A physical description (format, materials, binding, number of pages, edition size, if signed or numbered), origin and content description, artist's name(s), pricing information, publisher name and city, publication year, your telephone number and name.
art met requirement, next big project. (series of poloroids, 10, in orginal containers. worried about multiple.
Thursday, June 30, 2005
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
alright tomorrow
6 bucks for the cd
5 bucks for the photocopying
a bit broke b/c of welfare money
but i think that i can handle that but i cannto handle the bus money on top of that (plus i dont have the motherfucking money for the ten dollar sin card, and the bitch who handles the dole isnt up to par)
i also need:
edit the list of artists
send every peice i have to one email.
shuck everything into an envelope
to print out and collate the paper i have with slides and such ie table of contents (email inbox)
call welfare.
see how much a healthcare card costs
fax back the writers contract back to robin
if i go into the city at 6, sort everything that i need to, push it to the limit, and swipe back at noon, so i can do the faxing and the calling and all that shit...
i should have done this instead of the works yesterday
(read:
andy warhol as priest--boring and overly formal
the religious art of andy warhol--ace but didnt go deep enough, didnt examine the earlier work enough
nicholson baker--one of those small volumes from vintange in honour of their bday, i love his writing, his solidity of reading, his nostalgia, and his academic sheen, his sex books dont do much and i like his fiction better then non fiction.
june jordan essay collection--astonishing, wise, funny, a little too raw on the rhetoric, but one of the better essays on ethnic constructions of language ive r ead.
clyde fans (again, by seth--i think its better then at first, though i still feel awkard about the forced awkardness)
learning from las vegas (brilliant, fractured, funny and raw book that seems less and aless realvent in vegas itself, w, wynn and company, and more and more realvent to certain edge cities--someone should write a book called learning from witchita )--61,
and one more
which maintains my habit of 2.5 a week.
still working on
the gurlanick bio of elvis (a month and i havent hit 300 pages)
jack keouracs journal from the late 50s
the second volume of nixon transcripts (called abuse of power, which always makes me think of the spooner an abuse of power comes as no suprise)
camera lucida by barthes
ethnographic study of mexican americans and our lady of gaudalope
6 bucks for the cd
5 bucks for the photocopying
a bit broke b/c of welfare money
but i think that i can handle that but i cannto handle the bus money on top of that (plus i dont have the motherfucking money for the ten dollar sin card, and the bitch who handles the dole isnt up to par)
i also need:
edit the list of artists
send every peice i have to one email.
shuck everything into an envelope
to print out and collate the paper i have with slides and such ie table of contents (email inbox)
call welfare.
see how much a healthcare card costs
fax back the writers contract back to robin
if i go into the city at 6, sort everything that i need to, push it to the limit, and swipe back at noon, so i can do the faxing and the calling and all that shit...
i should have done this instead of the works yesterday
(read:
andy warhol as priest--boring and overly formal
the religious art of andy warhol--ace but didnt go deep enough, didnt examine the earlier work enough
nicholson baker--one of those small volumes from vintange in honour of their bday, i love his writing, his solidity of reading, his nostalgia, and his academic sheen, his sex books dont do much and i like his fiction better then non fiction.
june jordan essay collection--astonishing, wise, funny, a little too raw on the rhetoric, but one of the better essays on ethnic constructions of language ive r ead.
clyde fans (again, by seth--i think its better then at first, though i still feel awkard about the forced awkardness)
learning from las vegas (brilliant, fractured, funny and raw book that seems less and aless realvent in vegas itself, w, wynn and company, and more and more realvent to certain edge cities--someone should write a book called learning from witchita )--61,
and one more
which maintains my habit of 2.5 a week.
still working on
the gurlanick bio of elvis (a month and i havent hit 300 pages)
jack keouracs journal from the late 50s
the second volume of nixon transcripts (called abuse of power, which always makes me think of the spooner an abuse of power comes as no suprise)
camera lucida by barthes
ethnographic study of mexican americans and our lady of gaudalope
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
notes on andy warhol and god
from the religous art of andy warhol jane daggett dillenberger
during the 1970s, years of exraordinary productivity for Warhol in film, silkscreened works, his magazine, interview adn the writing of his book, the philosophy of andy warhol, andy lived quietly in his home and frequented the chuch of st vincent ferrer for sunday mass and for several visits during the week. Father Sam MAtarazza, a Domincan and the prior of St Vincent for Sunday Mass, and for several visits during the weekand sat or kenlt alone in the shadows at the back of the church. it was apparent that he did not want ot be recognized Father Matarazzo said that Warhol's spirituality was private even within the cofines of his pustling parish chruch...he speculated that "Warhol was bonding with a god and a christ above and beyond the church"; he remarked that Warhol's life was abosultely irreconsialbe" wit h the teachings of the Catholic Church. Many gay men, he said , were in his congregation, in spire of the fact that he preaxched the catholic churches oppostion ot homsexual practices frequently" (33)
beside his bed, vcr, camera, teleision, books, videos, russel pottery, limoge candel holders, three portpurri bowls, 19th century butch side table, new mexican cross, folk art pictue of a cat, small clock (watchworks) small clock (electronic), remote, atari, large cermaic plant stand in the shape of a stump. mother and two chidren in golden triangle, american--resembling he implied madonna of certain french paitings of the same time (esp. marie louise elsabeth vige leburn the artist and her daughter), modernist lamp, etc etc. (photo from page 34)
Warho's closest associates and helpers at the Factory (and then at the office, as it was called when Andy Warhol Enerprises moved to 860 Broadway), were Catholics, but most were dropouts from the Catholic Church (35)
Modern Madonna--1980-1981
penicl drawing, both tracing and free drawing, from a variety of sources, inspired from viewing madonna latata (sp) in a paris book shop, more explicitly sexualised, with contemparary hair, classic drapery at the base, small and occasional.
the last supper (wise potato chips) 1986
the wise owl can be considered:
the all seeing eye of god
the commerical interefence on the spiritual
a rejection of standard icongorpahies
connencted to the cosmic via the blue tone, cf the virgin mary, the idea of skies, etc etc.
overly large and obscuring large portions, including st john
Somebody with a Body
close to his earlier work
related to issues of copreality
with the placement of a phyiscal body over christ, and with the idea of "be somebody with a body", connects, ad nliteralises transsub.
erotic again ? (a queering heriatige?)
two, almsot a narrative, where the image of christ, and half the arm of andrew, is beside the body buliding image, and one hwere the image is one top, like it slides over--like it works as a lens, a screen, a frame, an interpretive (inter)text--the body image, the source material, etc--retain the earliest pop, and the transition b/w prepop and postpop, and so perhaps considering the religous work at the end of his life as autobio.
The LAst Supper (Dove)
(several images of this)
(field being standard vasari enclyopedia last supper)
diagram)
B 59 cent sign, G
L iconograph of Dove E
A Dove Soap
N
K
there are five centeral compoments then
the fading and blankness on the left side
the 59 cent sign
the iconogrpah of the dove
the dove font
and the GE power logo.
Each of those---
the fading and the blankness:
talking about a sui gensis god
about creation out of noting
about the eventual decay of life
the sadness of it
(formal and practical concerns as well, shitty silkscreening made portentous)
The 59 cent sign
its bright red
it makes common the idea of the last supper
it connects the idea of the bread of life to pop consuambels
it seems the most cryptic, the msot out of place.
the iconogrpah of the dove:
from dillenberger "some will remember the adage "cleaniness is next to godliness" (my note:protestant, not catholic--but the hygeine and obsessive desire for cleaniness is warholian). Signifigantly, the dove leviates above the head of Jesus, Andy was damilae with all the scriptual readings for the church year from his attendace at (his home church) while fowing up and from his regular church going in New York (cf Luke 3:21--22)" (93)--which is not frequently connected to the crucifxion, but does neatly complete the narrative, ie the consumation of his realtionship---also note the mural on the nave, at St John Chrystomom Byzantine is one of the mural, the one that is closest to the eye level of the viewer, the one that descends from the blue heaven of the dome, onto a madonna.
The Dove Font
logos--making language connected to the idea of god (cf john 1:1)
GE
going back to dillenberger--"We bring good to light can be seen as a metapjhor for creation, when god sperated lgiht and darkness and found his creation to be "good": God brings good things to light. GE as a symbol for the creator, the dove for the holy spirt and jesus here dileanted at the las supper--the t hree make up the holy trinity..."
Andy Warhol and Jean Michael Basquit
Ten Punching Bags (w. Chrsit for the LAst Supper)
the work done here, the p[unching bags could be considered symbolic of the humilation and violent tortue of christ, the assailing of the bags, the assialing of the face and the image becoming christ itself.
but the power is also, of two marganlized people, upset and angry at the church of christ--all ten of the bags contain the word judge, and also things like shit judge, cross hairs, black iconogrpahs covering hymanitry, and also cryptic words like absestos and lead--things meant to protect from the flames of the spirit (?)
