“Chris notices that Dick is flirting with her, his vast intelligence straining beyond the po-mo rhetoric and words to evince some essential loneliness that only she and he can share. Chris giddily responds. It’s 2 a.m. Dick plays them a video of himself dressed as Johnny Cash commissioned by English public television. He’s talking about earthquakes and upheaval and his restless longing for a place called home. Chris’ response to Dick’s video, though she does not articulate it at the time, is complex. As an artist she finds Dick’s work hopelessly naive, yet she is a lover of certain kinds of bad art, art which offers a transparency into the hopes and desires of the person who made it. Bad art makes the viewer more active. (Years later Chris would realize that her fondness for bad art is exactly like Jane Eyre’s attraction to Rochester, a mean horse-faced junky: bad characters invite invention.) But Chris keeps these thoughts to herself. Because she does not express herself in theoretical language, no one expects too much from her and she is used to tripping out on layers of complexity in total silence.”

-I LOVE DICK, by Chris Kraus

•  25 May 2012  •  7 notes

satellite - children of desire

•  24 May 2012  •  1 note

further fruit blogging. 

•  23 May 2012  •  4 notes

if you look careful, you can find the colors of my mango replicated behind me. 

•  22 May 2012  •  11 notes

WELL, THE SUN IS SORT OF SHINING NOW. 

•  22 May 2012  •  5 notes

magnumohio:

HORSE RANCHER DAVE BEGOTKA. OSSEO, WISCONSIN. McDONALD’S, INTERSTATE 94.

Are you a real cowboy?

“Yes, I suppose I am.”

Are there a lot of cowboys in the Midwest?

“There ain’t too many of us left, period. All the old boys are dying off.”

Do you come to this McDonald’s often?

“I get in here pretty much every morning for coffee.  I guess it’s just an excuse to get out of the valley.”

Have you ever sold any horses in Ohio?

“I must have.”

GPOY. 

(via bbook)

•  22 May 2012  •  113 notes

sutphin boulevard - blood orange

•  20 May 2012  •  3 notes

jaredjosephharvey:

SIX DOLL ARTS

http://www.trnsfrmag.com/store/store.html

MY GULL BLING BUSINESS PARTNER IS CROWMOTING HIS BOOK.  YOU HAVE TO GET IT AND WEAR THE WORDS ROUND YOUR NECK LIKE SO MANY UNCUT PLASTIC SIX PACK RINGS.

•  20 May 2012  •  4 notes

not free - jerry paper

•  20 May 2012  •  1 note

hole, mid-brautigan.

•  20 May 2012  •  3 notes