Cassette Swimsuits (working notes May 20

Friday, May 19

when I count to

1. "language can neither speak itself, nor speak merely about itself"

2. "a sentence assumes more than it admits."

3. "to some extent, each sentence has to be the whole story."

4. "something 'asks' to be put into sentences, and suffers the wrong of not being able to be at the moment."

5. "unbinds the text by enveloping it with intervals."

6. "memory is the first property of loss"

7. "displacement of psychical intensities"

8. "the reawakening of the voice always presupposes a break, an irreversible distance from the lost object".

9. "once one cites a fragment, one finds oneself implicitly in a textual perspective".

10. "did you call Soleilmoon a couple of days ago?"

11. "mistaking someone's bracelet on a table for an ashtray."

12. "Aki no tetoron wa teijin des"

13. "these clocks were installed by the lowest bidder."

14. "little toy cans 'moo' when you turn them over."

15. "the essential character of a grid is retained to fine focal limits."

16. "genkan o aketara ni hun de gohan"

17. "two brothers manufacture small boxes that moo when inverted"

18. "did you know, your wrist glows in the dark?"

19. "animated by immobile waves"

20. "dancing about architect"

21. "we are engaged in a struggle with language."

22. "Jeannie is continually at pains to behave like a normal housewife in spite of her magical abilities."

23. "the room beneath her dress"

24. "announcement intones that the train will be thirty five minutes late."

25. "he doesn't want to obtain an image or a sound but the passage of a signal"

26. "The room is a vehicle existing only to explain the light"

27. "not all distance is aesthetic"

28. "voice with proximity"

29. “phosphorescent fungi are used as hair ornaments for moonlight dances.”

30. "the road slants downhill but, strangely, the terrace rises against the horizontal line at about the same angle as the road descends."

31. "they've lost the crab-net."

32. "Everything I buy quickly becomes useless."

33. "a fly is on someone's lip."

34. "turn the page and the fly is on her nipple."

35. "I smell strawberries burning."

36. "Why would I lie about legs?"

37. "what is meant by primitive structure?" ("primitivu na kozo ni yori nani ga imi sareru ka")

39. "'Suck my left one,' snarls vocalist Kathleen Hanna, and you know immediately that Bikini Kill is a band with ovaries."

40. "let's run away and become servants."


Saturday, May 20

when I count to

41. "by the way, can you add a rabbit?"

42. "Reality is always the plaintiff's responsibility."

43. "how streets, houses, and rooms look to the documentarist."

44. "the character's thoughts must be inferred from the descriptions."

45. "why deny the obvious necessity for memory?"

46. “isoi demo aka nanoni."

47. “batteries sold are used to power toys."

48. “wedding reception conflicts with softball game.”

49. “swimmers indulge their shoulders.”

50. "each room should have its own door, and in addition a common side door, to enable them to seek each other's company unnoticed."

51. "the image is never complete in itself."

52. "did you lower the volume?"

53. “they’re about to shoot."

54. "doesn't have any shoelaces."

55. "how many spoons to make coffee?"

56. “fixation diminishes to an uncitable pause.”

57. "Cezanne with apples in particular"

58. "mannequins dressed in black across from the Versace store on Post Street"

59. "My personality is suited for weather."

60. “When I count to 60 your hands will become a woman.”

61. "Arielle after a haircut, Paris 1982"

62. “is in the rupture”

63. “fake beheading video aired on Arab TV and Fox news”

64. “people are posting picture of themselves with hand written apologies”

65. “father startles actress with salmon”

66. “commitment to fabric”

67. “trampoline glue”

68. “elevator bath tattooed on her lips”

69. “music is in a square, it’s mathematically correct”

70. “Phew (Most)”

71. “sparse Dzama beats”

72. “Kawase Naomi surrounds herself with 8mms”

73. “Distance is a documentary but the premise is entirely fiction”

74. “considering 45 minutes in Chinese”