My cock is the size of Dustin Hoffman.
And it has also won an Oscar.
In the category of Best Special Effect. David Preyde
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
five things about the sleep clinic
a) even before the putting in of wires and the like--ths questionaires, and the architechture of the hospital, reminded me of grade 9, and also some of the sucide safe rooms i spent some time, making me feel very nervous.
b) the sensory overload, of being touched all over, of being my hair pulled, of tape on hair, the cold liquid of rubbing alcohol, the push of his body close to me, i mean i knew it was medical, but it was overwhelming
c) my glasses were off for most of this. later on, he would tape a plug into my noise, so i could not breathe properly, adding to the sensory problems
d) in the bed, pulling and tugging at my limbs, taping the heart monitor to my hand, reminded me of being taped to the bed at sjsa, of the physical abuse that occured with other students. this was connected to the fear that happens when i am constantly monitored.
e) he tucked my shirt in, because he needed the wires to connect properly, which led me to have some serious shep moments.
tried to calm myself, deep breaths, prayed the psalms, and it just overwhelmed me.
i tore the wires off in a panic, told everyone to fuck off literally, and was just overwhelmed...called ray, i was going to leave, but they wouldnt let me,the nurse encouraged me to have a shower, which helped, and ray came because they wouldnt let me leave without him.
a) even before the putting in of wires and the like--ths questionaires, and the architechture of the hospital, reminded me of grade 9, and also some of the sucide safe rooms i spent some time, making me feel very nervous.
b) the sensory overload, of being touched all over, of being my hair pulled, of tape on hair, the cold liquid of rubbing alcohol, the push of his body close to me, i mean i knew it was medical, but it was overwhelming
c) my glasses were off for most of this. later on, he would tape a plug into my noise, so i could not breathe properly, adding to the sensory problems
d) in the bed, pulling and tugging at my limbs, taping the heart monitor to my hand, reminded me of being taped to the bed at sjsa, of the physical abuse that occured with other students. this was connected to the fear that happens when i am constantly monitored.
e) he tucked my shirt in, because he needed the wires to connect properly, which led me to have some serious shep moments.
tried to calm myself, deep breaths, prayed the psalms, and it just overwhelmed me.
i tore the wires off in a panic, told everyone to fuck off literally, and was just overwhelmed...called ray, i was going to leave, but they wouldnt let me,the nurse encouraged me to have a shower, which helped, and ray came because they wouldnt let me leave without him.
Monday, April 04, 2011
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EMB2931H F - Galatians: Interpretation
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mountain goats show, pretty amazing all things considered, including screaming this year at the end, but afterwards even better. hung out with the band backstage, carl wilson, owen pallet, john himself.
a couple of things--- sholem talked about how i had a place in urbane gay land, but applachian old weird america. john talked about how i no longer seemed like i was in peril. owen pallet talked about how much he enjoyed my singles jukebox work.
ride in the car back with everyone, as well.
a couple of things--- sholem talked about how i had a place in urbane gay land, but applachian old weird america. john talked about how i no longer seemed like i was in peril. owen pallet talked about how much he enjoyed my singles jukebox work.
ride in the car back with everyone, as well.
Sunday, April 03, 2011
Source Code was good. It;s narrative construction, with the lacunae, the seeking to narratize, the idea that doing one thing and having that thing being the end of repeating, the obsessiveness, the panic, the strange actions, and its military context, are an excellent representation of trauma, and how it affects the mind.
also quite beautiful. some hollywood touches, esp a love story and the downplaying of politicised elements disappointed a bit.
Bridget Monahan cannot act.
also quite beautiful. some hollywood touches, esp a love story and the downplaying of politicised elements disappointed a bit.
Bridget Monahan cannot act.
Friday, April 01, 2011
Outline, Notes, and Works Cited for Theological Martyrs Presentation.
Introduction:
Anne Askew.
The presentation will have three parts.
a) A quick sketch biography, noting important dates, and a generalized context about when and where she lived.
Two sections about her relevance to history.
a) A theological history marking her position in the beginning of the Tudor period.
b) A gendered histography, noting the creation of self and construction of a personalized identity.
