WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.920 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.920 --> 00:00:05.010 align:middle line:84% This is called "Shield of Moon Dust." 00:00:05.010 --> 00:00:09.480 align:middle line:84% And I heard this tale on the radio, 00:00:09.480 --> 00:00:14.250 align:middle line:84% and a guy was talking about blowing up the moon 00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:84% to protect us from UV rays, because 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:21.690 align:middle line:84% of the depletion of the ozone layer. 00:00:21.690 --> 00:00:25.015 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:25.015 --> 00:00:27.390 align:middle line:90% 00:00:27.390 --> 00:00:30.250 align:middle line:84% And after all, blowing up moon would be 00:00:30.250 --> 00:00:32.630 align:middle line:90% like blowing up a huge cliche. 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:33.130 align:middle line:90% So there's-- 00:00:33.130 --> 00:00:36.427 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:36.427 --> 00:00:37.055 align:middle line:90% 00:00:37.055 --> 00:00:38.680 align:middle line:84% But there's all those little, you know, 00:00:38.680 --> 00:00:42.070 align:middle line:90% tidal squirming things. 00:00:42.070 --> 00:00:44.275 align:middle line:90% That should be [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:44.275 --> 00:00:45.400 align:middle line:90% So I think it's a bad idea. 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:48.725 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:48.725 --> 00:00:50.140 align:middle line:84% I just want to go on record here. 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:51.340 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:51.340 --> 00:00:54.700 align:middle line:84% There are people who think I'm not a political poet. 00:00:54.700 --> 00:00:57.990 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:57.990 --> 00:00:58.930 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.930 --> 00:01:00.940 align:middle line:90% "Shield of Moon Dust." 00:01:00.940 --> 00:01:04.750 align:middle line:84% "Until your name is called, try a magazine. 00:01:04.750 --> 00:01:06.910 align:middle line:84% The number of interests represented 00:01:06.910 --> 00:01:09.310 align:middle line:90% is truly extraordinary-- 00:01:09.310 --> 00:01:14.890 align:middle line:84% canapé erection, gall bladder massage, goat milking, 00:01:14.890 --> 00:01:18.540 align:middle line:84% the misfired and nullified glissandi of yesteryear, 00:01:18.540 --> 00:01:22.900 align:middle line:84% DH Lawrence who was able to write horribly 00:01:22.900 --> 00:01:26.350 align:middle line:84% and magnificently in the same sentence. 00:01:26.350 --> 00:01:30.210 align:middle line:84% But it is the bizarreness of his ideas re: 00:01:30.210 --> 00:01:34.180 align:middle line:84% the dark force emanating from a man's buttocks 00:01:34.180 --> 00:01:37.180 align:middle line:84% that makes him a modernist although he's 00:01:37.180 --> 00:01:41.245 align:middle line:84% no Ezra Pound who wrote the brain was a wad of sperm. 00:01:41.245 --> 00:01:44.830 align:middle line:90% 00:01:44.830 --> 00:01:48.430 align:middle line:84% Both were drawn towards uniformed men marching 00:01:48.430 --> 00:01:52.000 align:middle line:84% in formation which is one reasons they weren't 00:01:52.000 --> 00:01:55.450 align:middle line:84% surrealists, the surrealists being known 00:01:55.450 --> 00:02:00.700 align:middle line:84% for alternating currents beside the dented metals of the sea. 00:02:00.700 --> 00:02:04.960 align:middle line:84% All non-migrating butterflies are surrealists, 00:02:04.960 --> 00:02:07.720 align:middle line:90% ditto third graders. 00:02:07.720 --> 00:02:11.380 align:middle line:84% If the fox of your heart keeps biting the eye of your hand, 00:02:11.380 --> 00:02:14.080 align:middle line:90% you too are a surrealist. 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:16.840 align:middle line:84% Beauty everywhere, take off your clothes! 00:02:16.840 --> 00:02:19.330 align:middle line:90% You're not wearing much anyway. 00:02:19.330 --> 00:02:21.760 align:middle line:84% I'm sorry my signal keeps breaking up, 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:25.360 align:middle line:84% the voltage soused, a wasp in its wine 00:02:25.360 --> 00:02:28.060 align:middle line:84% but it wasn't meant to last forever, 00:02:28.060 --> 00:02:34.180 align:middle line:84% crucial fluidity of likelihoods sung in the excitable void. 00:02:34.180 --> 00:02:37.540 align:middle line:84% In the animal cell, excitability begins 00:02:37.540 --> 00:02:42.160 align:middle line:84% in the mitochondria which, singularly among organelles, 00:02:42.160 --> 00:02:44.950 align:middle line:90% has its own DNA. 00:02:44.950 --> 00:02:48.130 align:middle line:84% DNA is surreal because a fair amount of it 00:02:48.130 --> 00:02:53.980 align:middle line:84% is gibberish, otiose code for no known amino 00:02:53.980 --> 00:02:57.130 align:middle line:90% and as such purely artistic. 00:02:57.130 --> 00:03:01.030 align:middle line:84% A wren of nonsense passes through us. 00:03:01.030 --> 00:03:04.180 align:middle line:84% Nothing like this has happened before so much it almost 00:03:04.180 --> 00:03:06.340 align:middle line:90% can't happen once. 00:03:06.340 --> 00:03:10.840 align:middle line:84% In common parlance, surreal means a flair of irony, 00:03:10.840 --> 00:03:15.160 align:middle line:84% silliness, inept, overdone, criminal, 00:03:15.160 --> 00:03:19.150 align:middle line:84% having stupendous sex organs like the Eiffel Tower, 00:03:19.150 --> 00:03:23.710 align:middle line:84% being dead, being chased, miscolored, love-gorged, 00:03:23.710 --> 00:03:28.300 align:middle line:84% love-gored, abstract expressionist, New York School, 00:03:28.300 --> 00:03:33.280 align:middle line:84% surprised by snow, its monomaniacal hush, any hoax. 00:03:33.280 --> 00:03:36.920 align:middle line:84% The word modernist means nothing. 00:03:36.920 --> 00:03:40.180 align:middle line:84% The rain falls in the guillotine of your glance-- 00:03:40.180 --> 00:03:41.590 align:middle line:90% forever! 00:03:41.590 --> 00:03:44.890 align:middle line:84% Silver corridors connect our dreams-- 00:03:44.890 --> 00:03:46.540 align:middle line:90% forever! 00:03:46.540 --> 00:03:49.750 align:middle line:84% What can surpass the bounty of this moment? 00:03:49.750 --> 00:03:51.820 align:middle line:90% Here comes the next. 00:03:51.820 --> 00:03:54.870 align:middle line:90% The doctor will see you now." 00:03:54.870 --> 00:03:56.000 align:middle line:90%