i went into whole foods with miya.

as i looked at all the apples and other fruits and vegetables my spirits risened.

i never noticed that before.

looking at all the produce at once made me livelier.

i wouldn't say happier, just lifted.

i think it was because of the affirmation of the diversity of life.

then i did the thing where i buy one of every apple.

11 different apples.

i imagine a world where the dominance of only a few strains of apples crumbles.

where every apple is different.

where everything collapses on itself.

and the sunlight shines brightly.

regardless of what you feel inside your body.

and consciousness is nothing.

just a grain of sand amongst a world of everything else.

we will destroy you.

before you destroy us.

--

5 minutes after i wrote what is above, i looked up a michael pollan article to find this:

"Commercial apples represent only a fraction of the Malus gene pool," he said, "and it's been shrinking. A century ago there were several thousand different varieties of apples being grown; now, most of the apples we grow have the same five or six parents: Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Jonathan, McIntosh and Cox's Orange Pippin."

 

"why do i want to slit my wrist and cover your face in blood sometimes?"




"because you do not have any and it seems like an exciting abstraction."



"your whole physical being is an abstraction you 'cat'. "





"you should just fucking do it."

 

 

dear europe,

it's time to get over your nasty habits.

this is the dawn of a new era.

come and join as we move forward.

it's time to put out those cigarettes!

 

think
about
the
little
baby
in
i am curious yellow
that
is
bashing
its
head
over and over
again
the
rails
of
its
crib
?

 

Senior U.N. officials and human rights activists are calling for an independent probe of alleged violations of the laws of warfare by Hamas militants and Israeli soldiers during the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas is accused of using Palestinian civilians as human shields and indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians. Israel is accused of using disproportionate force in civilian areas and failing to protect civilians — especially in the case of the Samouni family. At least 29 members of that extended family were killed by Israeli fire during the war.

Dazed and dirty, 9-year-old Abdullah Samouni walks around the ruined landscape of his Zeitoun neighborhood on the southern edge of Gaza City. Recorded readings of the Quran drift out from a makeshift mourning tent. Almost all of the homes and greenhouses that belonged to this large farming family have been flattened.

The piles of rubble evoke an earthquake — except for the thick tracks and tread marks in the dirt from Israeli tanks and armored bulldozers. Gaping holes scar the few Samouni homes that are still standing.

Abdullah says he and some 20 of his relatives hid in one bedroom of their house when Israeli ground forces swarmed into Zeitoun around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 4. Abdullah says he remembers the red laser light from the soldiers' rifle sights darting around the dark room. One soldier, Abdullah says, asked his father to come forward.

"We were sitting in the bedroom, and the soldiers asked, 'Who is the owner of the house?' My dad went out with his hands up, and the Israeli soldier shot him immediately in the doorway," Abdullah recalls.

His father, 46-year-old Atiyeh, died instantly. One of Abdullah's brothers, 22-year-old Faraj Samouni, says he and others shouted "Children! Children!" in Hebrew as soldiers moved toward the bedroom, some firing their automatic rifles.

Witnesses say the survivors — some wounded — were eventually allowed to leave that house. Many fled to Wa'el al-Samouni's home nearby.

Death Of Three Brothers

Short and frail, Ahmed Samouni looks younger than his 16 years. He says at dawn on Monday, Jan. 5, after about 90 Samounis had taken shelter in Wa'el's house, the shelling began again.

Ahmed's brown eyes look vacant as he describes the chaos as shells hit the house.

"They hit us with a bomb. Many in the house were killed; many were injured. My brother Izhaq was bleeding for two days. He was full of holes. I remember I gave him two tomatoes to eat. It was all he had before he died," Ahmed says.

Doctors and family members say the initial shelling killed 22 Samouni family members inside Wa'el's house. In the confusion and panic, roughly 50 others fled the partially collapsed house. Many of those, Ahmed says, were wounded. Nine people were left behind, including Ahmed; his mother, 42-year-old Laila; and at least three of his brothers.

