December 2010
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"we had five years-- left to fry in"
du Tiny
Shameless semi-fictive bandiversary monsterlovin for our minute music picspam (by Justin Moore) featuring photos of the first time Meff & i played music together as a dandy/gawdy (is gaudy “gaudier” spellt w. a “W?”) …as an all-verklempt duo! So here’s us doing a greasy “Five Years” at last year’s pubescent Bacon Day (XII)....
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"Epilogue For A Masque of Purcell" by Adrienne...
Beast and bird must bow aside,
Grimbald limp into the wings,
All that’s lovely and absurd,
All that dances, all that sings
Folded into trunks again—
The haunted grove, the starlit air—
All turns workaday and plain,
Even the happy, happy pair.
Harpsichord and trumpet go
Trundling down the dusty hall.
That airy joy, that postured woe,
Like the black magician’s...
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The Comedian as the Letter C, by Wallace Stevens
IV.
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These bland excursions into time to come,
Related in romance to backward flights,
However prodigal, however proud,
Contained in their afflatus the reproach
That first drove Crispin to his wandering.
He could not be content with counterfeit,
With masquerade of thought, with hapless words
That must belie the racking masquerade,
With fictive flourishes that preordained
His...
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HOW CLOWNS GO by Adam Zagajewski
An old clown hands out flyers at the station
for a traveling circus. No doubt
this is how clowns go—replacing vending machines (or children).
I watch him carefully: I want to know how clowns go.
The captivating balance between sadness
and mad, infectious laughter slowly slips;
each year the furrow in the cheeks grows deeper.
What’s left is the desperately oversized nose
and...
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YOU'RE THE TOP by Tony Hoagland
You’re The Top
Of all the people that I’ve ever known
I think my grandmother Bernice
would be best qualified to be beside me now
driving north of Boston in a rented car
while Cole Porter warbles on the radio;
Only she would be trivial and un-
politically correct enough to totally enjoy
the rhyming of Mahatama Ghandi
with Napoleon brandy;
and she would understand, from 1948,...
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CIRCUS by Adam Zagajewski
Look, your longing swung from the trapeze.
The clown is you as well and the tame tiger
who begs for mercy calls someone to mind.
Even the tin-pot music
has its charm; it seems
you’re starting to make peace
with your times (everyone else has,
why not me?—you say).
So why then does the circus tent
rise above an ancient graveyard?
“Circus” by Adam Zagajewski,...
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My Trouble by Diane Wakoski
my trouble
is that I have the spirit of Gertrude Stein
but the personality of Alice B. Toklas;
craggy, grand
stony ideas
but
all I can do
is embroider Picasso’s drawings
and bake hashish fudge.
I am poor
and don’t have very much to say
am usually taken for
somebody’s
secretary.
c. 1971 from Emerald Ice: Selected Poems 1962-1987.
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“They were about to see the Sternbild Marionettes, from Munich, perform E.T.A....”
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Answering the question, WHY TINY? (not that anyone ever asks)
From p. 100-2 of A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book. A 900ish page novel both my parents have read, my sister and i (unless i’m mistaken and Jess is done)— are currently reading it. Nerdiest family book club...
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“Dead Man’s Sunday Party”...
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garconniere:
…i’d feel really special/grateful if i ever got to see you and your tiny instrument revue in the flesh. the more i read about your adventures the more i have come to the conclusion i must find my way to you, or you to québec city one day.
p.s. mlle aka jojo posts the best ukulele related tomfoolery, not to mention great turns of phrases and poetry.
miss garconniere/julia...
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“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me.
All of...”
– Ira Glass (via kelleykipperman)
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xraystyle:
For years now, I’ve considered recording an album, not of my songs, but of my spoken word pieces backed by my musical compositions. I just don’t know, though. It’s not the Beat era anymore. Would anyone even listen to it?
Not that what other people think should dictate what I do or don’t do, but…I don’t know. I’m thinking about releasing it along with a limited-edition zine or...
rustbeltwhiskey-deactivated2012 asked: This is kind of random, but - I saw your comment to kittencoaster, and then I went, wait "Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys?" I really dig your band. In fact, both your band and my musical project were on the first Sepiachord compilation CD. I'm One Beer Prophet.
Small internet, huh?
Small internet, huh?
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"Small Works" at Lorem Ipsum Books / "Holiday...
(i couldn’t make such a perfect phrase as holiday handjobs & VFW up. it’s for real!)
Dear mlle.tumblr reader,
somehow i suspect i neglected to properly (blog) mention this…sorry for the epic tumblr talkativeness tonight. i’m frankly procastinating on my own zine sweatshop. but once i advertise how much merchs/lovely-ness i’ll have to offer this week i’ll...
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“Notice the term ‘religious experience.’ The common element between it and sexual...”
– John White (Kundalini: Sex, Evolution, and High Consciousness)
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did you know...i did stuff?
sometimes i don’t know that i do stuff.
i went home w. the beau to the ‘thesda/DC this weekend for channukah-family time, returned late yesterday. (the cat is almost done snubbing us.)
i have spent the day sloughing through the cold i got on the plane down last thurs. and playing internet catch-up hither and yon. real money and no-moneys. pauverling artist demands and oh short jobs...
