ask_zeke
(a z fan) why wasn't there an ask_zeke blathepage before now?
or was there?

you make photographs? 		050125
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oldephebe Soooooo..Z are you an educator or student?

Of course you could be a research scientist, a consultant to the fbi in the field of psycho-linguistic profilinf, i guess you could be just about anything -

just wanna say that i enjoy your contributions to bl a th er
and you always impart some new kernal of knowledge or interesting perspective
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what is your favorite kind of music and who is your favorite band?
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z i sometimes wish my eyes were cameras. i do not make photographs enough. when i do, they are mostly detail studies of objects framing space. i also enjoy the tension between 2d divisions of the picture plane and the volume of the subject and it's surround.

music like all art is good when i like it. mostly i like experimental abstraction of one sort or another. i am obsessed with the origins of punk (not what it has become). bands like television, wire, richard hell and the voidoids, ultravox, the stranglers, the jam, the stooges, the new york dolls, and even early devo. recently there has been reason to believe that all is not lost in that area with the strokes, the white stripes, and even a english hip hop artist that records as the streets. periodically bands have cropped up like the pixies and elastica that get it. the world is not totally lost to green day disease. 		050125
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oE wow - a scholar and an aesthetic rogue

cool

but then punk frowns on dilletants and the odiousness of reductive encapsulations..punk is a raison d'tre (sp)an agent of spirit that infuses the very spirit...so..i guess i should have said in all candor - "I never would have associated you and primordial, feral punk in the same being. assumptions assumptions and whose got the gumption to faciley categorize w/o true knowledge?

well.. i guess i do. my bad
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oldephebe although i do dig green day and devo and some of the progeny they inspired..

progeny? and so the butterflys wings as an agent of chaos spawned alegion of bands that idealized and contained this atavistic agent, this engine of furious change that seeks to topple over the tables of the effete, decaying squalor of the insdiously metastatic music that has made an illicit aesthetic union with commerce. music, thought to have been discovered or at least codified into a system of rules and values wich later became what we refer to as "manuscript"...i think some rocks fell and in that instant pythagorus discovered the pentatonic scale, or the relationship between do and so or something. music gives us a means to deal with the irrational aspect of the human soul - i guess it can seem kinda counter-intuitive for staid classicists like me to cast an askance glance at what is feral, alive, an agent of change, an agent of revolution in the art as well as in culture/society.
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tangent tangant what ever happened to the plantanegants...didn't they start out as gardeners anyway?
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RIC You meant to say "..unraveling the interstices of psycho-linguistic construction as a specialized order of profiling.." right?

damn man. at least look at what you type or use a spell checker
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z i do not enjoy green day or anything else that relys on makeup, costumes or production to mask it's inherent vacuousness. punk is not clothes and cheap equipment. loud fast hard for it's own sake is not necessarily good or even powerful.

i am deeply passionate about many movements in music. i always return to punk and proto punk. music that challenges (as you say above) requires reflection at a great many levels. take monk or trane as an example. or glass or cage or eno. it is all an invitation to challenge assumptions, to stretch out. i require this. pure production and hooks seldom do. elliot smith was a great song smith who did challenge us. and yet the songs can be received as pop. i like that. 		050126
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nom when were you in costa rica and why? 051113
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nom okay now it is, nevermind me) 051113
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unreal

Some say that go_is_nevermind. Do you agree, and if so, does_it_really_matter? 051113
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zeke i was in costa rica on vacation. it was very beautiful. i went on a rafting trip through a jungle that started with a bumpy ride in the back of a dump truck through an over grown plantation. we past through forests which were filled with the continuous sound of what must have been hundreds of thousands of cicadas in the canopy. dappled light drifting through vine crossed chaos in the cathedral of alien trees in the hillsides. down a river which is now a lake that used to be a reservation (hydroelectric power). i dream sometimes of the flow of the water between gorge cliffs as i swam and of the sky shapes glimpsed in a line between overhangs. all submerged.