Pink Last Supper
faggot expolsion of desire for religous salvation. and also a fashionable coolour comob both in warhols growing up years and his in the 80s when the work was created
Red Last Supper
10 panels, each with definite splits
(uprigight, out of sequence, upside down, central and right side up, central and right side up, upside down version of the last, upside version of the last, shadow of the first panel, upsside down shadow of the two middle panels)
blood red, thirty feet long, undulating, the colour of course is v, obv. blood of the lamb type stuff, arresting but perhaps formaly weakest.
Camafaluge Christ
continuing of the two patterns he was workng one, accents as opposed to hide christs presence, the shape of the camafaluge matching the rises and falls of the work.
From Andy Warhol as Priest.
P A P E Kattenberg.
In the disaser SEries Warhol showed the brutal facts of accident and mortality. In interpeting Warhols pictures as representive of human emotions like pain and suffering...(63)
Robert Hughes: (Warhol) offered them absoultionn ,the gaze of the blank mirror that refuses all judgement. In the way the factory resemeled a sect, a parody of CAtholicimss eneacted (not acceidtnlly_ by people who were of had been Catholic, from Warhal and GErad Malingan on down. In it, the ritual os Dandyism could speed up to gibberish and show what they had become--a hunger for approval and forgiveness...(ibid)
(logo/s logos)
"he superimposed the logos Dove and GE onto Christ and his disciples. Here he seems to reger to the replacement of eligous fetishism in contermporary society with commodity fetishism, of which, as a devout catholic who was also a compulisve shopper he certainly would have been aware, the 59 cent painted on a red background in the upper left suggests selling out to the devil, apparently referring to Judas as well as our contempeary socieity..." (117)
Books to Read:
Terry Atkinson--Art Has No History, London, 1994
Andy Warhol Paintings 1960-1986, Sttutagart
Michel Foccualt--This is Not a Pipe
Hal Foster--Compulsive Beauty
john richardson eulogy for andy
(where do i get old sothebys catalogs)
Steven Aronsaon said that "Warhol bopught dozens of 18th and 19th century crucifxes and santos, three or four at a time)
from the religous art of andy warhol jane daggett dillenberger
during the 1970s, years of exraordinary productivity for Warhol in film, silkscreened works, his magazine, interview adn the writing of his book, the philosophy of andy warhol, andy lived quietly in his home and frequented the chuch of st vincent ferrer for sunday mass and for several visits during the week. Father Sam MAtarazza, a Domincan and the prior of St Vincent for Sunday Mass, and for several visits during the weekand sat or kenlt alone in the shadows at the back of the church. it was apparent that he did not want ot be recognized Father Matarazzo said that Warhol's spirituality was private even within the cofines of his pustling parish chruch...he speculated that "Warhol was bonding with a god and a christ above and beyond the church"; he remarked that Warhol's life was abosultely irreconsialbe" wit h the teachings of the Catholic Church. Many gay men, he said , were in his congregation, in spire of the fact that he preaxched the catholic churches oppostion ot homsexual practices frequently" (33)
beside his bed, vcr, camera, teleision, books, videos, russel pottery, limoge candel holders, three portpurri bowls, 19th century butch side table, new mexican cross, folk art pictue of a cat, small clock (watchworks) small clock (electronic), remote, atari, large cermaic plant stand in the shape of a stump. mother and two chidren in golden triangle, american--resembling he implied madonna of certain french paitings of the same time (esp. marie louise elsabeth vige leburn the artist and her daughter), modernist lamp, etc etc. (photo from page 34)
Warho's closest associates and helpers at the Factory (and then at the office, as it was called when Andy Warhol Enerprises moved to 860 Broadway), were Catholics, but most were dropouts from the Catholic Church (35)
Modern Madonna--1980-1981
penicl drawing, both tracing and free drawing, from a variety of sources, inspired from viewing madonna latata (sp) in a paris book shop, more explicitly sexualised, with contemparary hair, classic drapery at the base, small and occasional.
the last supper (wise potato chips) 1986
the wise owl can be considered:
the all seeing eye of god
the commerical interefence on the spiritual
a rejection of standard icongorpahies
connencted to the cosmic via the blue tone, cf the virgin mary, the idea of skies, etc etc.
overly large and obscuring large portions, including st john
Somebody with a Body
close to his earlier work
related to issues of copreality
with the placement of a phyiscal body over christ, and with the idea of "be somebody with a body", connects, ad nliteralises transsub.
erotic again ? (a queering heriatige?)
two, almsot a narrative, where the image of christ, and half the arm of andrew, is beside the body buliding image, and one hwere the image is one top, like it slides over--like it works as a lens, a screen, a frame, an interpretive (inter)text--the body image, the source material, etc--retain the earliest pop, and the transition b/w prepop and postpop, and so perhaps considering the religous work at the end of his life as autobio.
The LAst Supper (Dove)
(several images of this)
(field being standard vasari enclyopedia last supper)
diagram)
B 59 cent sign, G
L iconograph of Dove E
A Dove Soap
N
K
there are five centeral compoments then
the fading and blankness on the left side
the 59 cent sign
the iconogrpah of the dove
the dove font
and the GE power logo.
Each of those---
the fading and the blankness:
talking about a sui gensis god
about creation out of noting
about the eventual decay of life
the sadness of it
(formal and practical concerns as well, shitty silkscreening made portentous)
The 59 cent sign
its bright red
it makes common the idea of the last supper
it connects the idea of the bread of life to pop consuambels
it seems the most cryptic, the msot out of place.
the iconogrpah of the dove:
from dillenberger "some will remember the adage "cleaniness is next to godliness" (my note:protestant, not catholic--but the hygeine and obsessive desire for cleaniness is warholian). Signifigantly, the dove leviates above the head of Jesus, Andy was damilae with all the scriptual readings for the church year from his attendace at (his home church) while fowing up and from his regular church going in New York (cf Luke 3:21--22)" (93)--which is not frequently connected to the crucifxion, but does neatly complete the narrative, ie the consumation of his realtionship---also note the mural on the nave, at St John Chrystomom Byzantine is one of the mural, the one that is closest to the eye level of the viewer, the one that descends from the blue heaven of the dome, onto a madonna.
The Dove Font
logos--making language connected to the idea of god (cf john 1:1)
GE
going back to dillenberger--"We bring good to light can be seen as a metapjhor for creation, when god sperated lgiht and darkness and found his creation to be "good": God brings good things to light. GE as a symbol for the creator, the dove for the holy spirt and jesus here dileanted at the las supper--the t hree make up the holy trinity..."
Andy Warhol and Jean Michael Basquit
Ten Punching Bags (w. Chrsit for the LAst Supper)
the work done here, the p[unching bags could be considered symbolic of the humilation and violent tortue of christ, the assailing of the bags, the assialing of the face and the image becoming christ itself.
but the power is also, of two marganlized people, upset and angry at the church of christ--all ten of the bags contain the word judge, and also things like shit judge, cross hairs, black iconogrpahs covering hymanitry, and also cryptic words like absestos and lead--things meant to protect from the flames of the spirit (?)
Pink Last Supper
faggot expolsion of desire for religous salvation. and also a fashionable coolour comob both in warhols growing up years and his in the 80s when the work was created
Red Last Supper
10 panels, each with definite splits
(uprigight, out of sequence, upside down, central and right side up, central and right side up, upside down version of the last, upside version of the last, shadow of the first panel, upsside down shadow of the two middle panels)
blood red, thirty feet long, undulating, the colour of course is v, obv. blood of the lamb type stuff, arresting but perhaps formaly weakest.
Camafaluge Christ
continuing of the two patterns he was workng one, accents as opposed to hide christs presence, the shape of the camafaluge matching the rises and falls of the work.
From Andy Warhol as Priest.
P A P E Kattenberg.
