| question time |
[Nov. 6th, 2009|10:45 am] |
this week's theme is... "quotation marks"
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context.
discuss! bonus points for mentioning typefaces, what a crappy place england is in certain ways, or metafilter.
2. name me some most excellent "distraction books". i have burned through most of the distraction books kept around the house currently and am looking for some stuff. why do you like those distraction books?
3. is "ass butt mountain" an inherently funny phrase or am i broken-headed? is it cool that i think making up dirty lyrics to old american song standards is hysterical, because holy shit: ass butt mountain.
3a. holy shit 2: downtuning a banjo will cure all the ills of the world. that involve a need for sinister banjo.
4. do you find solace in ritual? why or why not?
5. what soothes you when you need soothing?
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| you know what it is, i know what it is |
[Oct. 9th, 2009|09:22 am] |
let's get together and make something happen. something with some.... questions.
1. i know lots of us are huge dorks (hello there, the internet) so did you use books as blueprints, inspirations for your life, did you see your future in a book or books? which books? why? did you end up where you thought you would with those books?
2. how do you get yourself out of bed in the morning? what do you do when that technique stops working?
3. (america centric) do you think of yourself as "an american"? like straight up YO IM AMERICAN? why or why not? what does "an american" mean to you? feel free to substitute the pertinent country for your experiences
4. do you like "fake food" like taco bell etc? what's your favorite fake food? is it regional?
4a. this is not a question, this is just a useful service announcement that fuckin' domo-kun is all over 7-11 in the most perfect marketing ploy ever. of course stoned, confused weirdoes will go to 7-11 to drink slurpees out of an angry puppet's head. hell i have not smoked a joint in years and i am going to 7-11 right now.
( sssssssssssss )
i'm wasting my life.....
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| question time and video time. |
[Oct. 1st, 2009|10:47 am] |
now that you have gotten your dose of cartoonmunism, let us turn to questions (a day early because i am going to go cause a pile of trouble and be unavailable for your crude "questionography")
1. how do you deal with bad dreams, when you have them? what are the subjects of your bad dreams, usually? what makes them bad?
2. do you have/are familiar with a "protestant work ethic"? is it possible to make this thing work for me instead of making me feel like i should have a job i hate until i die, because what the fuck.
3. so i know it's OKTOBER which means BEER, especially the MOTHERFUCKING ELYSIAN PUMPKIN ALE, btu what are your favorite falltime foods and drinks? bonus points for mixed drinks because holy shit there's like this lull in between gin and tonic and various warming whiskey-based beverages and what the fuck, even.
4. VOLUNTEERIN'! i might have to stop tutoring kids because of work scheduling conflicts, what should i do instead? do you volunteer? what do youuuu doo?
( answer time )
answer me! |
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| yeah, you know it |
[Sep. 25th, 2009|09:58 am] |
the usual. facilitated this week by ILL-ASS ART CONCEPTS.
1. get made into pencils when you die design project. the pencils of mortality. what are your thoughts on this? on memorials in general?
2. the relationship between violence and love: discuss. love here either as making love, the emotion, whatever.
3. what the hell should WOMBS OF FURY even do
4. when you were a kid did you root for the heroes or the villains? pretend to be the heroes or the villains? are you a hero or a villain?
here is a video of a dancing robot.
( yesh yeah )
et tu! |
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| friday! |
[Sep. 18th, 2009|09:39 am] |
a) tell me about your last encounter with what you feel is holy.
b) are you ever surprised by other people's perceptions of you? how so? (special girls only question: do you often feel uncomfortable or unsafe being a lady in situations, or get shit for being a girl? if so, how do you deal?)
c) are you excited about this weekend.
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OVER TO YOU: |
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| this week's theme is SOLIPSISM |
[Sep. 11th, 2009|08:56 am] |
well all the themes are, aren't they?
1. big one to start out with: talk to me about your relationship to the pleasures of the senses. are you an ascetic? given over to sensual delight? do you dig on things, call them vices, call them virtues? get your kicks from self-denial? is there any philosophical framework that you employ to make sense of your feelings on this matter?
2. how do you feel about your body?
3. what are you at war with? why?
