http://theunnamable.com/words Try again. Fail again. Fail better. Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:07:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en yt: THIS IS SOME CRAP RIGHT HERE yt: http://www.nava.org/Flag%20Design/city_survey.htm L: omg I eat chipotle & have hot sauce now I have WEEVILS L: Why did I do that yt: that washington flag is not better than chicago L: looks like stupid to me L: I for one am outraged L: TAKE IT TO THE STREETS yt: portland is ... http://theunnamable.com/words/city-flags-forever/ Bill Callahan: I noticed the other day that the first song on A River Ain’t Too Much to Love ends with a bird migrating south for the winter and the last song on the record ends with a phoenix flying out of whatever it is a phoenix flies out of. The ... http://theunnamable.com/words/woke-on-a-whaleheart/ From Captain Beefheart’s 10 Commandments of Guitar Playing: Wait until the moon is out, then go outside, eat a multi-grained bread and play your guitar to a bush. If the bush dosen’t shake, eat another piece of bread. (via) http://theunnamable.com/words/the-captain-beefheart-radar-station-captain-beefhearts-10-commandments-of-guitar-playing/ Barry Gifford: David once explained the effect he was after: “You know that feeling you get when you’ve just gotten back from the dry cleaners a pair of slacks, Dacron slacks, and you reach your hand in a pocket, and you feel those fuzzy sandwiches with your fingers? Well, that’s the ... http://theunnamable.com/words/its-all-so-clear-now/ The greatest campaign commercials in the history of democracy? adfreak: Presidential hopeful Mike Gravel. http://theunnamable.com/words/hes-got-my-vote/ “Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. ” –Robert E. Lee (via). http://theunnamable.com/words/quotation-of-the-day/ Zulkey.com “I really liked your voice-over on Futurama,” I told a person who had once been one of most powerful men in the world. Seeing the dvd, he seemed to break out of his polite-but-numbed, repetitive book-signing stupor, saying, “You know there’s a movie coming out?” http://theunnamable.com/words/the-futurama-president/ Oldest known mushroom found An Oregon scientist and a Kentucky nurse have found the oldest known mushroom, entombed in a 100-million-year-old piece of amber from Burma. A closer examination of the nine-hundredths-inch-long mushroom cap revealed that it had been infected by an ancient parasite, which a second parasite was feeding on. And: Scientists have ... http://theunnamable.com/words/ye-olde-feeding-frenzy/ Before watching faces in the morning I suppose I was as messy as a typical guy. The mood elevation produced by faces suddenly changed me: I discovered I enjoyed cleaning, and I started to spend lots of time (about an hour/day) doing it. –Seth’s blog http://theunnamable.com/words/seth%e2%80%99s-blog-%c2%bb-blog-archive-%c2%bb-neat-freak/ Sentences on Conceptual Art 16. If words are used, and they proceed from ideas about art, then they are art and not literature; numbers are not mathematics. http://theunnamable.com/words/sol-lewitt-september-9-1928-april-8-2007/