Friday, October 2, 2009

when's the last time you thought about jack palance?

"IN my opinion sound is the key...I'm not separating sound from meaning.i don't think that's a useful distinction any more than form and content is a useful distinction."

coolidge, beats at naropa

when we consider this continual debate i think we must consider not whether form manipulates content or vice versa as a rule but rather how we distinguish as individual word musicians how that accordian behavior expands and contracts based on the human emotion and the binaries established that are contracting with every force and release. in other words when i consider form and content, in my own writing, writing that consistently has been contained with in the format of a block on teh page imust consider whether this form is contracting around the content or if the content is expanding against the form. and what i've come to in this conceptualization is that the block acts as mostly a containment unit, one that strides to sedate each sentence that is uniquely in its own rite is wickedly battling the constraints of not only that block but indeed the sentence itself between capital letter and punctuation. so this containment unit is very deliberately however subconsciously responding as a straight jacket for the eratic behavior gestating in a line. so whichever came first i'm not quite sure, but for certain they intrinsically unified, incapable of existing without the other, even as conceptual as you stretch the boundaries, a jacket will always contain, but will not often be of use in walmart.

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