Quick Sketch Biography :
Born 1521
Hanged, 1526
Some Milestones:
a) Tudor period is a time of increased social mobility, and so Askew was not born of noble lineage, around the time of her birth, her father was knighted he would later work as an MP to Grimsby and a high sheriff in Lincolnshire. )
b) She had a good education which resulted in her being literate in English, Greek and Latin. She also wrote some which became vital to her definitions of self.
This ability to read was unusual but tied into a rising protestant sentiment. To put it in its most crude terms, the rise of literacy, results in the rising numbers of people with the ability to read bible which not only prioritized the importance of the lay, but deprioritzed the role of the priest as mysterious deliverer of sacraments.) She was reading other protestant reformers in her imprisonment, including John Firth's autobiography and response to Moore: “The only personal history written form prison during the reign of Henry VIII that bears resemblance to the Examinations is The Articles Wherefore John Frith died which is annexed to Frith’s answer to Thomas More concerning the sacrament (1533). This is quite possibly the treatise that Askew was reading when Archdeacon John Wymsely warned her that ‘soche books as thys is, hath brought yow to the trouble ye are in’. The articles give some account of the examinations that Frirth underwent, but they are mostly a point-by-point answer to the charges that condemned him. The publication of his system of belief, he himself observes, is sure to purchase him a ‘moste cruell deth’. It is precisely this kind of exposure that Askew’s narrative refuses.” (Coles, Religion, Reform, and Women’s Writing, 20)
c) She was married to Thomas Kyme in 1505 and had at least one child—William Askew (there is thought to perhaps be one more). This marriage was arranged, and because of her father’s social standing, and his social climbing tendencies, it could be assumed that the pairing was mostly about property/dowry/. This abandoning her children and husband for God has precedent in English mystical circles, and is especially prominent in the work of Magarey Kempe.
d) Her husband a devout catholic. Askew converts to the protestant cause, leaves Lincolnshire for London, to go “gospelling” or evangelizing
e) Remained close to the circle of Catherine Parr
f) She was imprisoned in the Tower of London, twice, tortured by the rack once, may have recanted once, eventually executed as part of Henry VIII’s radical wave, in 1546. The charges, revolved around her violations of the Six Articles Act of 1533. (The act was subtitled “Abolishing diversity of Opinions” and maintained points about transubstantiation, and the supremacy of the pope.
g) Her testimony was published as early as late 1546, and definitely by 1547-1548 in Wordal, Germany a Lutheran Stronghold. The examinations were heavily annotated and edited by John Boate, a protestant sympathizer.
There are at least five items around Askew, that suggest that she is important, regardless of her gender.
a) She symbolizes, or at least marks, the rise of literacy among (at least) the nobility
b) Her work becomes about the importance of constructing personal discourses around scripture. (The “gospelling” in London functioned as a way of both translating and disseminating scriptures with a loosely affiliated group. The group might have contained the radical Anabaptist Joan of Kent , executed later under Edward VI, but this is controversial) (If Kent was in the group, and Catherine Parr was thought to have Lutheran sympathies—Askew works as a middle ground between protestant tendencies as well—the interpretive act becomes a set of dialogues about what it means to be this new kind of Christian.) The interpretation of scripture, does not necessarily only mean dissemination, but can also lead to personal prayer: A court functionary named Wadloe from Winchester, moved into the house next to Anne in order to spy on her. He is quoted in her examinations: "at ‘at mydnyght she begynneth to pray, and cessyth not in many howers after, when I and others applye owr sleape or do worse’ (Nichols, Narratives, 40)"
c) Her moving to London, to seek a divorce, and also her general, disobedience. She didn’t take her husband’s last name. She preferred the company of her religious cohorts, and in her second examination, sent back to Lincolnshire, waits 12 days, told to return with Kyme, does, and says Kyme is not her husband)
d) Her connections, however tenuous to the court of Catherine Parr, and less tenuous to Henry's court (brother was cupbearer, half brother gentleman to the privy chamber) in the midst of Henry’s confusion about his own Catholicism seem relevant .