Ahmed says he watched his 4-year-old brother, Nissar — then older brothers Ismael, 15, and Izhaq, 13 — bleed to death.

"My brother Nissar was in kindergarten. What's his fault? Why to get him shot? He's 4 years old. He was with my mother. She was hugging him when he died. My brother Ismael kept bleeding for two hours … and then he died. God grant us mercy," Ahmed says.

Medical Crews Unable To Reach Wounded

The Samounis' part of Zeitoun sits on slightly elevated farmland, key terrain for the Israeli army to control the southern approach to Gaza City. Witnesses say over the years militants have regularly launched rockets at Israel from the orange groves around the area.

But witnesses say there was little or no resistance here when the Israelis attacked. Evidence on the ground supports that: There are almost no casings from AK-47 rounds or remnants of rocket-propelled grenades — the main weapons of Hamas militants.

Witnesses in the area say Israeli soldiers knew there were wounded civilians in the Samouni houses but ignored pleas for help. Attempts to contact Palestinian emergency services proved fruitless.

Dr. Bashar Murad directs the emergency medical division at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society in Gaza.

"In the first two days of the ground offensive, we got 140 emergency calls for help from the Zeitoun area alone," he says.

Murad says in past attacks, the Israeli army had coordinated with the Red Cross and Red Crescent and had treated wounded civilians. So he was hopeful when he got the green light from the military on Jan. 4 to send an ambulance into Zeitoun.

But when Red Crescent driver Mohammed Shriteh drove his ambulance down Salahadin road into Zeitoun on Jan. 4 around 10:30 a.m., he says he was met by two Israeli tanks, an armored bulldozer and dismounted infantry. Shriteh says the soldiers then signaled him to stop and told him to get out of the car and strip off his shirt.

"They told me to lay down on the ground on my stomach. A soldier stood next to me and searched me. I told him that I'm from the Red Crescent. The soldiers just kept telling me, 'Shut up! Shut up!' They made some phone calls to I don't know who. Then they told me to just drive away and leave the area quickly," he says.

Shriteh drove off, frightened and worried. Murad says medics tried to give emergency medical advice to wounded Samouni family members over the phone. The Red Crescent and Red Cross were denied access to Zeitoun for three more days. The Red Cross finally reached the wounded and dead on the afternoon of Wednesday, Jan. 7.

Violations Of Rules Of War On Both Sides

Attorney Jonathan Drimmer is a war-crimes expert and former top prosecutor for special investigations and war crimes in the U.S. Justice Department.

"You must permit the treatment of civilians who are injured or even noncombatants who are injured. You must permit them medical care," he says.

Drimmer says information available so far suggests that serious violations of the rules of war were committed by both sides. The case against Hamas, Drimmer says, seems clear-cut.

"I think there is no question that Hamas did violate the rules of war by firing indiscriminately into civilian areas. They've done it over a substantial period of time, deliberately targeting civilian areas," he says.

Drimmer says the allegations against Israel — including charges the army used disproportionate force, failed to protect civilians and denied them medical care — all warrant further investigation.

"Anytime you have allegations of summary executions, of denial of medical care, of unnecessary deaths of civilians, it is greatly troubling; it is exactly what the laws of war are designed to prohibit," he says.

Calls For Investigations Into Alleged Abuse

The U.N.'s top human rights official, Navi Pillav, has already said the events in Zeitoun warrant a full probe. Israel Defense Forces spokesman Capt. Benjamin Rutland says the military is taking the allegations seriously.

"The investigation into the allegations of incidents in Zeitoun is ongoing. It is an investigation, which is being done at the command level, which is the highest level at the IDF. We're taking this very seriously. And we believe it's more important to do a very thorough investigation than to return something quickly," he says.

The prospect that either side will be held to account for any wartime abuse seems dim. There is evidence that after the fighting ended, Hamas militants here have beaten and, in some cases, shot Palestinian opponents and intimidated civilians into not talking to investigators or the media about Hamas' conduct during the fighting.

