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Friday 31 October 2014

Red State Scream Preview (A Period Haunting)

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A bleak living room complete with an old television set and armchair, abandoned house, Ohio: photo by Jonny Joo via The Guardian, 17 October 2014


No, man, it's cool, really, No worries. Still only top of the third. The cable guy is on the way over right now. Going to be a good night, I can feel it. We're going to own these guys.






Chicago, Illinois. Halloween masks on sale at Fantasy Costumes: photo by Scott Olson via The Guardian, 29 October 2014

It's a HEALTHY world (she said) nothing LAME asked to be brought into it then you can't stand It NOTHING'S just dead FISH SMELLS lost eyes a lot of smashed President KING more than just the present moment's intermittent or latent shape-shifting OH NO the continuous micro-slaughter

the SHE President personifies a piece of the planet in shreds now the universe itself existed as a dream of itself back in the age of ME in the underworld mask shtick whatever works just feeling funny a little bit about being a grownup

and loving people who are adorers out of antiquity nor anyone's body or brain for long but this line works and remembers every past action of yours and anyone's trivial why in the container and burn your tender crocodile tears in the obsidian vagenda of your POWER your SOUL




Wallops Island, Virginia. An unmanned rocket owned by Orbital Sciences Corporation explodes just seconds after launch, on what was to be a resupply mission to the International Space Station: photo by Steve Alexander / AFP via The Guardian, 29 October 2014

and all that dross bogus TREAT-BAG CULT VOID underworld of adorer followers in no space a BROken WINdow little man crushed instead of a SELF a bottle of WINdex blue spray WITH THE FINGER OF NO MAN extant in the AEROSOL YOUNIVERSE supposing every past action of yours and anyone's trivial why were you alive wanting everything to gratify HALF and astound the other my I want ADORER TIC kicking in your BROken WINdow O ver and O ver a TICKing trick no treat the easy after the hard the painful the history after the math the reverb of the primal the inner the outer as my SHELF en LARGEs you can fit MORE BOOKS (serious) Hey, man, I know you! You're a carpenter if I were you I'd be aSHAMED (where are my tools) I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU YOUR FACE CHANGED in the night 2.0 I reach out feel around in the dark later left elbow purple bruise lights out haunted not answering door no one CRAZY enough to risk appearing to feel my disease It will get you and it's never what you think it will be It will get you and it's never what you think it will be no MEN will decide (JOKE)
 

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Various Balinese Topeng (dance masks), Taman Mini Indonesia Indah, Jakarta
: photo by Gunawan Kartapranata, 2009


There is an unconscious propriety in the way in which, in all European languages, the word person is commonly used to denote a human being. The real meaning of persona is a mask, such as actors were accustomed to wear on the ancient stage; and it is quite true that no one shows himself as he is, but wears his mask and plays his part. Indeed, the whole of our social arrangements may be likened to a perpetual comedy; and this is why a man who is worth anything finds society so insipid, while a blockhead is quite at home in it.
 
Arthur Schopenhauer: Psychological Observations, from Studies in Pessimism in Parerga und Paralipomena, 1851 (translated by Thomas Bailey Saunders)
 

The powers of the dead are only strong when the lights are out* (*joke)

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nights like this I become afraid of the darkness in my heart #halloween: image via Drew Patrick @drewpatrick143, 30 October 2014

The moon to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

one never does that

in the night I am real
in the night I am real

The moon to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

Wherever is the wind
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

In the night I am real
 
*

Forever is the wind
to the left of me
is a part of my thoughts
is a part of me is me

I don't want my
fangs too long

If you have ghosts
then you have everything
 
--Roky Erickson: from If you have ghosts

... behind the mask, nights like this: all the clocks have stopped, am I real, am I alive?



Detroit, Michigan. Several dead bodies were found in the cellar of this former high-class brothel: photo by Seph Lawless via the Guardian, 30 October 2014

and all that dross bogus TREAT-BAG CULT VOID underworld of adorer
followers in no space a BROken WINdow little man crushed
instead of a SELF a bottle of WINdex blue spray WITH THE FINGER OF NO MAN
extant in the AEROSOL YOUNIVERSE supposing every past action of yours
and anyone's trivial why were you alive wanting everything to gratify HALF
and astound the other my I want ADORER TIC kicking in your BROken
WINdow O ver and O ver a TICKing trick no treat the easy after the hard
the painful the history after the math the reverb of the primal the inner
the outer as my SHELF en LARGEs you can fit MORE BOOKS (serious) Hey, man, I know you!
You're a carpenter if I were you I'd be aSHAMED (where are my tools)
I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU YOUR FACE CHANGED in the night 2.0
I reach out feel around in the dark later left elbow purple bruise lights
out haunted not answering door no one CRAZY enough to risk appearing
to feel my disease It will get you and it's never what you think it will be
It will get you and it's never what you think it will be no MEN will decide (JOKE)
 