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| you know the drill |
[Sep. 4th, 2009|09:04 am] |
1. are you part of any club or group that does a regular activity? what is that activity? do you also consider this a big old socializing thing? do you like belonging? tell me some stuff.
2. what is the meaning of fall to you? how do you feel about it? melancholy? relieved? FUCKING PISSED OFF?
3. does music make you think of places or images in your brain? if so what is the weirdest image/place association that your brain has come up with lately?
4. special to people who do stuff: do you get flashbacks? do you think they're flashbacks or just a shift in the way we perceive the world?
answers later, there is work needs doing. |
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| why yes its sssssssss QUESTION TIME |
[Aug. 28th, 2009|08:28 am] |
1. how much attention do you pay to the smells of your surroundings? can you tell me what your city smells like? do you have a little psychogeographic smellin' map?
2. what do you do when you are upset at someone and it is to all intents and purposes unsolvable? how does a man cope.
3. why do you only hurt the ones you love? why do you love the ones that hurt you only?
4. WHY AM I SO MOODY. WHY AM I MADE OF MOODS.
feel free to not answer the last question becauase fuck that question.
anyway
1. see, i smoke sometimes just to not have to think about how things smell, because when i was a youngun i read richard feynman's thing about how he paid attention to smells, and then read some articles about smells being linked hard with memory. so i started smelling things and man it plugs you into the atavistic brain piece of your skull head. i was paying attention to the smells last night, salt water, sewer outflow, exhaust, sweet blackberries, dust, piss, beer. i like the smell of puget sound but i miss the smell of home and its wet living earth and breathing mountain down on us. the answer here is yes, i pay attention to smells. my city smells like that up there, except puget smells a little more complicated than "salt water" and lake washington smells a little different than puget. but.
2. used to get real high, now i ride my bike a lot. sometimes i will get a little drunk afterward but the riding a bike a lot is much more conducive to feeling okay than just getting fucked up, blah blah, cleans out the pipes. i rode 20 miles last night and it wasn't quite enough. though i did break my chain....because everything i touch, i destroy. HOW SYMBOLIC.
3. 
4. BECAUSE I AM A MAUDLIN BASTARD.
and now you. |
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| it's time for some questions |
[Aug. 21st, 2009|10:51 am] |
HAPPY FRIDAY
1. do you have pet/s? do you think pet looks like you / reflects on you as a person? bore me with stories of your pets!
2. P O L I TI C S: tom ridge made up terror alerts at the behest of rumsfeld, ashcroft. discuss.
3. why is it so hard to work, have a job, be a square? how have you dealt with these problems?
4. what is the phrase you have been using like crazy lately?
5. jesus christ, why am i such a fucking queerbasket? i used to be hard as nails, i swear!
annsdswres
1. those of you who have been playing the home game for some time know of my affinity for animals of the "eat in the tank, poo in the tank, diiiie in the tank" variety, bearded dragons and the almighty uromastyx who went by the name of Dongs. O DONGS! RIP, little lizard who hated the whole world. of course now i have the telefish (fish in tv set: the only tv worth watching), brunhilde dongs (tarantula o so adorable) and now
GENGHIS DONGS, a giant bearded dragon from dude-at-work who is tame, tame, tame, and likes to clamber on my shoulder. kellie claims a certain jness about him due to being spiky, but also very very cuddly and prone to looking at you with pained expression. i like box-type animals because i am a person who is given to travel and staring and is not into the whole pwease wuv me thing of a dog. soon i will make a cat occur and i will have all of the pets of people who hate people, except for birds*, because birds horrify me.
2. yes i hate politics as much as you do, but i am still surprised that all these dudes gutlessly went along with what they knew was super wrong, and also surprised that we (the country) are not responding with more fervor to these findings out. all these shenanigans and people are just like, oh, whatever. man, fuck you, these people.
3. shit i don't know. i hate feeling like trading money for time is such an obvious and painful conceit but (in the words of the vampire beatnick) "if you don't obey them, you don't eat." my life is currently devoted to figuring out a way around that sentence, among other things. i don't know if i will be successful. i don't know. i don't know. i like not working sometimes. i worked too much this year. it's not ok.
4. "fuck the man's fascist death culture!" "fuck it all anyway!" "goddamn it all!"
my coworker just used the phrase "giant balls over japan" and i'm all the fuck over that one.