In the disaser SEries Warhol showed the brutal facts of accident and mortality. In interpeting Warhols pictures as representive of human emotions like pain and suffering...(63)
Robert Hughes: (Warhol) offered them absoultionn ,the gaze of the blank mirror that refuses all judgement. In the way the factory resemeled a sect, a parody of CAtholicimss eneacted (not acceidtnlly_ by people who were of had been Catholic, from Warhal and GErad Malingan on down. In it, the ritual os Dandyism could speed up to gibberish and show what they had become--a hunger for approval and forgiveness...(ibid)
(logo/s logos)
"he superimposed the logos Dove and GE onto Christ and his disciples. Here he seems to reger to the replacement of eligous fetishism in contermporary society with commodity fetishism, of which, as a devout catholic who was also a compulisve shopper he certainly would have been aware, the 59 cent painted on a red background in the upper left suggests selling out to the devil, apparently referring to Judas as well as our contempeary socieity..." (117)
Books to Read:
Terry Atkinson--Art Has No History, London, 1994
Andy Warhol Paintings 1960-1986, Sttutagart
Michel Foccualt--This is Not a Pipe
Hal Foster--Compulsive Beauty
john richardson eulogy for andy
(where do i get old sothebys catalogs)
Steven Aronsaon said that "Warhol bopught dozens of 18th and 19th century crucifxes and santos, three or four at a time)
Monday, June 27, 2005
http://www.adamkotsko.com/weblog/2005/06/from-dissenting-speech-to-undermining.html
the best concise demolotion of what is wrong about the war in iraq, from a former solider.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1512152,00.html
ballard loves csi, though he is often wrong about the work he writes about.
http://www.lovewonout.com/
ex gay conference in seattle; if love won out, then sad little timmy would be allowed to fuck anyone he wants
and website for exgay facility
http://www.asafeplace.org/default.aspx?pid=3
http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3868
227 legislation has killed porn under a mountain of paperwork, all in the name of paranoia about kiddies--porn is often the first step for more mainstream freedom of speech, and this is a really nefarious way of destroying free media.
http://donatacom.com/papers/10Q7.htm
macclaren s a preacher from oregan, a moving and complicated discussion of postmodern and faith.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061001897.html
the idea of a vuluenteer army disintergrates when prosepctive soliders realise people are dying.
http://home.att.net/~AllanMcNYC/Hal_Foster.html
some foster for rachel to read.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255
ben stien on mark felt, with a certain insane far right beleif in nixon as heroic, internatioanlist peace maker...which needs to be written about.
the best concise demolotion of what is wrong about the war in iraq, from a former solider.
http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1512152,00.html
ballard loves csi, though he is often wrong about the work he writes about.
http://www.lovewonout.com/
ex gay conference in seattle; if love won out, then sad little timmy would be allowed to fuck anyone he wants
and website for exgay facility
http://www.asafeplace.org/default.aspx?pid=3
http://freeinternetpress.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3868
227 legislation has killed porn under a mountain of paperwork, all in the name of paranoia about kiddies--porn is often the first step for more mainstream freedom of speech, and this is a really nefarious way of destroying free media.
http://donatacom.com/papers/10Q7.htm
macclaren s a preacher from oregan, a moving and complicated discussion of postmodern and faith.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/10/AR2005061001897.html
the idea of a vuluenteer army disintergrates when prosepctive soliders realise people are dying.
http://home.att.net/~AllanMcNYC/Hal_Foster.html
some foster for rachel to read.
http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8255
ben stien on mark felt, with a certain insane far right beleif in nixon as heroic, internatioanlist peace maker...which needs to be written about.
Friday, June 24, 2005
neurotic but not pyschopathic, caring for people but realzing that you need more help, more attention, more care then the average bear, so being forever deeply paranoid about other people, about other peoples balance and care. leech stuff, again of course, some recent examples and paradox that come to mind.
martin and im, martin and money, martin and his exhastion w. me
glenys reconsidering the conference, glenys realizing that i should be more out with aspie, glenys misreading after 7 years, glenys telling me the only reason she can stand me is that she makes concessions for aspies, money.
major fuck up w. drew and well we are bored of each other i think.
worried about silly things w. ray like who phones who, upset that his sched trumps mine, which is stupid
trying to resurct realtionships, w. val, erik, jeff, dave but that is working less and less
stood up ashley again, i am not sure i like him as much as e likes me, and his respect for my work, well overblown
fucking lack of self esteem cripples.
how am i going to pay back 2400 bucks ?
stop worying!
also, i am not sure how to get back to toronto
martin and im, martin and money, martin and his exhastion w. me
glenys reconsidering the conference, glenys realizing that i should be more out with aspie, glenys misreading after 7 years, glenys telling me the only reason she can stand me is that she makes concessions for aspies, money.
major fuck up w. drew and well we are bored of each other i think.
worried about silly things w. ray like who phones who, upset that his sched trumps mine, which is stupid
trying to resurct realtionships, w. val, erik, jeff, dave but that is working less and less
stood up ashley again, i am not sure i like him as much as e likes me, and his respect for my work, well overblown
fucking lack of self esteem cripples.
how am i going to pay back 2400 bucks ?
stop worying!
also, i am not sure how to get back to toronto
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3126
dwight review
(im really proud of this own)
called the national peanut queen for a story i was doing wrt agriculture queens, and bitch magazine, and i thot--the name is awkard and isolating, it does not connect well to making femminism acessiable, and its hip reclaiming of langauge leaves it for a pop academic progressive left
dwight review
(im really proud of this own)
called the national peanut queen for a story i was doing wrt agriculture queens, and bitch magazine, and i thot--the name is awkard and isolating, it does not connect well to making femminism acessiable, and its hip reclaiming of langauge leaves it for a pop academic progressive left
Monday, June 20, 2005
Saturday, June 18, 2005
mark sinker wanted me to answer these
How many books have you owned?
buying b/w 4 and 6 a week for 15 years or so, including gifts, splurges, and thrifts, i would say about 4000 or so, but that doesnt mean that i havent left a whole bunch on buses, sold large chunks when i needed space or money, gave dozens away, etc--my library tends to constantly circulating, right now, i have about 100-150 in Toronto, and 800 or so upstairs and downstairs here, maybe a bit less.
What was the last book you bought?
i bought a dozen a couple of days ago--6 gor paperbacks (sinker recommended them as sort of pulp delany), goethes book on young wether (because of barthes), hell angels by hunter thompson(i needed a copy), fruit machine by a quebcois queer critic (its quite good), vintage baker(nicholson), phillip jose farmer comp from the mid70s (read him now pat), and the 14th century italian school of whoredom (i collect porn). (raymond what you said about me being ecclectic, you win)
What was the last book you read?
a collection of kinky friedman essays about country music and presidents, plus a really funny and moving essay on heller
Name the five books that mean the most to you.
fuck this is going to be hard, they change all the time--but here it goes.
the complete gospels--edited by robert funk
i grew up with things added and things taken away from the bible, but also the belief of the inerrancy of the bible, so i walked this razor fine line for most of my childhood, and then i sort of gave up on the scriptures for a long long time, and i read this i guess in my second year of high school, and sections of it gave me a personal, intense realtionship to scriptures that i didnt get from either the canon or the apcoraphya---and it was an easy, trade paper back, cheap and easy to access, i know the problems with it, and i know its history, and ive read lots more about it, but as a beginning, it was helpful at best...
and the gospel of thomas is amazing, because it gives hope that if one thinks enough, one can puzzle things thru, i think that it made me a gnostic.
Complete Poems--Frank O Hara
every person who writes poetry now, wants to write like frank o hara, aand for huge portions, i ended up doign the same thing.
Birth of the Clinic--Michel Foucault
its one of thsoe things that burrowed so deep that i cannot write about it so much
Alice In Wonderland--there is a reason why the new book on queer children is called curioser. (and strangeness, and pseduo freudian sexual dynamics, and lush writing, and a sense of meloncholy sadness, and a certain anarchist upending, and those rackham illustrations.)
the bangers and mash series of elemetary readers--made me a life long anglophile.
How many books have you owned?
buying b/w 4 and 6 a week for 15 years or so, including gifts, splurges, and thrifts, i would say about 4000 or so, but that doesnt mean that i havent left a whole bunch on buses, sold large chunks when i needed space or money, gave dozens away, etc--my library tends to constantly circulating, right now, i have about 100-150 in Toronto, and 800 or so upstairs and downstairs here, maybe a bit less.
What was the last book you bought?
i bought a dozen a couple of days ago--6 gor paperbacks (sinker recommended them as sort of pulp delany), goethes book on young wether (because of barthes), hell angels by hunter thompson(i needed a copy), fruit machine by a quebcois queer critic (its quite good), vintage baker(nicholson), phillip jose farmer comp from the mid70s (read him now pat), and the 14th century italian school of whoredom (i collect porn). (raymond what you said about me being ecclectic, you win)
What was the last book you read?
a collection of kinky friedman essays about country music and presidents, plus a really funny and moving essay on heller
Name the five books that mean the most to you.
fuck this is going to be hard, they change all the time--but here it goes.
the complete gospels--edited by robert funk
i grew up with things added and things taken away from the bible, but also the belief of the inerrancy of the bible, so i walked this razor fine line for most of my childhood, and then i sort of gave up on the scriptures for a long long time, and i read this i guess in my second year of high school, and sections of it gave me a personal, intense realtionship to scriptures that i didnt get from either the canon or the apcoraphya---and it was an easy, trade paper back, cheap and easy to access, i know the problems with it, and i know its history, and ive read lots more about it, but as a beginning, it was helpful at best...
and the gospel of thomas is amazing, because it gives hope that if one thinks enough, one can puzzle things thru, i think that it made me a gnostic.
