May 2012
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“aspire to silence you coward”
– georgelazenby
April 2012
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I think I paid $18 for my paperback copy of 2666. Assuming I read a page every 2 minutes, it took me 30 hours to read it. At least 30 hours. That means my imagination and art eating self was engaged for 60¢ per hour. Compare that to two hours of empty spectacle in a movie theater. I have thought about the beauty, terror, and secrets inside 2666 for many, many hours after I put it down. What of...
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Like I say it couldn’t last. I knew they were out there powwowing and making their evil fuzz magic, putting dolls of me in Leavenworth. “No use sticking needles in that one, Mike.”
I hear they got Chapin with a doll. This old eunuch dick just sat in a precinct basement hanging a doll of him day and night, year in year out. And when Chapin hanged in Connecticut, they find this...
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as the CIA’s Inspector General put it in a 2004 report, when you torture someone you create an “Endgame” problem: You end up with detainees who, “if not kept in isolation, would likely divulge information about the circumstances of their detention.”
from How America Came To Torture Its Prisoners by Larry Siems
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A small black bird visits me, loosely pecking around my feet at nothing. It thinks there are crumbs (which there are, many) on my table, but is too afraid to come closer. The very thing (in this case, me) by which such bounty is made possible is the same thing it fears. It does not know I am not cruel. Maybe this is life, this built-in contradiction, this paradox of Deity as Dick. Imagine this...
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454 W 23rd St New York, NY 10011—2157: As to the... →
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As to the other worry, I think anyone can become an historical waystation for evil (Einstein’s letter to FDR saying ‘Pretty please build nuclear weapons.’) To avoid being picked up as a tool, while remaining clear enough to have an impact isn’t an easy thing. You can be needle-like and attempt to…
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Guerrero, at that time of night, is more like a cemetery than an avenue, not a cemetery in 1974 or 1968, or 1975, but a cemetery in the year 2666, a forgotten cemetery under the eyelid of a corpse or an unborn child, bathed in the dispassionate fluids of an eye that tried so hard to forget one particular thing that it ended up forgetting everything else.
from Amulet by Roberto Bolaño
August 2011
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Teaching myself piano. Day 2.
September 2010
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Free Mooney, find Mooney.
We are all of the same tribe. We all wear the same markings. The book is, in one way, a family portrait: a portrait of our tribe. There are obviously many people missing from this portrait, but that makes sense to me. Someone is always missing. -Blake B. interviews Chris Higgs at Bookslut, and says this: ‘The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney seems to me unprecedented via form, making new ways...
July 2010
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June 2010
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Shit, Keeping Up, And Moving Away
What a coincidence!
“The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials.”
Just over seven months after the plan to send an additional 30,000 soldiers was...
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“Somehow all of this conversation, but especially Contesa’s memory,...”
– American Genius by Lynne Tillman
May 2010
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Sunday, going backwards.
Drove to the farmer’s market and ate a tamale. Walked and found razor blades in a PO box. Caught a longhaired toehead rollerblading past me. Ate a donut. Emails. Going to ride digital horses and grill onions.
Hung out with Michael Kimball. He is amazing. We showed some movies he made with Luca Dipierro:
We looked at most of LACMA. Got an idea from Beuys, and we’re both working on...
April 2010
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Mooney, Bluets, Blab.
The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney is now available in three more bookstores: St. Mark’s in NYC, Pilot Books in Seattle, and Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA. Thanks to the buyers/friends there.
Also, you can listen to a preview from the Mooney audiobook. Go here, scroll down just a bit. I mashed three tracks together.
Started writing another book. If I finish, it’ll be my...
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God.
I forgot about a nightmare I had in early morning sleep until this evening. Upon remembering, I almost puked.
In the dream, the walls of my house suddenly became bubbled and you couldn’t sand the bubbles down or destroy them. Harder than wood.
And as I went room to room, afraid of the bubbles spreading, I noticed small outcroppings of the bubbled wall in corners…
I’m...
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The word of the century is crump.
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I had a great time with everyone at AWP. Getting punched in the ribs and thug rap in minivans and reading poems in elevators and eating pizza at 4:30am and cab drivers who speak five languages and this guy performing a Rastafari/Tupac mix in his boxers, in a bar. Selling books. Buying books. Being reinvigorated again after spending time with the friendliest...
March 2010
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Smeef of Small Hygenics
Reading: Firework by Eugene Marten. This isn’t published yet, it’s coming soon from Tyrant Books. Eugene wrote a book called Waste that is one of my favorite books; it’s full of grime and longing. This new one, the big one, Firework, is proving itself a weird gathering of mirrors and beer cans and thrownness.
I also read The Hollywood Economist, a nonfiction guidebook of sorts...
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February 2010
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itjusthappened asked: I think that music can be a fairly solid litmus test for people. Do you have a favorite song lyric or lyrics? The kind of phrase you try to live by or one that's just downright goofy but makes you feel good?
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i sent you an email, traveling to LA to spend time at USC. what is your favorite part of living in LA?
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i sent you an email, traveling to LA to spend time at USC. what is your favorite part of living in LA?
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'Exploration. Great theft.'
My secret project, a.k.a. A Big Thing, is not a secret anymore. I now own & operate a nonprofit publishing company. My first title, The Complete Works of Marvin K. Mooney–a novel by Christopher Higgs–is available in paperback, ebook & audiobook forms. Special presale prices, limited edition cover. Click here to look & maybe order.
I captured the book as it fell from the sky, landed...
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'Metastasis' shouldn't mean what it does.
Reading: Closer by Dennis Cooper. Dennis is a friend of mine, and I’ve only read God Jr. Correcting this. Halfway through Closer, and it’s a stunningly compact text. There are these logical leaps, held in fantasy, throughout that are just wowing me. I don’t think I can respect Dennis more than I already do, but here’s a toast–to heaping! (clink) Also, still and unstill with...
December 2009
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sta/sis/tus
Reading: Oblivion by David Foster Wallace. First story: Mr. Squishy. I started it this morning in bed. Keeping with tradition, Wallace managed to keep me in bed and reading for an hour or so. I read through hunger. I bet this story is about to shatter me. Picking at Finnegans Wake in ten page returns. Still incredible. Still amazed.
Watching: Synecdoche, NY. Just finished it. This is the 3rd time...
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helix fever
Slow’s been the holidays. Food, overeating, family, clothing, maintenance. December isn’t a bad month for maintenance.
I look at the story I’m writing—Solip—and I’m confused and full of faith. Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein talk about the inextricability of faith and confusion.(?) Søren said this:
But the absurd is a category, and a category that can have a...
November 2009
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Status Quorum
I’m at about 11000 words on the novel, now. Been slow because work on the show has picked up; it’s a big episode—the finale—and I haven’t had as much time at home. I think I figured out a big structural & narrative path though, for the novel, and that’s exciting. The idea came while I ate chips and salsa. Many of the ideas come while I eat chips and...
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October 2009
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