d) The creation of a martyrdom that is not about veneration, that moves away from a roman understanding of that word
There is some gendered context that marks her vitality as well.
a) We must be careful about being anachronistic, and we should recognize that the construction of a martyrs identity is not the same as fashioning an autobiography—but Askew writing her own text (though one mediated by a man) should be noted. Knott: …Yet whatever sense of individuality emerges from Askew’s presentation, she was also consciously playing a role shaped by the representations of martyrdom that I have been describing. The record she created is less a deliberate self-portrait or anything that it makes sense to describe as autobiography in the modern sense of the word, than a recreation of her effort to witness to God’s truth for the instruction and support of the faithful. …Self Justification is less important than contributing to the continuing story of resistance to persecution, given new and painful relevance by the campaign against heresy or Henry VIII’s conservative bishops.”
b) This discussion of the sublimation of Anne’s voice into the general discussion of the general discourse of martyrdom under reports Askew’s style. Often it is plain, stark and unadorned. Her words lack flourish, and sometimes, in the midst of the bluntness, a mocking tone emerges. In this sense, and in the translation between the written, and the read, the oral and the published, we can see Askew as a master ironist. This would suggest that the creation of a female self, perhaps outside of just the martyr’s genre set for her.
b) The idea that her body was taken over by God, and that a masculine force was overtaking her frailty. This is seen in Bale’s introductory notes and marginal comments, and was the general understood opinion of the time. At her execution, a friar who went towards Protestantism and then quickly recanted was made feminine, while Askew in the same context was viewed as masculine. (A witness, Crowley was quoted as saying: “she stood manfully” at her execution. There are suggestions, that there were masculine forces writing her life, she constructed her own identity. In Elaine Belin’s discussion of women writers in the early Renaissance, she makes this point clearly: “…Her assertations in the Examinations are always positive, filled with a sense of her own rectitude, assured of her own virtue. At one point she is careful to record her wish, “that all men knew my conversaycon and lyvviyng in all poyntes, for I am so sure of my selfe thys houre, that there are non able ot prove anye dyshonestie by me. (I, 34v) Writing may have offered Askew a way to create herself as she desired, rather than to be known either a disobedient wife and heretic by one side, or a distant figurehood by the other. By controlling the persona of Anne Askew, and selecting and shaping the events of her own imprisonment, Askew fulfills the role she recognized she was to have for the reformers, but also becomes an autobiographer, who composes the woman. Anne Askew.
Three Conculsions
1) The rise of literacy leads to the rise of a creation of self. This creation of self connects to a new understanding of religious roles.
2) There was a tension between the needs for martyrdom to be reclaimed from the Catholic instincts towards mysticism, and towards a protestant sense of it as an obligation towards the abjection of self. The controversy about Askew’s self fashioning attempts to work through that tension, but it has yet to be solved.
3) This fashioning of self often has a strong gendered component—and Askew’s womanness affects how she wrote the texts, and how we read them.
Introduction:
Anne Askew.
The presentation will have three parts.
a) A quick sketch biography, noting important dates, and a generalized context about when and where she lived.
Two sections about her relevance to history.
a) A theological history marking her position in the beginning of the Tudor period.
b) A gendered histography, noting the creation of self and construction of a personalized identity.
Quick Sketch Biography :
Born 1521
Hanged, 1526
Some Milestones:
a) Tudor period is a time of increased social mobility, and so Askew was not born of noble lineage, around the time of her birth, her father was knighted he would later work as an MP to Grimsby and a high sheriff in Lincolnshire. )
b) She had a good education which resulted in her being literate in English, Greek and Latin. She also wrote some which became vital to her definitions of self.
