Rupert

a truth that's told with bad intent, beats all the lies you can invent

The Whore & Gambler, by the State
Licenc'd, build that Nation's Fate.
The Harlot's cry from Street to Street
Shall weave Old England's winding Sheet.
The Winner's Shout, the Loser's Curse,
Dance before dead England's Hearse.
Every Night & every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn & every Night
Some are Born to sweet Delight.
Some are Born to sweet Delight,
Some are born to Endless Night.

how to be a maudlin cliche-ridden insomniac--quote William Blake. actually i love this poem. i sort of think that it is "like a rolling stone" of its day. i'm sure there are millions of comparisons between Zimmy and Blake--but it has always intrigued me how similar they are. and also PJ Harvey has got to have Blakeian root systems or since i'm overtired i could say Blake is a rhizome linking Zimmy, PJ, jim White and I'd add Cat Power, Baudelaire, Rimbaud and some Patti Smith I'm sure there are more but I'm tired and three people know what I'm trying to say. But the rhizome was one of my favorite philosophical metaphors--that and a "body without organs" which comes from the same tag team of Deleuze and Guattari.

Ohe o my fave essays about Sally Pottter's "orlando" was by Molly Nesbit and in it she calls Tilda Swinton the ultimate body without organs or in other words "orlando" was the best example of what Deleuze and Guattari meant by a "body without organs" and I just watched Michael Clayton and was kind of unimpressed by Tilda Swinton. I lobed her for being unconventional. Once she sat in a glass vitrine in an art gallery for like 24 hours straight--she was sooooo boring in Michael Clayton. It is sort of like the movement of Angelina Jolie from Gia to Mr and Mrs. Smith--cutting edge to dulleded edge.

Jezebel James... finally... ummm... yay...

So I was watching... ummm.. I was watching... uh... I was watching okay it was american idol and a coming attraction spot came on for the new amy sherman-palladino show "the return of jezebel james" which will have an hour-long premiere on fox march 14. which is four days before the she and him album. and three days after tin man on dvd and hello voyager. (you have to put these things into perspective). anyway, franny has expressed some doubt about this show... from the preview i'm not sure what to think. they sure buried it in the schedule. anyway, i'm hopeful. i think.

Notice from the management

Since there has been such an upsurge in posts in the past few days, we (or rather I) decided we needed a couple new categories in which to order everyone's thoughts so the blog doesn't beccome overwhelmed (see notice I'm so delirious I actually think other people post to this blog) so I've added "I should be asleep right now" for those times when you find your fingers doing the nocturnal walking at oh say 3 am. And then I added "Patron Saints" who are our inspirations for whatever ridiculous or serious reason. My vision here is all you have to do if you wan is select the category and type a name. You can explain more if you want but don't feel obligted (also love the way I'm pretending that I didn't post most of the babble in the past few days--Anthony helped tho. I also meant to create a catch-all "Buffyverse" category but I forgot and it is too late to sign back in. Either Anthony will be sweetness and light and do it or I'll add it later. So you can see what makes an I should be asleep category--