don't thank me, thank Zoloft

"...technology is not always working just for the better. The problem is that we are working towards making replicas of ourselves, simulations of ourselves, to the point that there is no more self, and there is no more world." - Sylvère Lotringer

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"The simplest expression of anachronesis is [...] music in this limbo where it's referring back to the past but it's not there, and [it's] not in the present, either. There are so many things like that today [...] It's a really unpleasant sensation. Things under the sway of anachronesis are just nothing. You might as well be dead." - Simon Reynolds

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"The worst thing in the world is to know that the moment you are experiencing has already been defined, that this is the second or third time through or whatever." – Primer

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I'm gonna sit at the welcome table
I'm gonna sit at the welcome table
I'm gonna sit at the welcome table
Gonna sit at the welcome table one of these days

Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Strangers With Candy

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t/k:

Gogol Bordello at Fine Line Cafe
Boris and Sunno))) at Walker Art Center

Birth of the Clinic, Michel Foucault
The Great British Mistake: Vague 1977 - 92, Tom Vague, ed.
Ferdydurke, Witold Gombrowicz
The Age of Wire and String, Ben Marcus
Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories, Angela Carter
Iris: A Life, Peter J. Conradi
Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, Jeff Chang
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature, Dorothy Allison
Was, Geoff Ryman
Re/Search 8/9: J.G. Ballard, V. Vale
YES, Yoko Ono
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, Andrew Solomon
The Present and the Past, Ivy Compton-Burnett
Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture, Ariel Levy
The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster
Try, Dennis Cooper
Snowcrash, Neal Stephenson
Ed the Happy Clown, Chester Brown

Liquid Sky
Wire On The Box: 1979