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deviantART: by:snarling-snail http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:snarling-snail&section=today deviantART RSS for by:snarling-snail en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:19:59 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png Michael Moore in a philosophical nut-shell http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/17528286/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/17528286/ Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:17:19 PDT
the icon, in all its emptiness, is the volatile conjunction of myth and realityÂ¹ within (i.e., encompassed by) the stark immediacy of the imageÂit electrifies the moment of logical perception with the poignancy of a purely emoted (i.e., "sensed" ) meaning; thus, the moment is deterritorialized, divested of its tautological symbolism: it remains, at this juncture, thoroughly "beyond good and evil" (cf. Nietzsche) with respect to truth value, hence, beyond "true" and "false," removed of its logical signifiers in the same manner that morality is "unqualified" (for man) in Nietzsche; and it is at this extremity that the moment may be taken up, once more, by the volatile immediacy of the image and becomes susceptible to reterritorialization by the icon's own insistence, by the driving force that is its exclusive, sentient meaning...

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note: such a thing arguably happens with respect to each and every one of us, on some levelÂa most arguable claim which allows for valid comparisons between Mr. Moore, Jeanne d'Arc, and even (however pejoratively) Slavoj ÂiÂek with hardly the most complete and utter absurdity, if much at all. one must never the less be careful about this pervading phenomenon...

Â¹in no way here am I proposing or even suggesting the nonexistence of something known as "the myth of reality;" I am simply arguing in a more orthodox manner regarding the specific elements of dichotomy which do lie between the concepts of "myth" and "reality," however inevitable these elements and/or what they constitute may be.

]]> ~snarling-snail Beautiful Create ures http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/7679289/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/7679289/ Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:10:03 PST "You snarling, infernal, chthonic naked mollusk, my nemesis and muse,"

"At the zoo the next week he was eager to speak
Of his woes and disclose agony:
'A wounded whale and a snarling snail
Made a horse's tail out of me.'"

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This dream started without me.

And ended in an unfamiliar room from my childhood:

My grandmother died, and a life begun.

A life of heirlooms and found texts of empty marketing.

Stuck in her heir.

I pinched and squeezed various plastic action figures that mimed my fears to me in happy-meal-toy life-likeness.

The room radiated with French pristinity.

Glass-grided curio cabinets, white walls of thick lead paint like an experimentalist novel.

It lived without my consciousness to keep it awake.

Much less my conscience, fate.

As a malebolge shrieked from a mummified blood-scrape-painted face in plain, fat, khaki trenchcoat waste.

I saw that fleshless, labelless corpse look me in the eye again: unnegotiable.

Ir(rit)ate.

I woke up craving her, the ripped Word fragments of Guideon's hotel Bible.

The most vivid, irony flesh: I could see again!

I could face that monster; kill it without [mal(e)]addiction!

I could erase it with conviction. . .with Redemption.

And I've fought to know this mortal vision,

Promising that you'd hear it: my infliction............And as you listen, please

Remember this: Death,

Or proposition. . .

]]> ~snarling-snail adieu adieu http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/3772963/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/3772963/ Sun, 07 Nov 2004 01:14:28 PST I hold each of you in my heart
...as long as you've promised not to clog me arteries.
peace to all. ]]> ~snarling-snail purr la perla http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/3205246/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/3205246/ Tue, 24 Aug 2004 19:41:29 PDT Un monde nous sépare

Oh, tu vis tellement intrinsèquement

Je m'intérroge sur cette distance

Je te questionne

Je ne deviendrai jamais ton portrait

Et je divine la rage en toi ]]> ~snarling-snail teach me...something? http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2958388/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2958388/ Sat, 24 Jul 2004 16:30:19 PDT
if you ever hope to know anything about a snail,
read "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf, from which the above quote doth hail. ]]> ~snarling-snail you've come here again? http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2904039/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2904039/ Sat, 17 Jul 2004 17:23:51 PDT

[link] ]]> ~snarling-snail ache, ache... http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2809836/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2809836/ Mon, 05 Jul 2004 14:06:25 PDT why?

