ILX's Oblique Strategy for the Day

14 March 2012:

The tape is now the music

are you sure the year is correct?

Ha, I hadn't thought of that. I wonder what other anachronisms are in the cards.

I like it! Noises and music are all around us, even in the tape.

I took 'tape' to mean 'tapeworm.' As in "The tape (tapeworm) is now the music."

15 March 2012:

Act in private as if your behaviour were known in public.

^^ real talk

16 March 2012:

What would your closest friend do?

leave me behind to get drunk and pick up women

Worry about it for 2 weeks and then call me in tears for an emergency pep talk?

Alternately, stay myopically focused on her chosen goal and don't stop working on it until it's done regardless of sleep/food/human interaction deprivation?

wouldn't do it, would quit job

i'm glad this one is more of a question to ponder and not a command

- do it, and do it well...and then wait for friends/coworkers to tell her what an amazing job she's done, get mad that no-one's praising her enough and start on a campaign of telling random acquaintances about this great thing she did

post on some ridic message board

*sage nod*

17 march 2012

the worm is the spice. fuck u worm.

*nods*

Whoever came up with that one was reading Dune, I'd guess

I was thinking about tequila

17 March 2012:

Cascades

of...

had a dream abt david lynch's dune after much tequila and woke up 5 hrs before my alarm was to go off and then i had a very, very long day at work

guess that's less oblique now that it's all spelled out

reading kobo abe/woman in the dunes-->ohhh tequilla-->dream about sting holding me captive in the desert--> total suck day

18 March 2012:

What mistakes did you make last time?

ugh, this is the question i don't want to face on the morning after st. patrick's day

none of your damn business ;_;

19 March 2012:

Simply a matter of work

billy joel?

some lovers just rely on their heart
the cold remains of what began with a passionate start

etc etc

or something

ilxors: they simply natter at work

Rolled up yesterday's and then forgot to post it. (This one from Fripp.)

20 March 2012:

When stuck, increase the complexity.

21 March 2012:

Only a part, not the whole

When stuck, increase the complexity.

"when stuck" is the whole point of these things. fripp's are always rubbish.

His GC aphorisms aren't meant to be "when stuck" advice for the most part the way Oblique Strategies are. I like tossing them in there every now and then but I'm thinking about dropping his and sticking with OS only.

I think I prefer just the OS. Fripp's sound like they are for Fripp alone!

They certainly don't apply to me and my life. Increasing the complexity will only result in more pain. I'm all about simplifying things.

Clarifying, rather.

22 March 2012:

Infinitesimal gradations

ooh

this sounds pleasing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wx8-mysJG2s

22 March 2012 --> 30 March 2012

fuck, ow, fuck

23 March 2012:

Work at a different speed

I choose "slow/idle" today

that's the only speed i got.

24 March 2012:

Towards the insignificant

Z S, 1983 - present

Towards the insignificant

abandoned Buzz Lightyear tag-line

25 March 2012:

Tape your mouth