Sunday 18 November 2007

Schizophrenia, USA

It is clear that the appalling Abu Ghraib photographs were already intensely eroticised stagings whose scenarios were derived from cheap American pornography. Love and Napalm: Export USA, indeed. Part of the reason that the Abu Ghraib images were so traumatic for a deeply conflicted American culture which combines religious moralism with hyper-sexualised commerce, and which is united only by a taste for megaviolence, is that they exposed the equation between military intervention and sexual humiliation that the official culture both depends upon and must suppress.

Thursday 8 November 2007

Kings were raw

Ray: How do you even get to be king, anyway?

Roast Beef: Just punch hell of suckers in the mouth and tell chicks straight up that you like them.

Thursday 1 November 2007

Where can you be, my love?

Your voice
was a satellite spinning next to me
now I can't hear
over the radio, someone said
A satellite just went down, into the sea

So I go
I fathom leagues
I am the undertow
I wait peacefully

So now I'm waiting for a signal or a sound
where can you be found now?
where can you be found now, my love
where can you be?
waiting for a signal or a sound

- TV on the Radio, Satellite