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"I'll tell you what it means, these orbiting sensors that can hear us in our beds. It means the end of loyalty. The more complex the systems, the less conviction in people. Conviction will be drained out of us. Devices will drain us, make us vague and pliant."

"These are supposed to be runless stockings," she said.
"Everything is supposed to be something. But it never is. That's the nature of existence."

"The dark had a power. The rain fell on empty streets. Always the men appeared, their long shadows bent behind them, then the rifle in his hands, the clip-fed Marlin, the idea of shooting for the gut, to draw out the dying. There is a world inside the world."

"Secrets are an exalted state, almost a dream state. They're a way of arresting motion, stopping the world so we can see ourselves in it."

Sitting down at a cleared and cleaned dining room table, a tall glass of hoppy hops in the left hand, approaching the Beast.

"The social worker wrote, 'Questioning elicited the information that he feels almost as if there is a veil between him and other people through which they cannot reach him, but he prefers this veil to remain intact.'"

I don't know if any other fortunate souls out there got to see One More Time With Feeling last night, but I am still gathering my shattered self from the experience.

Wait this isn't Bottom's Dream

"The Geoff of my dreams"

"'I am depressed beyond biscuits.'"

It's National Hug A Creative Artist Day! Nah, not really. But maybe you should anyway because it's dire times for those of us trying to live against the grain. (I shoulda been a banker)

"a bitter panini of personal failure."

Man, this book makes me so happy - word drunk and effortlessly referential and acid laughter on every page.

Jacques Roubaud says : "If we let Scots into the Oulipo, we'd invite MJ Nicholls for sure. But we don't let Scots into the Oulipo, for obvious reasons."

Brett Easton Ellis says : "Gilbert Sorrentino? What's that, a deli sandwich?"

Mark Z. Danielewski says : "Woulda been better with less writers, more leaves."

William T. Vollmann says : "Not even the Queen of the Whores butters my corncob like MJ Nicholls' oily prose."

Elena Ferrante says : "I'm pretty sure reading The House of Writers gave me premature menopause."

I'm only reading this because it was one of those irresistible "Goodreads Recommended Gold Star Buy-Me Books" -- Colm Tóibín says "A delightful and heartbreaking romp down the spiral staircases of our shared epochal dreams - headier than a frappuccino left on the dashboard of a Chrysler all afternoon."

Think your summer's complete and then Frank Ocean drops his new record - damn this man knows how to make beauty

Okay Goodreaders, my bandcamp page is up. Soundcloud will now be for posting new stuff, the albums are all on here: cheers!
https://geoffwilt.bandcamp.com/

Busy busy all the time - today, gonna chisel out some time to read this beautiful beast.

I was thinking - books sometimes take weeks to read - why shouldn't songs take weeks to listen to? Taken in increments, sure, but say, a 72-hour composition is completely recordable/ingestable in our digital age. It's the whole thing we need, I mean, about an attack on our afflicted attention spans. A radical reactionary attention movement.

As an inhabitant of the "Information Age", I find it disconcerting that "profound ignorance" seems to be the prevailing mode of discourse. What up with that?

Spendin' duckets on motherfuckin' MJ Nicholls novels

"'I'm a humanist, Simon.' 'Yah. That's what they call a hypocrite when he knows the dress code.'"

Lots of stuff over at the stuff place: https://soundcloud.com/geoff-wilt

So, first time logging in on a PC instead of my iPhone and yep, this new design is an epic disaster. I think it might actually be the worst/ugliest/messiest redesign of a site I've ever seen. Change it back posthaste.

Finally finding some time to read this fantastic book this week. Hey y'all folks who've read this - what do you think Simon Lynxx looks like? The physical descriptions of him are wonderfully outlandish...

Swans about to go on @ 9:30 Club. If you don't hear from me in a few days assume I disintegrated.