http://www.vanityfair.com/commentary/content/printables/050711roco02?print=true

long, complicated and basically gossip free article on how Krens, who is in charge of the guggenhiem, is a fool who ran the insuttuion into the ground in an orgy of bad planning (calling the musuems in bilboa, las vegas, brazil, germany(?) and singapore mcdonalds like denies that macdonalds actually knows its fucking markets.

reall barbarian at the gates stuff

(play close attention to the selling of the kadinsky, modligani, etc for the minimalist collection--taking the delicate balance of kimball and reversing it, replacing three masterpeices with dozens of medicore works---and thats talking from a place who thinks a good judd or a good martin is better, much better then modligani, who is in general a cloying fake and pseduo european meloncholist)

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3163

this is me
i dont know how i feel about it.

arizona
cotton citrus sorghum, cattle, cotton, rice, hogs, milk
arkansas
chickens, eggs, soy
cali
citrus
colorado
wheat, corn
flordia
citrus
georgia
peaches, poltury, eggs, peanuts, hogs ,dairy
hawaii
sugar cane, pineapple
idaho
beans, potato, beets
illinois
corn, soy, wheat
indiania
corn, soy, melons (south washbah), grapes
kansas
cattle, wheat, soy, corn
kentucky
cattle, dairy (tobacco?)
Louisann
crayfish, cotton
Maine
apples, lobster, blueberries, maple sugar
Mass.
cranberry, seafood.
Minnesota
dairy (?)
Mississippi
cotton
Missouri
dairy, hogs, corn
Montanna
sugar, wheat, barely, beets, hogs
Nevada
dairy, potatos
New Hampshire
apples
New jersey
fruits, seafood, dairy
New Mexico
cattle, sheep, onions, potatos, dairy
New York
dairy, apples, cherries, cabbage, potatoes, onions, maple syrup
North Carolina
Tobacco, hogs, milk
NoDak
wheat, flax, sunflowers
Ohio
corn, soy dairy
Ok.
Cattle, Wheat, Milk, Polutry
Oregan
Fruit, CAttle, Dairy, Tubers
Penn
dairy, poltury, cattle
RI
veggies, dairy, eggs
South Carolonia
Cotton
Sodak
?
Tenessee
Cotton
Texas
VEggies, Wheat, Cattle (have notes, i think from the TExas Beef PRincess)
utah
?
vermont
dairy
va
tobacco, peanuts
washignton
rasberries, hops, flac, milk, soy, beets, carrots, apples,, corn, grapes, asaprgus, apricots, plums, barely, cranberries, strawberries, peaches
west virginia
only tobacco (historical?)
Wisconsion
cheese, cranberries, milk
Wyhoming
(?)

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it isn't really about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to stand or kneel or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing

Atwood, Handmaidens Tale.

thinking about SCM and glenys.

ice on the lake/and man in his gear/fishes for trout

white lake/fishing for trout/through hut and small hole

drilling a hole/in the white lake/he waits for pickerel

the pickerel waits deep/drilling a hole/into the frozen lake

his girth/propells a drill/into thick ice

he propells a drill/deep into think ice/and hopes for pickerel

?

cornhuskers (iii)

skinny boy adjusting/his green boxers up/while undressing

college welterweight/settles his bulk/into a yellow singlet

father and son/throw big maple leaves/at each other

ice over the lake/and three boys/catching fish in their own hut.

five points i want to make

1) the best acting that jolie does is outside the screen (cf this months W magazine shot, which blends the motherhood, movie, irl, adultery, scandal and gossip angles all in one), her sexualised personae (ie her sheer fuckability) is almost impossible to screen in people who are obbsessed against an R movie--this movie plays that, and also reheterosexualises brad pitt--strangely enough the movies where hs is the closest to being a pure subject of gaze/desire is in context with other men (ie river runs thru it, legends of the fall, fight club, se7en--sidenote:can you imagine another actor who is so famous right now whos act has been mostly about seducing other men?). the other thing is that the gaze is more projected on pitt here then it is on jolie--or least eaually which is different then it usually is.

2) it conflates sex and violence--which is not unsual in american movies--but most american movies do one of two things 1) either treat this as sinful (ie movie of the week/perils of pauline women in danger) or treat it as a translating/replacment (ie guns as phallic play). This one actually talks about an apoclyptic sexualised fury that does not nessc. exist in many american movies.

3) on the same track--the idea that fucking can destroy, destroy literally the same, asethically secure suburbia--it is a coded reference to the recent crises in hetrosexual marriage? this can also be contained in the the chase scene, with the minivan, and the sqaublling and the amazing scene where the double doors seem to be useful (other movies with minivan joke: the last ice cube, several tom arnold comedies, beethoven, etc)--movies with minivans and car chases tend to put them in a question of domestic peril and not danger.

4) the most dangerous seen in the movie, where it is shot in the dark shadows of domestic melodrama, and it looks like domestic violence, like the video for where the thunder rolls by garth brooks--to suggest that marriage can exist in dangerous bdsm power games is radical in a 60 million dollar hollywood movie.

