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