<= 2008.07.11

2008.07.29 =>

July 14, 2008

Ostranenie

A Bastille Day revision note: the novel won’t have to go to the guillotine, it can still be reformed for the good of the Republic, I just came close to forgetting an essential bit of aesthetic theory from John R. Cash:

We were just a plain old hillbilly band with a plain old country style
We never played the kind of songs that’d drive anybody wild
Played a railroad song with a stomping beat
We played a blues song, kinda slow and sweet
But the thing that knocked them off of their feet was (hoo-wee)
When Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie woogie
Luther played the boogie in the strangest kind of way
 
Play it strange!

 

<= 2008.07.11

2008.07.29 =>

up (2008.07)

Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.