Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord? or who shall stand in his holy place? There is no one but us. There is no one to send, nor a clean hand, nor a pure heart on the face of the earth, nor in the earth, but only us, a generation comforting ourselves with the notion that we have come at an awkward time, that our innocent fathers are all dead—as if innocence had ever been—and our children busy and troubled, and we ourselves unfit, not yet ready, having each of us chosen wrongly, made a false start, failed, yielded to impulse and the tangled comfort of pleasures, and grown exhausted, unable to see the thread, weak, and involved. But there is no one but us. There never has been. There have been generations which remembered, and generations which forgot; there has never been a generation of whole men and women who lived well for even one day. Yet some have imagined well, with honesty and art, the detail of such a life, and have described it with such grace, that we mistake vision for history, dream for description, and fancy that life has devolved.

Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm

One of the things that JPII was huge on, and that Benedict pushed him back on, according to scuttlebutt was Marian work. Marian devotion are profoundly populist, and are a ready symbol of the split between the official church and the vernacular church. Benedict's theology was much more christological, and was v. high. Francis is much less of a  theogian, and much lower-but he makes an argument for a vernuclar christology, and against a marian direction. I wonder if Francis' work is to pull the church away from people like the legionaires of christ, from folk devotions, and towards a low christology that maintains high ambitions?

a) pearlstein's late nudes are bonkers, b) i enjoy the habs during playoff seasons c) i am behind on work d) i think that the his hidden cameras album is kind of too ambitious for its stated themes e) i got an extension on the madpride thing but now i have to write about it f) what am i going to do about this circumcision review g) i am annoyed at the video for the new blake, h) i am scared about odsp paperwork i) do i want to do the guided research paper this summer j() i am glad that i got the other paperwork done k) is the check going to come in l) am i going to have a camera in time m) why am i so horny n) why does no one want to sleep with me o) will i have enough time to go to toys in babeland in seattle p) is olympia the best courtney love album q) how over rated is silencce of the lambs

tumblr of ibm designs

expansive, eccentric essay on the influence of dylan's 80s work, including discussions of contrain critics, the problem of 60s artists and 80s aesthetics, the irrascible nature of dylan, and the general problems of aesthetic change. doesn't spend much time working thru jesus though.

dozens of vintage images of tubas.

i think that kandida crazy horses shift from critic to musician, or her working both fields, is the smartest thing she could have done, but i do miss her writing.

chumbawumba's history as one example of how the interior/exterior system working, and the problems of ancharist collectivism can be constructed as an aesthetic issue.

Durer 6 Pillows, 1493 (this is just a tiny little bit of a larger sheet, this was his fucking practice scratch work, sigh)

charles taylor's brilliant take down  on meryl streep.

men are terrible at writing about women, men are even worse at talking about mary gaitskill.

link between  eva hesse, sol lewitt, and lucy lippard thru postcards...including this brilliant setence from lippard to hesse: the book has fallen into place (or allen into peices).

i think the reason why frankie knuckles was so impt to me was that he was so good at priotizing the paratext over the text; i think the reason why frankie knuckles was so impt to me was that he realized the taxonomic was an act of creation; i think the reason why frankie knuckles was impt to me was that he knew that queer music required the careful carving of discourses, that the idea of that razor blade and that reel to reel was an act of discourse creation as self fashioning; i think why frankie knuckles was so impt to me was because all of those remixes he did, did not overwhelm or frustrate the voice of the original musician; i think why frankie knuckles was so impt to me was that he was such a master of the raw and the cooked, the smooth and the rough; i think the reason why frankie knuckles was so impt to me, was that he was a poet of the multiphasic potential of pleasure; i think the reason why frankie knuckles was impt to me was that he gave birth to house and house gave birth to the world; i think the reason why frankie knuckles was impt to me was because he taught an awkard white boy in suburban alberta how to impertinently shake his ass.