I think I found a Gertrude Stein poem about Mick Jagger. It’s called “Negligible Old Star“.
Archive for August, 2010
Records of Existence
Records of Existence is an artist run label of underground independent artists. We specialize in doing limited edition Hand-Printed and Hand-Assembled releases to make the release as unique as the artists.
The new release, “Accordion” was composed by my friend Curt Seiss, who was also the other brains behind my own recent album, “Strange Punctuation”. Accordion (which serves as the band name and album title) is a collection of dreamy, instrumental songs. This album utilizes lo-fi sounds created by warm synths, acoustic guitar, reverberated bells, bowed strings, banjo, accordion drones, and other instruments to create melodies that weave through what are ultimately placid, mood pieces. While the tracks hold their own as layered, atmospheric morsels, they are occasionally propelled by a booming drum track which drives the songs up and out of the primordial soup of movie-score haze.
Ten Reasons Why I (don’t really) Love Lists
- With a list, you can quickly fill up the page without having to actually write very much. It’s kind of like using a really big typeface to get out of writing a long book report.
- Similarly, when a list is all you write, who needs to revise! Publishing a list is like publishing an outline. It’s so easy; anyone can be a writer now!
- A series of lists invites the reader to scan the page, skipping around, picking and choosing, getting disoriented and finally arriving at an incomplete idea.
- Lists often suggest a false priority of ideas. This is actually the most important point on my list, but I put it third because these are listed in the order that they came to mind.
- Lists often suggest a priority of ideas when in fact there is none. In such cases, a paragraph would do nicely, if it weren’t for point 1 above.
- Nested lists! Why bother to explain a complex relationship!
- They’re also fun to read.
- They make it so much easier to understand what’s going on.
- Lists invite little design arguments over whether to use bullets, boxes, circles, numbers or, my personal favorite, hiragana characters. Should we indent the lists?
- Lists of paragraphs are better than a regular old series of paragraphs, because with a list of paragraphs you get to have more fun with the design (see #7 above)
- Finally, lists are easy to tack onto later, without worrying about anything looking like it is out of place.
- A list just begs you to come up with ten items. It gets you cool points when you do it.
Mick Jagger vs. Gertrude Stein, Round One
(Mick Jagger vs. Gertrude Stein) vs. (Warhol vs. Picasso)
Angie, Angie
Clouds clouds clouds clouds disappear
Love it ain’t smoke but it don’t whisper.
Leave behind a lean love, clean love, lead eyes
coats, mostly empty, don’t but do, mostly matter
When the goodbye is a dry goodbye, it is good to be alive
All can’t good dreams, good dreams in time baby
Some are sweet sweet sweet sweet weeping
There be love cried?
Those nights. Those nights we tried to begin like trees. Trees tumble.
The old coats are empty souls and we wear them and
we ain’t, we ain’t we, we go
comes to it
comes to it see. There sweet I can’t look on your look
hates this that tastes so sweet
What is this look? It’s unsatisfied.
Angie, Angie, you’re beautiful clouds. Goodbye.