5. fuck man i am asking you. i am sitting here listening to dweeby folk music and asking you!
over and out.
*i lust for a tame crow. it is stupid. i will never a tame crow. |
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| YOU KNOW HWAT IT IS |
[Aug. 13th, 2009|08:36 am] |
you know i am getting tired of using these dumbass pictures from the internet. i think i might make a logo for QUESTION TIME and possibly move the whole son of a bitch over to bonertown? or not. whatever. i have no idea how many of you moon units would follow me over to bonertown to comment.
ok so anyway here we go:
1. do you listen to different kinds of music in different seasons? how about different weather?
2. do you spend any time practicing a thing regularly? how do you practice this thing? why do you practice it?
3. seriously why the fuck am i having fond fuzzy memories of high school, it sucked so hard and everything that i had fun doing back then i'm basically doing in a cooler way now.
4. tell me about something that has recently excited you and you feel that everyone needs to be in on!
5. are you ready for it to be fall?
6. what is stuck in your head?
1. i am of course asking this because it went from satanically hot up here to cool and cloudy and like overnight i was all OH MAN, FOLK MUSIC, DEPRESSIVE ELECTRONIC MUSIC, and now i've evened back out to lots of black sabbath and kuni kawachi & friends in order to maintain some level of metal before i devolve into my winter specie and end up listening to that one ladytron album and leonard cohen and laibach until the sun comes back.
2. i semi-non-regularly practice sitting meditation, do a lot of pushups and situps, and draw some stuff every day. i do these things because it is right for me to do them. i am trying to make new words to explain the wherefores because where i am, we don't got words. i also play the banjo sometimes but only when i want to, which makes it not practice.
3. I AM ASKING YOU THIS! seriously the only thing that i did more of better in high school than i do now is wear makeup and that's because i didn't find myself on sweat-breaking adventures or forget to shower for days like i do now. due to adventure. and also because i have failed utterly at being a lady.
4. couple two three things. 1. i am late to this one, but bill callahan, whose song eid ma clack shaw has the sweetest lyrics. inexplicably gotten from the blog epicly later'd which if you are into looking at pictures of other people doing things is pretty excellent.
2. garfield variations - these guys are earth prime for sure.
3. i am always excited about veda hille. the excitement never stops. who wants to go to bc with me sometime and catch a show?
5. yes. every beginning of summer i think, oh boy, summer, i love summer, and every end of summer i'm like thank god that's over i'm ready for the rain. this man is in tune with these seasons.
6. right now, mercifully, nothing.
furthermore, new bonertown post. hey does my rss feed work? someone tell me i'm lazy. |
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| two bonertown updates |
[Aug. 9th, 2009|01:59 pm] |
nonspecific warning of moon treatise IV
sketchbook dump
i am trying to figure out a scaled distribution system for the moon treatises, but for the time being if you are interested in purchasing treatise just email my ass (robotacitus at google mail) and we will put things in the mail super old school. fuck the man's death culture! i gotta go do laundry! |
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| happy day of days |
[Aug. 7th, 2009|10:35 am] |
questiontime now has anonymous commenting enabled, if you are a nonspecific nonLJ person who wishes to answer some questions. during question time.
1. do you have any secret holidays? holidays that are really important to your crew/subgroup but are not well known outside of the same, things that you look crazy forward to on your own private kalendar?
2. what is better, the regret of doing something fucking stupid and having to deal with it, or the pain of doing something reasonable and correct that hurts real bad in the doing? and if it's the latter why the fuck does it suck so much? Jesus.
3. do you use works of art or fiction or whatever to make sense of your feelings? if so, explain.
4. since he up and died: what is your opinion on john hughes? were you, like me, part of the demographic that gave a reluctant shit about john hughes movies? don't you think ferris bueller is a dick? what's wrong with you?!
ANSWERS
1. oh my god today is dead baby day it's the most magical day of the year for bicycles. and when i say magical i mean belligerently drunk, crazy, good times, can't even words it properly. and of course explaining renn fayre to non-reed people is difficult. i think it's interesting that i don't imagine these holidays as permanent lifetime holidays, they're sort of movable feasts in the changing kalendar of the j-life, but you know, i say that now, i'm sure ill be drunk in a tree every may for way longer than i think.
i can't wait until i am making up holidays that others look forward to.
and of course there's always Sparkle Christmas.
