Reynard Seifert

Reynard lives in Ashland, Oregon, where he is writing a novel and a screenplay sometimes. He teaches English at an alternative school.

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If you click on this candy comes out a sack of cowshit smelling like sea salt for sale, not for money but for time, clicking on 'download excerpt' will give you an excerpt of the whole thing, I hope that's okay!

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Web Hype / 13 Comments
March 4th, 2011 / 4:11 pm

Your best guess: what percentage of HTMLGIANT do you watch? No one cares.

O Hai some librarians are boycotting HarperCollins because they want to limit how many times an ebook can be ‘checked out.’

Western speech is like badgers & birds: free.

The west has fiscalised its basic power relationships through a web of contracts, loans, shareholdings, bank holdings and so on. In such an environment it is easy for speech to be “free” because a change in political will rarely leads to any change in these basic instruments. Western speech, as something that rarely has any effect on power, is, like badgers and birds, free. In states like China, there is pervasive censorship, because speech still has power and power is scared of it. We should always look at censorship as an economic signal that reveals the potential power of speech in that jurisdiction. The attacks against us by the US point to a great hope, speech powerful enough to break the fiscal blockade.Julian Assange

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Film & Music & Power Quote / 3 Comments
February 26th, 2011 / 7:10 pm

“…working class intellectuals like big words and their sentence formation is excessively ornate. It’s what they think of as ‘smart.’ Pomposity. It’s an embarrassing condition of being unsophisticated and not knowing what is truly smart which is simplicity and modernism…” —Eileen Myles

Context

“Literature is language charged with meaning.”

From ABC of Reading
by Ezra Pound
Chapter Four

1

‘Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.’

Dichten = condensare.

I begin with poetry because it is the most concentrated form of verbal expression. Basil Bunting, fumbling about with a German-Italian dictionary, found that this idea of poetry as concentration is as old almost as the German language. ‘Dichten’ is the German verb corresponding to the noun ‘Dichtung’ meaning poetry, and the lexicographer has rendered it by the Italian verb meaning ‘to condense’. READ MORE >

Excerpts / 34 Comments
February 24th, 2011 / 3:22 pm

i  wa nt  th e  wor ld  to  be  fill ed  wi th  whi te  fl uff y  du ck ie s 

from Wittgenstein
Dir. Derek Jarman

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Film / 6 Comments
February 23rd, 2011 / 6:23 pm

The Godz in 1966

Music / 5 Comments
February 19th, 2011 / 5:07 am

Help stop funding cuts to public broadcasting. That would be bad. Thanks!

Bud Cort on Bud Cort Cut Short by El Niño

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Film / 3 Comments
February 17th, 2011 / 3:20 pm

HOW TO TRANSFORM MILK INTO MILK

This photo was taken on my 16th birfday.

Random / 10 Comments
February 16th, 2011 / 2:30 am