Complete Poems--Frank O Hara
every person who writes poetry now, wants to write like frank o hara, aand for huge portions, i ended up doign the same thing.
Birth of the Clinic--Michel Foucault
its one of thsoe things that burrowed so deep that i cannot write about it so much
Alice In Wonderland--there is a reason why the new book on queer children is called curioser. (and strangeness, and pseduo freudian sexual dynamics, and lush writing, and a sense of meloncholy sadness, and a certain anarchist upending, and those rackham illustrations.)
the bangers and mash series of elemetary readers--made me a life long anglophile.
mom had 6 months of bottles she was donating to the church scout troup, and the young mens leader was going to pick them up--and i was going to help him out and me and young mens leaders, they worked as fathers, as people to work the male element, in my life and i was in church last week helping mom with everything...and that was still the case,
when i went there
so we talked on the way to his house, and he gave me the grand tour of his house, and his kids, and he was so pround, in this middle class kind of way, that i found v. touching and very moving , and he showed me the car he was working on the back of his yard, and he was really really proud of how everything was going and well we then drove to the church, and put them there
and we went for a milkshake, and i just spilled, this huge hour long spurt, and this complicated unravelling of narrative and of god, and i went to quick too fast, and it was strange, wonderfully strange and i really worried that i isolated him
and after wards i wanked to him, to pissing beside him in a macdonalds bathroom, and i thot, why the fuck am i doing this--do i have to mediate any awkard personal phyiscal encounter sexually, esp. if it deals with men, can i not process male intimacy in any way but pining eroticism...and well that really scared me
and well i dont know what to do about that
when i went there
so we talked on the way to his house, and he gave me the grand tour of his house, and his kids, and he was so pround, in this middle class kind of way, that i found v. touching and very moving , and he showed me the car he was working on the back of his yard, and he was really really proud of how everything was going and well we then drove to the church, and put them there
and we went for a milkshake, and i just spilled, this huge hour long spurt, and this complicated unravelling of narrative and of god, and i went to quick too fast, and it was strange, wonderfully strange and i really worried that i isolated him
and after wards i wanked to him, to pissing beside him in a macdonalds bathroom, and i thot, why the fuck am i doing this--do i have to mediate any awkard personal phyiscal encounter sexually, esp. if it deals with men, can i not process male intimacy in any way but pining eroticism...and well that really scared me
and well i dont know what to do about that
Friday, June 17, 2005
eading both atwood and marcus at the same time, i get to this:
from marcus: not long into the future when the USA has come the republic of Gilead, a theocracy that has replaced the Constituion of the United States with the Bible, a slave sings forbidden music to herself:"i feel so lonely , baby/I feel so lonely babdy/ i feel so lonely I could die. She doesnt know where it comes from.
now elvis isnt reall about music anymore, he is everywhere, a white trash mystic, the colsest america has ever come to theresa d'avila, a sexualised miracuolus thing....and i imagine atwood-i like atwood, ive read a huge chunk of her work, but she strikes me as brittle, as opposed to popular culture, as against the idea of raptoous intervention.
thinking about the passage, about moving b/w divine and secualr pleasure; between race, class, pleasure, in a reflection that is so small and so tiny, she restores him---and restores the idea of popular culture as subversive...this seems so against her veign...her books tend to be white, middle class, self contained, unrelenting in how men and women examine power, hemegenious in a way that elvis wasnt--then why such a brilliant, if so slight (thats why its brilliant) few words that contain all of the mixed up buisess that peter gurlanisick manages to fail at over 1500
can you imagine atwood fucking, can you imagine her even listening to elvis, looking at her work, does it seem that she interacts wtih popular culture with anything but derision...
book work will end tonite
from marcus: not long into the future when the USA has come the republic of Gilead, a theocracy that has replaced the Constituion of the United States with the Bible, a slave sings forbidden music to herself:"i feel so lonely , baby/I feel so lonely babdy/ i feel so lonely I could die. She doesnt know where it comes from.
now elvis isnt reall about music anymore, he is everywhere, a white trash mystic, the colsest america has ever come to theresa d'avila, a sexualised miracuolus thing....and i imagine atwood-i like atwood, ive read a huge chunk of her work, but she strikes me as brittle, as opposed to popular culture, as against the idea of raptoous intervention.
thinking about the passage, about moving b/w divine and secualr pleasure; between race, class, pleasure, in a reflection that is so small and so tiny, she restores him---and restores the idea of popular culture as subversive...this seems so against her veign...her books tend to be white, middle class, self contained, unrelenting in how men and women examine power, hemegenious in a way that elvis wasnt--then why such a brilliant, if so slight (thats why its brilliant) few words that contain all of the mixed up buisess that peter gurlanisick manages to fail at over 1500
can you imagine atwood fucking, can you imagine her even listening to elvis, looking at her work, does it seem that she interacts wtih popular culture with anything but derision...
book work will end tonite
Thursday, June 16, 2005
"I'm uncomfortable becoming the focus of this event, which left so many families in tragedy," she said in a news release. "But after prayerful consideration, I believe that God is calling me to use this opportunity to not only turn my own life around but also to inspire others to do that, too."
she was the one who saved her life by reading rick warren
she was the one who saved her life by reading rick warren
connecting emily to merton, the hermit idea in america always includes reams of correspondance, a hermit cannot be well known and well written about w/o the paper peeking thru.
thinking of collins poem about undressing her, isnt ed naked, isnt her rawness, her devotion to imagery of flesh, sexual or at least sensusal, then the poem is a metaphor, not high class slash fiction, but what we need to do to ed (why do we need to do it to ed, she has done it for us.) thantoseros
in the authour note on emily, in burn break and blow, paglias book on poetry, she mentions the locked cabneint, but which poet is not secure about first drafts, why would they be in books, why the constant and never ending edits, her work is constantly worked over. (cannot find my copy of sexual personae)
is the idea of a writer w/o wanting a publisher real?
qoutes of what paglia says in break blow burn:
Because I Could Not Stop For Death:
deeply inspired by metaphyiscal poetry
"human beings waiting for the grim reaper or christ himself, who weilds a strike on doomsday" (98)
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers
"Dickonsons usual four line stanza format, based on sturdy protestant hymn structures" (102)
{i am not sure i agree w. this) "They are meek b/c they were led like sheep in life and have now lost the ability to rebel. "Resuerction was their lure and grail." (103)
The Soul Selects Her Chamber
does not seem to notice the contradictions in the reading, b/w a call to hermeticism, and noticing the correspondance.
mentioning herbert. (worth approaching?)
thinking of collins poem about undressing her, isnt ed naked, isnt her rawness, her devotion to imagery of flesh, sexual or at least sensusal, then the poem is a metaphor, not high class slash fiction, but what we need to do to ed (why do we need to do it to ed, she has done it for us.) thantoseros
in the authour note on emily, in burn break and blow, paglias book on poetry, she mentions the locked cabneint, but which poet is not secure about first drafts, why would they be in books, why the constant and never ending edits, her work is constantly worked over. (cannot find my copy of sexual personae)
is the idea of a writer w/o wanting a publisher real?
qoutes of what paglia says in break blow burn:
Because I Could Not Stop For Death:
deeply inspired by metaphyiscal poetry
"human beings waiting for the grim reaper or christ himself, who weilds a strike on doomsday" (98)
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers
"Dickonsons usual four line stanza format, based on sturdy protestant hymn structures" (102)
{i am not sure i agree w. this) "They are meek b/c they were led like sheep in life and have now lost the ability to rebel. "Resuerction was their lure and grail." (103)
The Soul Selects Her Chamber
does not seem to notice the contradictions in the reading, b/w a call to hermeticism, and noticing the correspondance.
mentioning herbert. (worth approaching?)
about emily dickinson
im arguing that she was actually she was less of a recluse (ie her letters, her talking to family, her making the books into hand sewn books, her constant listening---cf jimmy stewart in rear window--then who is grace kelly), that he poetry connects to v. specfic religous tradtions (her families calvanist bent, her coming from hte same stock in the same place as edwards, her early family being in the same congregations, her readings), that her poetry has a theologians sevirtiy (the violence mentioned by pagilia among others is an update of the violence expected of christians, ie life is but a loaded gun is exactly like no one knows the hour of ones death), that she connectes to people like wigwood and edwards (did she read wigwood, has anyone made any studies of her readings, can i find a collection of works in her library) , and also that she was a regular reader of standard christian texts. (kempis of course, she worte about it in the letters, anything else) ..and also, perhaps she was percriptive.
more concentration in her poems on old testemant thot then new--is this fair?
im arguing that she was actually she was less of a recluse (ie her letters, her talking to family, her making the books into hand sewn books, her constant listening---cf jimmy stewart in rear window--then who is grace kelly), that he poetry connects to v. specfic religous tradtions (her families calvanist bent, her coming from hte same stock in the same place as edwards, her early family being in the same congregations, her readings), that her poetry has a theologians sevirtiy (the violence mentioned by pagilia among others is an update of the violence expected of christians, ie life is but a loaded gun is exactly like no one knows the hour of ones death), that she connectes to people like wigwood and edwards (did she read wigwood, has anyone made any studies of her readings, can i find a collection of works in her library) , and also that she was a regular reader of standard christian texts. (kempis of course, she worte about it in the letters, anything else) ..and also, perhaps she was percriptive.
more concentration in her poems on old testemant thot then new--is this fair?