 


Michigan Central Station: photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, from The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl), 2010

Melted clock, Cass Technical High School

Melted clock, Cass Technical High School: photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, from The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl), 2010

Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel


Room 1504, Lee Plaza Hotel
: photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, from The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl), 2010

Packard Motors Plant

Packard Motors Plant
: photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre, from The Ruins of Detroit (Steidl), 2010


I Am Alive: graffiti at "The Ridges", aka Athens Lunatic Asylum (formerly Athens State Hospital, in operation 1874-1993), Athens, Ohio: photo by Tyler McSheehy (ShockMeAwake), 9 June 2013

SementeryoMoments (If you have ghosts)

 

The Ridges: Lin Hall Underground. Graffiti found in the tunnels under main building
at "The Ridges", aka Athens Lunatic Asylum (formerly Athens State Hospital, in operation 1874-1993), Athens, Ohio: photo by stimply, 12 May 2009



The "Ridges" cemetery, former Ohio State Asylum for the Insane, (operated 1874-1993), Athens, Ohio.This cemetery at the Ridges in Athens was used until 1913 as a final resting place for deceased patients of the Athens Lunatic Asylum whose families failed to claim their bodies. Grave sites were mostly numbered, though a few bear names.The "Ridges" cemetery gravestones were laid out in straight lines, with the exception of the northeast corner of the cemetery where you will find a circle of graves. The cemeteries were vulnerable to vandals for many years. Some believe witches created the circle to hold seances inside of it, others speculate that it was a prank by college students: photo by Todd Bender (holysniki), 9 November 2008



Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. An abandoned mansion: photo by Seph Lawless via the Guardian,
30 October 2014
 

Full moon rising above "The Ridges" (former Athens Lunatic Asylum, Athens, Ohio): photo by Mdombroski, 18 January 2079




Houston, Texas. A former bed and breakfast where a number of people are said to have been killed: photo by Seph Lawless via the Guardian,
30 October 2014



Full moon above "The Ridges" (former Athens Lunatic Asylum, Athens, Ohio): photo by Mdombroski, 18 January 2079


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Cyrus shock ... On Saturday night after Alexander Wang's spring '15 show, the designer held a top-secret after party at a Brooklyn warehouse, where he and his friends had pretty wild time, including Miley Cyrus, wearing nothing but nipple covers!: photo by AKM-GSI / Splash News, 8 September 2014

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Cyrus shock ... On Saturday night after Alexander Wang's spring '15 show, the designer held a top-secret after party at a Brooklyn warehouse, where he and his friends had pretty wild time, including Miley Cyrus, wearing nothing but nipple covers!: photo by AKM-GSI / Splash News, 8 September 2014

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Mapapatingala ka nalang sa sobrang taas ng puntod ng bibisitahin mo #SementeryoMoments: image via kaka @Wizkhalifa, 30 October 2014



and all that dross bogus TREAT-BAG CULT VOID underworld of adorer
followers in no space a BROken WINdow little man crushed
instead of a SELF a bottle of WINdex blue spray WITH THE FINGER OF NO MAN
extant in the AEROSOL YOUNIVERSE supposing every past action of yours
and anyone's trivial why were you alive wanting everything to gratify HALF
and astound the other my I want ADORER TIC kicking in your BROken
WINdow O ver and O ver a TICKing trick no treat the easy after the hard
the painful the history after the math the reverb of the primal the inner
the outer as my SHELF en LARGEs you can fit MORE BOOKS (serious) Hey, man, I know you!
You're a carpenter if I were you I'd be aSHAMED (where are my tools)
I AM TRYING TO TELL YOU YOUR FACE CHANGED in the night 2.0
I reach out feel around in the dark later left elbow purple bruise lights
out haunted not answering door no one CRAZY enough to risk appearing
to feel my disease It will get you and it's never what you think it will be
It will get you and it's never what you think it will be no MEN will decide (JOKE)




Toledo, Ohio. Locals suspected the owner practised witchcraft: photo by Seph Lawless via the Guardian,
30 October 2014


and still no sign of the damn cable guy... 
 




RCA Victor. "We got to move these color TVs..." Keeler, California: photo by Jody Miller, 31 March 2014 

... unless... wait... could this be him?
 