On the Israeli side, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert this week dismissed what he called the "moral acrobatics" of human rights groups, which he said have ignored years of Hamas rocket fire.

Olmert nonetheless ordered his justice minister to prepare legal teams to protect soldiers and officers from any war-crimes charges stemming from the Gaza operation. And Israel's military censor has barred publication of any pictures or names of field commanders who served in the Gaza offensive.

 

seriously why why why why why why why why why?

 

this feeling will pass of course, but i will take it, if for only a moment.

 

some things for the new year:


- fucking, just stand up straight and fix your fucking back, stop slouching

- don't be cynical, just don't do it, if you are going to do it, just think, hipster attitude = cynicism - that should keep you away

- don't waste your time reading stuff you don't understand, it's a waste of time, if you don't understand it, take it slow, if you still don't, take it slower and get out the dictionary and be online to cross reference shit you need to know before reading it

- try to learn something new everyday, even if its tiny.

- when you open your eyes in the morning, just get up, you don't need to lay there half asleep thinking about nothing wasting the day away, just get up and start the day

- don't waste your time thinking dumb negative thoughts. no, this isn't about being hyper-positive, this is about being efficient. just don't waste your time doing shit that doesn't matter. and come on, don't give the lame comment, "well what matters anyways?" - you already know nothing matters anyways, and so get over that, b/c it's a waste of time juggling that around, OK, welcome, now go.

- if someone messes with your friend either punch them in their face or teach them to be a better person - don't do nothing. teach them, that will be good, but if you can't, punch them in their face.

- if ches posts his european dates and you are in the same town, just go. whey not? what do you got to lose? absolutely nothing. just a few fucking euros and a few hours you'd spend online. just fucking go. the show will be good, carla will be good, just fucking do it. if you are poor and you have no money, and you seriously have no money, and you aren't one those people who say they have no money but really do (like me and my friends) then just go there and hang outside and listen from the sidewalk. i did that once. i looked so pathetic it was lame. i was with my friend elaine. we stood there in downtown LA outside the fancy rocco show where ches was playing at some italian restaurant. then devin saw us and he told us to come in. someone will see you and let you in. and if they don't, just listen from the outside. come on. come on. come on.

 

all shows opening for Carla Bozulich's Evangelista

Jan 20: Rome, Italy @ Circolo degli
Jan 21: Milan, Italy @ Casa 139
Jan 22: Faenza, Italy @ Clandestino
Jan 23: Rovoreto, Italy @ Teatro Alla Catiera
Jan 24: Padova, Italy @ Stalker
Jan 25: Torino, Italy @ United
Jan 27: Marseilles, France @ e'lembobineuse
Jan 28: Barcelona, Spain @ Apolo
Jan 29: Madrid, Spain @ Moby Dick
Jan 30: Lisboa, Portugal @ ZB Gallery
Jan 31: Leiria, Portugal @ Fade in Festival
Feb 01: Vigo, Spain @ Contemporary Art Museum

thanks!

 

so it must be obvious by quippage alone that i am not digging
durham
however
one consolation about moving would be that there are different birds in the southeast
than there are in the west. but it is nice to see familiar faces too.
thank you remaining and feeble biodiversity
mind you these are all common feathered friends but i see them as friends nonetheless.
thank you seed and bug eaters for getting me past my hollow, geographically strained heart
eh hem- thee...
white throated sparrow
white crowned sparrow
slate colored junco
white winged junco
cardinal
yellow throated warbler
pine warbler
solitary vireo
cedar waxwing
eastern bluebird
hermit thrush
robin
mockingbird
carolina wren
red breated nuthatch
white breated nuthatch
tufted titmouse
carolina chickadee
eastern phoebe
downy woodpecker
yellow bellied sapsucker
mourning dove
great blue heron

