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Steve Albini
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
30 Words on 30 Singles:
Colbie Callibat—Bubbly
It’s polite, kind of pretty, and lovely. I can imagine it sung better by people who have much more to prove, like maybe Jessica Simpson. It’s still too nice, though.
Justin Timberlake—Lovestoned.
He has such a talent for dirty rythym, and everything that he touches has turned to gold. This is just him coasting, the same sounds, the same grooves. It disappoints.
Kenny Chesney---Never Wanted More.
It’s a response to Tim McGraw’s Last Dollar as sentimental ode to fidelity, to both god and a good woman. I always find this shit more moving then I should.
Posh Spice feat. Nas—Full Stop.
It’s really awful isn’t it? All of those rumours of scrapping her last album as quality control seem completely accurate. Also she has never been a good girl. Fundamentally unlistenable.
Avril Lavigne—When You are Gone
Though tinkling piano’s will make everything better. The song lacks the proper falling apart theatrics for the listener to believe that she is in real pain. Give us the masochism.
Pitbull, etc—Go Girl.
I really love how he manages to draw out every word, the languorous pleasure of power becomes explicit. The lyrics don’t do anything for me, but the delivery sure does.
Akon—Blame it On.
I keep thinking that maybe he should quit apologizing and stand up and do the shit he has promised, but then I am white and in the suburbs, and hypocritical.
KEyisha Cole, Lil Kim and Missy—Let it Go.
I love the whole dump the motherfucker already message, but for these three, who have spent so much time articulating sexual power, they would do something less generic when together.
Blake Lewis—You Give Love A Bad Name
I find the Bon Jovi on the country charts an amusing thing, and American Idols attempt to move away from Ballads even funnier. Conflating the two is just a mess.
Sean Kingston—Beautiful Girl
This is a manipulative piece of psychopathology. You’re so beautiful that if you leave me, I will kill myself, but we can be together all the time, if you stay
Kayne West and John Meyer—Bittersweet
His ego’s engulfed anything that would have been interesting. She cut me like surgery? Is that the great lyric that has been promised? And calling women bitches is just tired?
Citzens for a Better America—Paris Hilton
Tabloid luridness meets old school punk class hatred. For something so played out and immediate, it’s fantastic little pop gem. It’s also more self aware then these things usually are.
Kelly Clarkson—Sober
Exhausting, and very sad, with an ambiguousness that seems very grown up. When she talks about being sober, and grieving, the enmeshment corrals the listener. Does what Avril failed at.
Leanne Rhimes—Nothin’ Better To Do.
The closest we have come to Bobbie Gentry or Jeanne C Riley in ages, no matter how much Gretchen Wilson tries to convince ourselves otherwise. Sexy as all get out.
Brick and Lace—Love is Wicked
They move so quickly, the words overlapping each other, then withdrawing. The percussion and that twee little flute detail all make it more interesting then a standard summer club banger.
Jordin Sparks—
I cant do this, the high falsetto and the theatrics/acrobatics seem not to be good singing as much as well trained academic exercises, the musical equivalent of the Barbizon school.
Amy Winehouse—Rehab (Jay Z Remix)
The verses he has added make the song into both celebrity cautionary tales, and an urbanized context. Some of his rhymes have a tight internal logic, but for what purpose?
Rihanna—Shut Up and Drive.
This is the summer’s single. Complicated aurally, with a wide variety of noisy mechanical detailing. The best thing might be how much control she exudes, and how ahistorical it is.
Lauryn Hill-Lose Myself
Who would have thought we would have found the new single from the queen of afro-centric hip-hop on the soundtrack to a mediocre kids summer movies. It’s desperate and clingy.
T-Pain and Piles- Shawnty
There is almost too much going on here, I think, too much shimmering sound effects and computer blips and beeps, sounds like samples from the tractor beam of Star Trek
Fergie—Barracuda:
The weird thing about Fergie is that we haven’t gotten the obligatory girl power anthem. This respectful cover of Heart’s masterpiece doesn’t have enough ovaries to make it her first.
Lil Mama—Girlfriend
Respectful of the original, without being obsequious, the track compresses the message in a careening and spinning carnival, while still (barely) maintaining control. Lil Mama’s thousand-mile-a- hour mouth, is fantastic.
R Kelly and Usher—Same Girl.
For someone so smooth in delivery (and he has a beautiful, intricate, and tender voice) the sheer chaos of his narratives, and the weirdness of metaphors, never seem to collapse.
Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson—Because of You.
This does sound like a second rate Martina single, and Reba is aging, so the whole powerhouse delivery thing seems to be failing her. Clarkson doesn’t know what to do.
Korn-Evolution
Not cookie monster apocalypse enough to be interesting as pure noise, not hooky enough to be as interesting as pop, will make a fortune on disenfranchised suburban white teenage boys.
Tim and Faith—I Need You
Featuring the latest and greatest in codependent metaphors (esp. drugs and Jesus) imprinted into the usual mentions of geography and cowboying, a tender and deeply erotic ode to married love.
T Pain—Bartender
For all of the fuck odes in hip-hop, I don’t believe that most have sex. This one about bartenders is similar to the ones about strippers, and it’s just silly.
Maroon 5—Can’t Stop.
Would be fairly innocuous MOR pop, if the lyrics weren’t so pathetic, including mentions of making love to a pillow, or how he touches himself like somebody else. Literally masturbatory.
50 Cent—Amusement Park
The same forced metaphors and bored delivery that he has on most albums, he isn’t even trying anymore, and at least Candy Shop was mildly fun to sign along with.
Ryan Adams—Two
Adams melancholy hand wringing keeps boring me. That he keeps falling into sub-Neil Young vocalisms makes things even worse. He had potential, but I miss Whiskeytown more each solo album.
Colbie Callibat—Bubbly
It’s polite, kind of pretty, and lovely. I can imagine it sung better by people who have much more to prove, like maybe Jessica Simpson. It’s still too nice, though.
Justin Timberlake—Lovestoned.
He has such a talent for dirty rythym, and everything that he touches has turned to gold. This is just him coasting, the same sounds, the same grooves. It disappoints.
Kenny Chesney---Never Wanted More.
It’s a response to Tim McGraw’s Last Dollar as sentimental ode to fidelity, to both god and a good woman. I always find this shit more moving then I should.
Posh Spice feat. Nas—Full Stop.
It’s really awful isn’t it? All of those rumours of scrapping her last album as quality control seem completely accurate. Also she has never been a good girl. Fundamentally unlistenable.
Avril Lavigne—When You are Gone
Though tinkling piano’s will make everything better. The song lacks the proper falling apart theatrics for the listener to believe that she is in real pain. Give us the masochism.
Pitbull, etc—Go Girl.
I really love how he manages to draw out every word, the languorous pleasure of power becomes explicit. The lyrics don’t do anything for me, but the delivery sure does.
Akon—Blame it On.
I keep thinking that maybe he should quit apologizing and stand up and do the shit he has promised, but then I am white and in the suburbs, and hypocritical.
KEyisha Cole, Lil Kim and Missy—Let it Go.
I love the whole dump the motherfucker already message, but for these three, who have spent so much time articulating sexual power, they would do something less generic when together.
