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infinity report

infinity report number one hundred and thirty-three

the tendrils of flame and their many by-products

venusian control software

only some of them had the weight of celestial objects

using symbols that stand for sounds made with the mouth

tales estructuras florecen

from glass, all of it

a boat made from ashes

a piece of earth all full of starry machinery

quatrain: the symmetry of your ribcage

the people that live in the sky

how to build animals from smoke

the shape of aeroplanes

undinal song

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Rudolfo Carrillo

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Where I Live:: fringecresto

About Me:: eccentric, overly lofty, but still somehow punk rock, damnit.

Favorite Thing(s) About Albuquerque:: it is dark at night.

Relationship Status:: I'm With the Band

My Website:: http://infinityreport.blogspot.com/

What I'm Reading:: Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius -- Jorge Luis Borges
Breakfast of Champions -- Kurt Vonnegut
Canopus in Argos: Archives -- Doris Lessing
The Man in the High Castle - Philip K. Dick
The Book of Disquiet -- Fernando Pessoa
Divine Horsemen -- Maya Deren
The Age of Huts (Compleat) -- Ron Silliman
Footprints -- Denise Levertov
Cup of Gold -- John Steinbeck

What I'm Listening To:: Flaming lips, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Beatles, Earlimart, Dylan, Nirvana, Stereolab, Sonic Youth, Death Cab for Cutie, Bonzo Dog Band, Cure, Bowie, Residents, Syd Barrett, Zappa, American Analog Set, Pixies, REM, Sweet, VU, Tripti Ensemble Crew, OutKast Spirit, Regina Spektor, Au Revoir Simone, Sufjan Stevens, Smiths, Imperial Teen, New Pornographers, Gary Numan, Robyn Hitchcock, Soft Machine, Röyksopp, Van Halen, 10cc, Elliot Smith, Nada Surf, Little Richard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Octopus Project, X, Bon Jovi and Mahler.

Rudolfo Carrillo's Blog

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Last year, in a format and place similar to this one (but not oddly so), I meant to go on and on about the significance of the fourth of July holiday in this multiracial, post-colonial and only recently assimilated region of these here Un… Continue

Posted on July 3, 2009 at 9:30pm — 2 Comments

the red candle

I walked, con los pies descalzos, to the storage shed.

The shed is in the back yard. Lately I have left the door to that shack open, in case any of the neighborhood cats need shelter from the rain, in the event any ghosts wish to tres… Continue

Posted on June 27, 2009 at 2:30pm — 7 Comments

me voy a albuquerque

I am writing to you tonight from another planet. The planet that I am on features, among other amazing and colourful attributes, trees that bear cold cans of Tecate as their fruit.

¿Absolutamente una tentación, eh?

Besides my observation of the abso… Continue

Posted on June 19, 2009 at 2:00am — 9 Comments

changeover, or shine on

Here is something to read.

It is as dark and beautiful as tonight will be.

A large cloud occludes the moon and spreads itself across our humble burg and I watch it pass through, waiting for the light from the moon to conque… Continue

Posted on June 5, 2009 at 11:30pm — 14 Comments

home

Orale, It's already Saturday night and I'd like to write about Burque, but dude there has been some loco stuff que cachetada mi vida around for the past few days and… Continue

Posted on May 30, 2009 at 9:00pm — 7 Comments

about the rain

So, you wanna talk about the rain. Well, in these parts, you might as well talk about magic.

There is some rain lingering today and it usually does not come like this at the end of spring, displacing the bright light and dry wind with a cool efficiency that makes… Continue

Posted on May 22, 2009 at 5:30pm — 6 Comments

analysis of found objects, vector-related

I had a great idea for a post today but I see someone else is busy covering UFO abductions in this neck of the woods, which is not a woods at all unless you t… Continue

Posted on May 15, 2009 at 6:30pm — 5 Comments

"we should have thought of it a million years ago, in the nineties"

A bright cloudless day that included, among other distractions, a parade of large helicopters churning by with their doors open, soldier's boots dangling forcefully, perhaps heroically or even anciently from the mechanical insect's side apert… Continue

Posted on May 8, 2009 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

a day in may, hooray

Preparations are well underway for Albuquerque’s Walpurgisnacht and Beltane Festival! If la… Continue

Posted on May 1, 2009 at 5:30pm — 8 Comments

"and i'm not happy and i'm not sad"

So, yeah. You're familiar with the process. They have provided beautiful and noble tools toward its implementation.… Continue

Posted on April 24, 2009 at 8:00pm — 10 Comments

the whole enchilada

I like to believe that one of the reasons that I stay in Albuquerque is for the food. That and the black widow spiders against which I fight an intractable war (it flares with the warm weather and is… Continue

Posted on April 17, 2009 at 5:00pm — 14 Comments

making a circuit

Climb in and let's go for a ride. I will tune the radio to a plaintive song. A prelude of wind awaits.

My part of the conversation goes like this, is clothed in Easter, makes use of daffodils for trumpets, and drops tulips everywhere. Like the rain we wish for.

Some old men ar… Continue

Posted on April 10, 2009 at 9:04pm — 5 Comments

3

Three kids grew up in the Northeast Heights.

Two of them ate their lunches (sometimes) in the shadow of a commanding pine tree smack in the middle of Embudito Canyon; one counted clouds and lizards, the other fiddled with an old compass, the kind with a radium dial that caused t… Continue

Posted on April 3, 2009 at 6:00pm — 11 Comments

backyard

The air is cold. Clouds move through the sky and the light of the sun pushes through them. Watery edges become bright white. A lavender sheet and some blue bath towels blow wantonly on the line in the next yard over as the promise of water is carried aloft and records itself as a s… Continue

Posted on March 27, 2009 at 4:36pm — 5 Comments

"ask"

It is the first day of spring. The balloon man is whistling far and wee, someplace, you can count on that. There's no mud in this corner of world though. Instead, it is dry and warm here and the desert stretches… Continue

Posted on March 20, 2009 at 7:30pm — 17 Comments

live-blogging from the end of the world, as we know it

Did you cross your fingers, just for luck?

Did you let slip the butterfly-confining bonds of reason as you glanced at your desktop calendar today?

Did the meme that equates the human-generated, temporal identification numbers of certain days with specific events and phenomena mome… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2009 at 7:00pm — 8 Comments

time to pretend

Today I'm gonna pretend that I am not from here.

If you see me walking through fringecrest or the student ghetto today, you can pretend too.

That shabby tweed jacket I'm wearing hides wings, maybe. Better yet, perhaps m… Continue

Posted on March 6, 2009 at 5:30pm — 11 Comments

a little bird

I started out the day looking for a cool place to eat lunch down by the University, remembered some chow halls I had been in over the years, sat down to render a brief description of each and then got distracted by Twitter.

By the time darkness had… Continue

Posted on February 27, 2009 at 8:30pm — 7 Comments

yesterday and today

Well, actually, it was 35 years ago and this past Wednesday night.

This isn't a random pairing, but it sort of is, so anyway...

Sometimes when I write, I approach the keyboard on my terminal like it is a piano. I let my fingers drift over the keys. My fingers find the home ro… Continue

Posted on February 20, 2009 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments