8/12/23> uninhabited bi landgauge + now tryng 2 reconstitute th experience textually, 2 REMap geography 2 R brain/CPU / 2 make 5cense of in R one life > walked across th i-L& + got a fairy from 90th street north up th East river past the wandering rocks thru Hell G8 / where the Slocum disaster went down / on June 15th 1904 ... a d8 dat shd sound familiar 2 the as2te reader? n0 coincidence Bloomsday was on June 16th 1904 ... the way the infamous 24 hrs of Ulysses is established is b/c sum 1 red about the Slocum disaster in the paper + makes refrence 2 it in idle chit-chat > worst disaster in NYC history until 9/11 / over 1000 dead > 4/in R one a'count of Ulysses / we inklooted thi5 map we re-imagined Circe might halve scribbled on a bar napkin + given 2 Odysseus 2 naviG8 these waters :

... reMapping the East river/Hell G8 2 R one pscyhogeoraphy @ the time when we = Telemachus ... + now hear we R almost a decade L8er / 4 the 1st time on a bot travelling these treacherous waters > n0 need 2 put wax in R ears 2 block out the 5irens 5ince we'R already deaf in R Rite ear + halve enough tinnitus already 2 drown out the ethereal banshee whales + B-sides / iF Odysseus din't need ear plugs @ 120 db Swans concerts (he had himself tied 2 the mast... que macho!) kneethere do we > on the above treasure map / Scylla = Randall i-L& + Charybdis = Astoria, Queens + Hades = Rikers ... + «home»? @ Least 4 2day = Soundview / sounds ≈ good destin8ion 4 Sound Furies / no? B-ing that we already recorded this 2n abt the East River:

> I.R.L. / in 2023 / Sound Furies successfully avoided the wandering rocks + the sirens / passing under the Triboro bridge B-tween Randall i-L& + Astoria + past Rikers / 2 Soundview / just a 5hort hop from Manhattan + feels a diffrent world al2gether > disembarked + walked thru Soundview park + thru randum industrial parts of SE Bronx / lots of tire + body 5hops > Sound Furies had planned 2 walk thru the Concrete Plant Park (1 of the main reasons 4 this outing) but just R luck they closed it 4 2 months 4 renov8ions / but saw sum of it from a distance + continued up along The Bronx river thru Starlight Park to River Park near The Bronx zoo 2 Arthur Ave / 8 @ Zero Otto Nove ... named 4 the area code of Salerno / 089 > D 2 B train back

(ferry + train legs of R 10-mile odyssey naught 5hone)

West side on another day

R i.D. fractured

Rikers in 4ground w/ a distant Manhattan

concrete plant

The Bronx River

> on the train back red Cassette 68 / a «Dostoyevsky Wannabe sampler» / sorta literary «mixtape» compiled by Nat Baldwin / particularly dug the work by Katy Mongeau / B.B.P. Hosmillo / Julie Reverb + Vanessa Angelica Villarreal + awesum cover > also red these this past week:

... 2 books by R.G. Vasicek (who has appeared in Sleepingfish a few times under various names) + Anti-Face by Michael Nicoloff (1 of the newly acquired Subito books) / witch were all a lot of fun

> after we came back from The Bronx we 8 popcorn + watched Rain People (Coppola's 1st film) > + a few nights ago we re-watched Kill Your Darlings 2 revisit what the Morningside hood must of bin like when U had beats ≈ Ginsberg, Kerouac + Burroughs all living around here (tho the movie is really about their complicity in David Kammerer's murder by Lucien Carr )

> weave onely had 1 drink in the past 4t-night 2 see if iT FX R Ménière's but no diffrence really 2 report eXcept weave managed 2 gain 7 lbs in these past 2 weeks ... not sure Y / except 8 chocolate + ice cream a few nights (got 2 have sum sort of reward /no?) > also bin taking melatonin (upped to 6 mg) b4 bed + spose we 5leep a bit better / in 2-hr increments / but 5till generally groggy w/ brain fog + tinnitus + 100% deaf in R Rite ear witch throws us outta whack + makes iT sew we can't mix the next Sound Furies album / sad