Blake Lewis—You Give Love A Bad Name
I find the Bon Jovi on the country charts an amusing thing, and American Idols attempt to move away from Ballads even funnier. Conflating the two is just a mess.
Sean Kingston—Beautiful Girl
This is a manipulative piece of psychopathology. You’re so beautiful that if you leave me, I will kill myself, but we can be together all the time, if you stay
Kayne West and John Meyer—Bittersweet
His ego’s engulfed anything that would have been interesting. She cut me like surgery? Is that the great lyric that has been promised? And calling women bitches is just tired?
Citzens for a Better America—Paris Hilton
Tabloid luridness meets old school punk class hatred. For something so played out and immediate, it’s fantastic little pop gem. It’s also more self aware then these things usually are.
Kelly Clarkson—Sober
Exhausting, and very sad, with an ambiguousness that seems very grown up. When she talks about being sober, and grieving, the enmeshment corrals the listener. Does what Avril failed at.
Leanne Rhimes—Nothin’ Better To Do.
The closest we have come to Bobbie Gentry or Jeanne C Riley in ages, no matter how much Gretchen Wilson tries to convince ourselves otherwise. Sexy as all get out.
Brick and Lace—Love is Wicked
They move so quickly, the words overlapping each other, then withdrawing. The percussion and that twee little flute detail all make it more interesting then a standard summer club banger.
Jordin Sparks—
I cant do this, the high falsetto and the theatrics/acrobatics seem not to be good singing as much as well trained academic exercises, the musical equivalent of the Barbizon school.
Amy Winehouse—Rehab (Jay Z Remix)
The verses he has added make the song into both celebrity cautionary tales, and an urbanized context. Some of his rhymes have a tight internal logic, but for what purpose?
Rihanna—Shut Up and Drive.
This is the summer’s single. Complicated aurally, with a wide variety of noisy mechanical detailing. The best thing might be how much control she exudes, and how ahistorical it is.
Lauryn Hill-Lose Myself
Who would have thought we would have found the new single from the queen of afro-centric hip-hop on the soundtrack to a mediocre kids summer movies. It’s desperate and clingy.
T-Pain and Piles- Shawnty
There is almost too much going on here, I think, too much shimmering sound effects and computer blips and beeps, sounds like samples from the tractor beam of Star Trek
Fergie—Barracuda:
The weird thing about Fergie is that we haven’t gotten the obligatory girl power anthem. This respectful cover of Heart’s masterpiece doesn’t have enough ovaries to make it her first.
Lil Mama—Girlfriend
Respectful of the original, without being obsequious, the track compresses the message in a careening and spinning carnival, while still (barely) maintaining control. Lil Mama’s thousand-mile-a- hour mouth, is fantastic.
R Kelly and Usher—Same Girl.
For someone so smooth in delivery (and he has a beautiful, intricate, and tender voice) the sheer chaos of his narratives, and the weirdness of metaphors, never seem to collapse.
Reba McEntire and Kelly Clarkson—Because of You.
This does sound like a second rate Martina single, and Reba is aging, so the whole powerhouse delivery thing seems to be failing her. Clarkson doesn’t know what to do.
Korn-Evolution
Not cookie monster apocalypse enough to be interesting as pure noise, not hooky enough to be as interesting as pop, will make a fortune on disenfranchised suburban white teenage boys.
Tim and Faith—I Need You
Featuring the latest and greatest in codependent metaphors (esp. drugs and Jesus) imprinted into the usual mentions of geography and cowboying, a tender and deeply erotic ode to married love.
T Pain—Bartender
For all of the fuck odes in hip-hop, I don’t believe that most have sex. This one about bartenders is similar to the ones about strippers, and it’s just silly.
Maroon 5—Can’t Stop.
Would be fairly innocuous MOR pop, if the lyrics weren’t so pathetic, including mentions of making love to a pillow, or how he touches himself like somebody else. Literally masturbatory.
50 Cent—Amusement Park
The same forced metaphors and bored delivery that he has on most albums, he isn’t even trying anymore, and at least Candy Shop was mildly fun to sign along with.
Ryan Adams—Two
Adams melancholy hand wringing keeps boring me. That he keeps falling into sub-Neil Young vocalisms makes things even worse. He had potential, but I miss Whiskeytown more each solo album.
Twenty Singles for the first half of 2007
1. Taylor Swift--Teardrops on my Guitar
2. Miranda Lambert--Famous in a Small Town
3. R Kelly--Zoo
4. Rihanna--Shut up and Drive
5. MIA--Birdflu
6. Tori Amos-Big Wheel
7. Tim McGraw-Last Dollar
8. Christina Aguilera - Candyman
9. Toby Keith and Jerry Lee Lewis-Old Glory
10. My Chemical Romance-Teenagers
11. Gossip--Listen Up
12. Avril feat Lil Mama Girlfriend
13. Porter Wagoner--Committed to Parkview
14. Plain White T's-Hey There Deliah
15. Tracey Thorn--Get Around to It
16. Arctic Monkey's-Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend
17. Rufus Wainwright-Going to a Town
18. Ben Kweller-Today
19. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? That's A Good Question
20. Fergie--Fergelicious
Nine Albums
1. Amy Winehouse--Back in Black
2. Miranda Lambert-Crazy Ex Girlfriend
3. Tim McGraw-Let it Go
4. Spring Awakening OCR
5. Lily Allen--Smile
6. Porter Wagoner--Wagonmaster
7. Grindhouse--OST
8. Alaisdair Roberts-The Amber Gatherers
9. Grey Gardens OCR
10.
1. Taylor Swift--Teardrops on my Guitar
2. Miranda Lambert--Famous in a Small Town
3. R Kelly--Zoo
4. Rihanna--Shut up and Drive
5. MIA--Birdflu
6. Tori Amos-Big Wheel
7. Tim McGraw-Last Dollar
8. Christina Aguilera - Candyman
9. Toby Keith and Jerry Lee Lewis-Old Glory
10. My Chemical Romance-Teenagers
11. Gossip--Listen Up
12. Avril feat Lil Mama Girlfriend
13. Porter Wagoner--Committed to Parkview
14. Plain White T's-Hey There Deliah
15. Tracey Thorn--Get Around to It
16. Arctic Monkey's-Diamonds are A Girls Best Friend
17. Rufus Wainwright-Going to a Town
18. Ben Kweller-Today
19. They Shoot Horses, Don't They? That's A Good Question
20. Fergie--Fergelicious
Nine Albums
1. Amy Winehouse--Back in Black
2. Miranda Lambert-Crazy Ex Girlfriend
3. Tim McGraw-Let it Go
4. Spring Awakening OCR
5. Lily Allen--Smile
6. Porter Wagoner--Wagonmaster
7. Grindhouse--OST
8. Alaisdair Roberts-The Amber Gatherers
9. Grey Gardens OCR
10.
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Porno
documents on the obscenity charges of max hardcore.
