1300 dollars gets you hundreds of liters of juice, 30 books, 12 comics, 10 magazines, 8 cds, 8 day passes, 6 trips to star bucks, 5 nights of drinks out with various friends, 4 cab rides, one movie (with popcorn and drinks), one art print, and one trip to niagra falls (5 meals, three cab rides, train ticket, hostel bed, trip on the giant ferris wheel, etc)

(also 5 shirts, one sweater, and other incedentals)

so i spent too much money, but i think it might have been worth it

reading, seeing pictures, and considering alex katz in relation to his wife ada, is something that seems so blaringingly obvious that its a wonder no one considered it before...there a retrospective of the paintings from 1950s to now, at the jewish musuems in nyc this fall, and seeing the work from the early 60s, there is a painterly lovliness, devoted to the formal notes of clothing,the odd detail of hat, coat, jewellery, that is so lovely, so pretty, that it makes me reconsider katz all over again

(esp ada in pillbox from 63, with a lemon yellow coat, a ochre hat with a red band, and her black hair. pale skin, makes her look autunumal and graveful and a little down market, a simualacra of jackie

(speaking of jackie, remind me to talk about gender, paint qaulity, strokes, negation, and printing mistakes in 16 jackies, silver disaster, troy donahue, and also the doubling, colour choice, etc in the elvis canvases, from cronenbergs andy show)

which means they are left w. two excellent writers on staff. saltz on art, who got a pulitizer nod this year, and i think won one, and musto, who has never been left in the same room with the committee...ironically both use their columns to talk about the role of women, queers, and other minority voices, few of which are left in an increasingly gentrified new york, saltz being one of the few bitter about the market, and musto one of the few refuisng to allow faggotry to be mainstreamed

xgau just got fired from the voice, so w/o chuck and now w/o xgau little or no chance that pazz and jop will go on for 07.

i got the last invite then? or at least the last of an era (and firing xgau is just stupid, hes a brand (i mean i dont like his writing, and reading him is often difficult, and well hes a bit of a pain, but he was the first to talk this pop cult shit seriously--and now him, marcus, eddy, tosches dont have a place to write day to day stuff, which is what rock crit is about...)

here isa copy of his resignation letter:

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

If this comes completely out of the blue, I apologize.

It is now official--Village Voice Media fired me today, "for
taste," which means (among other things) slightly sweeter
severance. This despite the support of new music editor Rob
Harvilla, who I like as a person and a writer. We both believed I
had won myself some kind of niche as gray eminence. So I was
surprised Tuesday when I was among the eight Voice employees
(five editorial, three art) who were instructed to bring their
union reps to a meeting with upper management today. But I
certainly wasn't shocked--my approach to music coverage has never
been much like that of the New Times papers,

Bless the union, my severance is substantial enough to give me
time to figure out what I'm doing next. In fact, having finished
all my freelance reviews yesterday, I don't have a single
assignment pending. So, since I have no intention of giving up
rock criticism, all reasonable offers entertained; my phone
number is in the book, as they used to say when there were books.
What I don't need is a vacation--the three of us just had a great
two and a half weeks, and Nina matriculated at BMCC yesterday.

No need to respond. Forward to whoever you will.

Love,

Bob Christgau

(via gawker)

ann dean from art met, has agreed to rep, and send to nyc, the pick up truck artist book

drinx with brad, at jersey giant, lots and lots of excellent talk, about god, writing, sex, kids, and other intimacies

he seems genuinly saddened by not having in me at the wright awards, which kind of made me feel guilty, cause i mostly did the wright work to learn about, to gain expereince doing pr, and i really didnt like the art...but after a while, i did the work b/c i ended up liking brad as a person

and hes going to read this and its gonna be sentimental or anything, which is difficult because i am always shocked that people want to spend time with me

fiction
15/14 two volumes of scott pilgrim
excellent art, funny in places, pacing is off, concept is too odd i think for mew, other people think its genius, donest grab my balls

