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Blogthings - What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

i'm blogging nickp and mingus now... live in a way... snuck in somewhere away from home for the hookup... coming loud and clear... my vocabulary... mingus man... this is some perfect combo... my first web radio thing experience... never could do this at home on the macosaur...

there's nick loud & clear... but it goes so fast man... & here's tom waits... what is this taste we all have that makes us all so... pop...

silenced... silenced by... effective reading of a strong statement... funny how nick pauses to point out to the listening audience that there are links from certain words to certain places...

don't recognize this next song or singer... hey... ho...

spam pomes... the god drops poematerial... we'd be fools not to pick it up... mine come in the mail too sometimes

instrumental interlude...

"who owns the words?" ... narcissistic easy answer... i do, nick... what words wanna be... performing and transforming... characters... nice musical segue to chick singer with a mindless sixties pop headbobber vibe...

"the career of the poet"... the poet... ooo anaphora... i love lists... wrote one once using i've written ... neato, nick... was that stabilized incongruity? speak for yrself...

from hegelian honeymoon... i'm a sucker for the quick saying & silence... of haiku... makes me think of kerouac's... as long as we're eminently collectable...

i'm not a machine... but i play one on the internet

last poem?... title broke up... homolinguistic... history is a ... needs a closer read... o it's history's echoic flying lessons... findable as a pdf here...

and that's it for nick... that was fun... i'll listen to a little r silliman... then get back to my day job...

reading schuyler's letters... don't usually read letters of the dead old famous... but these are different... on roman roses: In the bud they are usually round and globular, or egg-shaped, with the pointed end sliced off, a little like an artichoke with its leaves cut. When they open, they open wide and flat, like a single peony. Their own quality, though, is in their color, a kind of white diluting of all the colors of the Roman buildings, the earth colors for which it's hard to find names. And their scent is spicy and rich and uncloying, very like the evening here, when the light turns misty and blue, and the air turns sharp and smells strongly of fall leaves.

thanks to Equanimity for this on james schuyler...

Giornale Nuovo: A.G. Rizzoli...
In 1990, a young woman brought some peculiar architectural drawings she had found several years earlier to San Francisco gallery-owner and collector Bonnie Grossman with a view to selling them. The drawings were highly elaborate, but the buildings they depicted were imaginary. They were signed, but the artist's name was altogether unknown. Grossman was fascinated: she bought the drawings, and, after doing a little detective-work, tracked down a much larger collection of works by the same artist, one A.G. Rizzoli, which she found in his great-nephew's garage.

The New York Times (registration) | The Bob Dylan Show: Dylan's in a Dark Mood, and Haggard Offers No Relief... says jon pareles...
His latest band, anchored as it has been since the early 1990's by Tony Garnier on bass, could turn 'John Brown,' his early-60's song about a shattered soldier, into banjo-picking Appalachian rock, and it could sashay through Mr. Dylan's Tin Pan Alley-flavored 'Bye and Bye.' It had a violinist, Elana Fremerman, who was joined for keening, soaring twin-fiddle passages by Donnie Herron in 'Absolutely Sweet Marie.' But its core was in the blues, with Denny Freeman playing jagged guitar solos, George Recile on drums making shuffle beats leap ahead, and the whole band, completed by Stu Kimball on guitar, finding new riffs behind old songs like 'Masters of War' - almost a minor-key blues in its latest incarnation - or 'All Along the Watchtower.' With this band, Mr. Dylan's indictments became both pitiless and exhilarating."

posted at 7:56 PM