spent the last couple of days with ray, figuring out how the world runs. (making plans, sorting thru whats happening, feeling less likes its a defeat)

the last round of photos i took seem to be typical, im sort of getting into a rut, and more megapixels would be nice, but even in the rut, im liking some of the images im taking, and i should get a flickr pro account by the end of the week

expect two reports on the free valley of the dolls movies, though not large reports, or very complimentary ones (its weird, i got 50 bucks worth of dvds for basically no work.)

fiction:
29 Tin Tin in America, early slightly racist volume, it seems like herge didnt quite know what he was doing, but i liked it enough
28 An early volume of Y The Last Man. i liked it.

link dump
pitchfork on the 100 best music videos, big on ironic self detachment and camp self awareness, and not enough love for genuine achivements, rewarding strangeness for strangeness sake, a mostly disappointing list, but several good examples: here
(the weird thing is the absoulte lack of pop, the most obvious madonna, some elton john, no britney, no michael jackson, no janet, etc. the britney is the most galling, even if one hates her music, the radical, reductive coregraphy in stronger, the arch porno of toxic, the lush hollywood of lucky, the genuinely shocking suciide scene in bottom of my broken heart, the sexy school girl as cultural destabilzer in hit me one more time, one could continue. (best videos they did include: bronski beat small town boy; d angelo's sexy striptease; elton johns the trains dont stop there anymore; grace jones; trapped in the closet;til tuesdays voices carry; )
more interesting is this list of 20th century art music on youtube (watch poem electronique)

a library in suburban atlanta is no longer buying new or replacing worn out, copies of spanish populist fiction, perhaps the worst kind of censorship, because of limiting ethnicity as opposed to more moral concerns, i want to send boxes of romance novels, mysteries, and every other thing i can fucking find to these assholes story here

american anglicans have no idea how to handle them selves, one step towards intergrating the other, one step back they voted to curb gay bishops--no mark on what this means for robinson, but i feel as if he is generally viewed as an expriment that has failed







Some Examples of a recent show at Jaffa, in Isreal, about clothes pins, i mostly like the photos but i also like having design shows about things one can buy at the supermarket

fascianting
example of how the mexican elections will be decided by blisteringly ugly email campaigns...

truly bizarre examples of kinky german sex among the peace keepers in the congolese jungles

gay orgies in the animal kingdom, including giraffes

what exactly are unislamic writing styles?

nsurers have withdrawn the cover on their virginity taken out by three sisters in the event of the second coming of Christ.

semi legal examples of moving around the electoral college, i think that any effort to revert any checks and balances makes me very nervous

sad story about an abused demoted goat

somewhere ellis and ballard are no longer presiecent gangs of roaming transvesties have been intimaditing and stealing from shop owners who specialise in womens clothes and cosmetics

the minute the ny times covers the aesthetics of gay male leather fashion, bdsm is dead (how will ever spank me now that its unfashionable. Best Qoute:
"It's really just fashion, no different from shopping in Barneys or Bergdorf's," said Gregory Bunch, a salesman at the Chelsea fetish shop, the Noose. "You buy key pieces that are the best you can afford and that provide the most utility. Then you accessorize."

Ava Gardnerbio is another good example of how hollywood can handle cute females but cant handle fuckability

speaking of complicated sexual personaes, an a rticle on the intracies of nicole kidmans religious and sexual history


Idris Khan Becher on Becher, digital rework of their serial images, gallery hopper calls it a palour trick, but i think its better then that (reframes serialism, reworks taxonomy, self concious but not dripping in irony, and a really interesting way of thinking about what new digital media means)