(im in TO, in the last 72 hours i have bought 6 books (Shiners foto book, Warhol book on his films, Robert and Ansel Adams dual show catalog, the lunch poems by o haraa in a handsome green/orange city lights pocket poets series, a book of fotos of nevada brothels, which turned out to be a sly essay on american taste, sherman alexies 10 little indians); met with people (glenys for drinks and greasy apps in the village; lorna, rm vaughn, a young curator named jennifer, a uni prof from guelph named sheila, and michael chambers, a toronto fotog. rm vaughn was charming, jennifer looked like sarah silverman, sandra did her degree from u of a, and reminded me of fern lebowitz, michael was debonair, well spoken, clever, and gave me a ride home, lorna has the most amazing victorian, and a great collection of sometimes text based, mostly taxonomic photo and craft work), david who told me great stories of his life with james, stories too private and sacred to tell here, plus rachel met me at the airport, and colleen and i saw art, and pat and i went for comix, hope moneys here tomorrow cause its running low...

art ive seen has mostly been medicore, cause its august

a slick, kelly green, double elipse, somewhere b/w a hot rod and an ellsworth kelly, proving colour field was back, by xian eckhart and wade krom's found foto seires called photographers shadow, 12 pictures bought vintage, of the photographer being in the frame and not in the frame, seductive and symbolic, but a little obvious

saw hri at mocca, hes doing install there, and paul butlers hosting a collage party,but i will be at the falls, so i will miss it

theresa sapergia, at kmprojects, huge pencil drawing of deer dead and floating, bigger then most of what i have in the show, so well worth having for the deer show, have contact info (

something called obsession at edward day, badly hung, not really working well together, but some great peices, including melissa dohertys small oil paintings, well lit, and constructed like american regionalists, of views from the sides of high ways, the chick can paint a mean gaurd rail, and is an excellent colouriist and the sizes are excellent, less then a couple of feet long and a foot wide, a drawing by lisa Iglesias of a sheep and a goat connected to a ravelling coat that they are both wearing, and anthony kortus super packed c prints, of mulitples, mostly items of helath and hygeine

i wrote about eric doeringer at flickr, but his iconic and deconstructive bootleg seires was a highlight also at km projects...as was stephen andrews prints, for his seires of paintings, called apostles, 12 sepia toned physique pictorial queens, the sepia colour perfect, for bronzed bodies, for the bronze of cathedrals, for the nostaliga of slowly rotting woodpulp (pulp!) and the two prints i saw were what happened when he took the original oils, and placed a sheet of paper, and pulled...some of the strongest work...

i also bought a print from magic pony, and saw the bruce davidson show at bulger, and found some other work for the deer show there, and also at studio brillante, all of which i will write about later

new meme
choose five from this random list, that you think says something about you:
here

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?
Ronnie Shakes

Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.
Rita Mae Brown

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.
Hadewijch of Antwerp

the 100s are better, b/c the colour is better
cerluen
the colour of skies in august, childrens television,
krsnas skin
the clothing of mary, mother of god

the 150s make me feel better, but are worse
purple
the colour of thunder storms, bruises,
industrial carpeting, and grape kool aid

i took this, i like this

fiction

18) v for vendetta, adoloscent, cryptic, silly, and camp--not as effective as his other work, and shows weakness for political naivetee, moore doesnt know what to do with the real world (but thats okay, neither did borges)

17) the postman always rings twice
i forgot how reading this, was like swimming thru a fever dream, a rock hard clarity, and likes women better then his pals

Art Show Idea

The Postmodernist Grid.

Trace Adkins, Red Hot Mama, just watch it.

i have a show at artshab, edmonton, 21st of Sept...more details coming

Customers who bought items in your Recent History also bought:
Everywhere ~ Tim McGraw
Undoing Gender by Judith Butler

(from amazon)

in my darker moments, i imagine them fucking

and i got aish

link dump:

this sketchbook by george grosz, drawn in 51, shows that his talent for the grotesque, the frightening, and the trapped, is still fully operational, in fact his drawings of mice caught in traps shows a man in full capacity of his talents, a better formalist and a more meloncholy artist then his angry berlin knife thrusts.

