Channing Kennedy

Sep 08

excerpt from a six-hour chat, February 2009, feat @harveyjames

...
me: oh damn! did she talk about her dead husband all night when you were doing it
James: people know how to SCROLL DOWNWARDS
yes
me: hott
"oh jams my husband is so dead of\h"
James: how come cornelius's album ends with tape hiss getting louder and louder
and then the noise of him falling off his chair
me: apparently widows call you Jams in bed
because being high is hilarious
and he's also raising the volume to keep the fading piano note at a constand volume
James: I reckon it was recorded when momus sat in on the point sessions
and it's the noise of momus falling off his chair
because he fell asleep because he's so damn old
and then when the cd turned itself off he got a fright
excuse me while I laugh at my own joke
whoo!
me: take your time
James: I'm done
me: one eye fluttering daftly, the other covered by a designer hand-knit eyepatch made by an underage anorexic japanese girl, as he feebly waves his arms from the floor
James: when he snores it makes his eyepatch flap
me: mouth in a half-rictus of recognition of the ceiling, mistaking it for the wall of his mother's womb
James: haha
me: a high-pitched wheeze escapes his lips
a Weiden+Kennedy flyer falls off a drafting table and gently floats down to cover his face
his slack muscles struggle with it, his fingers survey the wrong parts of his body, and soon he's asleep again
James: and pees his pants
me: yes, because one hand landed in a bowl of warm water left out for an unknown raeason
James: there just happens to be ne in cornlius's house
i'd be surpised if there wasn't a bowl of lukewarm water on every surface and shelf space in his studio apratment
a white bowl
me: the urine is actually a mix of blood, curdled semen, and displaced bowel gas
James: urgh
me: it spurts out with a sound like a deflating rotted cucumber left in the sun
his 140th Japanese wife calls him a name from an old anime cartoon and then blows him
James: and then he mumbles 'och noo, not agin' in his sleep
me: then he writes an essay about it that somehow manages to be boring and self-referential
despite not containing any vowels
James: hey I wonder if there are any Jimmy McJimmy sketches on youtube
Jimmy McJimmy is an english comedy character who was never popular in scotland
me: and three hundred goth librarians comment on it to say how they rubbed one out to this essay
never heard of him
James: he was popular in the 80's

that’s my cousin, in the boa

thoughts on Ariel Pink's "Mistaken Wedding" / ensuing minor revelations

James: This guy annoys me!
me: haha
James: I don't like his Gainsbourgian cigarette-puffing
me: hahahahahahaha
James: I don't care to try and work out what level of meta-reference I'm supposed to appreciate that on
me: "This musician is smoking a cigarette in a manner I find obtusely referential! What have I done to deserve this?" - James Harvey, 1983 - 2013
James: WHY HAVE I LOST A YEAR
it's not that it's too obtuse that's the problem
it's that he looks like a cunt
I don't care if he's doing an impression of someone who looks like a cunt
or an impression of someone doing an impression
what hits my eyeballs is
A CUNT
me: I feel like I'm witnessing what people went through, mentally, when clicking through to Pancaked from LookAtThisFUckingHipster *
James: haha
sure
me: just like
GOD DAMMIT
FUCKING.... FUCK
AAAAAA
but very nicely articulated
James: at least with your thing, there's enough signifiers to let people know it's a funny gag
whereas this guy is just excruciatingly arch
I dunno
to be honest, it didn't bother me that much!
but when I try to talk about it, I realise my vocabularly only has negative words to apply to this guy
I can only articulate negative thoughts
me: oh, that's a good point
James: hey ,did you see that I uploaded new youtube poops
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Sep 07

This morning I went to the library before work to work on a paper.

Afterwards, I got food at the McDonalds on campus for the first time.

While walking to work I saw tiny fluffy birds pecking at a splash of pink puke.

I ate the sausage mcmuffins and kinda ill for a while.

this reads as though it were translated out of genius-language

Sep 04

Some birthday party photos.

Also: this is a photo of me at age 30. it’s ok to be jealous of my life

Sep 02

I just turned 30. Pic unrelated.

Rollin’ - The Garfield Messenger

Aug 27

try it yourself!

(via theplaceforpolitics)

ok you guys, @cordjefferson started this tumblr to make fun of MSNBC and it is hilarious

Aug 26

lorenzoforspiritualreasons:

Gone, but not forgotten

hoo-ray, Gregg is on Tumblr!

Aug 25

Post your desktop, for my amusement

Movie night at the laundromat this Thursday. We’re showing WATTSTAX

Emily made this flyer for my birthday party, in case you can’t tell

Aug 20

survival2019:

Sketch done at work; click it to see the comic page it references

hey, Bob Dynamite’s on Tumblr! Hohoho also, Jesse Reklaw, the referenced artist, designed the original Cat Jams logo, back in 2003, for $50. He lives in the area, and I keep meaning to say hi to him at the annual SF Zine Fest.

Aug 19

What

Aug 16

an 1893 advertisement for Temperance Magazine (禁酒雑誌) (via Uses of grain | No-sword)