I successfully broke
No Shop February with one item - Knifehandchop's How I Left You, released August 2004. Pictured above is Billy Pollard back in the day, the man behind the artist. He was letting go some copies of his amazing work and It's hard to miss out on an opportunity to buy directly from the artist. I actually don't remember ever seeing him online, too, until recently..
Id say the real personal aim of no shop Feb is (was)to avoid buying CLOTHES. in exchange for wearing everything I already have. It's really easy to shop for clothes on the cheap and disregard everything you invested in already.
And I kind of plan to keep it running... But with the impending end of February I will return, at least, to buying toys again (big heaping chains, half burnt pink candles, used bugs, bundles of wire etc).
This album is so fun and ready to set you free. I can't wait to have it on CD so I can stare at it, and open it, and feel I have obtained something. I used to bang this shit on the fiendish railroad trying to get myself together, Bang it on the tarmac, the airport shrinking behind me, And of course to my memory, bang it in the emptying house on the coast ov the Irish Sea, .,, And why wouldn't you bang it? You think you know better?
but for you pedestrians, you can just use Youtube or spotify or whatever, and Enjoy it all the same (but from nosebleed seats)
I bothered to go out for another Aquarian birthday party. I don't make it into the city much, and I was so grateful to be wearing old navy yoga pants ., whose cotton fabric shielded me from the desperation of the multitude, and made the train rides pretty calm.
I sent away a couple valentine thoughts in the mail, and I did not forget to make myself a valentine. I will at some point post the cards I have made.
One thing I've been tireless to mention is the weather, that it's been such a pleasant winter. It'll be another 2 months until we can really say it's going away, so in the meantime I do recommend enjoying Winter's dusk. I have attached some photos of the crispy, blue, grey, smoky, bright and boasting winter.
When I make these posts I don't wanna seem like everything's cool with me. On the whole I talk about things that aren't painful. I don't describe the bulk events that would make up reality. Because I don't want to. I wouldn't like to really do that. Coming here and putting the effort in, reaching into the details, that's what I want to see.
Ahh - the sun is at 1 degrees and 17 minutes Pisces now.
I still haven't seen much talk from people I know about gutting the fed which I mentioned in my last Bog.
Here is a link which lists all the federal agencies.
Here is a fact sheet from the White House regarding the initiative to "reduce the unnecessary footprint of the government". I like the part that says "nobody really knows how many federal agencies there are". It's both threatening and palms up honesty.
That's about all there is to it.
Do you want anything else?
I don't. Why should you?
The word Valence has been floating around in my head. Because it was Saint Valentine's mostly and
I've read some random articles about Long Island. I read this really long and kind of stupid NYT article from 1993. I mean it was so stupidly long that I couldn't believe I was still scrolling. It had that scholastic tone of voice that draws on too many references, and then to be amusing, forces you to live in the world where we the reader also have a taste and researching ability similar to the author's.
It made me think how people write these culturally revealing essays and articles, and not wholly from the standpoint of experience of the topic but because they have the task of writing to an audience at all. Then they'll cite some necessary history which usually they themselves have just learned at once, and suddenly the text is rather instructive with historical and statistical information that has been freshly obtained for the very article. May we not just stick to the real motivating factors for the author's composition, or do we have to pretend as though the author is somehow a journalist and also an anthropologist, ethnologist, maybe a statesman, a genius and a psychic?
What else is a guy supposed to do writing for such a major newspaper? You gotta drag that shit on, make the reader think they're soaking up something informative or even possibly reading "the other side to a generally held perspective". Like how the chirpy and resolute new York times wants you to live.
But now that I'm looking at it again -- Well, it's not an article I like to read, but I do appreciate all the Pynchonian and serial killer mentions. I can look over the beaten down 90s obsession with pretending to analyze the ding dong human spirit. Oh , our isolation, oh, our hybrid ethnicity, oh! he tries to take us all around the damn town which kind of starts to make you think, well, that place is a little funny isn't it?
So - is that positive, negative, or neutral valence?
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