says: don’t ask, don’t tell. and like angelica pickles...
Letter to CI
http://docs.google.com/View?id=d6x3fnq_14c7q7wwf5
A Letter to J. Contreras
http://docs.google.com/View?id=d6x3fnq_11dsqqm9dx
May 2009
4 posts
“In directing one dwarf who continually struggles not to laugh, Herzog repeatedly...”
Syd: my neighbor was a victim of the crazy california machete man
Travis: wow! like, neighborneighbor? like, he could have come to your house instead?
Syd: it happened when he lived in california
Syd: it didn't happen while he lived next to me!
Travis: don't you die when you are a victim of a crazy machete man?
Syd: well, the guy chased him and got a few hits in
“I was trying to explain “Big Black Mariah” and finally I started to...”
– Tom Waits, on Keith Richards
“I remember one verbal instruction being, “Play it like a midget’s...”
– Marc Ribot, on Tom Waits
April 2009
2 posts
“it’s an asian woman robot.”
– hollias
“they take the painting to the head of the…witch committee basically”...”
– hollias
March 2009
15 posts
“I feel like Life is a cereal that you can eat mushy”
– Jana La Brasca
“a duck decoy does not need to look like a duck.
it needs to look like a duck...”
– david mamet
“is a boulder more like a barrel than an avalanche?”
– Sarah, re: Buster Keaton’s Seven Chances and Super Mario RPG