beauty tips for ministers

Carle Fernadez performance peice, documented here, features her stripping in and out of a ebar costume, it reminds me of marian engels novel

excellent ny times op/ed about xian zionists and the recent isreali war against lebanon

video
for the dresden dolls "sing". the song is a little gothy, but it hits my weak black heart every time i listen to it, thnx D

the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)continues to slide into batshit irrelavence with a book about how 9/11 was preplanned, and connecting this thesis to bush being literally satanic (i have more respect for The Dark Lord to assume that he is responsible for the bushes)

i like Pierre Trudeou(sp), but his naivetee about Cuba, and the dangers of the far left, has always struck me as deeply problematic, his son writing a love letter to castro, is like listening to someone who really loves che, talk about the revoution man


The art here, si the billboard painted silver, it was put up on james wagner's site, but he didnt point out the title, or the artist...

arthur grace took these photos, of state fairs, presidental races, etc a lot of it is pretty cliched, but so well constructed, and composed exquitely, that it all works out.

LIP-LICKING DEER SHITTING MEDITATION


When you become such good friends with black-tailed deer
that live in the black oak forest
Sierra Foothills
That 20 feet away they graze contemplating you
as you sit on a stump in silence
admiring them
And they think nothing of shitting in front of you
looking over their shoulders
across their backs and rear-ends
their black tails lifted
As the perfectly shaped same-size brown pellets fountain out
in a delicate continuous fountain
And when they gaze at you
with their big black eyes
while they shit
And suddenly their long pink tongues curl out
and they're licking their lips,
Licking their lips while shitting
and looking over at you
with their deep shy eyes,
Isn't it proper etiquette to lick your lips back
to think nothing of pissing in front of them,
showing off your cock
and the long arc of urine
saved up for them
knowing they like
its salty savor
like salad dressing
on their grass and mushrooms,
Isn't it proper etiquette you should look at them
curious playful friendly
and lick your lips in return?
Antler

the glories of pagan ireland, include crowned goats

shirts that tell the world wht you like to fuck, in cute, rcandy raver design qaulity.


Gospel Golf Balls

bbcvideos
of giant rats detecting mines in mozambique

everyone said that the 5th season of Oz, with the meidcal expriments, prisoenrs in cages, immigrants in mainstream populations and the like, was too unrealistic to be "real", now An influential federal panel of medical advisers has recommended that the government loosen regulations that severely limit the testing of pharmaceuticals on prison inmates, a practice that was all but stopped three decades ago after revelations of abuse.
this was done until the 70s, wehn they were entering into (if not fully entered into) mengele territory, they claim provisions, but to put rules down, is to find ways to break them, and another peice of 70s era history, progressive and humane, is flushed.

Kudah Samuriwo, a Queens Queen, from zimbabwae, tells her story, including her run ins with Magabe, and why she is now living in london

election officals were arrested in the congo for corruption, which is good news. suggests that tehy are serious about these elections, and are fighting a history of corruption

production stills from the black dahlia

a really funny interview with soderbergh

two kurd teenagers get killed for 6 minutes of cellphone sex


Copies kicking he shit out of marchers, pride parade jersuleum

Nigeriais naming and shaming the leaders who have acted liek theives in their own governments

catholic martyr in pakistan

some thots on luther's small cathechism (preface)

For [I give this advice, however, because I know that] young and simple people must be taught by uniform, settled texts and forms
AnthonySEaston (3:37:28 PM): by the mere act of reading, of discussing, and bring into yr personal space, a text becomes unsettled...no text is uniform
theminorthirds (3:37:58 PM): give him credit, srsly
theminorthirds (3:38:07 PM): that is his point
AnthonySEaston (3:38:43 PM): i dont think it is
theminorthirds (3:38:46 PM): the text becomes unsettled but you then have to guide the student into thecorrect settled form,and you need a settled text to do that,ifthe original text isalready unsettled then no settling will occur

Also our blessed fathers understood this well; for they all used the same form of the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten Commandments
the Lords Prayer is given by Christ, the Creed by political committe, and the 10 commandments by YHWH, might not be a good idea to conflate these, in western tradition