Sue Williams, Gaze, Oil and Ink on Canvas, 1992.
the use of obsufcating formal elements to indicate sexual power is typical of williams, and hot.
the jesuits write in favour of pre marital sex, in certain cicumstances, in their journal America.
pretty standard first year art school polaroids, but they are SX70, so the colours are always lovely.
ryan widger almsot takes traditionally beautiful, studio black and whites, in sumpotously elegant tones, but ten makes everything slightly off, they are too blurry, the composition complicates itself unessicarily. the best thnig about them though, is the tension hums tightly, w/o much hiartness.
Tintoretto, Guillano De Medici, Date Unknown
jamie alvarez makes the implicit politics of surivelance in contemp. photography explicit, the lighting is all sodiumy and prisony.
soody sharif a muslim woman born in tehran and now living in houstan, takes the orentialist fantasy of same gendered women in islamic contexts and amkes it wondefully banal.
liz linder wandered aroung america after 9/11 shooting every sign she could see that said God Bless America, kind of scary in a desperate hope, dark america kind of way.
blog entry about the bantu's abusing of the pygmy minority in the congo. he calls is a master/slave dynamic.
more info here and a report from the UN's Inidgeinous Affairs beururo herE
the ebst part of this story of hugh cunerod, the 105 yr old tenor, si that he has kept his husband, who is 40 yrs younger.
the biochemical brigrade contiues to deliver us into the gaping maw of Phillip K Dick, the weirdest oen so far, is that they have foudn a way of erasing spec. memories.
a tragic story of the galopogas tortise, and their dislike of intersepcies handjobs.
Log Drivers Waltz, i should have posted this a day earlier.
china begins its own peace keeping programming in africa.
a large collection of pretty random epeherma, including miltary manuals and graphis collections.
This Man is a Hero, with his carving 750 lbs of cheese.
Monday, July 02, 2007
From John Savage's Teenagers, 2007, Viking.
One of the most haunting moments in Peter Pan...occurs when Peter waits to be submerged in the Mermaids Lagoon. He hears a "drum beating within him" that repeats the phrase "To die will be an awfully big adventure"Although it was George Llewelyn Davies who actually uttered this famous epigram--in 1900 during the Boer War--it was Barrie who had planted the idea in his head, thanks to the relentless descriptions of dead children and the paradisaical Never Never land to which they flew...
82
One of Peter's most fervent fans was an unmarried man in his mid-forties. Robert Stephen Smyth Baden Powell was so taken with Barrie's play that he returned the next day to see it again, recommended it to his friends, and developed a relationship with the actress who played Mrs Darling...
83
The new war madness was defined by the pyschologist Charles Myers, who in Feb. 1905 called it shell shock. Doctors quickly noted a cluster of symptoms that "followed the shock of an exploding shell":paralysis, stupor, amnesia, an uncontrollable jerking of the limbs in a demented echo of Nijinsky's prewar dances. In July 1915, the professor of medicine at Oxford recorded an "orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cant imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men...hysterical dumbness, blindness and anaesthesia galore."...
159
During the first years of the (first world) war, A Manchester gang called the Napoo practiced their own version of American Indian Lore: They'd creep up behind girls and young women int he street" one of their contemporaries remembered, "then they grab the long plaited hair that hung down he back, that was the style of the day, and with a sharp pair of scissors cut off the plaited hair and run off w. it as a souvenir...the Napoo were readily identifiable by their group uniform of pink neckerchief. With their very public "scalpings" they quickly gained a fearsome reputation...
162
As part of the morality drive against the London's debauched nightlife, the young women of "West End Bohemia" were linked with drugs. In a January 1916 column, a journalist named Quex observed the prevalence of "that exciting drug cocaine": "It is so easy to take--just snuffed up the nose, and no one seems to know why the girls who suffer from this body and soul racking habit find the drug so easy to obtain. In the ladies cloakroom of a certain establishment two bucketfuls of thrown away small circular cardboard boxes were discovered by the cleaners the other day--discarded cocaine boxes"
165
...Dr Frank Buchman's Oxford Group set up in the early 1920s, instituted an unaffiliated religious revival. With no membership lists or rules, the Oxford Group practiced a new kind of Christianity;it's young mainly middle-class adherents attended weekend house parties where they publicly shared their sins. The sect pursued both moral renament and pacifism as well as its four point doctrine of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love...
189
Youth was at the sharp end of national breakdown, as the bellicose nationalism of the previous four years turned inward. German adolescents brought the war home, as they engaged in pitched street battles justified by extremist ideologies. George Grosz remembered how "the youth of Germany grouped itself in loose political unites, marching in shirt sleeves and singing 'Croak Jew, while behind them another group chanted rhythmically:'Hail Moscow!" Conflicts inevitably took place. Many skulls were broken, shinbones shattered, and even occasionally stomachs riddled with bullet holes..."
192 (ca 1929)
This was not an entirely spontaneous outburst. (Valentino)'s sudden death had created a big problem for his studio. With two Valentino vehicles on the marker, The Eagle and the Son of Shiek, united Artists was set to lose many millions of unless the star;s name could be kept alive. It later transpired that the whole mob drama in New York had been stimulated by Frank Campbell and UA publicity man Harry C Klemfuss, who stayed around the clock at the funeral parlor to make sure that everything was going to plan...
226
Berlin was well known for its cosmopolitanism, but during the early 1920s the city became an pen house for pleasure seekers for all kinds...as well as the themed restaurants and the jazz dance clubs, there were huge pleasure palaces like the huas vaterladn, which occupied an entire city block and could accommodate six thousand customers per hour. In its Rhineland Wine Terrace, a calm sunny panorama of the Rhine was replaced every hour, by a violent storm that lasted five minutes...Berlin...was the sex capital of the world...the lesbian social clubs, the transvestite balls, and the myriad brothels. The open nature of Berlins nightlife and adolescent male prostate, the Doll Boys an the Line Boys, hanging around hotels and arcades...young Germans flocked to the the capital to join what one former line boy called the "mad carousel line"...
239
Born in 1865 Joynson-Hicks, or Jix as he was quickly nicknamed, came from that very generation that had sent young Britian out to die. When he decalred war on sex in general, homosexuality ino particular, and Londons club life, a section of the yong took up the gauntlet with gusto...
247
...The schoolboy look taken up by working-class girls might have hinted at homosexuality, but (Harold Acton and Brian Howard) were the real thing. At another time, their brutal effeteness might have passed unnoticed, but in the 1920s, it struck a chord. The slaughter had decimated British masculinity: the rigid physical vigour and martial Christianity of the late nineteenth century had no match for the reality of mass shelling...
True to modernist form, Noel Coward lived up to the worst possible public perception of him, acting out the principal characters role in a sequence of scandalous press stories. In in the sketch, he was pictured in bed "wearing a Chinese dressing-grown and an expression of advanced degeneracy" As he told the Evening Standard"I am never out of opium dens, cocaine dens and other evil places. My Mind is a mess of corruption"
243
Violence worked. For many of Germany's young, war was perfable to peace..