cloud forests and eppiphytes on mountain tops. old old trees and moths. a chocolate brown river cascade over frothy rocks on the mountain's flank.

in the estuaries of the Caribbean coast a monkey clan that leaped over my head in the motor boat (14 ft long) and crashed through the canopy to places unknown. caiman in the black water so close i could touch them. that was at an eco lodge at tortuga island.

leaf cutter ants in a 2 way line crossed the trail in manuel antonio state park on the pacific side near quepos, neither their source nor their destination could be seen. the splayed root fins of tall tall trees between which i ate a snack then climbed like the feet of giants.

the monkey which sat gibbering on a bush until my fruit ran out and the 4 foot (nose to tail tip) iguana (nose to tail tip) which basked on the end of a log by the surf damp cliffs across form the horizon of rocky vertical islands like the sky's lower teeth. the surf was coarse with rough sand grit on my skin.

i travel (when i can) to feel alien in an alien world. to feel small is also to feel the immensity of the universe. 		051114
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zeke go and never mind may be methodologically identical, but are for me very different.

i use go when i want to explore the vagaries of historic blather, the wandering path of truths and fictions. i use go to find what i did not know i wanted to find. it is like a small walkabout, the spirit walk in the desert of blather's ethos. voices speak to me across time.

never mind is an escape. i leave the robes of intention on the shores of certainty and plunge into the depths of the other. and the other speaks to me. i am reminded of other dreams, ones which i have never had.

it is something between determinism and quantum theory and is informed by the sanctity of use. i aspire to use never mind more than go. 		051114
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nom : ) . 051114
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Ouroboros after reading beautiful_universe i have to ask this question: graveyard shift and college- how did you do it? did you sleep? drink coffee? run off the electricity of your own creation? 060209
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Ouroboros after reading beautiful_universe i have to ask this question: graveyard shift and college- how did you do it? did you sleep? drink coffee? run off the electricity of your own creation? 060209
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nom where did you last travel to? 060209
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z i returned yesterday from a 3 day trip to atlanta ga and baltimore md. 060209
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z o: it was very difficult to work and do school. i once fell asleep in my favorite class. eventually i gave up the job. i missed the money a lot. what i got at school was better, though. i really miss school. 060209
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z is tired n: atlanta was in a storm system on monday night when i landed there at 9:30 pm. we descended through layered clouds into the solid night lit only by our landing lights and finally into a fast hard horizontal rain. on the runway the rain tilted to about 60 degrees and stayed that way until the captain turned off the engines at the ramp. then it was a continuous vertical deluge. i was disappointed that atlanta had real winter, though not by canadian standards, but cold enough for discomfort. it is a big, sprawling city with a concentrated downtown and diffuse boundaries. it took 40 minutes on a highway to get to the hotel which stood on it's own inside a clover leaf off ramp of an interstate freeway. the topology of the land was just hilly enough that there were no wide vistas. dinner was 30 minutes away by taxi and i finished at almost midnight. the wake 6 am up call in my room was pre-recorded. dawn was clear and blue gray. the lobby roof was 20 stories high and i wondered if it was energy efficient to heat all those thousands of cubic feet of air. at 8 pm i was back at the airport and on a plane to baltimore. 060209
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nom have you heard amadou & mariam?

www.amadou-mariam.com/ 		060405
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z wow, i really like that! thank you for the link.

i was dimly aware that they existed, had read reviews, etc, but had never heard them. i especially like sénégal fast food. the counterpoint in the guitar parts is really beautiful and the vocal harmony is really great. i will have to listen some more. thanks again. 		060406
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nom welcome. glad you like. sénégal fast food
is delicious. la réalité is a fun one too. 		060406
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jane what are you afraid of? 060406
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zeke willful ignorance. hegemonies of any stripe. prions. bird flu. being forgotten after i am gone. people who espouse moral certainty. ebola. intellectual conformity. anything cultish (including party affiliation, military organization, religiosity, sub-cultural self identification, etc.). hatred. there's much more. i will try to get back to this later today.