This ability to read was unusual but tied into a rising protestant sentiment. To put it in its most crude terms, the rise of literacy, results in the rising numbers of people with the ability to read bible which not only prioritized the importance of the lay, but deprioritzed the role of the priest as mysterious deliverer of sacraments.) She was reading other protestant reformers in her imprisonment, including John Firth's autobiography and response to Moore: “The only personal history written form prison during the reign of Henry VIII that bears resemblance to the Examinations is The Articles Wherefore John Frith died which is annexed to Frith’s answer to Thomas More concerning the sacrament (1533). This is quite possibly the treatise that Askew was reading when Archdeacon John Wymsely warned her that ‘soche books as thys is, hath brought yow to the trouble ye are in’. The articles give some account of the examinations that Frirth underwent, but they are mostly a point-by-point answer to the charges that condemned him. The publication of his system of belief, he himself observes, is sure to purchase him a ‘moste cruell deth’. It is precisely this kind of exposure that Askew’s narrative refuses.” (Coles, Religion, Reform, and Women’s Writing, 20)
c) She was married to Thomas Kyme in 1505 and had at least one child—William Askew (there is thought to perhaps be one more). This marriage was arranged, and because of her father’s social standing, and his social climbing tendencies, it could be assumed that the pairing was mostly about property/dowry/. This abandoning her children and husband for God has precedent in English mystical circles, and is especially prominent in the work of Magarey Kempe.
d) Her husband a devout catholic. Askew converts to the protestant cause, leaves Lincolnshire for London, to go “gospelling” or evangelizing
e) Remained close to the circle of Catherine Parr
f) She was imprisoned in the Tower of London, twice, tortured by the rack once, may have recanted once, eventually executed as part of Henry VIII’s radical wave, in 1546. The charges, revolved around her violations of the Six Articles Act of 1533. (The act was subtitled “Abolishing diversity of Opinions” and maintained points about transubstantiation, and the supremacy of the pope.
g) Her testimony was published as early as late 1546, and definitely by 1547-1548 in Wordal, Germany a Lutheran Stronghold. The examinations were heavily annotated and edited by John Boate, a protestant sympathizer.
There are at least five items around Askew, that suggest that she is important, regardless of her gender.
a) She symbolizes, or at least marks, the rise of literacy among (at least) the nobility
b) Her work becomes about the importance of constructing personal discourses around scripture. (The “gospelling” in London functioned as a way of both translating and disseminating scriptures with a loosely affiliated group. The group might have contained the radical Anabaptist Joan of Kent , executed later under Edward VI, but this is controversial) (If Kent was in the group, and Catherine Parr was thought to have Lutheran sympathies—Askew works as a middle ground between protestant tendencies as well—the interpretive act becomes a set of dialogues about what it means to be this new kind of Christian.) The interpretation of scripture, does not necessarily only mean dissemination, but can also lead to personal prayer: A court functionary named Wadloe from Winchester, moved into the house next to Anne in order to spy on her. He is quoted in her examinations: "at ‘at mydnyght she begynneth to pray, and cessyth not in many howers after, when I and others applye owr sleape or do worse’ (Nichols, Narratives, 40)"
c) Her moving to London, to seek a divorce, and also her general, disobedience. She didn’t take her husband’s last name. She preferred the company of her religious cohorts, and in her second examination, sent back to Lincolnshire, waits 12 days, told to return with Kyme, does, and says Kyme is not her husband)
d) Her connections, however tenuous to the court of Catherine Parr, and less tenuous to Henry's court (brother was cupbearer, half brother gentleman to the privy chamber) in the midst of Henry’s confusion about his own Catholicism seem relevant .
d) The creation of a martyrdom that is not about veneration, that moves away from a roman understanding of that word
There is some gendered context that marks her vitality as well.
a) We must be careful about being anachronistic, and we should recognize that the construction of a martyrs identity is not the same as fashioning an autobiography—but Askew writing her own text (though one mediated by a man) should be noted. Knott: …Yet whatever sense of individuality emerges from Askew’s presentation, she was also consciously playing a role shaped by the representations of martyrdom that I have been describing. The record she created is less a deliberate self-portrait or anything that it makes sense to describe as autobiography in the modern sense of the word, than a recreation of her effort to witness to God’s truth for the instruction and support of the faithful. …Self Justification is less important than contributing to the continuing story of resistance to persecution, given new and painful relevance by the campaign against heresy or Henry VIII’s conservative bishops.”
