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Tag Archives: 1996

mantra

31 Tuesday Dec 1996

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In the new year … shit’s gonna be different in the new year
(repeat once every 365 days)

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Label

10 Tuesday Dec 1996

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1996, goo, gunk, Karthik, label, m.t., mtk, muck, ooze, retail, sale, slop, stuff, unit

 

This Unit Not Labeled For Individual Retail Sale
Ingredients:  stuff, gunk, goo, slop, muck, ooze, FD&C Brown No.9, FD&C Black No.23

 

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science, language and diversity proof

27 Wednesday Nov 1996

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LANGUAGE NAMES DIVERSITY.

SCIENCE IS LANGUAGE.

SCIENCE NAMES DIVERSITY.

 

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watching and watched

10 Sunday Nov 1996

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There is a feeling of being watched.
Because of course, the watcher is watching.

But the watcher is the watched.

And yet the feeling persists.
Now the watching …

 

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come, It's Fall

01 Friday Nov 1996

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I’ve come

many times

mindlessly

in the fall

when autumn has fallen

into its “n”

and october

breathed its last “errrrr”

into the lush warmth

of my woman’s insides

and it often

arrives

with

a rusty leaf

a golden crispy crackle of yellowing green

that burns well in winterous weather

in my minds stoven pipes

coming into the world

melancholic

as

november

my lie(f)

23 Wednesday Oct 1996

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imagine if I were to collect every single word I wrote and saved over the last fifteen years and bound them into one very fat, long book.

I have dozens of stories, poems, journal entries, drawings, notations, thoughts,

words.

Suppose I were to collect all of this and then Bind it.

I could see an ordering using language (words are lies)

of my life.

of my lie(f).

Surviving the U.$.A.

20 Sunday Oct 1996

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In the US, temperance of desire is necessary more than anywhere else because here, laxity of this temperance is observed as a vulnerability and an opportunity for commercial intervention.

This subsequently leads to the inflation of false desires and the inflation of the value of insignificant temporal things.

mtk, SF, 1996

Can it?

17 Thursday Oct 1996

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Can it be some other words? In some other order?

No. It has to be exactly these words.  In exactly this order.

No.  It could be any order.

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me, fucked

16 Wednesday Oct 1996

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If computers are a fad, I’m fucked.
(me)
If computers aren’t a fad, I’m fucked.

If the Internet’s a fad, I’m fucked.
(me)
If the Internet isn’t a fad, I’m fucked.

mtk, SF, 1996

Marconi's First Words

28 Saturday Sep 1996

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doesn’t matter what Marconi’s first words were.

He was only the first one to put them into another wave, another packet.

There are millions of ways unheard everyday.

So why celebrate one?

mtk, SF, 1996

The Law Regarding Suicide

23 Monday Sep 1996

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The law regarding suicide:

you’re allowed to succeed
you’re not allowed to fail

you’re not allowed to succeed.
you’re not allowed to try.

mtk, SF, 1996

the long ing

22 Sunday Sep 1996

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the long

ing

doesn’t hurt

it’s too long

to hurt

anymore

Moving Fast

01 Sunday Sep 1996

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Moving FAST

in the wrong direction

is tantamount

to moving slower than SLOW.

 

mtk, SF, 1996

The Pursuit of Types

15 Thursday Aug 1996

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The pursuit of types – harmonically convergent patterns – is invariably a looping process which is infinite in scope and variety.

So naming the loop at any given point is dangerous, at worst and wrong (i.e. the path toward falsity) at best.

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Epilogue

The pursuit of truth cannot involve types or patterns because these are statements of limitation.

each moment

07 Wednesday Aug 1996

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each moment is itself for which
it is

and is responsible

this tempo will be brought home.
(fuck)

moment by moment

 

mtk, SF, 1996

pattern recognition

28 Sunday Jul 1996

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I must disavow myself of the perspective that seeing the world in patterns of harmonic occurrences is a good thing.

It is tantamount to stereotyping and is not progressive nor creative nor original nor authentic nor …

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Jung Discovered Nothing

15 Monday Jul 1996

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Jung discovered nothing!!
but he realized a thing or two.

 

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Protected: Birthday Wish and Letter to Dead Charles Mingus

21 Sunday Apr 1996

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Collision of Tempo

12 Tuesday Mar 1996

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collision of tempo

when this occurs, stop. look. and listen. relax.  Re-adjust.
(-ments may be necessary so stay on your toes)

a drink, a smoke, and usually a trip to this book saves the day.

The moment at least.

mtk, SF 1996

Fake I.D. (for Tiana)

06 Tuesday Feb 1996

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I NEVER LIE
(but I can keep a secret)

 

mtk, SF 1996

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