Hence, choose whatever form you please, and adhere to it forever. But when you preach in the presence of learned and intelligent men, you may exhibit your skill, and may present these parts in as varied and intricate ways and give them as masterly turns as you are able. But with the young people stick to one fixed, permanent form and manner, and teach them, first of all, these parts, namely, the Ten Commandments, the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, etc., according to the text, word for word, so that they, too, can repeat it in the same manner after you and commit it to memory.
he is paraphrasing milk before meat here, and i know that he is, adn there is something radical about the phrasing choose whatever form you please--a beleif that a parishoner can determine theology for him or herself, but there is something difficult in the idea that one form should last you from cradle to grave, one way of viewing the protean nature of g-d will take you thru the 70 yrs of yr life on earth. what he views as skill, as intricate, denies the organic nature of knowledge, of the slow and ardous unveiling that occurs in the intercessonary work of man/god.

But those who are unwilling to learn it should be told that they deny Christ and are no Christians, neither should they be admitted to the Sacrament, accepted as sponsors at baptism, nor exercise any part of Christian liberty, but should simply be turned back to the Pope and his officials, yea, to the devil himself. Moreover, their parents and employers should refuse them food and drink, and [they would also do well if they were to] notify them that the prince will drive such rude people from the country, etc.
this isnt christian, christ didnt say feed the hungry, clothe the naked, etc so that they may learn the gospel, or that the body of christ, the communitarian ethic of church depends on the right lessons, he said that anyone who comes to me by the father--we should learn, we should grow in faith, but it should not be to the expense of food&drink... i can forgive the line of the devil and the pope, due to context--but it sort of obliterates the idea of luther not wanting to be a heretic...

For although we cannot and should not force any one to believe, yet we should insist and urge the people that they know what is right and wrong with those among whom they dwell and wish to make their living. For whoever desires to reside in a town must know and observe the town laws, the protection of which he wishes to enjoy, no matter whether he is a believer or at heart and in private a rogue or knave.
ive never been a big fan of legalism, and i think that this calls legalism into question, i think that he is saying that following the laws means that you are safe, and conflating the laws of he state with the laws of god--i need to be careful about that though, b/c "rend to cesar what si cesars an what is god gods" i tend to be in favour of one half of binary pairs, this time assuming that christs work against the state trumps his concessions to the state--and the state is THE STATE, a monolith (which isnt the case), i think that what makes me nervous about the catholics, and something i dont find in the lutheran churches, is (are) a definite attempt at not engaging in state craft, but if i wanted critics of the states, i would go to the mroe radical edges of anabaptisim, which i think im heading to...

Especially should you here urge magistrates and parents to rule well and to send their children to school, showing them why it is their duty to do this, and what a damnable sin they are committing if they do not do it...
i like this

Lastly, since the tyranny of the Pope has been abolished, people are no longer willing to go to the Sacrament and despise it [as something useless and unnecessary].
the first half of this is something im really scared of, terrified of in fact, adn the eucharist is so vital to my understandign ofthe gospels that going up to the euchurist and hating the church, being scared that i am not good enough, feeling humilated instead of humbled, and something that should be an example of the joyful, radical, inclusivity, that encompasses under the mystery of grace, is absent, and maybe a bit im feeling udner the thumb of the pope, the tyranny of the pope--though we have to keep things in proper historical persepctive

he goes on to talk fo the sacrament, as one, ie the eucharist, and im sacramental, in that i think there should be many sacraments, not one, but at least 7, and maybe everything we do, to other people or ourselves in the memory of god, the theology of the sacarements should begin with the paschal mystery, but not perhaps end there...

the Blair government, paranoid that "england" has no real idenity anymore, and that kids arent reading, has some suggestions:
11-14 English curriculum

Staying in

Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, John Bunyan, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Eliot, Henry Fielding, Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Trollope, HG Wells

