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但願您也在這裡 （finding greetings series no. 2）
布拉格 prague – 舊金山 san francisco
kostel sv. mikuláše na starém městě (the church of St. Nicholas on the Old Town)

 

i wanted to be everywhere, all the time. but somehow time stumbled, fell down, and we were led to change genres because nobody took us seriously. or was it simply taking the time to get back to roots, ironic after that white dude’s patronising joke thirteen years ago (so you came to China to find your roots, eh?), me and my roots, everywhere, all the time. keeping it real is just something really really difficult, you know.

you know, just letting you know, you’ll be an arrival point because there’s a one-way love letter at stake, like determined roots and you, the water between my fingers.

 

重慶 chongqing – 星加坡 singapore
a hearty welcome: a massive dish showcasing Chongqing’s sprawling high-rises greets visitors at the opening of the Hotpot Cuisine Culture Festival yesterday. The pot——a reflection of Chinese people’s culinary passion——is divided into two, with half containing light-flavoured broth and the other half, a spicy variation. Models of skyscrapers sit in the middle. The municipality is widely regarded as the origin of hotpot.

 

紐約 new york – 紐約 new york

 

i started to realise the meaning of repetition. maybe because i was once a teacher, and that’s what one does in school, spinning drills, tires as hips. an exercise machine for getting old and being afraid of being forgotten.

you weren’t so didactic, but romantic still loops. we won’t call it like that because you wanted agency, 醒了 and 行了 again and again, aware of pretentions, but what recourse is there? you make your bed.

i make it again and again. and realise that actually that arendt bit is about systems, too. about the ecology of ‘it’s hard to be a good person’, being holistically compromised. about the distance between a sender and a receiver, about the logistical operations of the greatest love poets——”close to cynicism the way comedians are close to sadness”.

you realise、 you rise、 醒了 (a doubt about wokeness)、 行了.
 

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但願為您描述得更好ASMR

「但願為您描述得更好」ASMR——在糟糕的日子里，讓您舒服一下

雉尾電台，2018年4月20日，凌晨1－兩點
archived recording, originally broadcast on Pheasantail Radio, 20 April 2018, 1 – 2 am UTC +08

featuring selections from:

🎧 《A User’s Guide to Demanding the Impossible》 by the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination
🎧 「Coping Mechanism: The Care of Self and the Politics of Listening in Art and the ASMR Community」by Ashley Lee WONG
🎧 「RECEIVE UNEXPECTED MONEY IN 1 DAY | Subliminal To Attract Money」

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in loving him,

I saw small-town laborers creating excavations that other men spend their lives trying to fill. In loving him, I saw moving films of stone buildings; I saw a hand in prison dragging snow in from the sill. In loving him, I saw great houses being erected that would soon slide into the waiting and stirring seas. I saw him freeing me from the silences of the interior life.

From David Wojnarowicz’s “Close to the Knives”

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finding greetings series no. 1 （但願您也在這裡）

excerpt from Radio Corax broadcast 13 August 2018, with Claire Serres

 

無聊的風（氣）the wind of boredom － 多倫多 Toronto

 

阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam － 羅特丹 Rotterdam

 

達拉斯 Dallas － 水牛城 BuffaloFront gate of the legendary Southfork Ranch, made famous by the Ewing family in the 80s television series Dallas.

 

巴哈馬群島 Bahamas － 上海 Shanghai

 

香港 Hong Kong － 柏林 BerlinView from the Peak of Central Business District at Night

 

利比里亞 Liberia － 東京 TokyoCarnival: The Most Popular Cruise Line in the World

 

阿姆斯特丹 Amsterdam － 烏特勒支 Utrecht

 

倫敦 London － 烏特勒支 UtrechtWomen’s Barracks (1950)
Cover Artist: Barye Phillips

 

图珀洛 Tupelo － 上海 Shanghai
Elvis Presley was born in this house January 8, 1935. The dwelling built by his father, is located in Tupelo, Mississippi, and is open to the public.

 

樓梯破洞 hole in stairwell － 舊金山 San Francisco

 

基韋斯特 Key West － 根特 GhentKey West now boasts bicycle policemen. Shown here, at the southernmost point in Key West, are two of them ready to do their duty.

發您的郵編地址到ho[at]iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter[dot]net ,收來自哪裡哪裡的祝福⋯⋯
Send your postal address to ho[at]iwishicoulddescribeittoyoubetter[dot]net for greetings from somewhere⋯⋯

達拉斯 Dallas － 柏林 Berlin／柏林 Berlin／海牙 Den Haag／太原 Tai Yuan
United States Postal Service Dallas, Texas, Preston Royal location, 29 October 2018

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a frightful and weepy one

small scream peeling onions on the eve of all saints

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