Hmmm, thinking about my year end blog post. . .

[TVC15]

Everyone does year end lists and the like.  That shit is fun when you are a dumb teenager, but as you get older and more reasonable, it becomes less so.  Every year, more and more in your head you add subconscious rules that you never acknowledge. "Oh, look, another top ten albums list where I will agree with the content, but not the order."  After a while, they just kind of get not that fun.

But I understand why lists are compulsive, and I am looking for something that might emulate their cracklick qualities.  People like enumerated lists of things.  I get that, even though I think it's kind of hollow and meaningless.

In the interest of doing something different, I think I am going to make a post of snippets from all the articles, blog posts, and general written "things" that I started this year, but did not finish.  This includes all sorts of random shit, from the embarassing, to the possibly amusing, the the extremely fragmentary, to the outlines, to the things that never got beyond even one sentence.  I use a Google Docs account as a sort of running writing journal that I can access from everywhere, and, well, I do access it from everywhere, and I start plenty of things that I do not finish.

I know that like 2 people read my blog, but I do it as much for myself as anything else.  Actually I have no idea why I am even making this post; I guess I just want feedback to know if this is even potentially interesting.

[drohne]

post the fragments in random order and all glommed together and get some william s burroughs shit going

[Madrun Badrun]

I'd prefer a top ten evilbore posters list instead and a paragraph for the reasons why I'm so awesome for each one.

[TVC15]

post the fragments in random order and all glommed together and get some william s burroughs shit going

If I had a working printer. . .hmmm, I do get paid tonight.

[Eric P]

Use The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin

In the summer of 1959 Brion Gysin painter and writer cut newspaper articles into sections and rearranged the sections at random. Minutes to Go resulted from this initial cut-up experiment. Minutes to Go contains unedited unchanged cut ups emerging as quite coherent and meaningful prose. The cut-up method brings to writers the collage, which has been used by painters for fifty years. And used by the moving and still camera. In fact all street shots from movie or still cameras are by the unpredictable factors of passers by and juxtaposition cut-ups. And photographers will tell you that often their best shots are accidents . . . writers will tell you the same. The best writing seems to be done almost by accident but writers until the cut-up method was made explicit— all writing is in fact cut ups. I will return to this point—had no way to produce the accident of spontaneity. You can not will spontaneity. But you can introduce the unpredictable spontaneous factor with a pair of scissors.

The method is simple. Here is one way to do it. Take a page. Like this page. Now cut down the middle and cross the middle. You have four sections: 1 2 3 4 . . . one two three four. Now rearrange the sections placing section four with section one and section two with section three. And you have a new page. Sometimes it says much the same thing. Sometimes something quite different—cutting up political speeches is an interesting exercise—in any case you will find that it says something and something quite definite. Take any poet or writer you fancy. Here, say, or poems you have read over many times. The words have lost meaning and life through years of repetition. Now take the poem and type out selected passages. Fill a page with excerpts. Now cut the page. You have a new poem. As many poems as you like. As many Shakespeare Rimbaud poems as you like. Tristan Tzara said: “Poetry is for everyone.” And André Breton called him a cop and expelled him from the movement. Say it again: “Poetry is for everyone.” Poetry is a place and it is free to all cut up Rimbaud and you are in Rimbaude is a Rimbaud poem cut up.

edit: goddammit, beated like tina turner

[Tauntaun]

do you sleep TVC? 

[CajoleJuice]

dutch-angle.com

[TVC15]

do you sleep TVC? 

I usually stay awake from Friday morning to Sunday evening, sometimes with a nap on Saturday afternoon.  If I do not have work, I maximize the amount of time I am awake.  Life is short, and the free time you have is even shorter.  I have had off the past week, so I have been up longer.

[CajoleJuice]

I wish I could do that. I feel like sleeping all the time.

Although it's funny how you say life is short. It's shorter when you don't get enough sleep. On the other hand, I've thought about this many times. I would trade 5000 hours off the rest of my life when I'm in my 60s if it meant I didn't need to sleep now.

[bud]

just talk about how terrible life is. it's like god, assuming he excists, wants me make me wanna kill myself

[Propagandhim]

Where the fuck is your blog located. I've been there but I can never find it again.  HELP ME OUT.

Yeah, what's your blog addy, TVC?

[CajoleJuice]

I JUST POSTED IT

[Propagandhim]

I JUST POSTED IT

Oops.Thanks.   

[TVC15]

I need to edit that Eyes Wide Shut thing again.  I hastily wrote it, looked at it the other day, realized it needed to be cleaned up, but I didn't feel like doing it.

I wrote it in like an hour after the related EB post, once I realized that Ichi was gone.

[TVC15]

You seem to have a knack for collecting all types of intellectual flotsam and jetsam so  agood blog post might just be a list of things that piqued your interest during the year and your thoughts on them.

That's why I was thinking of a collage of things I started but never finished.  Most of them are probably things I started, but then didn't have enough material to stretch out, or things I got bored with.  There are also some things I just never finished in a timely manner, so they would lack "unity" if I finished them outside of my original flow. 

It would be a pretty random post.