 

i once went to a small okinawan island. it took two planes, freighter ship, a ferry, and a bicycle. It could have been faster. I could have flown from LA to Naha, taken a private jet to another island, then a ferry or two to the island I was on. but regardless. i went to the southern most island. it was way at the bottom. near taiwan. there are a cluster of okinawan islands down there called the yaeyama islands. i wanted to go to the very end of japan, so i went there. i remember i was sitting there on the floor, and then all of a sudden it hit me. and then i was like, "fuck, what the fuck? i'm like so far away from anything, and it found me down here, how did it find me? I thought I could escape everything." or when you are walking in Berlin, and you know exactly what it feels like in its beginning stages, kind of like catching the flu, and you can feel it in your stomach very slightly. then it grows bigger. oh well, what can you do?

-----

last year i took a photo of the sky and emailed it to people
some complicated technological things happened which prevented me to continue to send them how i started it
whatever
this is the new subscription email list for 2009
IDEAS
i advertise myself
there is a tumblr
atleast i don't advertise it with sex

 

thank you !!!!! the pyramid is on the verge of collapse!
jack
the return of depression economics by paul krugman
elementary particles
jason
flannery o'connor complete stories by
4 dada suicides by Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché
josh
the taoist body by kristofer schipper
slim
jps hebrew-english tanakh, particularly the torah 5 books of moses, in tandem with the bedside torah by rabbi bradley shavit artson
heather
invisible cities - italo calvino
the rise of the creative class - richard florida
man and his symbols - c g jung
on kissing, tickling, and being bored - adam philips
total work of art - matthew wilson smith
lance
The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel written by amy hempel
Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
kristen
the sun also rises" -hemingway
"laurier blanc" (white oleander) janet fitch .
"the teaching of buddha" -bukkyo dendo kyokai
sam
One Place After Another: site specific art and locational identity (miwon kwon)
Norwegian wood (Hauki Murakami)
Road Novels 1957-1960: On the Road. Dharma Bums. Subterraneans. Tristessa. Lonesome Traveler. (Jack Kerouac)
Relational Aesthetics (Nicolas Bourriaud)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
jay
Roadmap to Korean by Richard Harris
Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson
melissa
hopscotch by julio cortázar
iona
the exterminator by william burroughs
john
"Ecrits poétiques" by Christophe Tarkos.
jared
city dreaming /sonic youth
daniel
the dialectic of sex: the case for feminist revolution by shulamith firestone
abrasive
friedrich nietzsche - thus spoke zarathustra
timothy j. lambert - best gay erotica 07
mason
pimp by ice berg slim
kevin
"i am currently reading the local penny savers every day because i am fucking broke"
aviv
east of eden by john steinbeck
thomas
Noise/Music: A History by Paul Hegarty
The Sexual Life of Robinson Crusoe by Humphrey Richardson
matea
Chris Ware - Jimmy Corrigan The Smartest Kid on Earth
Oscar Wilde - the picture of dorian gray
Hector Oesterheld - The eternaut
matylda ("i am not dead", j.s.)
birds through a ceiling of alabaster
the mysterious flame of queen loana by umberto eco
bieguni by olga tokarczuk
the shanghai union industrial mystics by nury vittachi
ken
"Organic Chemistry" by John McMurray
"Cellular and Molecular Immunology" by Abul K. Abbas, Andrew H. Lichtman, and Shiv Pillai
"Grendel" by John Gardner
"Kusamakura" by Natsume Soseki
"Cane" by Jean Toomer
"Dictee" by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

 

my biggest worry about the last 5 years would be that the whitehouse was going to detonate a nuclear bomb inside the united states, blame it on iran and then nuke the entire region. i prayed that this would not happen everyday. now those mutha fucking murderous demonic sadist carnivores are gone. my fear did not come to pass.
thank you God.
obama and clinton:
please please please please please please please do it right.
please do not make us hate you too.

 

splash down over the arctic ocean into a pool of frozen blood, emerge as xiu xiu screaming to the penguins,
"it is... thee..."


10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!





#eight with - Caralee McElroy of Xiu Xiu, Mercy Brown and the P.M.R.C.


