Nas, Hip Hop is dead, 2006.
Iron Butterfly, In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, 1968.
Incredible Bongo Band – In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, 1973
The Simpsons – In the Garden of Eden – S07E04
AG2024_1150971a or fine conclusion
It was a fine evening and a fine
conclusion they were coming to,
thought the fox, helping
the chicken out of ?her feathers.
Fable, Andrea Cohen
Michael Giacchino, Meow and You and Everyone We Know, The Batman (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
AG2024_1111198a or all you have
“Flattery, deference, smiles, ringing laughter, affectionate greetings were the order of the day.”
“We had been loved, I say, and remembering us, even many years later, people would smile, briefly gladdened at the memory.”
George Saunders
Spend all you have for loveliness,
Buy it and never count the cost
Barter, Sara Teasdale
AG2024_1100727a or perfection of their frailty
Mapping (Almost) Every Tree In Central Park by Margot Adler (2011)
The air smells soft today and of the past,
redbuds dispersing their ruby secrets,
myself among them.
Ghosting Aubade, Amie Whittemore
Vu Hoàng Khánh Nguyên, How we live like water
View of an artwork by Vu Hoàng Khánh Nguyên, part of their exhibition How we live like water, on display at Oolite Arts x Walgreens Windows, located on 67th Street and Collins Avenue in Miami Beach.
This artwork was removed in response to a letter that claimed it offensive.
We support Vu Hoàng Khánh Nguyên and stand in solidarity with the poetic aims of their practice.
Update: It is being covered. Miami NewTimes; Miami Herald; Hyperallergic; Diario Libre;
pausing beneath trees to exchange strange confidences
“the gift of being allowed, every day, to wander this vast sensual paradise,”
“pausing beneath trees to exchange strange confidences withheld during many years of seclusion.”
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
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registers describe psychic development: an infantile experience of embodiment and umbilical reciprocity (imaginary) matures into the mediations of language (symbolic), while an inkling of something inaccessible and unspeakable is retroactively effected by this progression (real).
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The psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan posits the imaginary, the symbolic, and the real as the three distinct but interdependent orders of psychic experience. These reframe Sigmund Freud’s topography of the ego, the superego, and the id, respectively, elucidating that the domains of the subject are also objective realms of the social. The imaginary is the register of images, identifications, wholes, and projections; the symbolic is the register of language, institutions, norms, laws, practices, and order; the real is the register of what catalyzes the imaginary and eludes the symbolic—the impossible, the unrepresentable, the material, the contradictory or unmeaningful. – Kornbluh