7/10/2007 08:42:00 PM

friends, enemies and strangers indifferent: grace and peace from this strange compression. it has been a long time since this space has seen an update. there are many reasons. some of it is simply the dissemination of my online attention. if you need more of me you can follow my twitter and delicious or find me in the social networks.

the new smashing pumpkins is worthy of a listen (i bought the yellow Best Buy edition with the "Death From Above" bonus track... the six edition release was an ingenious move {6 colors + book edition}: an album like this is bought by old fans first and having the collectors buying multiples on day one is a nice momentum boost). props to my local scene: the beautiful new polyphonic spree is a continuation of the aural prozac that began with odes to the sun and other fine things in the early days of this century. and of course a bit of justice can't hurt.

as for what you might enjoy reading... caputo and vattimo have teamed up for a happy little essay/interview book called after the death of god. hans kung has f-i-n-a-l-l-y released his third volume in the abrahamic faiths trilogy: islam. a glorious tome. helene cixous' stigmata has been the air i breath since the early spring.

as for visual media: i eagerly await the next seasons of rome, the sopranos and the simpsons (August!). the night of the white pants was quirky and unexpected. the initial bits of une vieille maîtresse that catherine breillat shared in the mountains last month were visually enchanting: i await a commercial print without the unexpected difficulties of the burn of the festival print that presented the unnavigable technical difficulties in june. catherine was in the running for the palm at cannes this year, btw.

in other news: em and kaus are moving to ireland. trev is still saving the world. i am seriously contemplating steps toward massive simplification. oh, and i am overcommitted.

a thought that i texted to bryan yesterday from a journal entry from the day before that became the fodder for an interesting morning of conversation:

------ SMS Text ------
To: 1214-766-xxxx
Sent: Jul 9, 2007 1:22 PM
Subject: One is nothing.

One is nothing. It takes everything at once for one to be. Being for others
is the active state of being singular plural.

i expanded it a little further in an email to myself later in the day:

Dan Hughes to Dan.Hughes
Jul 9 (1 day ago) 

One is nothing. It takes everything at once for one to be. Being for
others is the active state of being singular plural. It is the
conditional state of being; of human being. Happening behind our
backs, without our consent, always already underway life lives.

i am the all, but the all is not me. the allusions to bonhoeffer, nancy and schirmacher are clear. what is less clear is where it goes next.

peace.