b) This discussion of the sublimation of Anne’s voice into the general discussion of the general discourse of martyrdom under reports Askew’s style. Often it is plain, stark and unadorned. Her words lack flourish, and sometimes, in the midst of the bluntness, a mocking tone emerges. In this sense, and in the translation between the written, and the read, the oral and the published, we can see Askew as a master ironist. This would suggest that the creation of a female self, perhaps outside of just the martyr’s genre set for her.
b) The idea that her body was taken over by God, and that a masculine force was overtaking her frailty. This is seen in Bale’s introductory notes and marginal comments, and was the general understood opinion of the time. At her execution, a friar who went towards Protestantism and then quickly recanted was made feminine, while Askew in the same context was viewed as masculine. (A witness, Crowley was quoted as saying: “she stood manfully” at her execution. There are suggestions, that there were masculine forces writing her life, she constructed her own identity. In Elaine Belin’s discussion of women writers in the early Renaissance, she makes this point clearly: “…Her assertations in the Examinations are always positive, filled with a sense of her own rectitude, assured of her own virtue. At one point she is careful to record her wish, “that all men knew my conversaycon and lyvviyng in all poyntes, for I am so sure of my selfe thys houre, that there are non able ot prove anye dyshonestie by me. (I, 34v) Writing may have offered Askew a way to create herself as she desired, rather than to be known either a disobedient wife and heretic by one side, or a distant figurehood by the other. By controlling the persona of Anne Askew, and selecting and shaping the events of her own imprisonment, Askew fulfills the role she recognized she was to have for the reformers, but also becomes an autobiographer, who composes the woman. Anne Askew.
Three Conculsions
1) The rise of literacy leads to the rise of a creation of self. This creation of self connects to a new understanding of religious roles.
2) There was a tension between the needs for martyrdom to be reclaimed from the Catholic instincts towards mysticism, and towards a protestant sense of it as an obligation towards the abjection of self. The controversy about Askew’s self fashioning attempts to work through that tension, but it has yet to be solved.
3) This fashioning of self often has a strong gendered component—and Askew’s womanness affects how she wrote the texts, and how we read them.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
finally went to bymark
pisco sour, half a liter of cowhorn syrah from oregon, glass of maderia.
beet, goatcheese (celebrity), walnut and frisse salad (tiny little beets)
fieldmushrooms
ravolia with pinenuts, and buffalo mozzerlla
apple fritter, apple sauce, popcorn ice cream, caramel corn.
ray had
bison, carrots (the paltonic essence of carrothood), lobsterpountine, johnny walker blue.
im a little drunk
ase
pisco sour, half a liter of cowhorn syrah from oregon, glass of maderia.
beet, goatcheese (celebrity), walnut and frisse salad (tiny little beets)
fieldmushrooms
ravolia with pinenuts, and buffalo mozzerlla
apple fritter, apple sauce, popcorn ice cream, caramel corn.
ray had
bison, carrots (the paltonic essence of carrothood), lobsterpountine, johnny walker blue.
im a little drunk
ase
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Thing is, 1945-65 is very male-dominated and that's the most-settled part of the post-war canon, ergoTyler Coates.
aside from work done by people outside of western europe and the united states, here are 30 cannonical works made by women, between those dates.
- Lee Krasner Kufic, 1965
- Gego Dos Plano, 1961
- Under the El on Broad Way, Bernice Abbot, 1950
- Elaine de Kooning, Portrait of JFK, 1962
- Kahlo Broken Column, 1944
- Grace HArtigan, Sweden, 1950s
- Grandma Moses Maple Bush, 1953
- Agnes Martin Wood 1, 1964
- Diane Arbus, Mrs. T. Charlton Henry, fashion luminary, in her Chestnut Hill home in Philadelphia, Harper’s Bazaar, July 1965
- Louise Borgeous Persiotent Antagonism, 1965
- Barbara Hepworth, Icon, 1957
- Louise Nevelson, Sky Cathedral, 1958
- Anne Truitt, First, 1961
- Margauriete Bourke White, Ghandi, 1946
- Helen Leavitt Chalk Drawings 1948
- Joan Mitchell, City Ladnscape, 1955
- Jo Baer, Junivelle Sex Symbol, 1964
- Helen Frankenthaler, Mountains and Seas, 1952
- Bridge Riley, Pause, 1964
- Yoko Ono Cut Peice, 1964
- Georgia O Keefe, Sky Above Clouds, 1965
Carolee Schneemann Meat Joy, 1964
Alice Neel Frank O Hara 1960
- Lisette Model, Coney Island, Standing, 1947
Marisol,Woman with a Dog, 1964
A Little Night Music. Dorthea Tanning, 1946
Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Nets, 1951
Lee Bontecou, Umtitled, 1951
Maria Montoya Martinez Jar With Feather Motif, 1958
Sister Corrita Kent, Enriched Bread, 1965
excuse the formatting.
