Episode XXI: DIRECT ACTION Gets The Goods!
journal excerpts:
5.21.07 A few days ago, I put away the calendar my parents sent me and all of the cards I had taken out of my wallet a few months back (some of them are ID cards with pictures that annoy me).
5.24.07 Didn't get much sleep last night. In the dark, I started wondering what it would be like if my parents and grandparents all died in a car accident while I'm here. With no siblings, I would end up having to go through my parents' house on my own, sorting through everything by myself.
5.30.07 "And once again I discovered, first of all that memory has no power of invention, that it is powerless to desire anything else, let alone anything better, than what we have already possessed; secondly that it is spiritual, in the sense that reality cannot provide it with the state which it seeks." -Proust, The Fugitive
"Come on--Hey don't you know how we started/We forgot about love--But weren't brokenhearted" -Jim James, "Wordless Chorus"
6.2.07 For emotional and practical reasons (which no one who isn't here will never understand) it is difficult to keep in touch with people in America while I'm here. I'm afraid that this will result in me losing a few friendships.
6.18.07 "And then they started to forget themselves, which is what happens when you forget your friends." -Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
6.20.07 When water from a rain storm that has just wrapped up drips off our corrugated tin room, the angled afternoon sunlight makes the little drops look like falling diamonds for a split second. Or it's that diamonds are an expensive imitation of these drops of rain shot through with sunlight.
6.22.07 "Oh, traveller, you visit this place and you are lucky, because the people who are buried here are holy and close to God." -translated inscription from the grave of an Islamic prophet in Merv, Turkmenistan
a good while ago, maybe six months ago, wandering around on the island
maybe three months ago, got to stay in a hotel here on the island for a conference
5.21.07 A few days ago, I put away the calendar my parents sent me and all of the cards I had taken out of my wallet a few months back (some of them are ID cards with pictures that annoy me).
5.24.07 Didn't get much sleep last night. In the dark, I started wondering what it would be like if my parents and grandparents all died in a car accident while I'm here. With no siblings, I would end up having to go through my parents' house on my own, sorting through everything by myself.
5.30.07 "And once again I discovered, first of all that memory has no power of invention, that it is powerless to desire anything else, let alone anything better, than what we have already possessed; secondly that it is spiritual, in the sense that reality cannot provide it with the state which it seeks." -Proust, The Fugitive
"Come on--Hey don't you know how we started/We forgot about love--But weren't brokenhearted" -Jim James, "Wordless Chorus"
6.2.07 For emotional and practical reasons (which no one who isn't here will never understand) it is difficult to keep in touch with people in America while I'm here. I'm afraid that this will result in me losing a few friendships.
6.18.07 "And then they started to forget themselves, which is what happens when you forget your friends." -Roberto Bolano, The Savage Detectives
6.20.07 When water from a rain storm that has just wrapped up drips off our corrugated tin room, the angled afternoon sunlight makes the little drops look like falling diamonds for a split second. Or it's that diamonds are an expensive imitation of these drops of rain shot through with sunlight.
6.22.07 "Oh, traveller, you visit this place and you are lucky, because the people who are buried here are holy and close to God." -translated inscription from the grave of an Islamic prophet in Merv, Turkmenistan
a good while ago, maybe six months ago, wandering around on the island
maybe three months ago, got to stay in a hotel here on the island for a conference
this was about four months ago, just off the western side of the island
Wow. I am entirely unqualified to do a radio show. But we ironed out all the kinks and the following songs were played (all more or less new music):
-"Objects of My Affection" Peter Bjorn and John
-"Young Folks" Peter Bjorn and John
-"Young Folks" Peter Bjorn and John
-"Ragoo" Kings of Leon
-"Arizona" Kings of Leon
-"Elevator Music" Beck
-"Elevator Music" Beck
-"Nausea" Beck
-"Sweet Caroline" Dave Matthews Band (live)
-"The Idea of You" Dave Matthews Band (live)
-"The Well and the Lighthouse" Arcade Fire
-"(Antichrist Television Blues)" Arcade Fire
-"Either Way" Wilco
-"Hate It Here" Wilco
-"My Moon, My Man" Feist
-"1 2 3 4" Feist
-"Pink Steam" Sonic Youth
-"Do You Believe in Rapture?" Sonic Youth
posted by rjs at 1:52 AM
3 Comments:
Missed the radio show - I was in Greece. :)
Saw Joe and Dearing in London two days ago, which was all kinds of amusing.
It's likely more intense for you than me but I get the difficulties of keeping in touch (both emotional and practical).
It was twice as many degrees in Athens, Greece, as it is in Swansea, Wales. Absurb.
And I'm going to Turkey in a week.
Thanks for taking the time to download the great pix and provide some updates. I'll never look at a raindrop in the same way again ... Love you and miss you.
Awesomw pix - thanks for taking us with you to those places. The joy in your face while snorkling is obvious and special. There is holy ground everywhere. Your journal entries were appreciated. Luv you and miss you... Dad and #1 Cardinal fan
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