It's a sky blue sky

"let's call the calling off off"

More of this guy

you don't understand he said

and then before you know
can't even listen to the radio
every song's like a black hole
pulls you in and it won't let you go

Fast Cars, fine ass, these things will pass & it won't get more profound

I've seen fire and I've seen rain

Today I read this and thought wow:

You are a shadow my body leaves on other girls.

I have no opinion about this. And I have no opinion about that.

"She comes back to tell me she's gone"

(or "Fat Charlie the archangel files for divorce")

I love Paul Simon

I am reading a book about the human brain called 'The Creative Loop. How the brain makes a mind'.

It made my toes cramp a little to think about the processing and the reprocessing and the reprocessing. agh.

I love Paul Simon

"I hid under your porch because I love you"

So here are some things.

The first thing is this photograph, from an old exhibition by Dawn Cerny called 'We are all going to die (except for you)'. Which seemed pretty great, and reminded me a bit of the work of a former 'local' artist, named Rosalind Inett. Just the one bit actually with the tiny soldier guys coming out of the walls and dying all over the floor... er, so.

The second and third things are recommendations:

II. Up - as if you weren't going to see this already, but it's very very good. I was having a worthwhile intellectual debate last night about whether the cinematic experience of 'Up' surpassed 'Wall-E' or not and it went something like this:

YOU: This is definitely better than Wall-E, they've definitely outdone themselves this time

ME: No, it's not. I still prefer Wall-E. I think Wall-E is better

YOU: I think this was better

ME: I think Wall-E is better

So, yeah, good critical analysis eh?! But, genuinely, it feels like Pixar aren't even trying to make films for kids anymore. This was out and out a film about loss, and it was truly heartbreaking in a lot of places. But, it was also a lot of fun and as always a pleasure to watch. I wonder if Pixar aren't capturing perfectly the bigger 'themes' of our time or some shit. In the distant future maybe people will study Pixar films as a record of our society. In Wall-E the concern was obviously environmental and then there was also the obesity issue and isolation of the modern human. In Up, the little touches like the housing development, treatment of the elderly by certain 'systems' and the boys father missing from the 'Wilderness Explorers' ceremony, just all feels like a perfectly subtle portraiture of modern day life in 'Western Civilisation'.

III. Matthew Simmons' book 'A Jello Horse'. Is 'book' the correct term? Or is there a technical term for it because it is a short book (like an EP instead of an album?). I had read a couple of good and intriguing things about this and so I bought it.

I received it yesterday and read half yesterday and half today. Initially I was a little nervous about it, because it felt a bit sparse and like the kind of 'I do this and then I do this' style, which I'm still not convinced by, only it was 'You do this...'. Anyway, this turned out not to be an issue at all and it was really excellent and enjoyable.

It also feels a lot bigger than it is. It is a quick read and an easy read but the way that the little moments in it are written means that a lot of the ideas in it stay with you after you've finished it. It's like if you were eating at a really fancy restaurant and they give you like the smallest portion of food on the middle of your plate and you think to yourself that there is no way that you are going to be full after eating that tiny portion, but the tiny portion of food has been created so perfectly that you feel like you've eaten a good satisfying meal anyway. And those flavours will haunt your tastebuds now whenever you are hungry (mmm coconut rice and garlic mushrooms). Ha, enough of that analogy. Buy the book! I need to eat.

William Carlos Williams

"no whiteness (lost) is so white as the memory
                              of whiteness"