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
books (54)
city of quartz--i feel like i want my writing to be like mike davis, wry, bitter, funny, eridute, and passionite, with a taste for obscure sources and syncretic thinking, his trilogy on LA is as good as was promised, endlessly qoutabel (well, this is the first and im 60 percent finished the second) the section on god cements and expands my thinking of it as a religous hub,
dead elvis--griel marcus necrologic study of the bones and ghosts of elvis, an athropolgic gris gris, worth reading, but he needs to qoute where he paraphrases and vice versa--his eviscaration of goldman sort of misses th epoint--elvis as a rotwesque, as a lurid, wild demon of excess, is a better and more interesting story then the good ol boy who loved his mother and grew up to piety--the forgotting of the corperal grotesquires of sainthood is something that needs to be noted.
hellfire--by nick tosches, if johnathon edwards was born in the 60s, and belived in accuracy of fact as much as accuracy of spirit--talked much about lewis's rejection of god, his viewing as a demonic force, and got me into his (amazing, and exhausting) country records of the 70s
reprinted mid80s contempary american poetry, didnt tell me anything i didnt know already.
skimed and scanned the two volume dictionary of nixon, but really thats all i needed (thouhg cause of my lack of reading of whole sections, doesnt count on the list. )
city of quartz--i feel like i want my writing to be like mike davis, wry, bitter, funny, eridute, and passionite, with a taste for obscure sources and syncretic thinking, his trilogy on LA is as good as was promised, endlessly qoutabel (well, this is the first and im 60 percent finished the second) the section on god cements and expands my thinking of it as a religous hub,
dead elvis--griel marcus necrologic study of the bones and ghosts of elvis, an athropolgic gris gris, worth reading, but he needs to qoute where he paraphrases and vice versa--his eviscaration of goldman sort of misses th epoint--elvis as a rotwesque, as a lurid, wild demon of excess, is a better and more interesting story then the good ol boy who loved his mother and grew up to piety--the forgotting of the corperal grotesquires of sainthood is something that needs to be noted.
hellfire--by nick tosches, if johnathon edwards was born in the 60s, and belived in accuracy of fact as much as accuracy of spirit--talked much about lewis's rejection of god, his viewing as a demonic force, and got me into his (amazing, and exhausting) country records of the 70s
reprinted mid80s contempary american poetry, didnt tell me anything i didnt know already.
skimed and scanned the two volume dictionary of nixon, but really thats all i needed (thouhg cause of my lack of reading of whole sections, doesnt count on the list. )
reading sinker on family vs nationalist concerns i rethink the peice in the inbox of robin at xwest--and how it rides the line against families, nuclear families, and marriage and all of that.
its like wanting to be married and have children is a borgie intervention, to use the most cliched terms on record, it is counter revoltuinary, those prone to up against the wall motherfuckerism of radical politics have to be careful, because the look is large, its about big politics, its guns or butter, as opposed to the lives we lead.
guilt comes in, i am not doing enough to solve the problems of the world, i am only doing the small and domestic--what comes in then, is to become revolting in day to day actions, and to remember, deciding how to decide about yr mother driving is as impt as finding out where your oranges are grown.
(is this a delusion?)
its like wanting to be married and have children is a borgie intervention, to use the most cliched terms on record, it is counter revoltuinary, those prone to up against the wall motherfuckerism of radical politics have to be careful, because the look is large, its about big politics, its guns or butter, as opposed to the lives we lead.
guilt comes in, i am not doing enough to solve the problems of the world, i am only doing the small and domestic--what comes in then, is to become revolting in day to day actions, and to remember, deciding how to decide about yr mother driving is as impt as finding out where your oranges are grown.
(is this a delusion?)
bad day and good day
got a peice in xtra west--an anti pride screed in the old body politic sense, i compared the entire fag population of WeHo to Paris Hilton.
mom was banged up in a fender bender, 4500 dollars in damages, and the guy was a total asshole--his fault, which means she is out of a job.
the world goes on.
got a peice in xtra west--an anti pride screed in the old body politic sense, i compared the entire fag population of WeHo to Paris Hilton.
mom was banged up in a fender bender, 4500 dollars in damages, and the guy was a total asshole--his fault, which means she is out of a job.
the world goes on.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
there was a boy named matthew i met in victoria, last time i was there, a sailor and he drew, watercolours and pencil--mostly not bad, hes in lunenberg right now, and back to victoria a week ago.
and he sang billy bragg, in such a clear way, so close that it sent shivers up my spine, and i was talking about how much i found myself obsessed wtih california lately--and he saing help save the youth of america--and its s deeply silly song, and i know its silly, and i love the beach boys too much to take it seriously
but hearing him singing it--and then hearing a bootleg billy sing the internationale at some concert in belgium--w/o irony, with a suriety adn an earnestness and a devotion, and an openess, it was like all those atheists who love gospel, and the boy had the dying words of christ tattooed up and down his arms, and he believed in the social gospel of jesus christ--he believed in the father, and in socialism...
now im sure that bragg doesnt belive in god, but matthew did--and there is something in this shedding the snake skin of irony and post modernism and bricoloauge and pastiche and all the genre fucking, and singing as loud as you can something you believe in--and you know what--the internationale is actually not a bad coda (and neither are the more hippy sections of jesustalk)
its funny the dying words he chose werent eli eli lama sabach--they were into my hands i commend my spirit--which i never really found impt. the difference between the two of us then, was forsaking vs commendng, and there is something to be said about braggs accepting
anwering chuck on ilm
and he sang billy bragg, in such a clear way, so close that it sent shivers up my spine, and i was talking about how much i found myself obsessed wtih california lately--and he saing help save the youth of america--and its s deeply silly song, and i know its silly, and i love the beach boys too much to take it seriously
but hearing him singing it--and then hearing a bootleg billy sing the internationale at some concert in belgium--w/o irony, with a suriety adn an earnestness and a devotion, and an openess, it was like all those atheists who love gospel, and the boy had the dying words of christ tattooed up and down his arms, and he believed in the social gospel of jesus christ--he believed in the father, and in socialism...
now im sure that bragg doesnt belive in god, but matthew did--and there is something in this shedding the snake skin of irony and post modernism and bricoloauge and pastiche and all the genre fucking, and singing as loud as you can something you believe in--and you know what--the internationale is actually not a bad coda (and neither are the more hippy sections of jesustalk)
its funny the dying words he chose werent eli eli lama sabach--they were into my hands i commend my spirit--which i never really found impt. the difference between the two of us then, was forsaking vs commendng, and there is something to be said about braggs accepting
anwering chuck on ilm
Friday, June 10, 2005
alright--here are the peices i find interesting
a seires of dice, each with a seperate inconograph--connected to the i ching but modernized, ambigous, beautiful, simple and functional
http://home.att.net/~artarchives/yourfate/face.html (look swiss)
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/pix/AlMc3.jpg
10 000 hand crafted, pseduo industrially based, multiples (strange)
http://www.artline.com/associations/ifpda/ifpdafair/ifpdafair2002/nonexhibiting/I_C_Editions/a_McCollum.jpg
a small edition of plastic thoctckes, combining warhol and whiteread...plays w. banality, anti function. (these ones are fotoes in a way that makes them bigger...they are about four inches on the diagonal)
http://www.leconsortium.com/mccollumcoll.html
i have seen these works advertised in the big magazines, urns, called (x) plastic vehichles...i havent thot about these v. much, the only difference seems to be size and colour--the shape is the same, and they look almost neo classical--like stark remaking 17th century chairs.