260
...the "wild clique of homeless youths were very much toughs. They had the depraved and troubled faces of hoodlums" they wore a bizarre costume of Chaplinesque bowler hats. "old women's hats with the brims turned up in Amazon fashion adorned with ostrich plumes and medals: with handkerchiefs or scarves in screaming colours: their ears were pierced with pendants or enormous rings, while their leather shorts with surmounted by immense triangular belts also of leather-both daubed with the colours of the rainbow, esoteric numbers, human profiles, and inscriptions such as wildfrei (wild and free) or Rauber (badnits)" The wild cliques had begun in the cahoots of the great war and multiplied with postwar inflation and post crash unemployment,. Completely without adult control, these "Ring Youth Gangs" ran wild in the outer Berlin districts linked by a concentric riming of avenues. As their numbers were swelled by thousands of homeless youths, these adolescents--mostly aged between sixteen and eighteen--organized themselves into a tribal society that completely rejected civilized morality. They turned their hatred the society that had abandoned them. The names that he Wild Cliques chose illustrated their "unbridled instinct": Blood of the tartars, Blood of the Indians, Blood of the Cossacks, Wild Crime Girls Terror, Red Apaches, Black Love, Bloody Carcasses, Pirates of the Forest, and Schnapps Guzzlers." With no legal earnings or state support these wildfrei lived by homosexual prostitution car theft and burglary. Comprised of both sexes...the cliques exacted regular financial contributions to support comrades in trouble with the police. Secrete initiation violent sadistic group orgies--exposed the true savagery of the Wild Cliques. Living totally outside society, they were able to give full rein to the rampant adolescent sexuality that successive generations of youth experts and warned against...
262
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
(272)
A contention of prewar groups like the Edelwiess Pirates, these gangs existed throughout industrial Germany, In Dusseldorf, the Shambeko Band and the Killesbach Pirates, In Essen the traveling dudes, in Cologne, the Navaho, in Alberg The Snake Club. The names indicated the kind of life they wanted, freedom from the constant harassment of the Hitler Youth and the police, These wild Cliques and boys and girls traveled around the country, hitchhiking and walking as far as the Black Forest, Berlin or Vienna in direct contravention of police controls and travel restrictions...
377
Denounced by the Vichy minister of Education, Abel Bonnard, as "the last vestiges of an individualistic society" The Zazous got their revenge by ridiculing his statement was that Joan of Arc was the perfect example to all young France. This was the perfect example of the crystallised perfume of stupidity: that sent them sourcing the Vichy newspapers for the latest nuggets that they passed around for fun. Inspired "with the spirit of contradiction, we could not stomach the trinity of Travaiil-FamillePartie that they were trying to force upon France. We got energy from the absurdity of the situation..."
388
One of the most haunting moments in Peter Pan...occurs when Peter waits to be submerged in the Mermaids Lagoon. He hears a "drum beating within him" that repeats the phrase "To die will be an awfully big adventure"Although it was George Llewelyn Davies who actually uttered this famous epigram--in 1900 during the Boer War--it was Barrie who had planted the idea in his head, thanks to the relentless descriptions of dead children and the paradisaical Never Never land to which they flew...
82
One of Peter's most fervent fans was an unmarried man in his mid-forties. Robert Stephen Smyth Baden Powell was so taken with Barrie's play that he returned the next day to see it again, recommended it to his friends, and developed a relationship with the actress who played Mrs Darling...
83
The new war madness was defined by the pyschologist Charles Myers, who in Feb. 1905 called it shell shock. Doctors quickly noted a cluster of symptoms that "followed the shock of an exploding shell":paralysis, stupor, amnesia, an uncontrollable jerking of the limbs in a demented echo of Nijinsky's prewar dances. In July 1915, the professor of medicine at Oxford recorded an "orgy of neuroses and psychoses and gaits and paralyses. I cant imagine what has got into the central nervous system of the men...hysterical dumbness, blindness and anaesthesia galore."...
159
During the first years of the (first world) war, A Manchester gang called the Napoo practiced their own version of American Indian Lore: They'd creep up behind girls and young women int he street" one of their contemporaries remembered, "then they grab the long plaited hair that hung down he back, that was the style of the day, and with a sharp pair of scissors cut off the plaited hair and run off w. it as a souvenir...the Napoo were readily identifiable by their group uniform of pink neckerchief. With their very public "scalpings" they quickly gained a fearsome reputation...
162
As part of the morality drive against the London's debauched nightlife, the young women of "West End Bohemia" were linked with drugs. In a January 1916 column, a journalist named Quex observed the prevalence of "that exciting drug cocaine": "It is so easy to take--just snuffed up the nose, and no one seems to know why the girls who suffer from this body and soul racking habit find the drug so easy to obtain. In the ladies cloakroom of a certain establishment two bucketfuls of thrown away small circular cardboard boxes were discovered by the cleaners the other day--discarded cocaine boxes"
165
...Dr Frank Buchman's Oxford Group set up in the early 1920s, instituted an unaffiliated religious revival. With no membership lists or rules, the Oxford Group practiced a new kind of Christianity;it's young mainly middle-class adherents attended weekend house parties where they publicly shared their sins. The sect pursued both moral renament and pacifism as well as its four point doctrine of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness and absolute love...
189
Youth was at the sharp end of national breakdown, as the bellicose nationalism of the previous four years turned inward. German adolescents brought the war home, as they engaged in pitched street battles justified by extremist ideologies. George Grosz remembered how "the youth of Germany grouped itself in loose political unites, marching in shirt sleeves and singing 'Croak Jew, while behind them another group chanted rhythmically:'Hail Moscow!" Conflicts inevitably took place. Many skulls were broken, shinbones shattered, and even occasionally stomachs riddled with bullet holes..."
192 (ca 1929)
This was not an entirely spontaneous outburst. (Valentino)'s sudden death had created a big problem for his studio. With two Valentino vehicles on the marker, The Eagle and the Son of Shiek, united Artists was set to lose many millions of unless the star;s name could be kept alive. It later transpired that the whole mob drama in New York had been stimulated by Frank Campbell and UA publicity man Harry C Klemfuss, who stayed around the clock at the funeral parlor to make sure that everything was going to plan...
226
Berlin was well known for its cosmopolitanism, but during the early 1920s the city became an pen house for pleasure seekers for all kinds...as well as the themed restaurants and the jazz dance clubs, there were huge pleasure palaces like the huas vaterladn, which occupied an entire city block and could accommodate six thousand customers per hour. In its Rhineland Wine Terrace, a calm sunny panorama of the Rhine was replaced every hour, by a violent storm that lasted five minutes...Berlin...was the sex capital of the world...the lesbian social clubs, the transvestite balls, and the myriad brothels. The open nature of Berlins nightlife and adolescent male prostate, the Doll Boys an the Line Boys, hanging around hotels and arcades...young Germans flocked to the the capital to join what one former line boy called the "mad carousel line"...
239
Born in 1865 Joynson-Hicks, or Jix as he was quickly nicknamed, came from that very generation that had sent young Britian out to die. When he decalred war on sex in general, homosexuality ino particular, and Londons club life, a section of the yong took up the gauntlet with gusto...
247
...The schoolboy look taken up by working-class girls might have hinted at homosexuality, but (Harold Acton and Brian Howard) were the real thing. At another time, their brutal effeteness might have passed unnoticed, but in the 1920s, it struck a chord. The slaughter had decimated British masculinity: the rigid physical vigour and martial Christianity of the late nineteenth century had no match for the reality of mass shelling...
