The (Most) Nabobist

Speaking of the moon, I watched Un Chien Andalou last night around 3am when I couldn’t sleep. The attached video is not safe for public viewing OR if you’re squeamish. The Pixies didn’t pull the eyeball slicing out of thin air.

I love the animation, effects, and editing of this. Those white masking effects are effective; I’m redundant. It’s an animation of a poem by Billy Collins. The poem is about forgetfulness. I was just talking to a friend recently about how the moon was a certain sliver and color that night and that there was a song lyric on the tip of my tongue(that I used to know by heart). It was a pink moon.

Full Pink Moon – April This name came from the herb moss pink, or wild ground phlox, which is one of the earliest widespread flowers of the spring. Other names for this month’s celestial body include the Full Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and among coastal tribes the Full Fish Moon, because this was the time that the shad swam upstream to spawn.

First cut here. More to come, I’m learning.

Beetle on Vimeo

In the chilly hours and minutes
Of uncertainty
I want to be
In the warm hold of your lovin’ mind.

To feel you all around me
And to take your hand
Along the sand,
Ah, but I may as well try and catch the wind.

Bringing the big show to the city on Thursday. First Rails project to be discussed and hopefully some fun to be had. Any recommendations on the latter would be appreciated.

I love this guy’s words. This is the only short I could find online now and 4 years ago when I first found it. If you need a good laugh, as I do today, read it.

Some Thoughts on Clint Eastwood and Heidegger

I’m crazy about Clint Eastwood, and if that automatically sounds chic, it’s just going to have to sound that way. There’s something intrinsically fair about him. He’s no intellectual, but he’s willing to learn. For example, I have a feeling that if you met him and Heidegger crept into the conversation, he wouldn’t come up with one of those dumb Hollywood remarks along the lines of “Heidi-who?” He would, with quiet intelligence, say, “What’s that name?” and scribble it down on a little piece of paper. Not a memo either, or one of those “From the Desk Of” things, just a little piece of scratch paper. Maybe he’d borrow it from somebody. And he wouldn’t hand that scratch paper to any secretary, either. The next day, he’d go down to the library—a small library out there where’s he got all those acres—and check out a volume of Heidegger and read it himself.

The Way We Are in The New Yorker, 2007-02-19.

The last time our water went off, it was early summer. I got up at my regular hour, and saw that Hugh was off somewhere, doing whatever it is he does. This left me alone to solve the coffee problem—a sort of Catch-22, as in order to think straight I needed caffeine, and in order to make that happen I needed to think straight. Once, in a half-sleep, I made it with Perrier, which sounds plausible but really isn’t. On another occasion, I heated up some leftover tea and poured that over the grounds. Had the tea been black rather than green, the coffee might have worked out, but, as it was, the result was vile. It wasn’t the sort of thing you’d try more than once, so this time I skipped the teapot and headed straight for a vase of wildflowers sitting by the phone on one of the living-room tables.

From Epictetus’ The Enchiridion, something to remember.

4. When you are going about any action, remind yourself what nature the action is. If you are going to bathe, picture to yourself the things which usually happen in the bath: some people splash the water, some push, some use abusive language, and others steal. Thus you will more safely go about this action if you say to yourself, “I will now go bathe, and keep my own mind in a state conformable to nature.” And in the same manner with regard to every other action. For thus, if any hindrance arises in bathing, you will have it ready to say, “It was not only to bathe that I desired, but to keep my mind in a state conformable to nature; and I will not keep it if I am bothered at things that happen.

As far as I can tell bathing isn’t allowed but you can commune with some Stoics in their Yahoo Group.

Friday, February 2, 2007 at 8:00 PM

Adem
Devendra Banhart
Vashti Bunyan
Cibelle
CocoRosie
Vetiver

Introduced by David Byrne

A new, experimental form of folk rock has emerged in recent years—with roots in ’60s psychedelia, ’90s jam bands, electronica, and a number of world music traditions—and David Byrne introduces Carnegie Hall audiences to some of the genre’s creators.