none of these are related to the the black on black, ink, framed, large collectiosn of prints that were sold so well in phillips this year (multiple auctions, 84k on a hi estimate of 4, biggest show in a show full of names, hirst, barney, levine, wool, etc)--and i dont know much about them, though the inforamtion on the web seems to be in languages other then english
i dont like this
a seires of dice, each with a seperate inconograph--connected to the i ching but modernized, ambigous, beautiful, simple and functional
http://home.att.net/~artarchives/yourfate/face.html (look swiss)
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/pix/AlMc3.jpg
10 000 hand crafted, pseduo industrially based, multiples (strange)
http://www.artline.com/associations/ifpda/ifpdafair/ifpdafair2002/nonexhibiting/I_C_Editions/a_McCollum.jpg
a small edition of plastic thoctckes, combining warhol and whiteread...plays w. banality, anti function. (these ones are fotoes in a way that makes them bigger...they are about four inches on the diagonal)
http://www.leconsortium.com/mccollumcoll.html
i have seen these works advertised in the big magazines, urns, called (x) plastic vehichles...i havent thot about these v. much, the only difference seems to be size and colour--the shape is the same, and they look almost neo classical--like stark remaking 17th century chairs.
none of these are related to the the black on black, ink, framed, large collectiosn of prints that were sold so well in phillips this year (multiple auctions, 84k on a hi estimate of 4, biggest show in a show full of names, hirst, barney, levine, wool, etc)--and i dont know much about them, though the inforamtion on the web seems to be in languages other then english
i dont like this
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Monday, June 06, 2005
* The U.S. Pavilion features a new cycle of paintings by Ed Ruscha done specifically for the Biennale, in a show organized by Harvard University Art Museums associate curator Linda Norden in consultation with Whitney Museum curator Donna De Salvo. The paintings "make progress, or the course of progress, their subject," and are described as "documentary" of "an urban landscape." Joan Didion has written a foreword to the accompanying catalogue.
artnet.com
fucking excited about this!
artnet.com
fucking excited about this!
to the last iowa pork queen
standing in boots, and a satin sash
hand on the rump of a perfect sow
five pigs for every man, woman and child
in iowa--and you are there among them
dawn kruger and the president--
charlotte to his wilbour
the family farm will die,
and the queen of agribuisness
doesnt sound so nearly
tragic
standing in boots, and a satin sash
hand on the rump of a perfect sow
five pigs for every man, woman and child
in iowa--and you are there among them
dawn kruger and the president--
charlotte to his wilbour
the family farm will die,
and the queen of agribuisness
doesnt sound so nearly
tragic
grave yards are easier
cheap subliminity
dark night of the soul
cheap sublimity
& 8/hr for the privelege
the pyschogeographic history of ft sask, alberta:
river
river
floodplain
river
floodplain
hill
river
flood plain
windbreak
hill
river
floodplain
windbreak
hill
field
river
cropland
windbreak
hill
lot
roadway
river
hayfield
windbreak
hill
concrete prison
highway
river
hayfield
windbreak
hill
prision
electrified fence
gates
river
slough
windbreak
slump
prision
fence
razor wire electried fences
liscence plate shop
gallows
river
park
trails
subdivision
lot
relics
graveyard
tract home
expressway
AnthonySEaston (7:05:08 AM): rowhousing
cheap subliminity
dark night of the soul
cheap sublimity
& 8/hr for the privelege
the pyschogeographic history of ft sask, alberta:
river
river
floodplain
river
floodplain
hill
river
flood plain
windbreak
hill
river
floodplain
windbreak
hill
field
river
cropland
windbreak
hill
lot
roadway
river
hayfield
windbreak
hill
concrete prison
highway
river
hayfield
windbreak
hill
prision
electrified fence
gates
river
slough
windbreak
slump
prision
fence
razor wire electried fences
liscence plate shop
gallows
river
park
trails
subdivision
lot
relics
graveyard
tract home
expressway
AnthonySEaston (7:05:08 AM): rowhousing
Sunday, June 05, 2005
seventeen things i learnt from nixons memoirs
1) kissenger and sammy davis jr met and talked.
2) jackie's handwriting has a careless, handsome, fuckable joie d' vie (he reporoduced a note of hers)
3) the notes to his daugthers are filled with cliches, and dont seem v, personal
4) he spent time with norman vincen peale
5) he was a snaky, lying bastard
6) apparently he thot that blacks were like isrealites--and was "poltically unbeholden" to both of them (538)
7) "for those willing to work hard, california seemed to be a land of almost unlimited oppurtunity' (5)
8) he and his brothers were named after the early kings of england
9) "my mother was always concerned and active in community affairs, but her most striking aulity was a deep sense of privacy" (9)
10) we never had a meal without saying grace, but except for special occasions when each of us boys would be called on to recire a verse from the bible, these prayers were always silent. She even took literally the injunction from ST Matthew that praying should be done behind closed doors and went into a closet to say her prayers before going to bed at night" (ibid)
11) i grew up in a religous enviroment that was at once unusuall strict and unusally tolerent. My Mother and her family belonged to a branch of the Friends church that had ministers, choirs andcirtually all teh symbols of other protestent denomations. The difference were water baptistsm and communion, and hte heavy qauker influence on silent prayer. My father had convereted to Qaukeris, from his own rather robust methodism at the time of his marriage and he had a typical entuhism of a convert for his new religion. Our family went to church four times on a Sunday--Sunday school, the regular morning service, Christian Endevour in the late afternoon, and another service in the evening. ... (not including a service on wedneday)(16)
12) often we drove to Los Angeles to hear Aimee Semple McPherson, at the Angelus Temple and Bob Shuler, her great competitor, at the Trinity Method church (ibid)
13) When I was Vice President, President Eisenhower urgerd me to refer to God from time to time in my speeches, but I did not feel comfortable doing so. (17)
14) Despite my qauker background and belief, inever considered getting a (draft deferment). When I heard that young lawyers recruited as officers for the Navy, I talked to Pat about it, and applied for a commision.
15) Although nothing was ever said, I knew that ny nother and grandmother were deeply troubled by my decsison. In World War One my Uncle OScar, had gone to france, with the American Friends Service Committee and worked with the red cross as an orderly...I am sure that this was the lind of service tey had hoped I would choose. It as a difficult descion for me to make, but I felt that I culd not sit back while my country was being attacked. The problem with Quaker pacifism , it semmed to me, was that it could only work if one were fighting a civilsed, compassionate enemy. In the face of hiler and Tojo, pacisfism haf not only failed to stop violence--it actually played into the hands of a barbarous foe and weakened home-front morale. (33)
16) he spends about the same time talking about his poker then he does about his break with the SOF
17) nothing after that--though we have 1000s pages to go.
1) kissenger and sammy davis jr met and talked.
2) jackie's handwriting has a careless, handsome, fuckable joie d' vie (he reporoduced a note of hers)
3) the notes to his daugthers are filled with cliches, and dont seem v, personal
4) he spent time with norman vincen peale
5) he was a snaky, lying bastard
6) apparently he thot that blacks were like isrealites--and was "poltically unbeholden" to both of them (538)
7) "for those willing to work hard, california seemed to be a land of almost unlimited oppurtunity' (5)
8) he and his brothers were named after the early kings of england
9) "my mother was always concerned and active in community affairs, but her most striking aulity was a deep sense of privacy" (9)
10) we never had a meal without saying grace, but except for special occasions when each of us boys would be called on to recire a verse from the bible, these prayers were always silent. She even took literally the injunction from ST Matthew that praying should be done behind closed doors and went into a closet to say her prayers before going to bed at night" (ibid)
11) i grew up in a religous enviroment that was at once unusuall strict and unusally tolerent. My Mother and her family belonged to a branch of the Friends church that had ministers, choirs andcirtually all teh symbols of other protestent denomations. The difference were water baptistsm and communion, and hte heavy qauker influence on silent prayer. My father had convereted to Qaukeris, from his own rather robust methodism at the time of his marriage and he had a typical entuhism of a convert for his new religion. Our family went to church four times on a Sunday--Sunday school, the regular morning service, Christian Endevour in the late afternoon, and another service in the evening. ... (not including a service on wedneday)(16)
12) often we drove to Los Angeles to hear Aimee Semple McPherson, at the Angelus Temple and Bob Shuler, her great competitor, at the Trinity Method church (ibid)
13) When I was Vice President, President Eisenhower urgerd me to refer to God from time to time in my speeches, but I did not feel comfortable doing so. (17)
14) Despite my qauker background and belief, inever considered getting a (draft deferment). When I heard that young lawyers recruited as officers for the Navy, I talked to Pat about it, and applied for a commision.
15) Although nothing was ever said, I knew that ny nother and grandmother were deeply troubled by my decsison. In World War One my Uncle OScar, had gone to france, with the American Friends Service Committee and worked with the red cross as an orderly...I am sure that this was the lind of service tey had hoped I would choose. It as a difficult descion for me to make, but I felt that I culd not sit back while my country was being attacked. The problem with Quaker pacifism , it semmed to me, was that it could only work if one were fighting a civilsed, compassionate enemy. In the face of hiler and Tojo, pacisfism haf not only failed to stop violence--it actually played into the hands of a barbarous foe and weakened home-front morale. (33)
16) he spends about the same time talking about his poker then he does about his break with the SOF
17) nothing after that--though we have 1000s pages to go.
