Elliot’s Gun Shop, where I went that hot espresso’d morning with Arun when he bought his Gloc that eventually Tobey used to kill himself with, has been raided and shut down by the FBI for illegal sales etc. They shoulda closed it down December 4th 1996.
1. Where imagined future ruins were once the objects of metaphysical fancy or hubristic imperial dreams, the modern ruin is always, to some degree, a palpable, all-too-real remnant of the future.
2. Journals of late 18th century housekeepers
3. Internal antonyms
4. Théodore Vacques
5. The star of anonyminity, isolation, and failure
6. Dormitory at Le Navi in Cattolica
7. “I’m Not Down” The Clash
8. 1330 Arabella Street
9. Ester Partegás
10. Eternity appears not as such
11. as surely as fire burns iron to steel
12. Resist permanence
13. LASUG
14. Deep and good and strange
15. Little seed
16. The electric towers, the river!
17. Sera-t-il bien pour se sentir demain?
18. Every surface was covered in crystal, amber, and stone curiosities
19. A fleeting taped-up sky
20. He was enlivening his solitary existence by ordering lavish meals for twelve at which he would be the sole guest.
21. Nephew, Tring, Mrs. Fry, and Viscount Fartleberry
22. The ruin made meaningful
23. Of possible knots is infinite/tying bits of string
24. As the trees grow
25. Lovers analyzed themselves
26. Special excursions by train
27. Not just the felicitous gaining of the upper hand over worthy competition but the righteous vanquishing of an unworthy foe
28. Is anyone else trying this?
29. The cyan of the sea has been pristine
30. For a body without organs
31. With its silence and its castles
32. Adding a bit of fat to the lean
33. Degrees
That's the coolest thing I've seen in a long time, that tin can. Part of tomorrow's exhibit? I hope so.
Posted by: Indy 500 | 18/05/2007 at 12:45
Great list. A tone poem.
Posted by: MIV | 18/05/2007 at 16:52
Ester Partagas is great. Her work blows so many "post modernists" right out of the water - she just pushes it until it can go no further - what an imagination/eye.
Posted by: JEM | 18/05/2007 at 19:56
tell me more, about buying the gun
Posted by: D SHITe | 20/05/2007 at 04:39
Do I have to?
Posted by: Ellie. | 21/05/2007 at 11:23
#21. Viscount Fartleberry!?!
Posted by: D SHITe | 21/05/2007 at 12:02
that new photo of you is tough.
Posted by: Speller | 21/05/2007 at 16:56
because that's how I roll.
Posted by: Eliza. | 21/05/2007 at 18:07
It's the way tis. It can't be any other way really or can it? The razor's edge, non?
Posted by: Marco | 22/05/2007 at 20:04