I want to shout, but I can't hardly speak. I was making love last night To a dancer friend of mine. I can't seem to stay in step, 'Cause she come ev'ry time that she pirouettes over me. And I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming, I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping. I'm zipping through the days at lightning speed. Plug in, flush out and fire the fuckin' feed. Heading for the overload, Splattered on the dirty road, Kick me like you've kicked before, I can't even feel the pain no more. But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming, I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping. Feel so hypnotized, can't describe the scene. Its all mesmerized all that inside me. The sunshine bores the daylights out of me. Chasing shadows moonlight mystery. Headed for the overload, Splattered on the dirty road, Kick me like you've kicked before, I can't even feel the pain no more. But I only get my rocks off while I'm dreaming I only get my rocks off while I'm sleeping. " (from off broadway) Then this: I found myself singin' Like a long-lost friend The same thing that makes you live Can kill you in the end. Can we get it together?" |
Sunday, September 25, 2011
The Music Lover (6)
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Things that don't go together (5)
What do the Pruitt-Igoe buildings built in the 1950s in north St. Louis
have in common with the World Trade Center?
Well for starters, they both were designed by the architech Minoru Yamasaki.
For seconds, they were both demolished by intentional, though markedly different means:
There seems to be a lot of failed utopian ideas at play.
Pruitt-Igoe was built in two separate groups of buildings.
The Pruitt complex to house african americans and other minorities
Igoe for the whites.
This had to have been back in the 1950s.
The complexes were later integrated
Never achieving more than 50 % occupancy
Architecture journals praised the complex as a beautiful example of International Style housing
which would alleviate and even end poverty and to cure society's ills.
Some residents, upon moving in, said it looked like a dream come true.
Crime, vandalism, decay.
This was before the planes impacted the buildings.
Flown by people brandishing an entirely different type of book
and a radically different type of dream.
have in common with the World Trade Center?
Well for starters, they both were designed by the architech Minoru Yamasaki.
For seconds, they were both demolished by intentional, though markedly different means:
Pruitt-Igoe was built in two separate groups of buildings.
The Pruitt complex to house african americans and other minorities
Igoe for the whites.
This had to have been back in the 1950s.
The complexes were later integrated
Never achieving more than 50 % occupancy
Architecture journals praised the complex as a beautiful example of International Style housing
which would alleviate and even end poverty and to cure society's ills.
Some residents, upon moving in, said it looked like a dream come true.
Crime, vandalism, decay.
This was before the planes impacted the buildings.
Flown by people brandishing an entirely different type of book
and a radically different type of dream.
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