We Are the Dying World

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When ice on the pond is three feet thickand white snow stretches a thousand miles,my heart will still be like the pine and cypress, but your heart–what will it be?

“Winter” from Four Ziye Songs, Ziye (c. 265-420)

Aloysius

Here’s an important aside. For some time I’ve thought about how to [...]

October 16th, 2007 | Tags: | 6 comments

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In the book American Psycho, Patrick Bateman is a 1980′s Wall Street serial killer who eventually wishes to confess. However he has no unique identity within his peer group. This anonymity creates unplanned alibis.

In the movie American Psycho, the director believes that if she had only one scene to depict the entire [...]

October 9th, 2007 | Tags: | 15 comments

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Next week, de Schmog plays the Axiom Reunion Party which will actually be held at Fitzgerald’s. We’re playing Friday with Sprawl.

de Schmog has reunited in one form or another several times since we first went our separate ways. Sprawl never has. That’s odd since the Sprawl guys live in pretty close [...]

October 2nd, 2007 | Tags: | 17 comments

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Here is part of a comment to Justin’s musical youth post a couple of months past…

My parents were into the folk movement, not surprising for New York at the time. Lots of Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Clancy Brothers as well as stuff from the Great American Folk Anthology like Jimmy Crack Corn, [...]

September 25th, 2007 | Tags: | 16 comments

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On the afternoon of Saturday the 15th, the wife and I went apple picking in Dekalb. While picking apples, we were forced to listen to Jesus music and smell donuts. Then we ate at O’Leary’s where we were forced to listen to 80′s pop (like It’s Hip to Be Square) while eating

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September 19th, 2007 | Tags: | 25 comments