this question is excellent. thank you. 		060407
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z being misunderstood. my tendency to belittle. (social) intimacy with needy people. unfettered narcissism (my own). buildings or airplanes falling on me. social situations in which people enact party personas. anything oily or containing oils (such as hand creme, hair conditioner or lip balm). volatile organic compounds. water bugs. 060407
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z paperwork. loud rumbling noises at my workplace. tailgaters. people who like me too quickly. 060407
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z and clowns. and florid theater people. and mimes. 060407
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jane i don't like clowns either. but i have no problem with mimes. 060418
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nom why "anything oily or containing oils (such as hand creme, hair conditioner or lip balm)"? 060418
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nom and what is spring like there? 060418
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() ( j: mines, like clowns seem obscene, their gestures to big and exaggerated, their eyes too wide and their muscles too taught. it is the contradiction between their overt appearance and their underlying body language that leaves me a bit confused. )

( n: i have spent my whole life trying to dry up my oily (not blemished) skin. i make too much myself. for me, oil-free is synonymous with clean. clean feels good. it is completely the opposite for most people. )

( spring in princeton is light green grass and pink and white blossoms on trees. colors in the world hold on to their saturation longer in the early morning and late afternoon light, making that full, full flatness. no highlights, and soft, blue-grey shadows. the air has the just rumour of perfumes, that evade as i seek them. )

( manhattan (where i work) has a drifty quality, people linger before going inside. they drift instead of walking. sunlight strikes cool grey asphalt, ridden by bus tires that cling close to keep from floating away. buzz of traffic, murmur of voices, and the soft hurried breeze waft by. children, become kids again after the cold, hard sleep. ) 		060419
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( that should be ) ( mimes ) 060419
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poet zeke, if you had to pick one food that would be the only food you could eat for a year, what would it be? 060419
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z dim sum. 060419
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nom .) 060420
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Ouroboros what's going on? 060519
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z time is passing. 060520
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jane where do you work in manhattan?

you made me miss the city for a moment until i remembered why i left. 		060617
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z chelsea. 060617
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nom where did you last travel to? 060817
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z just back from a road trip. bir in hand pa, bear de, baltimore md, collingswood nj and back to princeton. 060818
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that should be bird in hand pa 060818
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z outside of bird in hand, i saw a woman who appeared to be amish (judging by her clothing and bonnet) walking barefoot by the road. the corn was tall. the black and white cows were clustered under a lone oak. a horse and buggy trotted by, guided by an eight year old boy. the woman seemed very much absorbed in the conversation she was having on her cell phone. 060819
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z in bear many of the women working in local businesses seem to favor heavy mascara and dark eye shadow. the rest of their faces were often fairly lightly made up. it is an almost punk sort of look. 060819
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z in baltimore near the inner harbor there is an area called little italy. it seems to consist of blocks and blocks of italian reasaraunts. it felt like a comodification of ethnicity. a sort of disney treatment of the last gasp of a diaspora 2 generations late. the waitresses seemed to be ukrainian or polish of romainian. the food on menus was named but not described. chicken piccata, viennese sausage etc. for me it was repellant. 060819
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nom . 060820
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n o m are you still around? 120620
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(z) (nom: sadly no. my spot was all ready to produce, director, cast , crew and locations secured, tickets and reservations made and then quashed. regulatory problems which were not resolvable. so no, i never got there.) 120621
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() (and yes, i am still around. i miss the old dynamic. i miss you and all of the others. i miss the vitriol and the kinship. i would be here more if that was happening. i miss that.) 120621
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() (nostalgic! i miss this place. This page was fun to read. i will try to make time to post here more.) 120622
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n o m yes i have missed your writing too! i will also try to write here more often.) 120622
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dafremen Everyone knows I run a vitrol filling station around here. All you have to do is stop by. It's full service. 120622
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daf +i for the spell check nazi. 120622
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() (i stand corrected) 120626
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