True to modernist form, Noel Coward lived up to the worst possible public perception of him, acting out the principal characters role in a sequence of scandalous press stories. In in the sketch, he was pictured in bed "wearing a Chinese dressing-grown and an expression of advanced degeneracy" As he told the Evening Standard"I am never out of opium dens, cocaine dens and other evil places. My Mind is a mess of corruption"
243
Violence worked. For many of Germany's young, war was perfable to peace..
260
...the "wild clique of homeless youths were very much toughs. They had the depraved and troubled faces of hoodlums" they wore a bizarre costume of Chaplinesque bowler hats. "old women's hats with the brims turned up in Amazon fashion adorned with ostrich plumes and medals: with handkerchiefs or scarves in screaming colours: their ears were pierced with pendants or enormous rings, while their leather shorts with surmounted by immense triangular belts also of leather-both daubed with the colours of the rainbow, esoteric numbers, human profiles, and inscriptions such as wildfrei (wild and free) or Rauber (badnits)" The wild cliques had begun in the cahoots of the great war and multiplied with postwar inflation and post crash unemployment,. Completely without adult control, these "Ring Youth Gangs" ran wild in the outer Berlin districts linked by a concentric riming of avenues. As their numbers were swelled by thousands of homeless youths, these adolescents--mostly aged between sixteen and eighteen--organized themselves into a tribal society that completely rejected civilized morality. They turned their hatred the society that had abandoned them. The names that he Wild Cliques chose illustrated their "unbridled instinct": Blood of the tartars, Blood of the Indians, Blood of the Cossacks, Wild Crime Girls Terror, Red Apaches, Black Love, Bloody Carcasses, Pirates of the Forest, and Schnapps Guzzlers." With no legal earnings or state support these wildfrei lived by homosexual prostitution car theft and burglary. Comprised of both sexes...the cliques exacted regular financial contributions to support comrades in trouble with the police. Secrete initiation violent sadistic group orgies--exposed the true savagery of the Wild Cliques. Living totally outside society, they were able to give full rein to the rampant adolescent sexuality that successive generations of youth experts and warned against...
262
In the Rhine-Ruhr area, resisters from the Socialist Worker Youth, the Red Falcons, the Bunde, and Catholic Youth Groups got together in large, ad hoc delinquent groups called the ... Kittlesback pirates. With size and local knowledge on their side, they openly defied the Hitler Youth, the the extent that the organization became "virtually defunct" in some areas. The most consistent irritant for the Nazis, were the Catholic youth org., which refused to integrate with the Hitler Youth even after they had expressly ordered to do so...
(272)
A contention of prewar groups like the Edelwiess Pirates, these gangs existed throughout industrial Germany, In Dusseldorf, the Shambeko Band and the Killesbach Pirates, In Essen the traveling dudes, in Cologne, the Navaho, in Alberg The Snake Club. The names indicated the kind of life they wanted, freedom from the constant harassment of the Hitler Youth and the police, These wild Cliques and boys and girls traveled around the country, hitchhiking and walking as far as the Black Forest, Berlin or Vienna in direct contravention of police controls and travel restrictions...
377
Denounced by the Vichy minister of Education, Abel Bonnard, as "the last vestiges of an individualistic society" The Zazous got their revenge by ridiculing his statement was that Joan of Arc was the perfect example to all young France. This was the perfect example of the crystallised perfume of stupidity: that sent them sourcing the Vichy newspapers for the latest nuggets that they passed around for fun. Inspired "with the spirit of contradiction, we could not stomach the trinity of Travaiil-FamillePartie that they were trying to force upon France. We got energy from the absurdity of the situation..."
388
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Friday, June 29, 2007
Shot at 2007-06-29
Una Turnbridge and Radcylffe Hall, ca 1926, Una doesnt look v. attractive, but Radcylffe is a butch god.
samantah volver is a hip, young, sf pornographer, who's pictures have a depth adn initmacy. not really about cocks and cunts but about bodies in space. i bought a print of hers, of a cat and a bright pink curtain.
Shot at 2007-06-29
Holy Neville hosts a tea party.
the best thing about tim atherton's photos of yellowkife is how messy and unartsy they are.
Warhol eats a hamburger
the nebra disc made 3600 years ago, might be a calendear or an anthropomoprhic device for shamans. its awfully lovely, what ever it is.
Shot at 2007-06-29
Soviet Children, Fire Drill, ca 1947
Video of Nina Simone playing Sea Line Women, the band has some problems in the beginning, and how she interacts, with a severity against error is as interesting, as how iconic, and almsot liturgical she makes the end of the performance-well not liturgical, but w. a definite respect w, how work songs become ritual songs. this is one of my favourite simone songs, and this is a great performance of it.
fascainting first person account of being an art judge in tehran
what i didnt know about johnsons glass house, is that it has a brick house behind it, an exact reversal of the aesthetic and emotional effects of the first, both working on the space as a modernist pull/tug. its also interesting that as part of the national landuse fund buying the property, they had to buy four acres around it to make sure asshole mcmansions dont fuck w. johnsons vision.
Shot at 2007-06-29
Cocaine, Farmers Field, etc
Arctic Monkeys cover Diamonds are Forever, at this years Glastonbury
someone is actually planting a realtime version of the vegetation in where the wild things are.
Eve, Tambourine, might be the summer single
24mb of CIA mid century, high weirdness.
Shot at 2007-06-29
Shot at 2007-06-29
Two Phantom Sheilds, done by tribes in Paupa New Guinea from the mid 60s to the early 80s, inspired by Comic books left by American Soilders. the earliest were done about the same time as Warhol and Lichensteins first superman, popeye, etc work.
these japanese family iconographs are masterpieces of design, gorgeous.
freebergs photos of chelsea galleries have a frisson of security theater kitsch, they arent boring enough to be truly interesting though. (though the top of the head and the mostly lack of art is interesting)
i put off talking about bernd belcher dying, because i find his infulence difficult to talk about, and i wonder if it will be his role as educator (he founded the dusseldorf school which gave us ruff, struth, gursky, hoefer, amongst others)...or how he managed to quietly and w/o ego work on the same project with the same person for decades. i think that maybe that is the most powerful, not the work but the process. that said, the photos are handsome, imposing, and severe. how they scale up and down, how you can have a wall of them or just two, and it works is kind of amazing...im going to have to think about this for a while, but he was one of my heros, for sure. here is another story. this tate article talk about the dusseldorf school and their involvement
this story is like Flannery O Connor and Dennis Cooper together:
A former employee at Dolly Parton's Dixie Stampede dinner theater pleaded guilty Wednesday to reduced charges stemming from allegations that he molested four child performers during a Christmas show.
Armando Gonzalez, 33, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday for his first of four aggravated sexual battery trials based on accusations of inappropriate sexual contact from four children who worked with Gonzalez at the 2004 Christmas at Dixie show in Pigeon Forge, Tenn.
Instead, Gonzalez, an undocumented Mexican immigrant, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of attempt to commit aggravated sexual battery upon all four victims in a plea deal with Sevier County, Tenn., prosecutors that netted him a nine-year prison sentence.
two car bombs in london maybe al qaida.