2. i swear to god the fact that the first one isn't as painful means that it is wrong and will lead to more pain later down the line. i have yet to really get into my skull that making bad decisions often feels good in specific ways, you know, soothing, familiar, that kind of thing. on the other hand feeling like a mournful confused person who has done what they believe to be the right thing also allows one to drink whiskey out of a mason jar and stare soulfully out into the sky. so, you know, pros, cons.
3. greek tragedy makes me feel better about families and love. i will not say more because to say more, it makes me sad.
4. i like some kind of wonderful. ferris bueller ages poorly. all of the hughes films have that precocious young person thing going on in them that sets me to rage clenchin', though, and the whole WOO TEENAGERS BE PEOPLE TOO message is also oh CLENCH and you know empire records wouldnt' have if not CLENCH pepsi generation CLENCH CLENCH CLENCH, CLENCH
what is wrong with me is i care too much!
OVER TO YOU, QUESTIONKETEERS!!!! |
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| a much less art and death focused question time |
[Jul. 31st, 2009|09:00 am] |
1. do you feel like there is a large disconnect between your public and private selves? to what do you attribute this disconnect or lack thereof? how do you feel about this?
2. what kind of music do you listen to when you are having a Feeling? the Feeling in question is up for interpretation. i mean, whatever the phrase a Feeling means to you.
3. special to northwest residents, jesus christ, what have you been doing to keep from fucking bursting into flames the last week? what a shitty thing to do, the weather.
4. what in the fuck do you even do? you know. when a thing happens.
yeah yeah. i'm really tired so this shit is probably not going to make much sense.
1. sorta, yeah? i mean, i do that thing (the j thing) where i am "on" and those of you privy to the gentlemen's log / mantime / ahtever i call it when i hang out in small groups or individually will be well aware that i am a morose fucker, so, you know, sad clown, whatever. i would attribute this to being cripplingly shy as a small one and then developing a Persona as a combination of shy and bored, then realizing that the Persona is also an element, a legitimate one, of one's Nature. and of course different groupings bring out different sides of oneself. there are definitely selves i like better, and i try to find myself around people who encourage expression of those sides. THE MORE YOU KNOW
2. for my current Feeings i have decided to listen to the maudlin folk music of drunk white people, so i am all listening to like country and folky neo-country BS and stuff where a woman plays a piano and sings about feelings. i sing along with the feelings in an attempt to deal! things are pretty stupid out here.
3. lakes, cold showers, nudity
4. i don't know, man.
OVER TO YOU, GENTS |
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| k k k k k-w k k kwestion tiem |
[Jul. 24th, 2009|09:02 am] |
this is a real short one as i am so completely preoccupied it is not even funny. i am about to be heading down to the portland zine symposium in my Project Group Collective hat, hawking the truth about the moon for one buck a hit. when i come home i'm going to make all my shit available for sale on the inter-wob
1. new jersey corruption arrests. kidney trafficking. discuss.
2. does knowing that the insane clown posse made morton's list make you hate them any less?
3. some librarians just got fired for not cooperating with the book challenge(s) made by the christian civil liberties union. discuss.
actually fuck it i was going to post another link but you know what, i am fucking too stoked about this weekend and falling down under a fucking snowpile of moon treatise III that i need to staple to bother having opinions on anything. maybe i'll make some answers when i get back! for now though there are those three and a bonus one:
4. ask me a question here, and i will answer it.
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| HEY GUESS WHAT |
[Jul. 17th, 2009|12:51 pm] |
WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL WELL
1. so this new york art guy, dash snow, is dead. he od'd. street carnage (vicemag thing) posted four obits for him. some of his photography is not worksafe.
discuss. particularly in light of last week's whole art, artistic temperament, vices questions. bonus points if you're laurel and talk about new york, because jesus christ, new york.
2. what is the last song that has engendered a physical reaction in you? what was the reaction? why'd it do that?
3. what kinds of spaces make you feel uncomfortable? how
do you deal with that?
4. what is the most perfect summertime alcoholic refreshment? feel free to expound at nauseating length.
unrelated: 
this is the first image result for the search "the ceaseless mystery of being"
which is from this blog about "talismans", which is oddly compelling despite being dull as fuck.