1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

my alarm clock


2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

stop eating and start sleeping


3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

cauliflower because i hate it and wouldn't be tempted to eat it


4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

alcohol alcohol alcohol


5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

pizza raining down on me


6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

my losery brain


7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

gems and other semi-precious stones


8 what do you want to be free of?

the past


9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist


10 what deformity do you find attractive?

limbs missing

 

i was 18 and it was my first day in the dorms at the college i was just starting. it was 2000. i didn't know who my roommate was yet. when i got to the dorm he wasn't there, but i saw that he had already moved in. when i walked in i looked at his desk and thought, oh jesus not this. he had a vote 4 bush sign sitting on his desk.

8 years, jesus.


--


for mlk day i just went to where hitler shot himself, and i spit on the ground there. it's a parking lot now.

 

all shows opening for Carla Bozulich's Evangelista

Jan 20: Rome, Italy @ Circolo degli
Jan 21: Milan, Italy @ Casa 139
Jan 22: Faenza, Italy @ Clandestino
Jan 23: Rovoreto, Italy @ Teatro Alla Catiera
Jan 24: Padova, Italy @ Stalker
Jan 25: Torino, Italy @ United
Jan 27: Marseilles, France @ e'lembobineuse
Jan 28: Barcelona, Spain @ Apolo
Jan 29: Madrid, Spain @ Moby Dick
Jan 30: Lisboa, Portugal @ ZB Gallery
Jan 31: Leiria, Portugal @ Fade in Festival
Feb 01: Vigo, Spain @ Contemporary Art Museum

thanks!

 

 

i was sick by the germs, but the germs couldn't kill me, and now i am revitalized, oh the days i've missed sitting on my bed, what a pity.


from an artist project (google pia lindman for more info):

 

please send (willitburn@hotmail.com)
me
a (reasonably sized) photo
of what you are reading
along
with
the author and title.
this are/is my current
pyramid.
please add to it.









sweet tea
black gay men of the south
by e. patrick johnson











blue bamboo by osamu dazai




















sex trafficking
inside the buisness
of modern slavery
by
siddharth kara









comfort and critique
by
peter sotos








the sound and the fury
by
kermit the frog

 

last week i watched~

nayland blake


















fed by strangers for 60 minutes.
please try to replicate this feat.
this is a list of what he was fed in order:

tangerine
baby tomato
celery
chocolate milk
doughnut
strawberry
pizza
water
pizza
crackers
doughnut
pickle
macaroon
water
carrot
water
shrimp
shrimp again
tangerine
baby tomato
water
strawberry
pizza
water
carrot/celery (at the same time)
baby tomato
pickle
doughnut
tangerine
doughnut
chocolate milk
carrot
doughnut

 

harassed beyond all contention to reveal and yet lie at the same time, xiu xiu is forced to emit
yet again... thee...


10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!







#seven with - Spencer Krug of Sunset Rubdown, Wolf Parade & Frog Eyes


1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

the pumping, bumping sound system at "O-Bar," which happens to be below my apartment


2 what do you do when you are feeling self destructive?

make drama, maybe punch a door or kick a wall. get overly physical.


3 what nut, fruit, or vegetable would you use to build your castle?

artichoke leaves, (with a garlic butter moat)


4 what is/was your favorite controlled/palliative substance?

jameson whisky and tylenol gel caps equally


5 what do you want to see when you look at the sky?

the usual, as in, no big surprises


6 what about yourself physically do you want to change?

generally, I feel like a lump of silly putty that needs stretching out,
so, whatever that means.


7 what item that is not food, do you wish was food?

carbon emissions

8 what do you want to be free of?

don't know. nothing. because I'd bet I'd miss whatever I answer, even things like "guilt," or "fear," or "Canadian economic ties to America."


9 what book do you want to read but have not yet?

fiction: geek love non fiction: the hot topic

10 what deformity do you find attractive?

hair-lips are kinda cool...