Saturday, March 26, 2011
hobo with a shot gun is so close to a lost video nasty from the 70s to the 80s...and the problem with that, is tht the ironic reworking of pop trash since that time meant that the gendered violence would be deconstructed and reconstruction so the woman was clearly the victim, there were several scenes that approached rape, and it was icky. (it was also awesome, and outrageous and funny and bizarre, and featured tentacles for no good reason, and had some amazing lines
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
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Tuesday, March 22, 2011
oh the 70s how i love you.
westwood in the 80s are shockingly ugly--well put together, difficult, but ugly.
Tatania Berg.
DARK TENT
2008.
4ft tall x 3ft wide
enamel on canvas over wooden frame.
Shaped canvas, and post painting, like Pindell in the 70s, but made with enamel, so they look like ceermaic, excellent colours. more work here
gorgeous, almost empty reworking of an a frame in birch as a chapel, in finland.
bridges via google street viewa by clement valla.
transcriptions of actual bird songs compared to Messian's work.
love love Hugh Scott Douglas grids, and lines--abstract, but sort of remind me of found objects, bank envelopes, plaster and lathe, television screens, but painted intsead of printed, quite lovely.
Union Made, from Seeds of Justice Poster.
avid lynch's art historical referents in david lynch's hair.
historical union labels.
50s space suit kitsch for kids
videos and images of marsha hunt--watch walking on gilded splinters!.
Posters and maps nuculear reactors
Stubbs, Zebra, 1763
westwood in the 80s are shockingly ugly--well put together, difficult, but ugly.
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Tatania Berg.
DARK TENT
2008.
4ft tall x 3ft wide
enamel on canvas over wooden frame.
Shaped canvas, and post painting, like Pindell in the 70s, but made with enamel, so they look like ceermaic, excellent colours. more work here
gorgeous, almost empty reworking of an a frame in birch as a chapel, in finland.
“In fact viewership of al Jazeera is going up in the United States because it’s real news. You may not agree with it, but you feel like you’re getting real news around the clock instead of a million commercials and, you know, arguments between talking heads and the kind of stuff that we do on our news which, you know, is not particularly informative to us, let alone foreigners,” she added.
Hilary Clinton on Al Jerezea.
bridges via google street viewa by clement valla.
transcriptions of actual bird songs compared to Messian's work.
love love Hugh Scott Douglas grids, and lines--abstract, but sort of remind me of found objects, bank envelopes, plaster and lathe, television screens, but painted intsead of printed, quite lovely.
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Union Made, from Seeds of Justice Poster.
avid lynch's art historical referents in david lynch's hair.
historical union labels.
50s space suit kitsch for kids
videos and images of marsha hunt--watch walking on gilded splinters!.
Posters and maps nuculear reactors
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Stubbs, Zebra, 1763
Phoebe Palmer diary (1847):
After class, went to see Mrs. Pillow, who has lately returned from the residence (of months I believe) among the “Shakers.” She had become so far deluded, during her residence with them, that she renounced all earthly obligations to her husband and family, and the pursuasions of a kind husband were unavailing, in urging her return. His only alternative was to take out a writ, and demand her person by law.
