thanksgiving is probably my least favorite holiday for entirely unrelated reasons

happy colonialist holidays from
guillermo gomez-pena
and
ME

tra la la self-discovery blah

i've always though it was kind of a cop-out that this is my favorite tom waits song

but i don't even really fucking like tom waits anyway.

but i've had it in my head for a while

and i just figured out all of the lyrics

and i think i have a deeper understanding now

of why i like it

for so many different reasons.

kenneth anger.

this is all you need to know.

to those who might be interested...

I'm in a show in Marfa that opens tomorrow.

BOOK
Do Right Hall
(a.k.a. Buck and Camp's Church, a.k.a. that building with the horseshoe)
106 West Dallas St. Marfa, TX
November 15-29, 2008

My piece, ,-MON ,S5SE is in the show.

,-MON ,S5SE is a zine-style/booklet reproduction of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in the code of a .brt format file, a file type designed to interface with braille readers and printers. The file was downloaded without cost from the Internet, then transposed page by page into booklet form as a zine, printed and copied illicitly at my workplace.

With this document, I attempt to draw connections between methods of underground/non-commercial communication (pamphlets/zines, the Internet, materials for the disabled) and military codes (ARPAnet, Ecriture Nocture) which eventually evolve into methods of public discourse, literacy and communication (the Internet and Braille, respectively).

today.

I stood in front of my window

looking out across the grey sky as it rained

my flannel shirt still damp from walking through the rain

or perhaps simply dank from the fact that

i've been wearing it for the past three days.

i stood looking out from the third floor

slowly eating chili and drinking milk from a quart

with a straw that I had taped to the carton

so that it wouldn't drop into the milk

so i wouldn't have to fish it out with my fingers.

and i just thought

like

goddamn

this is the most beautiful moment of the month.

GOSH! thinking of a good name for a website is HARD!

BORED.