Under threat

EM Forster, William Golding, Graham Greene, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, DH Lawrence, Katherine Mansfield, George Orwell, Muriel Spark, William Trevor, Evelyn Waugh, JG Ballard, RK Narayan, Berlie Doherty, Susan Hill, Laurie Lee, Joan Lingard, Alan Sillitoe, Bill Naughton, Mildred Taylor, Robert Westall, Chinua Achebe, Maya Angelou, Willa Cather, Anita Desai, Nadine Gordimer, Ernest Hemingway, HH Richardson, Doris Lessing, John Steinbeck, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Some notes:
Bunyan, christian allegory--are you going to teach a bunch of muslims, sikhs, hindus, jains, secularists, and the like, a very long, very involved, very coded journey of xian virtue.
Conrad--Maybe if you are restling with the results and implicatiosn of empire ni a mulitcultaral, post colonial society, a racist apologist for it would be a poor idea,
Dickents/Trollope/Feilding/James/Hardy/Eliot--you are teaching 11-14 year olds. Eacho f these writers clocks in somewhere b.w 400 and 1000 pages. All of them are heavily poltted, archaic, and difficult. Dickens might be doable (i read Twist at 14, and a few others in high school--it taught me to hate the novel); Trollope is long winded, dull, and cares deeply about the politics and social sets of 19th century england--how many 11 years have devolped an interest in a glacial desire to know more about 19th century. Feilding might have enough fucking to break up the boredom, but the writing is incredibly unusal, over the top, and fecund in a way that causes loss of limp. James, who the hell thought 14 year olds could read James. the musty, dead scent of obsessive desire and lost sexualities, and the writing so limited, airless, and suffocating, is difficult enough if you have a purpose to read it. Hardy is so opressive, depressing, and heavy, reading him is like swallowing lead, and I like Hardy (though a Muslim study on gender and honour, in works like Jude the Obscure might be fascaitning).
Wells/Stevenson/Swift--kids might actually like these three, and swift might give them the tools to take the fucking thing down brick by bricl

They are getting rid of mostly 20th century, mostly political writers, including a large chunk of women and immigrant writers...insert rant about racist, classist, misogyinst assholes here.

english writers who arent really english: Nobel Prize Winners: Kipling (his time in India), Yeats (Irish), Shaw (Irish), Eliot (American), Beckett (Irish/French), William Golding (actually english), Walcott (Caribbean), Heany (Irish), Naiapul (Trinidad/India/Anglo).
Booker: Hollinghurst (actually anglo), Ian McEwan (scottish), Roy (Indian/English), Graham Swift (anglo), Roddy Doyle (irish), Ben Okri (Nigerian), Byatt (Anglo), Lively (Egyptian/Anglo), Amis (anglo), Rushdie (Indian), Murdoch (Anglo)
Orange: Zadie Smith (Caribean/Anglo), Shriver (anglo), Levy (Anglo/Jamican), Levey (American), Linda Grant (Russian/Polish Jews), Helen Dunmore (anglo)
Whitbred: Spurling (Anglo), Haddon (Anglo), Tomalin (Anglo), Pullman (Anglo), Kneale (Manx), Wagner (american), William Trevor (Irish), Joan Brady (american), Aliasdar Grey (Scottish), Gardam (Anglo), Shiva Naipul (Indian,Caribbean), Iris Murdoch (Anglo/Irish), William McIvlaney (Scotish), Bainbridge (Anglo), Paul theroux (American), Kazuou Ishriago (Japanese), Christopher Hope (South African),Christopher Nolan (American), Paul Sayer (Anglo)
Commonwealth Writers Prize Earl Lovelace (Caribbean), Festus Iyayi (Nigerian)
Harold Blooms Western Canon (20th Century): Sean O'Casey (Irish), Conrad (Polish), Isaac Rosenberg (Jewish), Robert Graves (American), Lawerence (Self Loathing enough not to count), Spark (Scotish/Italian), Bowen (Anglo/Irish), JG Farrell (Irish), Burgess (Post National), Isherwood (American), Hugh McDimarand (Scottish), Louis McNeice (Scottish), Paul Muldoon (irish), Tom Stoppard (Polish), Flann O Brian (Irish), Pinter (Jewish),
Edna O Brien (Irish) (Ive avoided the anglos on Blooms list)

