journal
as if it arose from the ocean one afternoon 6 or 7 hundred years ago showering the neighbours with ash flakes some as large as confetti and they idly watched it dye the evening sky red before finally walking away leaving it to cool off
not before time: whip for my back
snaps requiring no commentary in so far as for your viewing safety no commentary has occurred & none will be forthcoming apart from that they include a strange relationship to the media, tech fetishes & other diseases of the green ghetto
heavy signs, sacred vibes, sites, Customs St., Mt. Eden, return to Rutland St., Mission Bay
why would you record it when you can go up there any day and see the same thing?
what kind of permanence does that imply?
…
and the feeling persists with the slogans written on street signs that to
be careful
is here an act of political complicity … EVERYBODY is
being
European currency
A note on the superlative that a previous post was missing (here): i.e. on the specialest Disneyest superlative, the greatest,
the happiest,
the biggest,
the longest rhumba line…
It, this use of superlatives, demands a complete subjection to the principle of the creator’s imagination. Not, emphatically, the
creative
From Main Place Mall to the pollutant effect of humans in a world built for dogs & cars, or the Real World, Welcome back
J: Everything is a substitute.
So we go from ‘everything is everywhere’ to ‘everything is a substitute.’
Substituting for place, reference; referral taking the place of deferral. Substituting for milk, dairy-free creamer. Substitutes for cream, butter, sugar, food. Food replaced by ‘what we crave’ – sugar, salt, the bare minumum of