Noctilucent Night by @MikkoLagerstedt #Halloween: image via 500px 500@px, 30 October 2014

Thursday 30 October 2014

Relocation (the new ABCs)

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Navotas, Philippines. A woman reads a book outside her house, located on top of a cemetery: photo by Ezra Acayan / NurPhoto / REX via The Guardian, 28 October 2014


You might be able to move upstairs for a while
but just because they are still filed down there waiting patiently in their quiet cement boxes
don't think you can set yourself above them
forever
 



Santa Anita, Iztacalco: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 1 June 2013


 Durango: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 26 April 2012



Accident scene, Mexico City: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 20 January 2014



Freetown, Sierra Leone. A man suffering from Ebola lies on the floor outside a house in Port Loko Community. Ebola is now hitting the western edges of the country, where the capital is located, with dozens of people falling sick each day, the government said: photo by Michael Duff / AP via The Guardian, 22 October 2014
 
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People gather around the body of a person suspected to have died from the Ebola virus, covered in leaves as it lies on the street in Freetown, Sierra Leone: photo by Tanya Bindra / Associated Press via Business Insider, 17 October 2014
 


Execution, Mexico City: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 8 March 2014
 


Life is amazing (Mexico City): photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 7 March 2014



Murder victim, Mexico City: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 26 March 2014



 Execution victim, Valle de Chalco: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 10 March 2014


Execution victim, Tlalnepantla: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 6 March 2014


Murder victim, Iztapalapa: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 18 July 2013


 The world's most wanted drug kingpin, Joaquin Loera Guzman, known as El Chapo, is captured, Mexico City: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 22 February 2014


Accident scene, Iztapalapa: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 26 September 2013
 

Accident scene, Mexico City: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 17 July 2013
 

Fatal accident scene, Mexico City: photo by Jair Cabrera Torres (rastamaniaco), 11 October 2013
 

Struggle to fight #Ebola: people in #SierraLeone slums very poor w/ little access to clean water & sanitation: image via Helen Clark @HelenClark_UNDP, 11 October 2014
 
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Challenges of poverty #EbolaResponse in #Freetown slums. Hygiene food, water, @UNDP fights on all fronts: image via Mila Rosenthal @RosenthalMila, 11 October 2014


Could saving West Africa's forests have prevented #Ebola? Industrial kimberlite diamond pit mine in Sierra Leone, West Africa owned by Koidu holdings, one of a number of international mining companies who have come to Sierra Leone in search of diamonds. Mining is among major factors driving deforestation of the region. The result: virus, bats and people have had more opportunities to meet: photo by David Levene for the Guardian via World Economic Forum @wef, 10 October 2014


Here's What It's Like To Live In An African City Plagued By Ebola...#Freetown: photo by Michael Duff / AP via Booyah!! @kijanafulani, 19 October 2014

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A few people are seen during a three-day lockdown to prevent the spread of the Ebola virus, in Freetown, Sierra Leone: photo by Michael Duff / AP via Business Insider, 17 October 2014
 

Sierra Leone is a very friendly, very sociable place but that is changing. People are living by the ABC rule: Avoid Bodily Contact. Nobody shakes hands or touches anymore. There is definitely a different atmosphere. It’s a lot quieter. People are definitely changing their behaviour.

Business Insider, 17 October 2014




#Ebola safe burial team working to remove & inter dead bodies of ppl suspected to have died of Ebola in #Sierra Leone: image via WHO @WHO, 7 October 2014


#Ebola safe burial team working to remove & inter dead bodies of ppl suspected to have died of Ebola in #Sierra Leone: image via WHO @WHO, 7 October 2014



#Ebola safe burial team working to remove & inter dead bodies of ppl suspected to have died of Ebola in #Sierra Leone
: image via WHO @WHO, 7 October 2014
 
 
#Ebola safe burial team working to remove & inter dead bodies of ppl suspected to have died of Ebola in #Sierra Leone: image via WHO @WHO, 7 October 2014


 #Ebola dead unburied as grave-diggers strike in Sierra Leone: image via RT @RT_com, 8 October 2014

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#EbolaSL The only #Ebola cemetery at #Tokpombu (for #Kenema district) is full: image via Cédric Moro @Moro_Cedric, 9 October 2014



Freetown, Sierra Leone. Volunteers arrive to pick up bodies. They get $100 a week as compensation for their high-risk work: photo by Florian Plaucheur / AFP via The Guardian, 10 October 2014
 

Anger in Sierra Leone after body of #Ebola victim left on street for two days: image by Reuters via BBC News (World) @BBCWorld, 15 October 2014

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Residents watch as health workers, not in picture, take samples from the body of a person suspected of dying from the Ebola virus as it lies on the street covered in leaves in Freetown, Sierra Leone: photo by Tanya Bindra / Associated Press via Business Insider, 17 October 2014


 #ebola graves: unmarked in cleared forest. Whole families. No-one to mourn them. Heartbreaking. #Sierra Leone: image via DrJavid Abdel @thisfoolj, 7 October 2014


State police sent to home of Maine #Ebola nurse under forced isolation: image via KGW News @KGWNews, 29 October 2014


I'm lucky - 1 last temp check at Lungi airport & I can leave #Sierraleone - but what about the 6 million who can't?
: image via Natasha Lewer @natashalewer, 26 October 2014