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Shot at 2007-06-29
Im Mostly posting it b/c the guys are hot, but the image, with the woman in orange, and the small details, make it an interesting accidental visual work. from the stranger blog.
des moines pastor buys porn with money for the disabled.
the vatican document on driving has almost 60 pages and 44 footnotes.
RODEO MONKEYS
Shot at 2007-06-29
proof that car sales people ae sociopaths.
story on how bienalels suck and are boring, by saltz, talked to marcus about this, and i think the role of them are about historicising and contextualizing scenes, geography, etc...and i think w. polke and torres this year in venice kind of did that.
Shot at 2007-06-29
Bear Gylass is dirrrrrrrrrty
reading john savage's teenagers and watching boys in the band in the same week as the anglican ssb i have a thesis.
tradtionally when same gendered sexual behaviour is in fasion, ideas of polymorphus, free floating sexual and gender roles are in fashion. (cf florence, 1490s; london,1660s,1890s;berlin, 1920s; new york; 1890s, 1920s, 1970s; los angeles, 1940s). now, in the west, homosexaulity is again in fashion but it isnt the polymorphus, unfettered sexuality. it has engaged with the structures of both clegy and the state--so it has to be defined as tangible as possible. that said, the tangibility means that there are two problems
1) the idea of sexuality as a stable and explicit thing, as opposed to a seires of neogitions or processes as it has been historically, means that the enlightment rhetoric of personhood is dragged into it, and im not sure it belongs.
2) queer folx (ie people who think of sexuality as instable, or time/place orientated)are unfairly forced to engage in fights for liberation using other peoples terms and conditions.
to explicitly make this about same gendered marriage/blessings--instead of radically decentralizing the conversation, and talking about how sexuality can be viewed as a blessing and a gift from god, we have placed (and imho created/punished) an other.
tradtionally when same gendered sexual behaviour is in fasion, ideas of polymorphus, free floating sexual and gender roles are in fashion. (cf florence, 1490s; london,1660s,1890s;berlin, 1920s; new york; 1890s, 1920s, 1970s; los angeles, 1940s). now, in the west, homosexaulity is again in fashion but it isnt the polymorphus, unfettered sexuality. it has engaged with the structures of both clegy and the state--so it has to be defined as tangible as possible. that said, the tangibility means that there are two problems
1) the idea of sexuality as a stable and explicit thing, as opposed to a seires of neogitions or processes as it has been historically, means that the enlightment rhetoric of personhood is dragged into it, and im not sure it belongs.
2) queer folx (ie people who think of sexuality as instable, or time/place orientated)are unfairly forced to engage in fights for liberation using other peoples terms and conditions.
to explicitly make this about same gendered marriage/blessings--instead of radically decentralizing the conversation, and talking about how sexuality can be viewed as a blessing and a gift from god, we have placed (and imho created/punished) an other.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
New Record for Work by a Living Artist at the European Auctions, last night. Sotheby's sold Hirst's Lullaby Spring for $19,232,575.
With that money, you could have bought:
1. An atypically minimal and monocrhamatic ceramic panel by Fontanna
2. Two More typical Fontanna piereced bronzes.
3. A Twombly graphite and crayon drawing, with lots of white space.
4. A Christo Blue Umbrella techincal drawing
5. Alain Jaquet's fabolously intertextual remake of Dejeunner D'Herbe
6. one of Debuffet's muddy and trench like Topographic drawing
7. A fantastic, manic and kind of crazy Matta abstraction, that looks both fresh and historical.
8-14 Six v. light, sundrenched monotypes by Clemente, more costa de sol then anything.
15. A Karel Appel pastel of a nude.
16. An Asger John goopy oil (COBRA is next, i tell you)
17. A great, early, RB Kitaj watercolour of a cowboy taht looks more Blue Peter then John Wayne.
18. A Howard Hodkin goauche, sqaures, in jewel tones (lapis, amyehtist, periodt)
19-21 Two Riley gouache and pencil studies, from the mid 70s.
22. A Ellsworth collaged drawing of rubber plant leaves.
23. A Rosemarie Trockel stamp print.
24. A Hirst Skull Doodle.
25. A Perry Pot
26. A tiny Olifi drawing of a bird, with great colour.
27, A Peyton watercolour of QEII in Italy, that looks Edwardian and strangely pornographic
28-34 6 Pettibon comic drawings, mostly w/o text, not black and white.
35. A Rauschenberg combien, that manages to combine and lightly mock, the best of minimal insticts, just fabric and rattan
36. An Iconic painting of Peter Halley Cells.
37. A Late Ruscha, of blotted out text, that seems vital right now.
38-40 Two Judd Prints.
41 A black and white So Lewitt drawing
42 A Cornell on Paper, collage
43. A big pencil and crayon prep study of Lichenstiens modernist suns
44. An almost perfect Wessleman nud.
45. A religious text work, by Warhol, just before he passed.
46. Robert Indiana's black and yellow 9.
47-59 12 Tilman portraits, including a nude. (one lot)
60. Arbus' photograph of Mansfield and her v. plain daughter.
61-73 10 Billingham family scenes (one lot)
74 A Koons easy fun mirror, Donkey
75 Mike Kelly's Sock Monkey
76 A shockingly restrained Haring
77. A Sue Rothenberg horse.
78. A Fred Sandblack peice with pink yarn
79 Le Witt's white paitned wood structures
80. An excellent, transparent, Ryman from the udner rated early 70s.
81 An Opie Stripper Narrative
82 A Prince Joke Painting
83 Tim Ettel's painting of a tv, photorealist.
84. A Goldin trannie portrait
85 Muniz dimaond portrait of Loren
86 Jorg Immandorf's vitirne with iconic green monkey
87-89 Two really amigious Lawler works.
90 A Hans Hartung black and blue drawing that looks like ab arely extended slinky
91 A Manzoni Acrhome
92 A Rotello ripped poster, more abstract and less erotic then others.
93 A holy yellow abstract by Heine
94 a IKB Venus
95 Asger Johns Duck Paddock
96 Sigmar Polkes poysemic strangeness, a print/drawing double feature
97 A Richter abstraction, in qauters, that looks like light on water
98 A sweet and lyrical Caro desk peic, that kind of reminds me of McIntosh.
99 one of Hockeny's queer domestic interoris
100. Auberbach's head of julia-i like Auberbach better when he doesnt do those brown mucky works, and this pinky white object on a indigo field looks more like a salmon then a head, but it kind of has the same energy as a northern memento mori
101 One of Warhol;s fun
102 Warhol's Toy Monkey
103-105 Two realtivley small Nevelson peices
106 Lichensteins postmodern grid, Study for Veneitan
107 Tracey Emin's neon sentence
108 A Ramos keyhole nude
109 This Cecily Brown nude, where everything in the frame, the draping, the light, the wnidows, tumble down into the bottom third, where an odesluique rests
110 Blakes painting of a yougn boy puck
111 Ruscha Puill Painting
112 A Hesse latex and cord wall hanging
113 A Manet paintnig of plums
114 A Vuillard painting, with lots of blanks, and some great yellow
115 A pretty typical moonscape by Tanguay
116 A really intimidating pastel by Bonnard, outside, with faceless women in black,
117 Matisse pencil drawing.
118 one of the several schileles for sale.
