WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.060 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.060 --> 00:00:03.980 align:middle line:90% "Lists are a Form of Feedback." 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:10.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:10.750 --> 00:00:13.930 align:middle line:84% "Once amorphous, the desire has morphed. 00:00:13.930 --> 00:00:14.830 align:middle line:90% A blockage. 00:00:14.830 --> 00:00:17.680 align:middle line:84% Now, this is what has to be perfect. 00:00:17.680 --> 00:00:21.880 align:middle line:84% Oh, displacement, I did not invoke you in vain. 00:00:21.880 --> 00:00:23.560 align:middle line:84% A few minutes later, I experienced 00:00:23.560 --> 00:00:27.430 align:middle line:84% an arresting turpitude, the Isakower syndrome. 00:00:27.430 --> 00:00:29.320 align:middle line:84% Nothing would keep my eyes from closing 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.300 align:middle line:90% except for leaving the room. 00:00:31.300 --> 00:00:33.040 align:middle line:90% I'm not leaving the room. 00:00:33.040 --> 00:00:36.190 align:middle line:84% A soft ballooning shape threatens to crush my face. 00:00:36.190 --> 00:00:40.070 align:middle line:84% Anticipating its enveloping warmth, I fall into it. 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:43.030 align:middle line:84% Nipple, what else is one to do but suck the milk, 00:00:43.030 --> 00:00:46.180 align:middle line:90% withdraw, doze off, tit for tat. 00:00:46.180 --> 00:00:49.030 align:middle line:84% Each deed described to Freud, the transcendental feeling 00:00:49.030 --> 00:00:52.060 align:middle line:84% of the two globes or the two transparent half-globes 00:00:52.060 --> 00:00:53.440 align:middle line:90% enclosing her. 00:00:53.440 --> 00:00:55.900 align:middle line:84% He mistook this for a prenatal fantasy, 00:00:55.900 --> 00:00:58.660 align:middle line:90% misread the palpable shakes. 00:00:58.660 --> 00:01:01.510 align:middle line:84% Sound is not frontal like vision, 00:01:01.510 --> 00:01:03.910 align:middle line:90% not attack but surround sound. 00:01:03.910 --> 00:01:06.430 align:middle line:90% Almost redundant. 00:01:06.430 --> 00:01:09.970 align:middle line:84% Atmospheric resemblances, a life of blank. 00:01:09.970 --> 00:01:13.600 align:middle line:84% When it itself an open possibility for reassembly, 00:01:13.600 --> 00:01:17.770 align:middle line:84% behaves in waves across through configurative energies 00:01:17.770 --> 00:01:20.320 align:middle line:84% at its own pace, it gradually becomes 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:24.010 align:middle line:84% a forming blank into which all configurations are 00:01:24.010 --> 00:01:27.370 align:middle line:90% drawn, absorbed, condensed. 00:01:27.370 --> 00:01:29.800 align:middle line:84% And out of which, unrecognizable places 00:01:29.800 --> 00:01:33.460 align:middle line:84% jump, shaping volumes into images." 00:01:33.460 --> 00:01:35.350 align:middle line:90% --Arakawa. 00:01:35.350 --> 00:01:37.450 align:middle line:90% "Some say lists are born. 00:01:37.450 --> 00:01:41.260 align:middle line:90% Others think they're symptoms." 00:01:41.260 --> 00:01:42.280 align:middle line:90% "Found." 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:46.540 align:middle line:84% "We can learn from a tree how to exist in ecstasy." 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:47.710 align:middle line:90% "Go." 00:01:47.710 --> 00:01:48.430 align:middle line:90% "Meet. 00:01:48.430 --> 00:01:50.200 align:middle line:90% Not meet. 00:01:50.200 --> 00:01:51.070 align:middle line:90% Meet. 00:01:51.070 --> 00:01:51.850 align:middle line:90% Engage. 00:01:51.850 --> 00:01:53.626 align:middle line:90% Not engage. 00:01:53.626 --> 00:01:56.290 align:middle line:84% Engage one on one on the surface. 00:01:56.290 --> 00:01:58.090 align:middle line:90% Engage one on one get along. 00:01:58.090 --> 00:01:59.620 align:middle line:90% Not get on. 00:01:59.620 --> 00:02:00.490 align:middle line:90% Get along. 00:02:00.490 --> 00:02:01.510 align:middle line:90% Make out. 00:02:01.510 --> 00:02:03.610 align:middle line:90% Get nowhere. 00:02:03.610 --> 00:02:04.150 align:middle line:90% Make out. 00:02:04.150 --> 00:02:05.440 align:middle line:90% Get together. 00:02:05.440 --> 00:02:07.540 align:middle line:90% Make off. 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:10.030 align:middle line:90% Go meet, engage on the surface. 