rocket to nowhere

• “if I knew . . . Get that unless going!” #
• @tierack Yay!!! Behind the ears for us please! in reply to tierack #
• Immobilized by a cat on the chest and reading Diderot. This is the life. #
• Is internationalizing my phone for 5 days in MX worth it, or should I attempt a technologyless vacation? #
• Does the fact that I pull my pants up make me look like an old man? #
• “a mouse is an unedifying critter [to have in a tragedy]” #
• If you can’t hear the alarm, perhaps it’s time to change the noise it makes. #
• @andrewwickliffe Sarcasm (about drag and drop)? in reply to andrewwickliffe #
• One should not hate one’s ears, but oh how I hate mine. #
• Being a poor student makes it very easy to file one’s taxes. #
• We’re off to Mexico for five days! #

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• Did I dream about Madeleine Albright, or am I making that up? What purpose would making it up serve? #
• We met the only democrat in Stoneham, CO. #
• @paprikahead There are more things in heaven and earth, Paprikahead, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. in reply to paprikahead #
• “Nature’s reading the sneeze.” #
• Certain important papers signed, sealed, delivered. But nothing is ours yet. #
• “The word ‘usefulness’ is the 10 lb. albatross in the room of English aesthetics.” #
• @andrewwickliffe Do you miss Chicago Public Radio as much as I do? in reply to andrewwickliffe #
• Subscribing to the Beatles Complete on Ukulele podcast: feed://www.switchpod.com/users/davidbarratt/feed.xml #
• Plans for a simple letter are ballooning. Perhaps I should restrain myself (though keeping myself from writing more seems silly). #
• “And the devil threw his evil in the air.” #
• @jesswigent Don’t you just love how the episode begins with a careful avoidance of the word “penis”? in reply to jesswigent #
• Just started a stopwatch in the post office. Will report back when I stop it. #
• 06:04.1 Not bad. #
• @andrewwickliffe Do you know about Meebo.com? in reply to andrewwickliffe #
• “You are the barbecue!” #
• “It’s a wonder we can even feed ourselves.” #
• ReachMyFile Lite is certainly interesting. I wonder if it’s worth $20 to be able to email files? #
• The first day, I’m happy to be alone; I can do what I want. But by the third day, I can’t concentrate and am fighting off melancholy. #
• “You can see all the faults of the world outside your window.” #
• Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography contains at least 200 fake entries. #
• My God . . . Audrey Hepburn in Roman Holiday! #
• I think the audio recording in the dream was called “Onion Moon.” #
• @cornelln Don’t get too excited about SF’s crappy weather. http://twitpic.com/1m88q in reply to cornelln #
• http://tinyurl.com/d3w3od Songsmith “Eye of the Tiger”!!! #

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Well, not really too many tweets, but the daily digest of tweets here is a little too much I think. So, I’m changing it to a weekly digest of tweets. Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Also, please look forward to a post about RadioHodgePodge soon, and if it doesn’t come soon enough, please feel free to comment and poke me.

Thank you for reading.

• Miles Davis’ Jack Johnson chaos seems just the thing this morning. #
• Bring yourself blame, in ten glass trees, as I now do #poetry #
• Wow, profligate! #
• Numbers crunched and crunched and crunched. And crunched. #

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• I’m not sick, but my god, did I get smooshed in some giant press? #
• The iPod’s shuffle function really likes the Magnetic Fields. #
• motherf*cking soul searching . . . #
• Mercury poisoning! Too cute! #

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• To watch the inspector. #
• @tierack Didn’t you already do that once recently? in reply to tierack #
• Really, should these few things be *this* exhausting? #

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• @cornelln I dunno, I think several bands from the 70s would beg to differ with your assessment of this song’s epicness . . . in reply to cornelln #
• @cornelln I suppose that’s another strike against me. I hope the cobras get there quickly . . . #
• Remediate the remediated? Pre-Mediate? #
• @msjuliejulie port pass port trans. trass pans port port. in reply to msjuliejulie #
• Wikipedia, among other things, exists for sentences like this: “His lifelong steady alcohol consumption began to take a toll on his health.” #

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I went to a lecture tonight by Trace Reddell (Associate Professor, Director, Digital Media Studies, University of Denver). It was tremendously interesting and got me thinking about why textual collage doesn’t really work as text. Also, I hadn’t thought about quotation in writing (especially in essays) is a kind of sampling and mixing. Here are my notes (no organization or apologies):

cyberpunk vs. 19th C. drug lit.
deleuze & guattari as Sci-Fi
QWERTY
electronic book review
Litmixer: the literary remediator
*space rock?
• possible to remediate the remediation?
microsoundlist
game-oriented mentality (ok)
Palimsestry
SINE FICTION (sndtrcks 2 sci-fi novels)
non-narrative but rather . . . ?
the synthesis of collection
pHarmacological goofing around
narrative remix on the fly
premediate?
live cinema?
Guy DeBord (sp?)
a documentation of a process
cutnmix.com
distribute a process
distribute a knowledge outcome
Burroughs fold-in

• Sitting in the dentist chair. I’m told I need a night guard and a crown. #
• “Because talking to your dad’s spirit at his grave is totally normal, right?” #
• @cornelln I’m sorry Ms. Morrisette, but coincidence and irony are not the same thing.  in reply to cornelln #
• @tierack Let’s say this succeeds. You’re then going to move this cat to Manhattan?! in reply to tierack #
• Why haven’t I read Voltaire before now? Likely because in this, the best of all possible worlds, I wasn’t meant to find him until now. #
• “We are the machines of Providence.” #

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• @msjuliejulie That is awesome. I hope you keep following the stranger just because. in reply to msjuliejulie #
• Up till 3 working on a presentation I’m scheduled to give today, but it likely won’t happen. So why was I up till 3? #
• Counter offer accepted . . . We’re buying a house!!! #
• @ all y’all: Thanks! Yes the house is in Denver, and assuming the deal goes through, we’ll be unpacked some time late 2012! Come over! #
• @persephassa as well as “skewed into a philosophical smoothie.” in reply to persephassa #

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