get your oars back in the water kid . . .

"After all, judgement of others never really gets anywhere. It's been going on for thousands of years. The names change but the mechanism of blaming remains the same. Our distrust of others stems from the compulsion to defend our identity as a kind of private property, whereas true revolution is courageous because it involves surrender of ego. "

--from 'Killing the Madman' an interesting essay by poet Michael Brownstein in the latest edition of Arthur, in which Brownstein relates the awareness acheived in meditation to the awareness needed as an activist. You know, compassionate detachment and all that jazz.

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I found a used copy of Frederick Barthelme's Moon Deluxe the other day and am digging him quite a bit. This younger brother of Donald has not only written a number of books and had his art on display at MoMA, he was also the drummer on 'Parable of Arable Land,' the debut record by Texas psych pioneers The Red Krayola.

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recent heavy rotation:

Albert Ayler-- Spirits Rejoice
Quixotic--Mortal Mirror
M. Ward--Transistor Radio
Battles--EP C
James Brown--Black Caesar
Sun City Girls--Torch of the Mystics (thanks again to hackmuth for hooking a copy up. it's been a revelatory listen.)

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Stop by and check out the new shirts at Slow Loris. Globe, snorklehead, beer can, ram . . . I can't decide.