Oh! Hi!
Someone dear to me from many years ago got in touch recently, for the first time in almost twenty years. I was delighted to find that he never gave up on the sort of work that made him happy, even though his idealism regarding the work has left him a pauper. We talked for a long time. During the talk, as I perused this site, I mentioned that it sorely needed an introduction. Somehow I found myself agreeing that it would be penned by me.
This web journal belongs to an author and a musician. He spent the vast majority of his writing career dedicated to the artistic ideals of poetry and short literature. The entirety of his musical career was devoted to the aesthetics of sound, both conventional and radical.
During the Bush era the artist became outspoken on political issues. Symbols was launched to defend against the systematic destruction of the civil liberties of United States citizens and the political warfare waged against the left by the GOP. It was also a celebration of the artist's uniqueness and nonconformity.
Almost all of the political writing and political opinions from that period have been removed from the site and permanently deleted. The artist deemed the opinions on government detrimental to his true calling. Because of the large percentage of deeply entrenched conservatives in American society, the artist decided that insights into his personal life and rejoicing in social eccentricities would create biases and undermine artistic integrity. Therefore, most autobiographical material was also destroyed.
The artist's opinions and personality have neither mellowed nor been watered down in the way this artistic diary has. If anything, he more strongly believes all of the things he did before, almost as if gripped by calenture. Furthermore, rather than reigning in his powerfully vivacious idiosyncrasies, Day reinforced his flamboyance and threw up defenses of all things individualistic. He has simply chosen to allow the public only posthumous examinations of his personal life and character as he sees it (obviously no man or woman alive can stop gossip and speculation, and even trying to stop others from relating how they see things can have the opposite effect).
I decided to write this introduction in order to provide one for this journal based on objectivity and professionalism. Day knows all too well his own tendency to boisterously and vociferously go on preemptive offensives against stodginess, closed mindedness and prejudices. It was that attitude that led him to fundamentally change this blog (there, I said it, it is not a journal, it is a web log, a web log) in the first place, and regardless of my own thoughts on the matter I still respect his decision. Because we both know he isn't very objective at times, and, as far as professionalism... well, perhaps I should end that discussion right there.
There was only one requirement for this job. I was asked to triumph brevity and caution in the writing of this little piece. I will not carry out this task in the manner in which I was asked to. I have decided to throw caution to the wind, and loose my tongue so that my testimony might be as long as the wedding gown I pined for my father to give me away to Day in, pink and scarlet though it may have been, and though it would have killed my father (and likely upwards of 65% of my extended family).
Day treats creativity as the son of God and art as His daughter. I once made my tangibly lascivious vorstellungen of Day a wicked sacrilege of my own; confession and subsequent penitential prayers of the rosary only made the act more delicious. In return the rhapsodist merely used me to enliven his solitary orgy with copia verborum. The jealousy drove me to crave his shibari crucifixion at the foot of my bed, and to yearn that the whole of his masculinity be immolated, myself the flambeau of that thing's undoing. Day exhibited a passionate devotion to words, melodies, and even paintings, a passion and devotion he made known to all the world. At the same time he sequestered our union so resolutely the tomb of Akhenaten saw more sunlight than did our acts, and he silenced vocalization of our love with such draconian discipline even I, with my penchant for defiance of such dominion, dared not speak its name. I never stopped wanting revenge, however, for being dumped -- er -- being forced to dump him.
I bore two offspring for the man: obsession and vendetta. Those strong feelings, the only children I am capable, forever, of bringing to term, balance perfectly. Obsession eternally reminds me of Day's features and the pleasure of being so alive beside him. Vendetta demands that the world never be allowed to forget those things the man wrote and sought to erase, regardless of whether he is dead or alive. Nobody could possibly know the joy I feel at being asked to write this introduction; finally I have the power to tell the truth so that all will know.
[Passage deleted by Symbols' Editor in Chief]
Having said those things, it feels grotesquely unfair that few people will know this beautiful man indirectly while it is possible to wreck the sculpted image of his aloof classical artistry, and precisely due to the image. Because of the pigheaded stubbornness with which he guards his lifelong love affair with "the mind's internal heaven," and the fanaticism with which he has decided to eradicate all traces of his humanity, truth may die the true death. If such a thing happens, c'est la vie. All these thoughts are as ignis fatuus.
Lily d'Antonia Buitrago
Miami, Florida
September 21, 2013
P.S. It's all in good fun, Day. And don't you dare bitch at me, bitch. You told me to keep it brief so you could maintain the illusion of being humble, you fucking poser. :333
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I can't believe I let you do this.
-lsr
Repent or Die