DONE

i am back and this is no longer amusing me.

direct all malingering glances thusward: http://hauntedbyhorribles.blogspot.com. i always liked that better anyway and now i feel no obligation to cling to some sort of i-am-doing-something-fairly-interesting-so-ill-write-about-it-fairly-boringly kind of tedious recounting of things. fuck it. i always liked dangling from the rooftop of incomprehensibility a lot more anyway. see if you can figure out what has to do with prague, why dont you.

independently studying

Peter Hames: You once described Walt Disney as one of the leading destroyers of European culture. What is being destroyed and how can this be resisted?

Jan Svankmajer: Disney is among the greatest makers of 'art for children.' I have always held that no special art for children simply exists, and what passes for it embodies either the birch (discipline) or lucre (profit). 'Art for children' is dangerous in that it shares either in the taming of the child's soul or the bringing up of consumers of mass culture. I am afraid a child reared on current Disney produce will find it difficult to get used to more sophisticated kinds of art, and will assume his/her place in the ranks of viewers of idiotic television serials. That doesn't mean that works with imaginative value may not occasionally crop up in consumer culture--for instance, KING KONG. But I fear their number is dwindling.

In other news: U.S. warns of terrorist lasers. They're working on lightsabers. And the Force.

In other other news: READ BOHUMIL HRABAL.

since when do dreams need to be so political?

Last night I dream that a group of Democratic bigwigs assembled at the top of a snowy hill deep in the heart of some "red" state in the northern midwest. They had some sort of press conference (outside, mind you), then wheeled out these three massive walls made of small glasses filled with red liquid. With some ceremony they proceeded to tip the walls over, sending the liquid streaming down the hill in gushing torrent.

The floods were devastating in the lowlands. In one woman's house we explained to her that a red flood was coming and she didn't believe us (I was taking photographs or filming this whole time, I think). Then the red waters actually reached her house, carried her car away, flooded her basement, etc. As we tracked red footprints all over the white tile floor of her kitchen, we told her how it was the Republicans' fault she had no money to clean all this up. She didn't seem to care.