Nothing is sacred

Never going back again

About a year ago, I think, I was at a party in San Francisco where Sam and Aaron peed off the roof and the fog ruined the blow-out that I trekked all the way to Richmond to get and there was a guy in full "mixologist" regalia and I just wished he'd pour my fucking whiskey-ginger ale and be done with it and there was a giant pot of lentil soup (OF COURSE) and I may or may not have puked on a coffee table and in the morning we drove back across the Bay Bridge probably listening to that Lush tape and Sam and I went back to bed for several more hours

I liked that. Too bad for everything else.

Confession

I keep trying to transition this blog over to Tumblr and it never quite works out

Waters

2006

"SO BASICALLY my life revolves around what to eat, where to eat and with whom to eat. What more can I say?"

I'm going through my old Livejournals and while a lot has changed (lol at all indie pop everything, being part of a community for "summer goths," and once being called "a brilliant student of literature" by one of my professors), some things have stayed exactly the same.

Pecan buds doe

On apathy

Every election year, there are people eager to proclaim, quite ignorantly, that they “don’t care about politics.” A response to them, from Noam Chomsky and Michel Foucault’s 1971 debate on human nature:

FOUCAULT: Your question is: why am I so interested in politics? But if I were to answer you very simply, I would say this: why shouldn’t I be interested? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations within which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists, after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves. 

So I can’t answer the question of why I should be interested; I could only answer it by asking why shouldn’t I be interested?

FONS ELDERS [moderator]: You are obliged to be interested, isn’t that so? 

FOUCAULT: Yes, at least, there isn’t anything odd here which is worth question or answer. Not to be interested in politics, that’s what constitutes a problem. So instead of asking me, you should ask someone who is not interested in politics and then your question would be well-founded, and you would have the right to say “Why, damn it, are you not interested?”

'I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

Wittgenstein. Also, his Blue Book.

Sigh

If you live in Brooklyn, go to the Brooklyn Comics & Graphics Festival on November 10th and tell Chris Ware and Tim Hensley that I love them

I’ll be here in L.A., crying into my unsigned copy of Building Stories

Éminence grise