00:02:10.030 --> 00:02:11.140 align:middle line:90% Make do. 00:02:11.140 --> 00:02:13.180 align:middle line:90% Make off. 00:02:13.180 --> 00:02:15.070 align:middle line:90% Go meet, not engage. 00:02:15.070 --> 00:02:16.360 align:middle line:90% Get over it. 00:02:16.360 --> 00:02:17.980 align:middle line:90% Build up. 00:02:17.980 --> 00:02:19.540 align:middle line:90% Go not meet. 00:02:19.540 --> 00:02:21.160 align:middle line:90% Go at it again. 00:02:21.160 --> 00:02:22.750 align:middle line:90% Get used to it. 00:02:22.750 --> 00:02:24.250 align:middle line:90% Move on. 00:02:24.250 --> 00:02:25.870 align:middle line:90% Repeat. 00:02:25.870 --> 00:02:26.770 align:middle line:90% Not go. 00:02:26.770 --> 00:02:28.210 align:middle line:90% Run into him. 00:02:28.210 --> 00:02:29.650 align:middle line:90% Come up to him. 00:02:29.650 --> 00:02:30.640 align:middle line:90% Get along. 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:32.350 align:middle line:90% Run around. 00:02:32.350 --> 00:02:36.700 align:middle line:84% Come up to him, get along, run off with him. 00:02:36.700 --> 00:02:39.400 align:middle line:84% Run into him, come up to him, not get on. 00:02:39.400 --> 00:02:40.480 align:middle line:90% Have a run in. 00:02:40.480 --> 00:02:42.370 align:middle line:90% Run away. 00:02:42.370 --> 00:02:45.790 align:middle line:84% Not go run into him, not come up to him, build up. 00:02:45.790 --> 00:02:48.010 align:middle line:90% Fade away. 00:02:48.010 --> 00:02:49.570 align:middle line:90% Not meet for now. 00:02:49.570 --> 00:02:51.130 align:middle line:90% Go at it again? 00:02:51.130 --> 00:02:52.330 align:middle line:90% Get it done with. 00:02:52.330 --> 00:02:53.410 align:middle line:90% Move on. 00:02:53.410 --> 00:02:54.760 align:middle line:90% Repeat. 00:02:54.760 --> 00:02:56.440 align:middle line:90% Replace. 00:02:56.440 --> 00:02:58.345 align:middle line:90% Lists can be roundabout." 00:02:58.345 --> 00:03:01.320 align:middle line:90% 00:03:01.320 --> 00:03:02.580 align:middle line:90% "Hearsay." 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:04.440 align:middle line:90% "Blank isn't single. 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:07.050 align:middle line:90% I can tell she's as smoke, her. 00:03:07.050 --> 00:03:09.960 align:middle line:84% Ay hear she's been sin, somewhere else. 00:03:09.960 --> 00:03:13.150 align:middle line:84% I hear she's been seen as someone else. 00:03:13.150 --> 00:03:15.690 align:middle line:84% She's being seen by someone else. 00:03:15.690 --> 00:03:18.480 align:middle line:84% I hear she's been seen as some elf. 00:03:18.480 --> 00:03:20.580 align:middle line:90% I hear, I hear. 00:03:20.580 --> 00:03:21.810 align:middle line:90% She's no imp. 00:03:21.810 --> 00:03:23.220 align:middle line:90% She's no chimp. 00:03:23.220 --> 00:03:24.810 align:middle line:90% I hear she once kids. 00:03:24.810 --> 00:03:26.580 align:middle line:90% She once skids. 00:03:26.580 --> 00:03:29.700 align:middle line:84% I hear you dew knot-- yew dew knot. 00:03:29.700 --> 00:03:31.380 align:middle line:90% Guess yew will break op. 00:03:31.380 --> 00:03:33.830 align:middle line:84% Guess you'll say pirate and then-- 00:03:33.830 --> 00:03:38.490 align:middle line:84% then comes knot eye, bought another 25-year-old. 00:03:38.490 --> 00:03:40.685 align:middle line:84% This is what you write when you've gone shopping 00:03:40.685 --> 00:03:42.060 align:middle line:84% for things you don't need as much 00:03:42.060 --> 00:03:46.240 align:middle line:90% as to remember, regardless." 00:03:46.240 --> 00:03:50.410 align:middle line:84% Dear Karaoke Kingpin, "I wish I were 00:03:50.410 --> 00:03:53.320 align:middle line:84% the one for whom you made a tape with the song by The The back 00:03:53.320 --> 00:03:55.222 align:middle line:90% in the '80s. 00:03:55.222 --> 00:03:57.430 align:middle line:84% If that were the case, you might be happily surprised 00:03:57.430 --> 00:03:58.480 align:middle line:90% to hear from her. 00:03:58.480 --> 00:04:00.340 align:middle line:90% Me, that is. 00:04:00.340 --> 00:04:01.930 align:middle line:84% I wonder if she'd be offended that you 00:04:01.930 --> 00:04:04.690 align:middle line:84% dissed The The in that mixed tape book. 00:04:04.690 --> 00:04:05.680 align:middle line:90% I sure was. 00:04:05.680 --> 00:04:08.080 align:middle line:84% Since I remember liking the band a lot in my teens, 00:04:08.080 --> 00:04:10.870 align:middle line:84% although I can't remember a single one of their songs. 