119-121 Two Balthus nudes
122 A Bright and cheerful Sonia Delany Turk canvas
123 Picabo graphite on paper.
124 this really kitschy signac drawing of a sailboat
125 Gia Ponti Task Light (Atomic Penis!)
126 Pinots elegant deco drawing room table
127 A Bugatti Bronze Giraffe
128 Ruhlman's Gilt Mirrror
129-133 Four peices of Nakashami
130 A Kara Walker Sillehoute
131 A Wool work on paper
132 Wesselman woman smoking
133 a v. underpriced giant Saville nude
134 A Stella before he completely lost his shti
135 A Chapman brothers sexdoll
136 A delightfully ugly fiona rae painting (huge too)
137-139 Two portraits of Hunting dogs.
140-142 Two peices of french exotica from the house sale.
143 A Jasper Melmoni sofa in yellow leather
144 One Pouve chair.
with 340 left.
(chose against some auberbach, richter, trochel and warhol work)
lots of fontana, random 80s warhol, and vasserly.
about 6 peices by banksy
is there really a market for bad spanish abexers?
With that money, you could have bought:
1. An atypically minimal and monocrhamatic ceramic panel by Fontanna
2. Two More typical Fontanna piereced bronzes.
3. A Twombly graphite and crayon drawing, with lots of white space.
4. A Christo Blue Umbrella techincal drawing
5. Alain Jaquet's fabolously intertextual remake of Dejeunner D'Herbe
6. one of Debuffet's muddy and trench like Topographic drawing
7. A fantastic, manic and kind of crazy Matta abstraction, that looks both fresh and historical.
8-14 Six v. light, sundrenched monotypes by Clemente, more costa de sol then anything.
15. A Karel Appel pastel of a nude.
16. An Asger John goopy oil (COBRA is next, i tell you)
17. A great, early, RB Kitaj watercolour of a cowboy taht looks more Blue Peter then John Wayne.
18. A Howard Hodkin goauche, sqaures, in jewel tones (lapis, amyehtist, periodt)
19-21 Two Riley gouache and pencil studies, from the mid 70s.
22. A Ellsworth collaged drawing of rubber plant leaves.
23. A Rosemarie Trockel stamp print.
24. A Hirst Skull Doodle.
25. A Perry Pot
26. A tiny Olifi drawing of a bird, with great colour.
27, A Peyton watercolour of QEII in Italy, that looks Edwardian and strangely pornographic
28-34 6 Pettibon comic drawings, mostly w/o text, not black and white.
35. A Rauschenberg combien, that manages to combine and lightly mock, the best of minimal insticts, just fabric and rattan
36. An Iconic painting of Peter Halley Cells.
37. A Late Ruscha, of blotted out text, that seems vital right now.
38-40 Two Judd Prints.
41 A black and white So Lewitt drawing
42 A Cornell on Paper, collage
43. A big pencil and crayon prep study of Lichenstiens modernist suns
44. An almost perfect Wessleman nud.
45. A religious text work, by Warhol, just before he passed.
46. Robert Indiana's black and yellow 9.
47-59 12 Tilman portraits, including a nude. (one lot)
60. Arbus' photograph of Mansfield and her v. plain daughter.
61-73 10 Billingham family scenes (one lot)
74 A Koons easy fun mirror, Donkey
75 Mike Kelly's Sock Monkey
76 A shockingly restrained Haring
77. A Sue Rothenberg horse.
78. A Fred Sandblack peice with pink yarn
79 Le Witt's white paitned wood structures
80. An excellent, transparent, Ryman from the udner rated early 70s.
81 An Opie Stripper Narrative
82 A Prince Joke Painting
83 Tim Ettel's painting of a tv, photorealist.
84. A Goldin trannie portrait
85 Muniz dimaond portrait of Loren
86 Jorg Immandorf's vitirne with iconic green monkey
87-89 Two really amigious Lawler works.
90 A Hans Hartung black and blue drawing that looks like ab arely extended slinky
91 A Manzoni Acrhome
92 A Rotello ripped poster, more abstract and less erotic then others.
93 A holy yellow abstract by Heine
94 a IKB Venus
95 Asger Johns Duck Paddock
96 Sigmar Polkes poysemic strangeness, a print/drawing double feature
97 A Richter abstraction, in qauters, that looks like light on water
98 A sweet and lyrical Caro desk peic, that kind of reminds me of McIntosh.
99 one of Hockeny's queer domestic interoris
100. Auberbach's head of julia-i like Auberbach better when he doesnt do those brown mucky works, and this pinky white object on a indigo field looks more like a salmon then a head, but it kind of has the same energy as a northern memento mori
101 One of Warhol;s fun
102 Warhol's Toy Monkey
103-105 Two realtivley small Nevelson peices
106 Lichensteins postmodern grid, Study for Veneitan
107 Tracey Emin's neon sentence
108 A Ramos keyhole nude
109 This Cecily Brown nude, where everything in the frame, the draping, the light, the wnidows, tumble down into the bottom third, where an odesluique rests
110 Blakes painting of a yougn boy puck
111 Ruscha Puill Painting
112 A Hesse latex and cord wall hanging
113 A Manet paintnig of plums
114 A Vuillard painting, with lots of blanks, and some great yellow
115 A pretty typical moonscape by Tanguay
116 A really intimidating pastel by Bonnard, outside, with faceless women in black,
117 Matisse pencil drawing.
118 one of the several schileles for sale.
119-121 Two Balthus nudes
122 A Bright and cheerful Sonia Delany Turk canvas
123 Picabo graphite on paper.
124 this really kitschy signac drawing of a sailboat
125 Gia Ponti Task Light (Atomic Penis!)
126 Pinots elegant deco drawing room table
127 A Bugatti Bronze Giraffe
128 Ruhlman's Gilt Mirrror
129-133 Four peices of Nakashami
130 A Kara Walker Sillehoute
131 A Wool work on paper
132 Wesselman woman smoking
133 a v. underpriced giant Saville nude
134 A Stella before he completely lost his shti
135 A Chapman brothers sexdoll
136 A delightfully ugly fiona rae painting (huge too)
137-139 Two portraits of Hunting dogs.
140-142 Two peices of french exotica from the house sale.
143 A Jasper Melmoni sofa in yellow leather
144 One Pouve chair.
with 340 left.
(chose against some auberbach, richter, trochel and warhol work)
lots of fontana, random 80s warhol, and vasserly.
about 6 peices by banksy
is there really a market for bad spanish abexers?
Monday, June 25, 2007
the anglican church of canada, same sex unions, again.
the vote (it had to be a majority for laity, priests and bishopric, any of the three that said no, none of it would pass)
so numbers
Laity:
For 78
Against: 59
Clergy:
For:63
Against:53
Bishops:
For: 19
Against:21
So no same gender blessings, on the back of two bishops. do you know which two, joe>?
the vote (it had to be a majority for laity, priests and bishopric, any of the three that said no, none of it would pass)
so numbers
Laity:
For 78
Against: 59
Clergy:
For:63
Against:53
Bishops:
For: 19
Against:21
So no same gender blessings, on the back of two bishops. do you know which two, joe>?
