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Gunhead was the name of a robot tank in a Japanese monster movie.
I’M NOT OKAY, YOU’RE NOT OKAY—BUT, HEY, THAT’S OKAY.
Rich people, had to be, and foreign, too. Though maybe rich was foreign enough.
The brooding verbal polychromes of an almost unthinkably advanced decay.”
Thomasson was an American baseball player, very handsome, very powerful. He went to the Yomiyuri Giants in 1982, for a large sum of money. Then it was discovered that he could not hit the ball. The writer and artisan Gempei Akasegawa appropriated his name to describe certain useless and inexplicable monuments, pointless yet curiously artlike features of the urban landscape. But the term has subsequently taken on other shades of meaning.
“we do not currently advocate the use of violence or sorcery against private individuals.”
Eye Movement Desensitization & Response,
How it was, when you lost things, it was like you only knew for the first time that you’d ever had them. Took a mother’s leaving for you to know she’d ever been there,
Neighborhoods that mainly operated at night had a way of looking a lot worse in the morning.
“My father. You know your father, Rydell?” “Sure.” Sort of, anyway. “I never did. I had to have a lot of therapy, over that.” Sure glad it worked, Rydell thought.
“They’re going to rebuild San Francisco. From the ground up, basically. Like they’re doing to Tokyo. They’ll start by layering a grid of seventeen complexes into the existing infrastructure. Eighty-story office/residential, retail/residence in the base. Completely self-sufficient. Variable-pitch parabolic reflectors, steam-generators. New buildings, man; they’ll eat their own sewage.” “Who’ll eat sewage?” “The buildings. They’re going to grow them, Rydell. Like they’re doing now in Tokyo. Like the maglev tunnel.”
I know you all think you live in all the times at once, everything recorded for you, it’s all there to play back. Digital. That’s all that is, though: playback. You still don’t remember what it felt like,
The term Virtual Light was coined by scientist Stephen Beck to describe a form of instrumentation that produces “optical sensations directly in the eye without the use of photons” (Mondo 2000).