O, how dangerous is the least departure from the Written Word. A dependence on revelations or anything not fully sanctioned,–who can tell where the evil of such a dependence may end? I urged the authority of the plain Written Word, relative to the duties which she had renounced, and she informed me that the Shaking Quakers had received superior light in reference to these subjects, and revelations in connection with them, which the “Children of this world” (of which she regards me as being one) could not apprehend.
I assured her that if they gained this superior light by adding their revelations to make up the amount of God’s requirements by the testimony of the Scriptures themselves, they were condemned. The volume of revelation being closed, God had now declared, “If any man shall add to the words of this Book, God shall add to him the plagues written in this Book, or, if any man shall take away from the words of this Book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,” etc. And, no prophecy of the Scripture being of any private interpretation, I conceived it to be impossible that they should have light on the Scriptures which any other disciple of Jesus might not have.
I spent perhaps an hour, with seemingly but little profit, in urging Mrs. P. to the importance of keeping close to the revealed will of God, as recorded in the Bible, with perhaps little other benefit than that of driving her to the conclusion that she must have required something beside Scripture, in bringing her to embrace such a faith. I left, deeply convinced of the danger of stepping aside, in the smallest degree, from the Written Word, assured that such a remove, however small, is getting on Satan’s ground,—just where he claims as his right, the privilege of carrying us away with every wind of doctrine.
After class, went to see Mrs. Pillow, who has lately returned from the residence (of months I believe) among the “Shakers.” She had become so far deluded, during her residence with them, that she renounced all earthly obligations to her husband and family, and the pursuasions of a kind husband were unavailing, in urging her return. His only alternative was to take out a writ, and demand her person by law.
O, how dangerous is the least departure from the Written Word. A dependence on revelations or anything not fully sanctioned,–who can tell where the evil of such a dependence may end? I urged the authority of the plain Written Word, relative to the duties which she had renounced, and she informed me that the Shaking Quakers had received superior light in reference to these subjects, and revelations in connection with them, which the “Children of this world” (of which she regards me as being one) could not apprehend.
I assured her that if they gained this superior light by adding their revelations to make up the amount of God’s requirements by the testimony of the Scriptures themselves, they were condemned. The volume of revelation being closed, God had now declared, “If any man shall add to the words of this Book, God shall add to him the plagues written in this Book, or, if any man shall take away from the words of this Book, God shall take away his part out of the book of life,” etc. And, no prophecy of the Scripture being of any private interpretation, I conceived it to be impossible that they should have light on the Scriptures which any other disciple of Jesus might not have.
I spent perhaps an hour, with seemingly but little profit, in urging Mrs. P. to the importance of keeping close to the revealed will of God, as recorded in the Bible, with perhaps little other benefit than that of driving her to the conclusion that she must have required something beside Scripture, in bringing her to embrace such a faith. I left, deeply convinced of the danger of stepping aside, in the smallest degree, from the Written Word, assured that such a remove, however small, is getting on Satan’s ground,—just where he claims as his right, the privilege of carrying us away with every wind of doctrine.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
saw the big heat, late fritz lang movie---solid movie, tight, well constructed, slightly political, beautifully acted, with lee marvin as a pyschopath who commits an act of violence as fucked up as the cagney/grapefruit one.
but it has this amazing scene, with a woman who has a face half burnt off with coffee, laying on a mink jacket, and a pillow the texture of the correct skin, the burned skin, the mink and the silk is one of the most beautiful things ive seen in movies this year
(last night, big concert, two awful bands, a good band that i knew was good (bombay bicycle club), a band that i had previously dismissed (hollardo), and a decent hip hop guy. also janelle monae, but the mix was bad and i was seizey, so that didnt turn out as well.
had dinner with chris and a walk around lesliville
but it has this amazing scene, with a woman who has a face half burnt off with coffee, laying on a mink jacket, and a pillow the texture of the correct skin, the burned skin, the mink and the silk is one of the most beautiful things ive seen in movies this year
(last night, big concert, two awful bands, a good band that i knew was good (bombay bicycle club), a band that i had previously dismissed (hollardo), and a decent hip hop guy. also janelle monae, but the mix was bad and i was seizey, so that didnt turn out as well.
had dinner with chris and a walk around lesliville
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
beautiful architechtual reworking of dutch bunkers
deeply amusing list of things that comic thinks about.