Saturday, June 04, 2005
"This permanent, precise labor of documentation and denunciation, this molelike activity, this is what interests me."
--French left-wing publisher Francois Maspero, quoted in Kristin Ross, May '68 and its Afterlives
qouted in konvult
http://www.lmaweb.com/wlacpast.html
one of these days i am going to comment on the idea of eary country music and its connection to found, occupational sounds--like wilf carters yodelling and cattle calling--the link above, is a fanastic collection of auctioneers callers, winners of a national competetion of livestock callers, and its fucking amazing--almost impossible to write a bout its tension between common, functional, aesthetic, and ritualised speech.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/31/judge_gives_offenders_option_of_church/?rss_id=Boston.com+/+News
jds forced to decide b/w jesus and jail--so fucking wrong, and really old fashioned (these are just now sources of outrage, because homogenity is breeched.)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050528/D8ABUAU80.html
i need to know more about the economic implications of this
http://in-souls.com/
xian kitsch
--French left-wing publisher Francois Maspero, quoted in Kristin Ross, May '68 and its Afterlives
qouted in konvult
http://www.lmaweb.com/wlacpast.html
one of these days i am going to comment on the idea of eary country music and its connection to found, occupational sounds--like wilf carters yodelling and cattle calling--the link above, is a fanastic collection of auctioneers callers, winners of a national competetion of livestock callers, and its fucking amazing--almost impossible to write a bout its tension between common, functional, aesthetic, and ritualised speech.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/05/31/judge_gives_offenders_option_of_church/?rss_id=Boston.com+/+News
jds forced to decide b/w jesus and jail--so fucking wrong, and really old fashioned (these are just now sources of outrage, because homogenity is breeched.)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050528/D8ABUAU80.html
i need to know more about the economic implications of this
http://in-souls.com/
xian kitsch
Friday, June 03, 2005
the hammer musuem is having a huge comic show, survey mostly--18 artists, not all indie and not all pervert suits, looks solid, and recently MOMA in new york has aquired several pornographic drawings, for their collection, including Zak Smiths painting of a sucide girl, a rather tame but handsome tom of finland--actually almost nude, and some crumb--coming from a couple of different sources, including the judith rothschild collection.
my concern then, is having all of these liminal places, ephermeal drawings, intended to be under the counter, reflections of id and ego, of bogeymen and real fascist power, of genres who were dangerous, made safe and clean and insttuional--its already happened to crumb, who has gone from a kind of wrath filled counterinstinctual back stabbing hater of all things common to a crotechty old man, and i see that moma isnt for example collecting tom of finlands the orgies and fist fucking--and zak smith is hi art so hes tame anyways and the collection is really 3 out of 2500 hundred or so but t here is that concern there, of castration.
my concern then, is having all of these liminal places, ephermeal drawings, intended to be under the counter, reflections of id and ego, of bogeymen and real fascist power, of genres who were dangerous, made safe and clean and insttuional--its already happened to crumb, who has gone from a kind of wrath filled counterinstinctual back stabbing hater of all things common to a crotechty old man, and i see that moma isnt for example collecting tom of finlands the orgies and fist fucking--and zak smith is hi art so hes tame anyways and the collection is really 3 out of 2500 hundred or so but t here is that concern there, of castration.
Thursday, June 02, 2005
its a third into the year. and it just feels like im chasing nothing--submitted poems to a journal in nebraska, and another in ontario, gave todd a list of issues and reissues i would like for the next three months, edited and talked to blair, etc about this curatorial propasal i am getting involved with, took more notes and did more reading on the book, which i am finally starting writing, did some more pitching, got my resume together---so its not like im not busy, but its all notes and pitches and prep and spec and sorting, and filling and applying--four months into 2005 and i have written a dozen essays, 20 poems, 10 reviews, taken about 200 fotos im realtivley proud of, blogged on three sites, and read about 50 books (latest is still acting gay, star fucker, american studies, two highsmith novels, a book on coperality and the american political scene, and two small poetry collections--most of these on the bus back from vancouver) and so its not like im not working--constantly, im a fucking ox, always chewing his cud, and i have not published nearly what i wanted to this year, gone far enough in what i wanted to do, not done what i wanted fully, its complicated, because i am good at what i do, and thats not enough, and i know its not good enough...and i guess what im saying is that the constant grind will eventually make the iceberg cubes for the manhattan---its just gonna be a long time.
maybe this post is for me to say--wait--i have worked, constantly, and well fuck, buck up and keep doing it.
maybe this post is for me to say--wait--i have worked, constantly, and well fuck, buck up and keep doing it.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
the books that the american neo con journal human events include as dangerous show a distinct lack of imagination (15 people voted--sounds commie to me ;)
here is there list, and my suggestions for further reading, for what i have read.
Communist Mannifesto
it apparently is worse then the one below it, because communism killed more people then anythinf else, well the old trope is true, that would be the case if anyone bothered reading the fucking thing--reading it again, certain contemparary critics have noticed the explicit similarties b/w this text and adam smith--and consdering tht he was correct about the abuses of unfettered capitalism, im assuming its on the list becuase of residual guilt that victorian sweatshops
More Dangerous: Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations; any of Stalins foreign policy papers.
Mein Kampfh
If Hitler depended entirely on this book, it would not have gone very far, its a unreadable mess. (though no. 2 in Turkey right now. It is about his use of mass media, spectacle, and his genius at scape goating jews--he just finished the job western eeurope had been t rying to do for 1900 years.
More Dangerous: Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anything by Leni Refienstahl
Little Red Book
Actually this one is pretty fucking dangerous, might make it into my top ten, esp. for the excurtaingly stupid naievetee of post 68 radicals having it in every house in the west.
Kinseys Report on Human SExuality
The problem with Kinsey is that he spoke out of school--shit like this happened from the beginning of time, it will continue until the end of time. It happens in the wild, it happens in civilazation--people fuck goats, children, other humans; people rape and people kill. He had a v. explicit, almost priggish, sexual morality, concerned with consent---that is all we can do to control our urges, make sure it is done w. safe and sane consent--and it is better to be informed then not to be.
More Dangerous (well Raebalis comes to mind, but thats too early)--the fantagraphics collection of Tijunana Bible Reprints from the 1900s to the mid60s.
Dewys Democracy and Educaton
The most famous of a series of texts making education a series of social rather then pedalogical goals--actually encouraged open discourse, communication, intelligent and well constructed dissent and a certian pragmatism. All of the values the founding fathers had, w/o the nasty racism. the org is scared because it encouraged clinton.
More Dangerous--Summerhill, giving kids power and democracy on top of that, was read and written on from everyone in the time that clinton went to oxford--if you demand an american, go to margaret fuller or william james, they wil ltell you the same thing.
Das Kapital
see my entry on the communist manifesto.
More Dangerous: Edward Baines, The History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain--almost unread now, at the time of marx's printing, it was the best selling apologia for the free market, and has sections in favour of things like kiddie labour, gives a solid example of what marx was working against.
Femmine Mystique
she went a little heavy on the rhetoric, but she was still nice and from the suburbs, no danger of revoultion, no worry about anything but her sharp tounge--the list blames her for the end of the glorius housewife. They obv. havent read the real ball busters.
More Dangerous--Dworkin-Sexual Intercourse, Valerie Solonas--SCUM Manifesto, Ti Grace Atkinson, Angela Davis, Germaine Greer--Femmine Eunuch (which sold better and told more then Friedan), Monique Wittig, Judith Butler (theory head, but both on the vangaurd of destroying essentalist gender--something friedan never attempted.)
Comtes Positive Philosophy
havent actually read it.
Beyond Good and Evil
i think more and more that neitze was less of a fascist, then a radical empiricist w. an bdsm realtionship towards personal autonomy and the state. thats why uncle michel loved him so much.
More Dangerous--Of his time--Rosseou(sp)
Employment, Interest and Money
the reason why the social democroatic left in the west is failing is that they have abonded (sp) things like state ownership of utlities, using their power for massive growth projects, geniunely progressive taxation esp. copretaly, etc. Keynes was right--he saved America at least twice (40s and the 70s). The recent homophobic gut punching (fags dont care about families, fags will ruin the economy, keynes was a fag--runs the line) forges something v. basic, because fags dont have families, and because the poor cant depend of family money, and because family is so deeply defined and redefined, we cannot expect anything but a communitarian ethic--keynes fagness meant that he believed that family could not take care of its self--and personal work meant that the larger community was nto taken care of--the thing that is dangerous about keynes is that he deeply underestimated the states natuaral tendeices towards authortian control, and its losign communitarian ethics v. quickly.
More Dangerous--Fuykama and The End of History--Keynes had a wide ranging, historical, and liberal education, which centered on an understanding of the cyclical history of history, and the larger boom and bust that comes from empires. Fuykama is an arrogant apologist for the new kings.
