"I don't like pro tools, generically speaking. The music was made
'organically': no 'keyboards' were used, for example, for a keyboard
is a device with many alphanumeric keys used for entering text."

"Maybe Hegel was kind of playing at being British, right?"

"King heroin, obviously."

"Two records: private and public. Why would you try as hard in private
life, anyway?"

"The Republic is the same at all points."

"Racism? It's bad, people."

"You know what, George M. Cohan was kind of like the first 'indie-
rocker'."

"France is way oppressive, people. That's why people live so long with
hang-dog faces and fail to be 'nize' to 'babies'."

"The torture-table for people of partial Jewish ancestry could be over
and done with in ten seconds: 'But of course.'"

"'Quick Canal'? The Metro, of course. Or maybe Marta."

"Working with Laetitia was great. I told her about all the French
pornography I looked at and told her to sing as horribly as she could.
I think she mailed the vocal track in a manila envelope."

"But it's the song we worked the least hard on, obviously."

"I'm not going to lie or sugar-coat while we're away from the text,
'Logos' references the Lou Reed 'AIDS' song on *New York*. The
dissolution of a dream of socialist reason, the amplification of death
and destruction for no reason other than reinforcing insanity. Or
that's the intellectual feeling you might have in a state of
'controlled and educated freedom' like in the Fifth Republic, anyhow."

"A love letter to Althusser, for, well, trying."

On Oct 31, 3:18 pm, Jeff Rubard <jeffrub... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:





"I don't like pro tools, generically speaking. The music was made
'organically': no 'keyboards' were used, for example, for a keyboard
is a device with many alphanumeric keys used for entering text."

"Maybe Hegel was kind of playing at being British, right?"

"King heroin, obviously."

"Two records: private and public. Why would you try as hard in private
life, anyway?"

"The Republic is the same at all points."

"Racism? It's bad, people."

"You know what, George M. Cohan was kind of like the first 'indie-
rocker'."

"France is way oppressive, people. That's why people live so long with
hang-dog faces and fail to be 'nize' to 'babies'."

"The torture-table for people of partial Jewish ancestry could be over
and done with in ten seconds: 'But of course.'"

"'Quick Canal'? The Metro, of course. Or maybe Marta."

"Working with Laetitia was great. I told her about all the French
pornography I looked at and told her to sing as horribly as she could.
I think she mailed the vocal track in a manila envelope."

"But it's the song we worked the least hard on, obviously."

"I'm not going to lie or sugar-coat while we're away from the text,
'Logos' references the Lou Reed 'AIDS' song on *New York*. The
dissolution of a dream of socialist reason, the amplification of death
and destruction for no reason other than reinforcing insanity. Or
that's the intellectual feeling you might have in a state of
'controlled and educated freedom' like in the Fifth Republic, anyhow."

"A love letter to Althusser, for, well, trying."

"Given the way I look, why would anyone care to dispose over my
sexuality? I'm not exactly ugly, but I fail to see the point in 'you
should be...' or 'obviously you are...' talk. Perhaps this is
'rationalistic' of me."

"Obviously 'Let the Blind Lead Those Who Are Blind' is the best song
on the record, and there may be some point to this: what is it,
exactly, that 'men of good will' owe people in the way of 'excellence'
except an ultimate fare-thee-well not 'queered' by voluptuous
horrors?"

"'Shirley' was, in fact, not joking."

"'To All Whom These Presents May Come', more or less. Did 'it' --
life, I suppose -- eliminate your ability to cry? I was told that was
'inhuman', but even Imperially martial people turn out that way some-
times. And, fundamentally, there is always a 'republic' in the Empire
of 'lived experience'; who cannot compose a life filled with
*caritas*? Somebody's mom, certainly."

"If you liked Pink Martini, you'll love 'Red Death' from the
*banlieues*. Why would you not be in love with humanity at such a
point? Especially if one were a socialist Jew who had put in the 'hard
yards' of Ethical Culture for many long years, and kids abode."

