![]() If I had a gun against truth I'd use it every day. ![]() That gap between the way things really were and the way we remember them to be is closing. Maybe there's something about the distortion that comes with memory there's something valuable in the imaginative misremembering of our pasts which, relentlessly documented and archived now, live on in zombie-like ways in the present. I'm not even sure why this seems important, but it does. I do think something is lost today in the easily availability of films and music, and that's the ability to misremember, or to forget. And yet….this goes back to the idea of misremembering. The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing by Rombes, Nicholas and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at . Wildly distorted to the point of chaos, the information is nonetheless not dead. ![]() ![]() Plus there are so many examples of historical alarmism about "new" technology that underestimated the value of that technology to creativity. ![]() Skepticism about digital and social media, however well-crafted or well-intentioned, often comes across as just another form of nostalgia, or the off-target musings of a sanctimonious windbag who'd be better off changing the oil in his 1983 Datsun himself rather than paying some over-pierced kid on Jackson Avenue to do it. Short Fiction by Nicholas Rombes (taken from The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing Two Dollar Radio) 'It’s been two days in this wrecked, abandoned motel in remote Wisconsin, interviewing Laing. ![]()
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