The Coming King, Bronze, Knoxville, 19 feet tall.
Glen Burke queer baseball player who came out at the end of his life, has a documentary made about his life.
Beth Stuart is a Toronto artist who combines ancient methods with post modernist abstracitons, strong use of blacks, greys, and whites.
Julie Christie the morning after the Oscars, when she won for Darling.
rodeo themed fourth of july preaching seires at the cornerstone church nashville.
photo essays on the modernism of oral robert--i want to write an essay about this.
irish bishops were told by Rome not to report abuse.
GEORGE OHR; Sculptural pitcher of marbleized clays; Script signature; 4 1/2"" x 6 1/2""
The liquidity of this peice, and how it folds into itself but does not collapse explicity, and the clairty of both material and funciton, is late Ohr at its very best. PRecedent.
Wantabe's fall collection's use of felt, fair aisle patterns, duck cotton and the like makes intellectually interesting this endless workware trend.
Ikiaqqivik, the inuit word for internet, means travelling through layers.
most of the famous qoutes you thought would be written by men were written by women.
a vest pocket view of brothels in the 19th century.
yves klein made a relquiry of rose, gold, and ykb, in a a lucite container, dedicated it to st rita, and sent it to a seuquestered convent in the hills of northern italy
Larry Gannis whos surfing photos were always a kind of western/caifonrian attempts at utopia, and whose formal issues worked towards the sublime, and because he was useful, was never viewed as an artist, died last month.
sarah eichners prints of common household patterns like octogon tiles and field stones, in singular colours riff on modernist grids as domestic.
anne powers on the new pj harvey album.
del toro makes a stop motion pinocchio film with the henson company. YEAH
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/24peck.html">what yr favourite rock band says about you.
fotographer who went throughout the US to take photos of local festivals, eventually bought by national geographic. Beautiful work.
Anne Finis, photos of miserable children at disneyland.
deeply amusing list of things that comic thinks about.
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| From Mar 1, 2011 |
The Coming King, Bronze, Knoxville, 19 feet tall.
Glen Burke queer baseball player who came out at the end of his life, has a documentary made about his life.
Beth Stuart is a Toronto artist who combines ancient methods with post modernist abstracitons, strong use of blacks, greys, and whites.
 |
| From Mar 1, 2011 |
Julie Christie the morning after the Oscars, when she won for Darling.
rodeo themed fourth of july preaching seires at the cornerstone church nashville.
photo essays on the modernism of oral robert--i want to write an essay about this.
irish bishops were told by Rome not to report abuse.
 |
| From Mar 1, 2011 |
GEORGE OHR; Sculptural pitcher of marbleized clays; Script signature; 4 1/2"" x 6 1/2""
The liquidity of this peice, and how it folds into itself but does not collapse explicity, and the clairty of both material and funciton, is late Ohr at its very best. PRecedent.
Wantabe's fall collection's use of felt, fair aisle patterns, duck cotton and the like makes intellectually interesting this endless workware trend.
Ikiaqqivik, the inuit word for internet, means travelling through layers.
most of the famous qoutes you thought would be written by men were written by women.
a vest pocket view of brothels in the 19th century.
yves klein made a relquiry of rose, gold, and ykb, in a a lucite container, dedicated it to st rita, and sent it to a seuquestered convent in the hills of northern italy
Larry Gannis whos surfing photos were always a kind of western/caifonrian attempts at utopia, and whose formal issues worked towards the sublime, and because he was useful, was never viewed as an artist, died last month.
sarah eichners prints of common household patterns like octogon tiles and field stones, in singular colours riff on modernist grids as domestic.
anne powers on the new pj harvey album.
del toro makes a stop motion pinocchio film with the henson company. YEAH
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/24peck.html">what yr favourite rock band says about you.
fotographer who went throughout the US to take photos of local festivals, eventually bought by national geographic. Beautiful work.
 |
| From Mar 1, 2011 |
Anne Finis, photos of miserable children at disneyland.
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