September 10, 2019
“It’s a melancholy profession you’ve chosen,” Monkey said. “It’s like working in an office in a burning building.”
March 22, 2012
Regrets at Fordham
It’s the fucking around that takes so long.
I have trouble talking about books because to me it feels like narcissistic display. I’m reading this great book because I’m so great. Now, that’s not what people really mean when they talk about books, but it makes it difficult for me. “What is a book you wished you had read earlier?” A book I had read earlier in order to do what?
December 6, 2010
Clocking Out
Rock and roll is a music of mechanized sexuality. That’s why 90 percent of it sounds like clocks fucking.
Rock and roll is a music of mechanized sexuality. That’s why ninety percent of it sounds like clocks fucking. What does rock and roll mean? It means: Why is it so much easier to goose-step to supposed anthems of freedom like AC/DC’s “Jailbreak” than to the Prelude to Tristan und Isolde? It means: How did the drum become the drum machine?
Never trust a man who insists that he is sincere. How does Vollmann intend to be helpful, to save a life, to benefit someone?
Death Sentences
When you wear the Fordson tractor belt buckle my father gave me, you’re a hipster. When I wear it, I’m a redneck.
John Thomas and Lady Jane
February 10, 2005
Wanna hear a Freud joke? I’d say. Then I’d take the gun out and put it on the desk.
