Saturday, January 20, 2007

Wir sind am Ende

this
came up in a new compliation from germans under cover made me think of leaves,curves&hills in the honda.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

gris-gris

from the depths of dean's date disorder disarray i'm wondering strangely what you think of dr. john the night tripper (he's no exuma, but i've been listening... then one can only mutter "exuma ain got no teeth, exuma ain got no TEETH" under one's breath for so long...).
otherwise wondering how you are. mondo shots in the dark are the new hot shakes here. give me news from the front, mon hermano....

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

A-HA! (A-HO!) A-HOY!

sr. duMar,

at long last, i've time to write!

i've really got to get better at this writing (papers) thing--it'll destroy my life this year. any advice, experienced amigo?

the last sundry exploit in my life-o-existing pton involved a month long romp with alain robbe-grillet. over a centipede, no less. whc was wonderful, except that i didn't exprcised the demon until christmas eve, saturated with caffeine, hopping from cafe to cafe, typing wildly but to ne real effect...

blah blah, not interesting, i know, but then what does one say.
in any case, it wasn't the christmas eve of the 24th, rather my mom's "special" christmas eve on the 22nd. double the family, double the stress: with all the new members (a brother-in-law, a stepfather, a stepmother, three stepsisters, two stepbrothers, a the accompanying slew of relations) just in for the holiday season, it's been strange to say the least.

perhaps the first week of robbe-grillet-cafe was for the best.

anyhow, i've settled in. pushed thru a birthday & a christmas, & now i'm here, with my sister, typing along nonchalant downloading the exuma i've neglected to acquire (you can find I, II, Do Wah Nanny, & Snake at Grown Up All Wrong, but i suppose you've them all already...).

i've been reading "the image" by "jean de berg" (actually catherine robbe-grillet using a pen-name)--wch has been a strange thing to do: a B&d masterpiece, i've blushed more than once around the christmas laurels hiding behind the little black book.
(i love how blurry this--the only googly--image is, somewhere cadava smiles...)

but, DUmar, HOW are YOU!?

&have you got a load of THIS? (sounds convincing) &while i'm at it, i hereby demand a screening of melvin & howard at earliest convenience.

convenience. conviviance. convalescence. soon on return i'll be calling for an iona, or a game night, or something: too long, too long.

also: dead week. i've no plans, will probably be in yr neck of the...

but, again, yr christmas? did you drive up state? hopefully you avoided all stalkers & poodle-burglers. (?) did the kids get you some harlem-wear? shiny apples? &turtlenecks: what's the turtleneck count? i do hope the christmas turtleneck thirst has been quenched, i know it's a powerful one...

anyway, i've something delightful for you. bait yr breath, senor.

as always,
xoxo
j.h c

(who's the photographer below? it's wonderful...)

Monday, December 11, 2006




what i've been listening to:












What i've been looking at:



















Who I've been dancing with:

Monday, December 4, 2006

dognapping

'"let the dead dog lie" is not common i.e. I have never heard it, nor do I like it.'

sometimes i imagine my different dictionaries having little soirees in my room. conversations come up as i peruse one or the other. Maybe there's english-french, brittle for lack of exercise, chatting up the dictionary of sexual terms left on my twelve year old bed (and rotted in my hands since, without an heir), the two of them tittering to find out that their host (me) has looked up the same nine words in both.

I read the line above in the voice of my bitter, neglected webster's abridged, utterly supreme its dominion over the common, and defensivlet hateful towards anomalies.

As per the title. I really got dogknapped last night (we just got a poodle... and then she was robbed!). it was one grim day, though the dog is safe.

there goes the punch line, but ill explain later in length when my head comes down from a 24 hour binge of diet soda and tears.

peaceful

touchy-
touchy

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

invitation

black whale,
what say you?

i was thinking it would be nice to book blurb here. or club. also do you use www.box.net? with 1gb free, it's perfect for uploading an mp3 now and again. maybe it wouldn't be so bad if bookings came with soundings (i'm always interested in what yr listening to!).

anyhow, everything can be edited.
get out yr red pen, mon hermano.

j.h c


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for example, lately, i've been listening to klaus nomi all the time.



& quite simply, i can't think a more exquisite accompaniment to all the barthes i've been required to enjoy in the last few weeks. or hey, you could well be reading one of those david bowie biographies of yrs, in which case... viola!