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Mal

our journey begins in a world of adventure...

About Me

"And so they wandered around the world aiming with whatever they could at whatever they could. They sang songs, but they liked breaking windows best. They also liked to stand on a balcony and spit upon the hats of passersby, even more so if they were able to target some fat cats riding by in a carriage. Filidor became so good at it that he could spit at somebody on a balcony from the sidewalk. Anti-Filidor could extinguish a candle by throwing a box of matches at the flame. But best of all they liked to hunt frogs with a BB gun or to hunt sparrows with a bow and arrow, or else they threw pieces of paper and blades of grass from a bridge onto the water. But their greatest delight was to buy a child's balloon and run after it through fields and forests--hey, ho! and watch it burst with a bang as if shot with an invisible bullet.
"And whenever anyone from the world of science reminisced with them about their splendid past, their spiritual battles, about Analysis and Synthesis and their glory irretrievably lost, they would reply dreamily:
"'Yes, yes, I remember that duel . . . the pop-popping was great!'”

My Interests

objects, things, stuff, mishmash, riffraff

Music:

kraftwerk, can, pere ubu, talking heads, the raincoats, david bowie

Movies:

recently: Show People, I Was Born But..., Playtime, M. Hulot's Holiday, Kings & Queen, My Best Fiend, Stalker, anything by Ernie Gehr

Television:

the simpsons and fishing with john

Books:

gombrowicz, giono, jabes, dickinson, broch

Heroes:

M. Hulot

My Blog

Not Louisville

I logged on today (for the first time in weeks) and noticed that my profile still says I live in Louisville. This has been false for five months now. I live in glamorous QUEENS. I'll change it right n...
Posted by Mal on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:54:00 PST

I lost two dollars on the kentucky derby.

I love the Kentucky Derby. I love the magic of sport and I love when humans and superintelligent animals work together. I love the hats. I find mint juleps tolerable.So I had to work for the derby,...
Posted by Mal on Wed, 09 May 2007 11:26:00 PST

warm warm warm warm!

My heater has been broken for two weeks and it's avg high 20s/low 30s... ugh. It's maybe 50 today, though. BUT I am leaving in 30 hours for YUNNAN PROVINCE where it is WARM and where I am going ...
Posted by Mal on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 10:38:00 PST

THIS IS A BOOGIE WONDERLAND

[Oh my god guys, Tom just landed in London!!! I fucking hate myspace. I tried to post this about 8 times and myspace wouldn't let me. I hope it works this time. Someone message me if I posted it 8...
Posted by Mal on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:24:00 PST

fitting, maybe

"What is curious here is the lack of any relationship between objective measures and perceptlons of city size for the 14 Chinese cities, which have undergone large scale aerial expansion over the past...
Posted by Mal on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 11:23:00 PST

HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THIS (part 1)

Before I go into my ridiculous week - what the fuck. I got this thing from Alice, opened itunes, and did it. I swear I didn't fuck with anything. Why does itunes hate me?? music meme fortunetell...
Posted by Mal on Fri, 07 Oct 2005 10:57:00 PST

from invisible cities:

He said: "Signs form a language, but not the one you know." I realized I had to free myself from the images which in the past had announced to me the things I sought: only then would I succeed in u...
Posted by Mal on Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:39:00 PST

in the store

"Ni blah blah blah blah ma?" Dumb look. "Ni xihuan blah blah blah blah ma?" I am a total fucking idiot. This woman is pulling out ugly shirt after ugly shirt and being so gregarious that I w...
Posted by Mal on Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:37:00 PST

no cheese in china

Last night I had a dream that on the Luoshi Lu I encountered an entire truck full of cheese. Cheddar, Gouda, Camembert. Then I woke up (and cursed god).
Posted by Mal on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 05:34:00 PST

things are awesome

I made friends with french boys who know the punk rock clubs and they are taking me to a show on Sunday!!! I have an asparagus fern and mooncakes and discovered a secret park in the middle of my un...
Posted by Mal on Mon, 05 Sep 2005 03:52:00 PST