 

wow that is an amazing question.
what does it mean to die and watch your loved ones die as when
know that the world sees this?
i really need to think about that.
do you know anyone there right now?
did you stay in contact with anyone from your visit to israel?

 

i was reading your thoughts, and before i thought to answer them a thought came to mind. i am just writing on a whim, so critique me if you feel different.

There is a difference in today's tragedies from those of the past.

It is not just we are watching this as this happens. But that, the victim's of today's tragedies know that that they are being watched by the rest of the world (you can argue that this is not always the case, but it is definitely the case here) - they know that the rest of the world knows what is happening at the very moment. Maybe not everyone cares, and not everyone is paying attention, but it isn't something secret. Though, yes, their are probably things that we don't see, but my point is just that: what does it mean for someone else upon who wrong is being done, what does it mean when they have the knowledge that the rest of the world is watching them as this wrong is being done?

Does this condition have a name? Could it be related to an extreme from of loneliness and hopelessness?

Though, maybe it can be argued that people don't hold this knowledge. I don't know. I just feel this is an interesting paradigm.

(and yes, I know that not everyone is "just looking" - i'm writing in a broad sense)

 

obviously not knowing does something, but does knowing?

is there power/efficacy in thought and mourning and praying?

is there protest via knowing?

in an empirical way?

if not knowing leads to a result then knowing must by some sort of psyco/social/physical reaction lead to a result?

is that too hopeful?

do i just not know how to think about this?

does palestine care that someone cares?

 

ok, so here is yet another post. a friend wrote this. what is the efficacy of posting these?



The Art of Indifference Oraib Toukan Jan 11, 09

If anything WWII has informed us is that there is no excuse for indifference- perhaps even more so among a society's intellectual backbone. Today the death toll in Gaza exceeds 850 people, most of them women and children. Three thousand four hundred have been injured, amputated, and handicapped for life, and many more will be, by the Israeli army's use of white phosphorous. Hospitals in Gaza never had the medical capability, with or without this crisis to admit casualties in such numbers. The admitted are being treated on floors often by other civilians and with no medication, utensils, or anesthetic. Images of funerals of families eradicated in their entirety like pests, have plastered the web. Two days ago, Israeli troops advised one hundred and ten civilians to escape and seek shelter in a house they designated. After they were collected there, they targeted that very house. The International Red Cross Red Crescent filed an international complaint at incidents of Israeli troops leaving babies alive, to die at their mothers rotting corpses.

After 2 weeks of continuous bombardment, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) gave the people of Gaza three hours truce time to get water, food, and check on their families. As people rushed through total rubble, destruction, and devastation of their city, homes, and livelihoods, and with water and food supplies cut from all sides, Israel hit right at the third hour with its mightiest fist yet. Several UN refugee bunkers have also been hit and so too have their aid vehicles. So much so, that the UN halted all aid until they were given a formal agreement that their crew will not be targeted. No humanitarian aid vehicles were allowed to go through with supplies irreplaceably damaged.

With both border crossings closed, victims have been trapped with no refugee-intent out. In fact, out of its 1.5 million people on the strip, one million of them are refugees expelled during the creation of the State of Israel. There are truly no words left to describe the act of trapping people already in a ghetto and driving them to their death thereafter. And the problem is that we are talking about people, not statistics, or media images any more, or the Penguin Classic: 'Israel has a right to defend itself'; its people, not cactuses, for example. But people. Persons like any other. Breathing, with a heart, a conscience, and a mind that reasons, now with further passion.

And all that aside, and since November, around two months before this pre-planned attack, Israel began refusing foreign media correspondents' permits into Gaza- so they can strategically cut the world out from precisely this. As of January 6th, 83% of all articles published in The Washington Post, The Los Angeles times, The New York times, The Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal were in favor of the US and Israel's official talking points. In total indifference, these newspapers continued to splash its readers with images of distressed Israeli civilians (with Gaza burning in the background) or of fatigued Israeli soldiers. This they continue to deem more appropriate than the horrific traffic of images coming out of Gaza, because they are in fact- too gruesome.