"The logo of *Logos* indicates, through its stylized meaninglessness,
that it is a genuine French Concern. (Krankiness, less so.) Perhaps
some day it can be attached stateside directly to the distorted
booklet picture of the fun French conceit: "Isn't that what I look
like, kind of?'"

"A Pearl of great price. No fucking joke."

"And -- of course I can sing with me."- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

On Oct 31, 3:59 pm, Jeff Rubard <jeffrub... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:





On Oct 31, 3:18 pm, Jeff Rubard <jeffrub... at (no spam) gmail.com> wrote:

"I don't like pro tools, generically speaking. The music was made
'organically': no 'keyboards' were used, for example, for a keyboard
is a device with many alphanumeric keys used for entering text."

"Maybe Hegel was kind of playing at being British, right?"

"King heroin, obviously."

"Two records: private and public. Why would you try as hard in private
life, anyway?"

"The Republic is the same at all points."

"Racism? It's bad, people."

"You know what, George M. Cohan was kind of like the first 'indie-
rocker'."

"France is way oppressive, people. That's why people live so long with
hang-dog faces and fail to be 'nize' to 'babies'."

"The torture-table for people of partial Jewish ancestry could be over
and done with in ten seconds: 'But of course.'"

"'Quick Canal'? The Metro, of course. Or maybe Marta."

"Working with Laetitia was great. I told her about all the French
pornography I looked at and told her to sing as horribly as she could..
I think she mailed the vocal track in a manila envelope."

"But it's the song we worked the least hard on, obviously."

"I'm not going to lie or sugar-coat while we're away from the text,
'Logos' references the Lou Reed 'AIDS' song on *New York*. The
dissolution of a dream of socialist reason, the amplification of death
and destruction for no reason other than reinforcing insanity. Or
that's the intellectual feeling you might have in a state of
'controlled and educated freedom' like in the Fifth Republic, anyhow."

"A love letter to Althusser, for, well, trying."

"Given the way I look, why would anyone care to dispose over my
sexuality? I'm not exactly ugly, but I fail to see the point in 'you
should be...' or 'obviously you are...' talk. Perhaps this is
'rationalistic' of me."

"Obviously 'Let the Blind Lead Those Who Are Blind' is the best song
on the record, and there may be some point to this: what is it,
exactly, that 'men of good will' owe people in the way of 'excellence'
except an ultimate fare-thee-well not 'queered' by voluptuous
horrors?"

"'Shirley' was, in fact, not joking."

"'To All Whom These Presents May Come', more or less. Did 'it' --
life, I suppose -- eliminate your ability to cry? I was told that was
'inhuman', but even Imperially martial people turn out that way some-
times. And, fundamentally, there is always a 'republic' in the Empire
of 'lived experience'; who cannot compose a life filled with
*caritas*? Somebody's mom, certainly."

"If you liked Pink Martini, you'll love 'Red Death' from the
*banlieues*. Why would you not be in love with humanity at such a
point? Especially if one were a socialist Jew who had put in the 'hard
yards' of Ethical Culture for many long years, and kids abode."

"The logo of *Logos* indicates, through its stylized meaninglessness,
that it is a genuine French Concern. (Krankiness, less so.) Perhaps
some day it can be attached stateside directly to the distorted
booklet picture of the fun French conceit: "Isn't that what I look
like, kind of?'"

"A Pearl of great price. No fucking joke."

"And -- of course I can sing with me."- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

"Oh, they marked it down to $11.99. That means they want it to 'move'.
A number of possible reasons. Actually, it's ranked #487 in sales, out
of the 20,000-some records they sell. And still, 'I can't have a cent
from it'? Oh, you're "warming up" for something: I'll let you; the
Internet monitoring (of course there *always* is, to some extent) here
is 'warming up' to seeing what they have been *looking right at*."- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

"Oh, they marked it down to $11.99. That means they want it to 'move'.
A number of possible reasons. Actually, it's ranked #487 in sales, out
of the 20,000-some records they sell. And still, 'I can't have a cent
from it'? Oh, you're "warming up" for something: I'll let you; the
Internet monitoring (of course there *always* is, to some extent) here
is 'warming up' to seeing what they have been *looking right at*."