And I drunk myself blind to the sound of old T.Rex
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (I don't know why), 1985
* The latest British drinking craze: eyeballing. excerpt:
"Even as drunken student antics go, it was, by any stretch of the imagination, a disturbing scene. Surrounded by cheering rugby players, applauded by fellow members of the university netball team, 19-year-old Melissa Fontaine tipped back her head and giggled as fellow drinkers in the Students' Union bar pulled apart her eyelids and allowed them to pour a shot of vodka into her left eye.
"'Vodka eyeballing', as it is known in student circles, is the latest drinking craze to sweep through Britain's universities.
Those who do it claim that it induces feelings of drunkenness at break-neck speeds, providing an instant high."
* J.G. Ballard was asked in 1992 by the editors of Zone to contribute to a special issue on the body, and suggested possible topics. Rather than tackle them one at a time, he provided short reflections on each of them. Here are some of the topics Ballard discussed:
War: The possibility at last exists that war may be defeated on the lingustic plane. If war is an extreme metaphor, we may defeat it by devising metaphors that are even more extreme.
Telephone: A shrine to the desperate hope that one day the world will listen to us.
Forensics: On the autopsy table science and pornography meet and fuse.
Hallucinogenic drugs: The kaleidoscope's view of the eye.
Pornography: The body's chaste and unerotic dream of itself.
The Warren Commission Report: The novelization of the Zapruder film.
Money: The original digital clock.
Personal Computers: Perhaps unwisely, the brain is subcontracting many of its core functions, creating a series of branch economies that may one day amalgamate and mount a management buyout.
Furniture and Industrial design: Our furniture constitutes an external constellation of our skin areas and body postures. It's curious that the least imaginative of all forms of furniture has been the bed.
Genocide: The economics of mass production applied to self-disgust.
* "We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying." --Frank Herbert
Raymond Pettibon, No Title (I don't know why), 1985
* The latest British drinking craze: eyeballing. excerpt:
"Even as drunken student antics go, it was, by any stretch of the imagination, a disturbing scene. Surrounded by cheering rugby players, applauded by fellow members of the university netball team, 19-year-old Melissa Fontaine tipped back her head and giggled as fellow drinkers in the Students' Union bar pulled apart her eyelids and allowed them to pour a shot of vodka into her left eye.
"'Vodka eyeballing', as it is known in student circles, is the latest drinking craze to sweep through Britain's universities.
Those who do it claim that it induces feelings of drunkenness at break-neck speeds, providing an instant high."
* J.G. Ballard was asked in 1992 by the editors of Zone to contribute to a special issue on the body, and suggested possible topics. Rather than tackle them one at a time, he provided short reflections on each of them. Here are some of the topics Ballard discussed:
War: The possibility at last exists that war may be defeated on the lingustic plane. If war is an extreme metaphor, we may defeat it by devising metaphors that are even more extreme.
Telephone: A shrine to the desperate hope that one day the world will listen to us.
Forensics: On the autopsy table science and pornography meet and fuse.
Hallucinogenic drugs: The kaleidoscope's view of the eye.
Pornography: The body's chaste and unerotic dream of itself.
The Warren Commission Report: The novelization of the Zapruder film.
Money: The original digital clock.
Personal Computers: Perhaps unwisely, the brain is subcontracting many of its core functions, creating a series of branch economies that may one day amalgamate and mount a management buyout.
Furniture and Industrial design: Our furniture constitutes an external constellation of our skin areas and body postures. It's curious that the least imaginative of all forms of furniture has been the bed.
Genocide: The economics of mass production applied to self-disgust.
* "We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying." --Frank Herbert
posted by hackmuth at
2:43 AM
2 Comments:
Pettibon!
Yours,
Sherwood Anderson
I don't think "eyeballing" actually happened outside of the Daily Mail story. However the Stanford Band had a drink called The Stuntman.
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