As in: "He jumped the fence to go larking about with his pals." Or, derogatorily, "She's pretty serious about her bocce ball lark." Or, when expressing something easy to accomplish, "That semiotics exam was a lark." It can also be used as an adjective, as in, "Mitch was a larky dog, always on the look out for some mischief."


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Interview with John Jeremiah Sullivan, "Pulphead" [link]


“Your influences are a problem” -JJS

http://tinyurl.com/6ltbhd7

Once upon a fortnight neither near nor far, George Bernard Shaw enjoyed shredding the sicky gnar.

Once upon a fortnight neither near nor far, George Bernard Shaw enjoyed shredding the sicky gnar.

I read a profile of her once in which she talked about the black holes of outer space... She told her interviewer the note that emanates from them is a deep and constant B-flat, a key she loves. She added, too, that a man who once played bass for her had synesthesia—meaning that when he played notes, he saw colors—and that when he played a B-flat what he saw was “very, very, very black.”

#OWS

#OWS

Under the Big Black Sun [link]

http://www.moca.org/black_sun/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/reiss_1.jpg

Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest ”He Would Have Laughed”

POMO AS LIBERTY VALANCE [link]

http://videosarchive.org/music/wp-content/uploads/mvbthumbs/img_2540_gene-pitney-the-man-who-shot-liberty-valance.jpg

&#8220;LA&#8217;s like your brain. You only use 10% of it&#8230;&#8221; -Libros Schmibros

“LA’s like your brain. You only use 10% of it…” -Libros Schmibros

"Post-Darwinian Experiments in Consciousness" by Wells Tower

“Frankly, I don’t know if you’ve really gotten your head around what a remarkable time this is to be a human being,” he said. “Human consciousness has evolved way past the clumsy demands of ‘Do I eat this or fuck this or hit it with a stick?’ Obviously, from a species perspective, we’re doing A-OK. The planet is lethally choked with humanity, the upside of which is that people like you and me don’t have to spend our lives worrying about whether Homo sapiens’ genes are going to endure. Instead, we get to live completely free from the primitive survival mandate to experience life as a post-Darwinian experiment in consciousness.”

-Wells Tower

[http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2011/sep/28/post-darwinian-experiments-wells-tower-john-currin/]

Oedipus in Disneyland

Oedipus in Disneyland, Paranoid Press 1972

Plot: Clark Kent discovers the truth about Alice in Wonderland: It’s actually Queen Victoria’s pornographic autobiography, then he has an LSD freakout at Disneyland, becomes Queen Victoria, and kills all the Disney characters.

subgenius.com review:
“A really strange book about Clark Kent, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Victoria (or Victula), orgys, Jews, sex, Alice in Wonderland, Superman & Alice’s restaurant, not necessarily in that order.”


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