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April 22, 2004

Talking back to 80s music, 1

Angel was a centerfold? Really? Well I’ll be damned. I mean, I always thought she was cute and everything, but…a centerfold?

Whisper to a scream

Update: yes, Icicle Works would do just as well.

Slouching toward Bethlehem

Now will you dance, monkey?

We’ll see.

2.4.2 Unlimited Semiosis

“Since every sign creates an interpretant which in turn is the representamen of a second sign, semiosis results in a ‘series of successive interpretants’ ad infinitum (Peirce). There is no ‘first’ nor ‘last’ sign in this process of unlimited semiosis. Nor does the idea of infinite semiosis imply a vicious circle. It refers instead to the very modern idea that ‘thinking always proceeds in the form of a dialogue —

Please Come to Denver with the snowfall…

…We’ll move up into the mountains so far that we can’t be found… C’mon Corvids. You know you want to. Look: already promises are being made! And that’s from a guy. I imagine Jeralyn Merritt will get all drunk and start flinging subpoenas on stage. What? It’s certainly not unheard of.

Blow

**** h/t Wunderkinder.

This is your life! (for Andrea Harris)

Q: “Though our name was inspired by the drug, Dexedrine, we had a notoriously puritanical attitude to both alcohol and drugs. Fitting our image at the time of our debut album, 1980’s ‘Searching For The Young Soul Rebels’, [our look was comprised of the kind of] New York docker wear inspired by the Martin Scorcese movie Mean Streets.” Who are we?

Introduction to Narratology

metadiegetic narrative. A narrative embedded within another narrative and, more particularly, within the primary narrative; a hypodiegetic narrative. The situations and events recounted by Des Grieux in Manon Lescaut are metadiegetic in relation to those recounted by M. de Renoncourt (which are diegetic or intradiegetic). When a metadiegetic narrative functions as a diegetic one (when its metadiegetic status is forgotten, as it were), it is said to be a pseudo-diegetic

Picture Theory

“Perhaps the most obvious thing called into question by this meta-picture is the structure of ‘inside and outside,’ first- and second-order representation, on which the whole concept of ‘meta-‘ is based. And image of nested, concentric spaces and levels is required to stabilize a metapicture, or any second-order discourse, to separate it cleanly from the first-order object-language it describes. Thus, most metapictures depict a picture-within-a-picture that is simply one among