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"One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly."

"The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass."

"The direct statement without divagations, hesitations or reflections, that gives the other the facts full in the face, already has the form and timbre of the command issued under Fascism by the dumb to the silent. Matter-of-factness between people, doing away with all ideological ornamentation between them, has already itself become an ideology for treating people as things."

Trump who?

RIP Leonard Cohen
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/11/obi...

"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."

This is medicine. A lovely, bitter medicine.

A FOR REAL FOR SERIOUS QUESTION FOR SERIOUS READERS!! : if you were to give one book to another adult as a gift, with the intention of this book convincing them to begin to love reading serious literature, what would it be?

Hi. As some of you know, I make music! There's a new free (or, pay what you will...) album up on my Bandcamp - modular synthesizer compositions and improvisations from these recent troubled times. If you follow my Soundcloud, some of it was posted there before, but some not. Meaning new. Either way, it's here now if you want it. Go listen! And thanks.
https://geoffwilt.bandcamp.com/album/...

Ahh there we go - the solution to the pre-election anxiety/blues? Reading Zizek.

Since it seems as likely as not that in a week DONALD FUCKING TRUMP is going to be declared commander-in-chief of the most powerful army humanity has ever known, I ask the good people of the world, what are you stocking your bomb shelters with? Also, half of America? Fuck you. I'm not one of you and I don't like you - stay away from me and my family you scary idiots.

Hi friends, November's synthesizer mix is up (early, for your Halloween weekend!) Anyway, I'm especially proud of this one. If you haven't heard my music before, this is a good place to start. If you have time, go give it a listen --- Thanks!
https://soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt/dre...

The best things in the lonely world? Listening to favorite songs and reading good books. Commiseration of disparate attempts at existing. Real communication across unbridgeable spaces.

The Best Way To Smoke Crack
http://youtu.be/85YIezL8Q9A

A cosmic loneliness shadows this collection of little tales. It's beautiful and true.

Oh yeah that's why I read Vollmann - cuz he's the best.

"May we all kill our best allies before they kill us."

Watching Dylan Rieder videos all morning
http://youtu.be/Cts_HY8bZwU

I full on stopped reading this - and it was really very good. Forgive me book gods!

Writing a song - if it's so easy, here, you try. Let's see what you come up with.

Outrage that rhymed, metered, orally-delivered words are considered literature worthy of recognition seems strange to me. (What would Homer think?) But, you know, I'm a fan. Congrats, Dylan. It ain't like he lobbied for it.

I'm recording so much music these days that I've decided to start what I hope will be a monthly mixtape series of my pieces, spliced into a longplayer for your listening pleasures. You can STREAM or DOWNLOAD October's from Soundcloud here:
https://soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt/i-l...

New stuff over at the stuff factory:
soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt

I'm sorry - there's Rikki Ducornet, and then there's everybody else - that's just how it is! And I don't have patience for other opinions! Good morning and goddamn.

I'm sorry - there's James Joyce, and then there's everybody else. That's just how it is. And I don't have patience for other opinions... goodnight and godbless ...

Kinda lost interest in this - it's written immaculately though and is a better book than I am a man. The parts about Oswald are fantastic. But it isn't tuning well, pitch-wise, with my sleeping life right now. I will continue to read it.

Have sacrificed tons of reading time and pretty much all my Goodreads time because I'm trying to do this music thing for real - but keep up the good fight for the rest of us, my lovely corner of Goodreads! - I'm still around occasionally reading yr scribblings - & look out for shows in DC/Bmore this fall/winter
soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt

RIP Don Buchla
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theg...

31 minutes of new music up on Bandcamp for FREE! Smoke 'em if you got 'em folks ::
https://geoffwilt.bandcamp.com/album/...