Norton Anthology: Alerfic (Danish), Ramon Lull (Norman), John Gower (French), Marlowe (time in Holland), John Cabot (Italian), Elizabeth Browning (Jamacian), Burns (Scottish), Byron (Pan European), Arthur Clough (American), George Darley (Irish), George Eliot (Swiss/German), Shelly (Italian), Swift (Irish),


Other
Patrich Kavuanugh (Irish), Ali Smith (Scottish), Linton Kwesie Johnson (Caribbean),Jean Rhys (Caribbean),

I am obv stacking the deck, and one could include woolf, lawerence, hardy, hopkins, housman, maugh, greene, ford, wells, owen, lodge, hughes,witterson, larkin, orton, Shakespeare,

(I am noting large amounts of time spent in other countries, parentage in other places, or strong ethnic roots outside England, not counting Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Manx, or Cornwall as English)

(I am aware that colonial attachment to outside places, and residency are two different things—like Clough’s American heritage or EB Browning’s Jamaican is different, then people born and enslaved there)

(I am also, basically saying that what we assume to be english, politically, is anything but)

LDS
honeymoon advice, remarkably frank.


One of 17 Hitchcock themed Mosiacs, decorating the Leytonside Tube Station. Leytonside is where Hitchcock grew up.

American executions by lethal injection are becoming more difficult to perform, because of the lack of medical staff willing to perform them. Right now they require doctors, but I think Ray is right when he says they will find disgraced anesthologists, or nurses. Acccording to Andrew Sullivan, up to 55 Arab Linguists have been booted frmo intelligence jobs cause they fuck in the wrong ways.


Various Colombian organizations are calling on government officials to intervene and prevent a massive “sexual exchange of partners” scheduled to take place in cities on the Caribbean coast of Colombia from October 13-16. The event, which is being organized by a self-professed pedophile who calls himself “Jesus,” is being promoted on popular Colombian radio stations. (from Indian Catholic Daily)
Trans Met Lives

they are starting to excommunicate radicals who seek to change catholic policies


Manchester firemen tumble dries himself

A man who sued the city for entering his apartment without a search warrant after he was mauled by his 450-pound pet Siberian tiger demonstrated a lot of nerve in taking the city to court, a judge said as he threw the lawsuit out.The lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan was filed by Antoine Yates after he was arrested Oct. 4, 2003, at a Philadelphia hospital where he had gone for treatment of a deep bite to his right leg suffered three days earlier.Police removed the 10-foot-long tiger, Ming, and an alligator, Al, from Yates' East Harlem apartment. story here

Joe Dallesandro, actor, hustler, sex god, muse of both lou reed (lil joe would never give it away) and andy warhol (heat, trash,flesh, my lonesome cowboy, frankenstein, haircut, one of the screen tests), is one of my icons. I love his taut body, his wide cock, and his genuine apperciation of the joys of perversity--that avedon foto, of him and candy and teh rest of the factory, always struck me as an example of new kinds of gender. There have been three short films of him, in stark black and white, shiny, and laughing, naked, found from his AMG/body building days. The funny thing, is that their is some matching to the films Andy made--but these are much less angsty, more direct, cut in ways that indiacated the pleasure of the flesh rather then the pleasure of filmed aesthetic. watch them here (i like the stuff from the 50s more then the 70s, erotically, but thats me)

Here is a photo of Candy, by Gerard Malenga, the poet, i couldnt find the Avedon of Joe Candy Darling c1971 Gelatin Silver Print


Divine Sings on Letterman

beautiful interventions in nyc, with rubber bands

Irving Welsh's New Play is abuot real life dwarf orgies, and other such bizarreness, on teh seto f the wizard of oz, full story herewith details

Counterfactual marylin monroe stories, for her 80th

Istvan Kantor does it again, this time at Warhol.

best titles ever, a flickr set of odd titles, from an alskan librarian

footage of a f-14 and a concrete wall, at 500 mph, from the pentagon


Dolly Sisters, Cabaret Act, From the Edwardian age to he late 1920s
from 100s of Zeigfeild Folly Photos