I swear, sometimes I feel like I need a vacation from life. ]]> ~snarling-snail disillusion taking aim http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2744024/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2744024/ Sat, 26 Jun 2004 22:56:08 PDT Archery. ]]> ~snarling-snail perfectly in context... http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2470750/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2470750/ Thu, 20 May 2004 15:26:28 PDT Beyond seriousness? Unhappiness doesn't reach it!
       Suffering completes it, but let us suppose that it yields to suffering?
       There is nothing but seriousness.
       No one can talk himself beyond seriousness if he imagines that unhappiness would make him serious.
       What is beyond seriousness differs as much from here and now as seriousness does from the pleasant. It is much more serious, much more comicalthis seriousness being mitigated by nothing pleasant, this comedy by nothing serious. One single instant, the serious man or the jokester could not even breathe here. This said without the least bit of seriousness, but directly, without bias."Bataille, The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge ]]> ~snarling-snail what I did with my heart http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2305318/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2305318/ Tue, 27 Apr 2004 10:01:35 PDT she shimmy shakes, the jimmy jakes of consequence
born of the airs and dues (ooh), my airs of madness do declare
that it's ok, it's love
it's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be
for what you needed to need, she'll make it up
love, (love), it's who you know
machine gun blues, her vacant rush is so steel
i'm unaware, lost inside your visions
i got mine too over, i got mine and i got you
'cause i know you, you're love
it's what you wanted to see, it's who you wanted to be
for what you needed to need, she'll make it up
love, (love), it's who you know

(and when i lost my mind, i knew i was in for a long night

hoo
                                     die )

can i look up to you as you look down on me
can i feel in to you as you felt in to me
i can't help what you see, i can't help but to be
for what i needed to need, she'll make it

love,                       it's who you know

(love solves everything,              love) ]]> ~snarling-snail    http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2216997/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2216997/ Tue, 13 Apr 2004 17:18:49 PDT ~snarling-snail "until I die..." http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2116121/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/2116121/ Tue, 30 Mar 2004 13:50:52 PST I wish I never committed myself to loneliness.
if only I never made the mistake of thinking that the price of knowing what I wanted had to be trying too hard to get itespecially when another (wonderful) person with feelings was involved.

I've been living in a serious illusion and it took this for me to realize it. I want to apologize to all of you whom I may've treated in a similar, selfish and alienating fashion; I swear it was not my honest intention. please don't hate me.

M., if you read this, I'm sorry. I'd take any second chance that you could offer me, if you'd ever be willing to forgive me...
if so, God knows you'd get no more rush or pressure from me. ]]> ~snarling-snail slinky slink http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1968829/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1968829/ Sun, 07 Mar 2004 14:50:11 PST ~snarling-snail merry merry http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1946031/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1946031/ Wed, 03 Mar 2004 15:18:01 PST your presence is my present. ]]> ~snarling-snail awhere?! http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1863286/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1863286/ Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:38:26 PST ~snarling-snail delays delays http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1797739/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1797739/ Thu, 05 Feb 2004 10:30:59 PST ~snarling-snail getting there http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1742305/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1742305/ Sun, 01 Feb 2004 19:16:25 PST ~snarling-snail near-end update http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1708596/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1708596/ Mon, 19 Jan 2004 19:18:20 PST
first: the end is near for your friendly neighborhood snarling snail. I have about 14 pages left in my notebook for this phase of my writing which means possibly about 17 or 18 poemshalf of which I probably will not post here. after I've completed those, I will not return to deviantart. (if you didn't know this was a phase or what the details of it were, you'll be getting filled in very soon. if you don't care, then ya prob'ly won't learn nothin'. )

however, before that, I have a number of stops to throw out, bringing me to my second tidbit: I've been holding back and submitting about less-than-half of what I've written over the past few months (mostly because I didn't expect to receive much new or different feedback from folks here)...but, now I want to finish what I've started with an honest effort. so, to make up for my slacking, I will have an 'old school' week and submit a good 10-15 of my older pieces of writing which some people seemed to dig so much more than the style I'm writing now. anyone who remembers a specific piece that they'd like to see again may request it. in addition to that, I will be pouring the newer submissions on as well...my goal shall be to overwhelm my readersand seeing how that seems to be the effect I have anyway, I will probably get what I want.

thirdly: particularly for my own pleasure, I will submit a clock-o-dial portrait series 2 (see older submissions if you don't know what I'm talking about).

more surprises to come...stay detuned. ]]> ~snarling-snail hipster re-generation http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1680171/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1680171/ Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:06:59 PST so few can act the part.
so many are turned on.
so the ones who are so close drop off the face of the earth.
so it seems all currency was meant to be stolen.

