Thursday, December 14, 2006

Peach Halves or Meditations or in Moderation

"pfsssfssf"
Chris Ware

The end of the year is approaching, and what next? Play Jefferson Airplane's After Bathing at Baxters or read Stanzas in Meditation or touch Pussy Willows or taste peaches or smell someone else's cigarette? I could make a list.

WHAT HAS NOT AGED WELL ACCORDING TO HIS HOLE-IN-THE-SOCKNESS, LESTER SHUE:

list is not in number of importance or---

1) Jeff Koons
2) Pearl Jam
3) The Iraq War (easy one, I know)
4) Ron Silliman
5) The New York Knicks
6) Spin
7) Seinfeld
8) Poetry
9) The color Red
10)The Planet
11)Lester Shue
12)The Institution of Marriage
13)The NYPD
14)Almodovar
15)American Civil Liberties
16)MOMA
17)Lester Shue
18)Sobriety
19)Blogs
20)Manners
21)Health Care
22)SST
23)Mike Tyson
24)Education in the United States
25)Lester Shue
26)???

If I should add or delete any items lemme know.

3 comments:

Sommer said...

Lester, second thoughts on Levine?

Here's more.

Things that haven't aged well:

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.
Being not gay.
Jazz.

Anonymous said...

Adam says:

bands that imitate Joy Division
myspace
me

Things that HAVE aged well:

Iggy Pop (bless him)

Lester Shue said...

Ms. Asthma,

I am telephone book thick with respect for Mr. Levine as a poet, I just don't gravitate toward his work these days.

What Work is: beatiful, does wonderful things.