ONSWARS
1. well he sure was a well-connected guy who decided to live a super-nihilistic dorkus-ass lifestyle and make art that could be kind of construed as shocking if it was not wandering in big old aesthetic ruts!!! i mean it is always a bummer when a guy OD's - especially when it looks like it is the woo hoo, i got clean, oh wait i'm gonna just take a hit, oh god, my precious baby veins ain't used to it, DED. i am not saying it is not a bummer. but i feel like if this guy had not been from a well connected family, he could not have gotten away with so much, and maybe i would not care.
of course now i wonder if i would have copped a hate-on for william s burroughs if we were contemporaries. oh la la, famous nancy writer faggot shoots his wife! what a jerk. the thing that bugs me about WILD REBELS like old dash or burroughs or even the cassady bunch isn't that they're doing socially unacceptable things, it's that they conflate being a dude on the edge with being able to disrespect others, to dismiss any shit they start as collateral damage, incidental to the amazing adventures of dude starring in own movie man!!! man, it's tricky. i got feelings.
(as a dude on meta filter said though: "He had a great beard though, a good strong beard.")
2. the mountain goats song warm lonely planet has been raising shivers up my spine and making my heart ache because it is simple and beautiful, all making me think about sleeping outside in the summer and that ultramarine night blue that gets into the whorls of my grey matter and makes the existential despair tolerable, even pleasant. when i sing along to it i drop the "i need" but MAN what a song. hey there.
3. the space i was thinking about when i asked was the motherfucking noburbs out here, all the same mini-malls and confusing parking lots replicated into infinity. i do not like how they all look the same and i do not like how the profusion of one-ways and parking lot barriers limits space for some pretty arbitrary reasons. i deal with this by thinking, i work here, this too shall pass, and then acting an ass and playing really loud, stupid music.
4. they are as varied as the waves on the sea but we'll go through a few perennial favorites here:
- frosty cold Simpler Times or other sports beer, while riding
- bourbon and lemonade (two fingers of bourbon in about 12oz of lemonade. mmm.)
- hendricks' gin, neat, in chilled glass
- campari and soda (for when you are an old man who does not like to have fun)
- tall boys of cheap beer because who cares / it's breakfast
AND YOU? |
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| well, i'm sure we all know what's coming up |
[Jul. 10th, 2009|11:05 am] |
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DONT GET ROWDY
1 under what circumstances do you find yourself writing poetry?
2 are you a person much given over to existential despair/Moods? should you be a man of Moods, what do you to do alleviate them?
3 do you associate the artistic temperament or a desire for success with Moodiness? other maxims? (nice guys finish last, etc)
4 do you have any vices that you feel define you?
5 and finally, to round off this series of introspective questions of sadness: what is one thing today that has made you excited or happy or the whatnot?
below
1. WHEN I GOT TOO MANY FEELINGS FOR SIMPLE PROSE. this has in the past included being lovesick, stricken with grief, and a deep affection for the sorrows of Aeneas amplified by amphetamines and psilocybin.
2 what the fuck do you think, jesus, i'm actually just a large box with YELLING on one side and DESPAIR on the other and a humorous cardboard arrow nailed between the two and sometimes a small man pushes the arrow toward one or the other, and sometimes the arrow tips over and it just hangs there between the two and :(. i alleviate these moods by knowing that moods are part of the transient nature of existence, accepting them without prejudice, and traveling onward from there. also listening to furious speed metal, drawing shit, riding bikes, and consuming Substances including but not limited to whiskey. sometimes i just give up and go to sleep.
3. i try hard not to but i do, oh hell holy hell yes do i ever. i think that being Artistic and Successful in certain realms means you're kind of crazy and a jerk and sometimes a small voice wonders if i am not wedded to this concept because it excuses that i am a dude given over to moods and not well suited to life on this sphere.
4 a cursory examination of my artistic output should indicate an answer. i will not dignify this answer nor will i elaborate it.
i will point out that i am overmuch fond of pipe smoking, which many squares view as a shameful and affected vice. i think it is the most delicious way to get your carcinogens and that's a fact.
5 there was this boat today. when back from the store i will show you a photo of this boat. amazing.
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