So I’m very curious who Napoleon was as an author. I need to track down the books he actually wrote rather than those that were written about him. What does he sound like on the page?
He wrote a book called How to make war and I just ordered it off amazon.
Read this on Ballardian and can’t help but feel that Ballard would really like to score a ticket to Australia to share some Australian-ness with those fascinating folks. He seems honest to me like interviews with Paul Bowles sound. There was that movie Let it come down which is a great quote from Lear. Someone asks the king to come inside before the rain drenches him.
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the japanese gallery of psychiatric art
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Tottenham MP David Lammy said Ikea should have known offering cheap prices in a deprived area would cause a rush.
Narratives that involve exploring landscapes:
I just can’t get this right. I had something interesting once, but lost it among the iterations. I’ll keep trying as time allows:
So, here’s another screwy idea. Remix a movie by creating an alternate subtitle. I’m working on creating an alternate subtitle for Stacy: Attack of the Schoolgirl Zombies.
It’s easy really. An SRT file is just time codes and text. I’d like to do one for a hollywood blockbuster. Some shlock overwritten as poetry.
Don’t know what an SRT file is? You should get VLC.
on this day of this year. May it return to me when it would have me speak with it.
So the adventure is over and now I can put behind me various delusions about the magical mysteries of the broader world. The truth is nobody knows much of anything about how things go. The world is powered by varying degrees of bullshit and that’s just how it is.
I’ll have some pictures to prove I did in fact distribute flyers at SxSW, although in the most self-defeating of fashions. I merely scattered them about to mingle with other sundry piles of disposable promotional materials.
The whole conference was like a swag feeding frenzy. The smart ones knew to toss all but what seemed to have some genuinely valuable content. Everything else might contain some deeper swag potential, some free promotion or some such.
My best swag in this department is from lulu.com, who allow me to run off one free copy of my book, which is incentive enough to get the whole thing typed in and into a pdf. Then I’ll send it off to Nathan in Wichita. The way I see it, I owe it to my friends to follow through on this much. That way, I can make it available on my site in case anyone wants a copy and it really doesn’t matter to me what else happens.
I can move on to Napoleon.
How cool is that?
I remember the Obfuscated Perl contest. Not that I think a contest is necessary and I generally don’t like the idea of creative competition. I want community that validates, not confines.
I do think it makes for an interesting exercise though to be rigorous with form. Killhambone and I swap haikus and hexes every day. We’ve been doing it for a long time, well over a year, maybe 2. That daily exercise has give me a strong eye for syllable. There is much to learn I think from boxing language in, locking it down so it squirms and you see what kind of life it has in it. That’s a good part of what being a poet is about for me, that exercise of learning the language.
If anyone cares to try my technique as just such an exercise, here are the constraints I place on myself:
Code Poetry, hex haikuCode Poetry, hex haikuSo I’m going to SXSW Interactive on Friday. I have a plan. These sorts of things tend to be pretty shmoozy, so I might as well have something to shmooze. I’ll be distributing flyers promoting Hindu Zombie Fever. It amuses me a bit. I don’t know if I’m serious or not. Maybe I am. Somehow it feels like a poetic prank to me, but that is a great space for art in my opinion. Art should crack you upside the head driving down the street. It should be in people’s lives, like it or not.
So I’ll be chronicling my adventures here.
This is the world’s longest riddle and it’s very complicated, but I’m fairly certain anyone can get to the answer in time. I encourage vocal speculation. I think of it as a game that might unite me with like-minded individuals from all over the world equally interested in the evolution of narrative, the future of the novel, the role of technology, etc.
I have the whole thing in the computer at this point, but only half of it in code.