5) limans use of geopolical power as thriller, of memory and lacunae matched in a kick ass drama (the two burne movies) continues here, hes good at folding in. and its shot well, its shot wtih a pristineness, where the housing porn comes thru all sorts of way--look at how personae of the charachters, and the metapersonae of the actors (including their previous roles) connect to tradtionally ignored things like costume and set design (which critics only seem to pay attenion to in melodrama but maybe useful in other genres--what happens if we look at the politics of interior design in the james bond films rather then the politics of interior design in douglas sirk---this movie does that)

pat and i have decided that the difference between barbarians and the civilised is that the barbarians kill children and civillians with bombs and the civilised kill children and civillians with an air force.

12 people i know and love v. near the city core, another 6 fellows...17 accounted for...waiting for liz, who was working there, who took the bus...no notice in 14 hours,

We live at a peculiar juncture, one in which the record (an object) and the recombinant (a process) still, however briefly, coexist. But there seems little doubt as to the direction things are going. The recombinant is manifest in forms as diverse as Alan Moore's graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, machinima generated with game engines (Quake, Doom, Halo), the whole metastasized library of Dean Scream remixes, genre-warping fan fiction from the universes of Star Trek or Buffy or (more satisfying by far) both at once, the JarJar-less Phantom Edit (sound of an audience voting with its fingers), brand-hybrid athletic shoes, gleefully transgressive logo jumping, and products like Kubrick figures, those Japanese collectibles that slyly masquerade as soulless corporate units yet are rescued from anonymity by the application of a thoughtfully aggressive "custom" paint job.

william gibson via book ninja

write
gwen stefani
bow wow wow
david hockney
5-8 book pages

email
dean
gareth
take notes
on gaudalope

call
rachel (x2)
d
iowa pork council
liason

fax
ray

go to library
5 ill forms

some asshole just called me faggot...and threatened to kick my ass. once a week. im mostly angry at the lack of poetic fury in the langauge

warhol

got the cr for prints from the library, and i wonder--there are at least 6 series of prints that i dont think are included--but some of those may be silkscreens, which confusingly the compilers think must be paintings--and lots of the notes in the back feature the phrase this was also a painting--so as far as im concerned the tradtional splitting of an artists ouerve into media falls apart in warhols case...& i wonder why they did it this way.

bitch phd

(midwest on the side) has linked me--and im honoured--shes brilliant.

family

thinking of the family w. 16 kids below--im a bad femminist, i belive that the state does not decide families, that the descions that people make about their own families are personal, that a womans right to chose should include having children as well---and though the personal is political, and i find their idelogy sometimes repugant, the idea of communal living and the ideological connection b/w community work and family work is something that is close to my heart--i do not think that i was fair to the woman or the father in question.

thinking that--if we belive that femminism is about making choices--what are the (poliitcal/social/personal) implications of chosing sublmination to the patriachy ? (is submitting to a patriach defacto submitting to the patriachy?)

four
i tried to read the last couple of mailer novels (harlots ghost and the gospel according to the son) and i found them insanely over the top examples of ego fueled logherra--the epic, the doorstop gets more critical respect then the small, tight book and i wonder why (cf the body artist vs underworld--to use a male example)

five
mostly men write for the big papers as book critics, and the dick swinging in favour of mailer might be dick swinging in general--im convinced its why people still read more hemmingway then hurston, for example.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7-1675289,00.html

so norman mailer says some nasty things about the nyt book critic, nasty stuff that hates her as a woman and as someone with japanese heritage...and he claims she is harder then him because of his butch male posturing.

three questions
1) norman mailer hating women is a non starter--hes stabbed at least one wife, he has hit several girlfriends, his books are more about men then women, men in danger, men in moral crisis, men w/o women. of course he hates women. do we cut him off at the knees about this?
2) she is harder i think on novels from white men, i dont know what to do about this, i think she hasa critical blind spot to the great american novel (i will have to drag out what she has hatcheted to death, this may be proven untrue)--so mailer gets a point for that...but every critic has a blind spot.
3) i think she has a well deserved reputation as tough, but if she was a man, that would be tough and fair--how much her reputation towards bitchiness comes from her having a vuvla?

cornhuskers

skinny boy
adjusts his underwears
while undressing
for an older woman

the boxers are green
because he is new at this
because its summer and
everything is verdant

medium boy
(welterweight)
gallops around the
inner circle
after a wrestling meet

his singlet is yellow
because he is good at this
because it is winter
and the sun on the snow
looks like this

heavy boy
sits on the dock
t shirt encompassing
his medative girth

his t shirt is white
because hes sad about this
because its fall
and the lake has a thin
veneer of ice.

cornhuskers

wrestler, ncaa, champion
on the television,

while flipping thru the channells
and hes looking all proud

the singlet is the colour of corn
and the hair is the colour of silk
and the skin is the colour of the husk

husking corn
from the dirt

greybrown, whiteyellow, gold

and husking the boy (if i can wish something like that)
opposite

language slips
metaphor and something
else

http://www.anyagalkina.com/blog/index.php?p=62
7 cops kick the shit out of a legal bar owner from church street.

senator jim bob duggars family from arkansas...
he loves jesus