oh well, god knows I can wonder my whole life away...
and lately I've been almost content to do it.
maybe I'll rejoin a band. ]]> ~snarling-snail a tea party http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1665296/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1665296/ Sun, 11 Jan 2004 19:34:41 PST Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. I saw the movie adaptation when I was too young to remember. this is my first time reading the book. the Dormouse's story and the part where Alice sees the Hatter and the March Hare try to stuff the Dormouse into the teapot gave me quite a prolonged, hysterical fit. I've never read any attempt at comedy that made me react so drastically before. now I only wish I wasn't so lazy as to always heat my tea-water in a mason-glass in the microwave--then maybe I would have a teapot on hand for trying to stuff my dog or some other creature into once in a while. ]]> ~snarling-snail Constitution of Colours http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1511841/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1511841/ Thu, 15 Jan 2004 09:49:16 PST
good zombie, purple

happy sky, gray

sad sky, blue

famished flower, brown

fruitful flower, pink

new computer, black

old computer, ivory

safe button, orange

dangerous button, red

old skin, bronze

new skin, tan

new brain, clear

old brain, white

dead brain, black

absolute truth, grey

relative truth, grey

violent parable, purple

peaceable parable, violet

coma mouth, lilac

glad cola, umber

press-on nails, chrome

1975, olive

false lashes, onyx

juice love, orange

tongued lips, purple

balloon string, silver

counter counter-culture, camel

gargled knuckles, navy

nouns as verbs, burgundy

warm shoulders, translucent brown

self-fulfilling tie, pink

[crayola apocrypha:

pursuit of blindess, prussian blue

suit that's mindless, flesh

loot through kindness, indian red

parts come loose, chartreuse

can't clean glue residue, green blue

confusion, profusion instead, orange red

ketchup and mustard and jell-o, orange yellow

concussion grey, violet blue

now new stew, maize

but gut flew, lemon yellow

then nostalgia, blue grey

then sentiment, raw umber

prick your head, thistle

burn your whistle, torch red

weakness to fainting, blizzard blue

senseless declaiming, magic mint]

post-nordic apocalypse, vermillion

nuclear February, cerulean

New York traffic city, charcoal

pyramid studs, quicksilver

Italian torque, oregano

ice-cream fork, '43 silver'

navel stuffing, tangerine

raggedy anne curls, cinnamon

dark brown marijuana, dark brown marijuana

natural smorgasboard, orchid

damp sand, ochre

vader's lightsabre, vermilion

multiple choice, opaque

old newspaper, inky

shag carpet, salmon

nude beach, buff

rainy parade, gardeners thumb green

high tide, ultramarine

creature comfort, tawny

ancient albion, viridian

tangled hair, henna

third gear, titian

empty mosh pit, lonely grey

full mosh pit, maggot beige

clean shoe-sole, black

dirty shoe-sole, dog feces

natural hair, autumn brown

bleached hair, urine yellow

swollen tonsils, wet scarlet

shrunk tonsils, dry purple

broken promise, salty blue

kept promise, child's-used-paint-set-colour

sugary disillusion, creamsicle

wretched tenderness, salmon

hung over, olive

disco ball, magenta

stomach flu baby, wet salt yellow

low ride, burnt

seasick craving, turquoise

messy blowjob, cornsilk

potty mouth, burgundy red

february's longing, blush

frozen saliva, steel

... ..., ...

... ..., ...

(please add to the list. feel free to repeat colours as long as they are paired with new items. I'd love for this list to continue until it has covered every colour known to man--especially the unconventional/superconventional modern ones and/or crayon colours with names like 'plum' and 'navy.' thanks to those who have already contributed. have fun and visit the clubs below, if you too have a thing for colours.)

]]> ~snarling-snail my kind of town http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1500412/ http://snarling-snail.deviantart.com/journal/1500412/ Sat, 06 Dec 2003 22:50:56 PST streets are packed, michigan avenue especially. christmas-shopping crowd is like an ocean...the crosswalks seem a super-sized game of red rover. so much going on, it's interesting but, tends to shift one's focus to loneliness. went to the virgin megastore to look at books and was reminded how much I hate pop culture--with a repulse so strong, in fact, that it seems like apathy.
had some wicked, retro dreams which included, among other things, crying in a small bar in the daytime when my friend put on Hendrix's "Little Wing" (in the dream, I thought it was called " Angel." in reality I don't go to bars. I don't even drink. ) and an average-looking 60s chick holding up her boyfriend, over relationship problems, with one of those hand held, fully automatic machine guns that middle-eastern drug dealers are always depicted with in movies.
went to the signature room atop the hancock building for a drink and was waited on by this girl who looked kinda like a young patti smith but better, more real. she was adorable, had a slight russian accent. the moment I saw her I knew I wanted to make love to her but she seemed short on time, stretched to wait on all her tables; plus I was with my parents--no chance.
all this is only half of what's happened here. needless to say, I dig this city a lot. I kinda wish I had more time here...though I'm not sure anything extremely satisfying would come of it.

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anyway, here are the cats that you need to visit in this community, at least because they've given me a lot of pleasure when things otherwise suck around here (just for show, you know who you are):