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Shot
Twombly, Blossoms, Oil on Panel, 2006
another article on library collections and the canonization of sf.
Shot
Shot
Two Images frmo the Vintage Photo community at LiveJournal.
jim iserman takes modernist aesthetics, adn moves them into postmodern craft, w. grids knit, and giant rainbow albers ripoffs, but in foam. brilliant work. (the best work is the fabric wallhangings, which make objects out of the american history of geometric abstraction, from amish quilts to 60s textiles to actual paintings, and the stained glass work, which reminds me of the severe and lovely examples on vernacular protestant chapels and churches)
patrick de brock a belgian gallery, has a large selection of candida hoefer work, but only work shot in belgium. i wonder if bought them or comissioned them.
someone stop me from renting an old fashioned black and white photo booth.
shore kept a diary while doing one of his all american road trips, and the diary features mostly incredibly practical information, money spent, places stayed, reciepts kept, postcards delievered, photos shot, et. al. its a record for the taxmen, with the only perhaps aesthetically vital thing in it, the postcards he bought, but even those have been bested by Parr. Tillmans article, for art forum, is hysterical though, becaue she writes w. such depth about how impt this work is, mostly i think b/c phiadon is publishing it, and they have to justify it somehow (that said, i will most likely buy the volume) (also, from tillmans ntoes and the pages reproduced here, he only seemed to eat pancakes for breakfast, and almost always steaks for dinner)
Fred Hiltz resume.
fairly long exciting video that promotes konono 1.
everytime i read kipnis on porn, i believe the world will be okay for a while.
you know max hardcore is really hard to defend, and i really would like to see him go away, his personae, and his films i find digusting, often phyiscally. he has been charged with obscenity in flordia, and the problem seems to be his fisting videos mostly. fisting isnt everybodies taste, but i do worry that if ti is outlawed as obscene, then useful resources like hand in the bush, will be banned as well, we know this from the butler desc. in canada, where the extreme edges of bdsm culture mean that the middle will not be able to be seen.
enrico baj whose combos of naked kitsch and sloppy monsters broke something in me v. young, and whos work still confounds, frightens, amuses and arouses me, a sort of combo b/w KOBRA (he was aware of this, naming one of his works hommage d asger john) and debuffet, but better then both of them, was making sculptures and collages into this millenium, which is awesome. the link goes to his galleriest, and the large sculpture from mechhanos is well worth seeing.
Shot
Eve, 1967.
little live thing blog of a vancouver photog, has interesting things to say about marine biology, photography, and leftist poltiics, the blog is excellent and his insights are well worth reading from the beginning. this entry on winnogrand's last years, living in los angeles, and shooting w/o either devopling or porcessing, and the images that he did take being so badly constructed, is something that i hve been thinkign about for a long time. there is an arguement in my head b/w wether he completely lost his shit or he almost became a concemptualist. all the little live things makes the arguement that by the ritual of shooting taking over the other skills of shooting, that by taking photos of his child at the bus stop before his child left for school for example, that there was something conceptual there. ray says that was just his way of saying hey, kid, i love you have a good day. both arguements are really strong. looking thru other photogs, who do the point and click aesthetic, snapshotters, they all still use film, i think even mcginley uses film, and i know that friedlander, sternfeild, eggleston, shore, goldin, parr, frank, etc all did as well, all do as well. they havent changed. i wonder if the 300 000 photos left in the dark room, abandonded, would have changed if he had a digital camera. hes the only photog i can imagine saying fuck it, and buying a 200 dollar fuji finepix, and just pushing it all thru. maybe thats why i feel so protective about winnogrand, is that this seems to be a cautionary tale about the failings of point and shoot. daune michaels new burlesque on the market and the canon of photogs seems to be getting some real press lately, he says this about gary winnogrand:
Gary Winogrand was a snapshooter. A snapshooter is a voyeur who loves the act of taking pictures but doesn't necessarily care about the photographs. He left seven thousand rolls of undeveloped films.
this is what the self taught critic joe sarzaowkisi (sp) says about him:
"The technical decline of the last work was perhaps accelerated by Winogrand's acquisition, in 1982, of a motor-driven film advance for his Leicas, which enabled him to make more exposures with less thought. On the same day he acquired an eight-by-ten-inch view camera, an instrument that proposes a diametrically different approach to photography. The new camera was perhaps an acknowledgment that his old line of thought was nearing the breaking point. He did not use the eight-by-ten, but he talked about using it..."
and i cant find the qoute, but in the ongoing moment by geoff dyer, he talks about winogrand as a negative eaxmple of the ease of picture makingi n the digital era, he kind of thinks that photography died when cheap digitals began. this blog entry talks about the problems of winogrand in realtion to dyer.
Bill O Reily is owned by a 16 year old.
this aspergers surrival guide with explicit instructions on how to handle every situtation that can occur, is something i could have used a decade ago.
Shot
Monroe's eltter saying no to the role of Anna O, in John Houstions production of Freud. The movie was made, with Clift as Freud, and Sarte as a writer.
Shot with unknown
Ken Price, ZigZag, 1991.
fantastic paintings mostly of super heros, by a guy named T. somewhat outsidery, but passionite adn fun.
abstract collages done by jacob wibley, now on at magic pony. really charming, and almost delicate examples of paper craft. go see them if in TO.
geoff sends me robert fulford on bears. amusingly out of touch, and just awful.
the faith based amusement assoc.
100 circus logos
i thot a rabbit fur shortie was the height of hooker couture, but a fake rabbit shortie that glows in the dark, might be even better.
ive been praying about the anglican synod for a week now, and kept quiet, becaue i dont know how to balance xian unity and radical inclusive justice. the st michaels report didnt pass, and i dont know how the history works, but i wonder how we dealt with women priests and bishops, or vernacular lirturgy, or radical ecunemial energies, from the 60s and 70s, pacifism as well, and how those tools have seemed to be lost or adonded.
Saturday, June 23, 2007
saw the first trailers of captivity, which will be the real test for the ongoing market for westernized/hollywoodized xtreeeeeem horror. the difference b/w roth adn the dudes who made captivity is that roth has an elegance to his decay. the captivity folx just cant shoot. how long can i keep making visual arguements to displace moral ones?
A few months ago, an art critic asked me about my "signature style." Well, this question startled me. I've never thought in those terms. My work from the seventies, which to this critic exemplified my "signature style," was made by me in response to certain questions and problems I needed to pursue. I never thought in terms of style. The style was a result of my exploration."
-Stephen Shore
I keep thinking about art for arts sake, and my own way of approching these things. i view my work as solving problems. so what ever the best way of solving a paticular problem, or sorting a paticular set, is the tool i will use. sometimes thats words, sometimes thats pictures, sometimes thats taxonomies, and sometimes thats something else.
-Stephen Shore
I keep thinking about art for arts sake, and my own way of approching these things. i view my work as solving problems. so what ever the best way of solving a paticular problem, or sorting a paticular set, is the tool i will use. sometimes thats words, sometimes thats pictures, sometimes thats taxonomies, and sometimes thats something else.
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