00:04:10.870 --> 00:04:11.650 align:middle line:90% It's just one guy. 00:04:11.650 --> 00:04:12.700 align:middle line:90% I know. 00:04:12.700 --> 00:04:15.700 align:middle line:84% Anyway, I'm not her, so it's time to go. 00:04:15.700 --> 00:04:17.350 align:middle line:90% My name is not Susie. 00:04:17.350 --> 00:04:21.310 align:middle line:84% And for you, I'll leave a little rhythm. 00:04:21.310 --> 00:04:24.100 align:middle line:84% Did the nightingale torture the ear, pack the heart, 00:04:24.100 --> 00:04:25.900 align:middle line:90% and scratch the mind? 00:04:25.900 --> 00:04:30.640 align:middle line:84% And does the ear solace itself in peevish birds? 00:04:30.640 --> 00:04:33.040 align:middle line:84% Lists are what you write when you're feeling eager." 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:36.740 align:middle line:90% 00:04:36.740 --> 00:04:37.700 align:middle line:90% "Follow the Sound." 00:04:37.700 --> 00:04:40.270 align:middle line:90% 00:04:40.270 --> 00:04:43.540 align:middle line:84% "Took the one train from 116th to 59th Street, 00:04:43.540 --> 00:04:45.880 align:middle line:84% changed to the B train, took it to Penn Station. 00:04:45.880 --> 00:04:48.818 align:middle line:84% Changed to the F train, got off on Broadway and Lafayette. 00:04:48.818 --> 00:04:50.860 align:middle line:84% Since the train wasn't stopping at Second Avenue, 00:04:50.860 --> 00:04:52.690 align:middle line:84% walked on Houston to 2nd Avenue-- 00:04:52.690 --> 00:04:53.300 align:middle line:90% East 2nd. 00:04:53.300 --> 00:04:56.340 align:middle line:90% 00:04:56.340 --> 00:04:59.100 align:middle line:84% From Bleecker and Broadway, walked south to Houston Street, 00:04:59.100 --> 00:05:00.600 align:middle line:84% made a left on Houston, and walked 00:05:00.600 --> 00:05:02.370 align:middle line:84% to Avenue C. Made a left on Avenue C 00:05:02.370 --> 00:05:06.000 align:middle line:84% and walked half a block to East 2nd. 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.430 align:middle line:84% Walked East from the 6th Street and First Avenue, 00:05:08.430 --> 00:05:11.165 align:middle line:84% made a right on Avenue B, walked South to East 3rd, made a left. 00:05:11.165 --> 00:05:13.290 align:middle line:84% Kept walking until reaching Avenue C, made a right, 00:05:13.290 --> 00:05:15.180 align:middle line:90% and walked to East 2nd. 00:05:15.180 --> 00:05:15.990 align:middle line:90% Nice to meet you. 00:05:15.990 --> 00:05:18.580 align:middle line:90% Kill your TV. 00:05:18.580 --> 00:05:21.130 align:middle line:84% Lists have nothing to do with the list maker's acquisition 00:05:21.130 --> 00:05:21.630 align:middle line:90% power." 00:05:21.630 --> 00:05:25.590 align:middle line:90% 00:05:25.590 --> 00:05:29.280 align:middle line:84% "I'm So Lonesome I'm an I. after Hank Williams." 00:05:29.280 --> 00:05:32.580 align:middle line:84% "See my aging, freckled face and sidewalks filled with trash. 00:05:32.580 --> 00:05:35.430 align:middle line:84% So warm outside, the flowers rot. 00:05:35.430 --> 00:05:37.530 align:middle line:90% I'm so lonesome I'm an eye. 00:05:37.530 --> 00:05:40.830 align:middle line:84% You left for good and fled the hood with yuppies heaping on. 00:05:40.830 --> 00:05:44.790 align:middle line:84% I saw your films and felt the spurn, a take off and a knob. 00:05:44.790 --> 00:05:46.060 align:middle line:90% The door is closed. 00:05:46.060 --> 00:05:47.160 align:middle line:90% Your music's gone. 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:49.030 align:middle line:90% And poems are far away. 00:05:49.030 --> 00:05:50.700 align:middle line:84% That means you've lost the will to play. 00:05:50.700 --> 00:05:51.750 align:middle line:90% I'm so lonesome. 00:05:51.750 --> 00:05:53.160 align:middle line:90% I'm an isle. 00:05:53.160 --> 00:05:56.470 align:middle line:84% The silence of your frozen face lights up the screen at night. 00:05:56.470 --> 00:06:00.060 align:middle line:84% And as I wonder where you are, I'm so lonesome I'm an eye. 00:06:00.060 --> 00:06:03.720 align:middle line:84% I'm so lonesome I'm an I. Lists are 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:05.190 align:middle line:84% what we can resort to when there's 00:06:05.190 --> 00:06:06.705 align:middle line:90% nothing to further a plot." 00:06:06.705 --> 00:06:09.660 align:middle line:90% 00:06:09.660 --> 00:06:10.170 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:06:10.170 --> 00:06:12.920 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:20.000 align:middle line:90%