Predictably, congress today with all but three representatives fully backed their support of Israel in this horrific 'operation'. Speech after speech Democrats and Republicans alike were mouthpieces for the Israeli Defense Forces. Obama will clearly not be the ugly duckling on this matter at the end of the month, not now, and probably never. Those concerned and waiting for him, might be waiting for Godot. And as they all continue to hide behind their speech podiums, the IDF is dropping more of its leaflets tonight in total black outs from the air, dehumanizing this ghetto with fright, fright of 'further escalation' typed out to them in Arabic. And of course in the process, making the most resilient, even more resistant.

Indeed, a set of affairs all too close to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. As Joseph Massad of Columbia University recollected last week, in its hey day as a symbol of Palestinian resistance, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) laid flower wreathes at the Warsaw Ghetto monument to honor those fallen.

Oraib
Brooklyn, NY Jan 10 2009

 

lily
independence

 

Mayor Ron Dellums pleaded for calm as anger continued to build in the city’s black community over the shooting of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old butcher’s apprentice who was shot in the back while lying on the platform

at

the

Fruitvale

station

of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system.

 

there are so many good reasons to be a vegan. if you want to stop fucking up the world and DO IT please let me know if you have any questions.
if you want to know why it is a good idea please drop me a line.




if you want to argue with me, please do not bother.
i, like all vegans, am pedantic and unmovable.
willitburn@hotmail.com

 

rough me up and then throw my sobbing and weakened body down into a trench while i call out to the harpy above that xiu xiu presents.... thee...


10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!






#six with - Baby Dee of Baby Dee


1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

chainsaw

 

Low. Life. from Clayton Cubitt on Vimeo.

 

i will haunt the world when the fog comes up at dawn
but only dawn fog
my hands are covered in blood
i like squeezing the glasses i am drinking
tonight i squeezed
the glass of schnapz
and it exploded it my hand
and both of my hands are covered in blood
it is great
if the sunrise is red like blood
then the fog
i will haunt the world with
will glow red like the sun
and like blood
and like the cherry spread from iran

 

take a flower and crush the petals between your fingers, write the words "everyone against anyone!" on your lapel,
xiu xiu presents to you... thee...


10 < 10 > 10 interview series

10 questions to more than 10 people that takes less than 10 minutes to answer.

this series does not ask why, only what!
be brief and live your life far from the computer!




#five with - Freddy Ruppert of Former Ghosts


1 what sound would you be happy to never hear again?

Last night I was at this dummmbbbbb bar and the bouncer/security/door person kept making this whistle sound over and over again. I think he was bored out of his mind, sitting in his fucking stool and he kept making this same whistle sound over and over that sounded like a dying fucking bird cooing itself to sleep. I was getting really, really angry. And the more I drank the more angry I became. He wasn't stopping. He just kept going. ON and ON. I was ready to fight the guy even though he was HUGE and 50 times my size and would have totally smashed me to a million pieces, but it seemed like it was worth a chance because it was that annoying. But then it got worse! On top of it, these two girls saw each other and started screaming over and over and dancing and grinding each other and screaming and screaming. So all the while you have these insane girl screams mixed with this insane dying bird cooing whistle. I never want to hear that ever again.

 

 

 

i met a guy at a nye party last night, i don't remember all the details in this story he told me, but it was something like this:


on a recent trip to thailand there was a sex tourist sitting next to him. the reason he knew this is b/c the guy was one of those kind of guys who impose themselves onto you. even if you don't respond to them, they will just spill out their life story to you. i cant' remember where he said the guy was from. i think he said somewhere in Europe, and he was a farmer. he saves his money up for 6 months, and then spends it all the rest of the year in thailand on sex. he said that the guy said that he didn't care if he got AIDS b/c he is in his thirties, and he figures, if he got AIDS he'd die 10 years later or so, and he'd be in his forties, and that would a nice length of a life...


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