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Adam: Adoom: Aachen — Memento Mori

Let go.

About Me


It is endless, stupid, moving with a dizzy, unfocused whirl; I cannot comprehend. Too weak.

Do you understand?

Morning glory.

Say it over and over again to yourself until it mashes together and you've lost concept of the content...maybe stare into the sky as the planet bellies up to the sun. Or you could sit patient in the land and consider the buds and the crickets. The dry grass is bowing forever...

My Interests

Aachen, absinthe, adrenaline, Aeschylus, algebra, anthropology, antiques, architecture, arithmetic, art history, Asheville, astronomy, Atlantic Grove, automobiles, backgammon, baking, banana bread, beauty, beginnings, the Big Bang, billiards, biology, Bokononism, Bombay Extra Dry, Boolean logic, book sales, bookbinding, brandy, C++, cafes, calligraphy, camping, cannabis, Gregor Cantor, cats, cemetaries, chaos theory, chapbooks, chemistry (social or scientific), chess, Christianity, City Lights, the Civil War, climate, climate change, coffee, cognition, compulsions, communes, constants, the Constitution, cooking, correspondence, correspondent chess, cognac, cosmology, culture, cultural movements, dance, dance, dating formalities, debate, depressants, diners, dining out, Diogenes, Djarum, domestic leisures, downtown, drama, e, the East, economics, emotion, encyclopedias, engines, entropy, Epicurus, espresso, ethics, etiquette, Euler's Identity, Euripides, Europe, faces, family, farm life, fashion, fetishes (both varieties), form, fruit, galleries, gardens, geneology, gin and tonic, gin straight, glass (silicondioxide), Gnosticism, go, Goedel's Incompleteness Theorems, graphic novels, gravitation, green tea, hands, hardware, hats, Hellenistic society, Hershey's Milk Chocolate, Hinduism, history, human form, hunter-gatherers, i, ice cream, illumination, incense, inertia, the internet, internet forums, irony, Islam, jawline, jazz, jury duty, labor movements, lingo, linguistics, love, love affairs, lust, mechanics, meditation, mental math, the Moment, momentum, mouth harp, museums, mythology, nanotechnology, Nat Shermans, nature, Odd Nerdrum, New Directions, observation, the ocean, oil pastel, opera, opiates, opioids, origami, parks, particle physics, passion, penmanship, philosophy, physical intimacy, politics, primate species, Progress Quest, pseudo-sciences, psychology, public places, quantum mechanics, quirks, rain, red wine, regional government, religion, riddles, road trips, rummage sales, Russell's Antimony, sambodhi, Sampoena, San Francisco, Schroedinger's Cat, science, (good) science fiction, sculpture, self, Seneca, set theory, sexuality, sidecars, singularities, sloe gin, snow, social nuance, socialism, software, solid-color silk ties, Sophocles, space-time, spontaneity, the Story, straight razors, stream-of-consciousness, Supercollider, superstitions, surreality, sushi, sustainable civilization, symbolism, syntax (oddities thereof), systems of logic, technology, Texas hold'em, theatre, thrift shops, tie knots, tobacco, tombs, turntablism, typewriters, urban areas, urban legends, vacuum, Venn diagrams, video games, volatile social situations, war, watercolor, watermelon sugar, weather, Ludwig von Wittgenstein, Wild Turkey 101, wilderness, wood cuts, women, Zen, zero, Zippo lighters.

Understanding Everything.

(not all-inclusive)

I'd like to meet:


What are we supposed to do?
Follow Phyllis and Corydon?

Music:

Currently Stuck On:

Solid Steel Presents: Herbal Blend, The Herbaliser
Eureka Seven: Original Soundtrack 1
Appetite for Disctruction, Funkstörung
Lanquidity, Sun Ra
Foley Room, Amon Tobin
Minesweeper Suite, DJ /Rupture
Fungkungfusion: Ninja Cuts Vol. III
Zen Remix Retrospective
The Velvet Underground and Nico
Let It Be, the Beatles

Movies:

300 was rad.

Television:

Mythbusters, Frisky Dingo, Metalocalypse, 12 Oz. Mouse, and similar rot.

Books:

en masse

Heroes:

are a barrier to personal realization.

My Blog

Lament of the Homesteader's Descendant (draft)

i I drive the highway in a vast darkness. Yard lights are few, and distant. It is not easy to forget, here, that manremains something less than master.The snow holds secrets. It is not easy,...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 06:54:00 PST

Short Poem

They wore spring coats ten daysafter the vicious storm dumped six inches on the land and paralyzed the town.Their conversations were like the rain that fell on the moth-shredded tarp of snow and poole...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

Could Is Just as Good as May

and it's all in two situations:Tin Man musing (using a hypothetical)"Could I have a heart?"Surgeon, hand-extended,facing a colleague:"Could I have a heart?"__________________This is all that's popped ...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:32:00 PST

The Quiet of Night

I'm undone.
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 10:39:00 PST

short verse; not titled yet

I dug a hole into the ground and put a post in it.The land was dry, the sod was dead, The shovel bent and groaned. The clay was wet below. I dug a hole ón the prairie and set a pos...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:29:00 PST

I ransacked the annual AAUW book sale today...

...and here's what 14 dollars got me: The Castle, Franz KafkaOn the Eighth Day Adam Slept Alone, Nancy BoutilierLike This, Rumi (arranged by Coleman Barks et. al.)Collected Poems, James WrightPat...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:15:00 PST

Regards me and myspace

To preface this, I know I've been quiet recently. It's hard to explain what I've been thinking, recently. My experiences over the past few months, and the variety of different information that I've re...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:57:00 PST

The Question

To me, it's best illustrated this way:How do we say "Not Creon, thou thyself art thine own bane" with an appropriate modern idiom?  Best I've come up with is "No, man, you fucked/damned yourself....
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Thu, 01 Jun 2006 11:25:00 PST

Draft title: "In the Prairie Bar on a Saturday Night"

There is no drama in our suffering. This choking heatdraws sweat from lax bodies.  We are notso pitiable as Tantalus--temptationscan be grasped--escape is possible--impotence is a choice, a damna...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Tue, 23 May 2006 08:29:00 PST

Two pieces self-contained

Elegy, to Alan One should not undercut the relevance of a man's death by dressing it up as a drama: A sixty-odd aged farmer had a heart attack. He was flown out-of-state, to a hospital. He died...
Posted by Adam: Adoom: Aachen  Memento Mori on Wed, 17 May 2006 01:45:00 PST