The Population Bomb
not dangerous, because it is mostly wrong--underestimates the presence of diease as a control mechancism. bad pop pysch-recent emographic suggests the population is actually levelling off.
What Is To Be Done
Lenin
actually fairly dangerous--if you are going to plan a small and badly contained revoultion, actually make sure that you can pull if off to the end of history, or you get free healthcare but no medicine.
The Authoritarian Personality
Adorno--I actually dont like this, and think he tends to be wrong, and there were better writers at the same time, saying the same thing, with out the heavy and kind of silly marxism--and i think his refusal to find subversion in domineint (sp) texts dishearting--i do think that conseratives find it scary because it either a) tells their secrets b) hits too close to hoome.
More Dangerous--Hannah Arendt could actually write what most people could read, has an astute pyschologicla profile, and is v. good at the implications of all sorts of statecraft--but is not really a culture worker. Try her Banality o f Evil anyways.
On Liberty
I am assuming they have a problem with utlitarationism, which seems to be a fairly conserative philisophy--only consider the impt stuff, make sure the most happiness can happen to the most people for the most effiecent resources, a calvinist taste for thrift...
if you want a real radical--read about the Diggers, or the LEvellers, or even Bentham--Miller was too comfortable to do anything really dangerous.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
i am suprised to find skinner on this list--his tendency towards social control seems to be the exact thing that these folks would be into--creepy little motherfucker who refused to tell the difference b/w a rat and a man-the most dangerous book on this list.
Reflections on Violence
The Promise of American Life
havent actually read either of these
Origin of the Species
the death of god, though he was a theist. the rise of mans animal nature, though he was a pafcfist.. a carefully considered theory, placed gently, and with much doubt--the ideas that were mentioned here are really not that dangerous--unless you think young earth creationism is legitmate. (gould wrote that darwin made everyone equal, everyone had the possiblity of coming form the same source, and sectraian violence would be absurd otherwise.
Madness and Civilization
for being the most dominant thinking in the last half of the 20th century, you would figure uncle michel would be closer, and this one--against the authortian state, towards personal autonomy, viewing civilazation at the end of the 20th century, may seem nihillist--but it is a deeply hopeful work, trying to perserve something, a decade after the second world war ended everything.
More Dangerous--these folks tend to hate posties--because it tells us that langauge and ideas are not innately connected, and that we have to work for things to have meaning--but this book doesnt really say that--birth of the clinic, history of sexuality, discipline and punish all say it better--as do derrida, lyotard and buidlallard (who makes fun of america besides)--i am suprised more didnt make it onto the list and this work wasnt higher
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
exceptionally stupid book from the mid 50s, that presents the ussr as a utopia, the progressive left believed it--which might have something to say about the eligous nature of utopias or the drunk donkey approach of the left. actaully would put it on my list.
Coming of Age in Samoa
continued the idea of the noble savage, continued the idea of a perfect idyliic wilderness, continued the idea of conalism as intergration, silly enough to not know when she is being laughed at, badly written, badly constructed, gave birth to a million hoaxes, forgets the history of western interferencei n samoa since cook, hated book in certain athropolgoical circles--dangerous for all of the reasons above. why is it on this list.
Unsafe at Any Speed
back when nader wasnt crazy, the car blew people up when bumped in minor fender benders--encorouged companies to be responsible for their prducts, hated among the right for inciting a flury of law suits--most convenient some not.
more dangerous: the telephone book (the ad on he back page since my child hood has been for an ambulance chaser)
Second Sex
we will know if the work is as dangerous as we think it is when it is translated into an edition that vaguely resmebles her orginal work--ghost wrote large chunks of sarte, who like most stalinists was deeply boring, and horribly self important.
Prison Notebooks
have not actually read it.
Silent Spring
the only reason why we do not have three dicks and no robins is that this work was written, creating the epa, and encourgaging some vague work on not fuckign up the world as quickly as we had.
more dangerous--jane jacobs, i am convinced the recent destruction of brooklyn for a football stadium is delayed revenge for not getting an expressway.
Wretched of the Earth
havent read it.
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
even this freudian doesnt have the energy to defend freud--but try william reich or jaque lacan.
The Greening of America
havent read it
The Limits to Growth
havent read it.
Descent of Man
the more dangerous, and more explicit of the two darwin books on the list--reading edward o wilson puts the dread
here is there list, and my suggestions for further reading, for what i have read.
Communist Mannifesto
it apparently is worse then the one below it, because communism killed more people then anythinf else, well the old trope is true, that would be the case if anyone bothered reading the fucking thing--reading it again, certain contemparary critics have noticed the explicit similarties b/w this text and adam smith--and consdering tht he was correct about the abuses of unfettered capitalism, im assuming its on the list becuase of residual guilt that victorian sweatshops
More Dangerous: Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations; any of Stalins foreign policy papers.
Mein Kampfh
If Hitler depended entirely on this book, it would not have gone very far, its a unreadable mess. (though no. 2 in Turkey right now. It is about his use of mass media, spectacle, and his genius at scape goating jews--he just finished the job western eeurope had been t rying to do for 1900 years.
More Dangerous: Protocols of the Elders of Zion, anything by Leni Refienstahl
Little Red Book
Actually this one is pretty fucking dangerous, might make it into my top ten, esp. for the excurtaingly stupid naievetee of post 68 radicals having it in every house in the west.
Kinseys Report on Human SExuality
The problem with Kinsey is that he spoke out of school--shit like this happened from the beginning of time, it will continue until the end of time. It happens in the wild, it happens in civilazation--people fuck goats, children, other humans; people rape and people kill. He had a v. explicit, almost priggish, sexual morality, concerned with consent---that is all we can do to control our urges, make sure it is done w. safe and sane consent--and it is better to be informed then not to be.
More Dangerous (well Raebalis comes to mind, but thats too early)--the fantagraphics collection of Tijunana Bible Reprints from the 1900s to the mid60s.
Dewys Democracy and Educaton
The most famous of a series of texts making education a series of social rather then pedalogical goals--actually encouraged open discourse, communication, intelligent and well constructed dissent and a certian pragmatism. All of the values the founding fathers had, w/o the nasty racism. the org is scared because it encouraged clinton.
More Dangerous--Summerhill, giving kids power and democracy on top of that, was read and written on from everyone in the time that clinton went to oxford--if you demand an american, go to margaret fuller or william james, they wil ltell you the same thing.
Das Kapital
see my entry on the communist manifesto.
More Dangerous: Edward Baines, The History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain--almost unread now, at the time of marx's printing, it was the best selling apologia for the free market, and has sections in favour of things like kiddie labour, gives a solid example of what marx was working against.
Femmine Mystique
she went a little heavy on the rhetoric, but she was still nice and from the suburbs, no danger of revoultion, no worry about anything but her sharp tounge--the list blames her for the end of the glorius housewife. They obv. havent read the real ball busters.
More Dangerous--Dworkin-Sexual Intercourse, Valerie Solonas--SCUM Manifesto, Ti Grace Atkinson, Angela Davis, Germaine Greer--Femmine Eunuch (which sold better and told more then Friedan), Monique Wittig, Judith Butler (theory head, but both on the vangaurd of destroying essentalist gender--something friedan never attempted.)
Comtes Positive Philosophy
havent actually read it.
Beyond Good and Evil
i think more and more that neitze was less of a fascist, then a radical empiricist w. an bdsm realtionship towards personal autonomy and the state. thats why uncle michel loved him so much.
More Dangerous--Of his time--Rosseou(sp)
Employment, Interest and Money
the reason why the social democroatic left in the west is failing is that they have abonded (sp) things like state ownership of utlities, using their power for massive growth projects, geniunely progressive taxation esp. copretaly, etc. Keynes was right--he saved America at least twice (40s and the 70s). The recent homophobic gut punching (fags dont care about families, fags will ruin the economy, keynes was a fag--runs the line) forges something v. basic, because fags dont have families, and because the poor cant depend of family money, and because family is so deeply defined and redefined, we cannot expect anything but a communitarian ethic--keynes fagness meant that he believed that family could not take care of its self--and personal work meant that the larger community was nto taken care of--the thing that is dangerous about keynes is that he deeply underestimated the states natuaral tendeices towards authortian control, and its losign communitarian ethics v. quickly.
More Dangerous--Fuykama and The End of History--Keynes had a wide ranging, historical, and liberal education, which centered on an understanding of the cyclical history of history, and the larger boom and bust that comes from empires. Fuykama is an arrogant apologist for the new kings.
The Population Bomb
not dangerous, because it is mostly wrong--underestimates the presence of diease as a control mechancism. bad pop pysch-recent emographic suggests the population is actually levelling off.
What Is To Be Done
Lenin
actually fairly dangerous--if you are going to plan a small and badly contained revoultion, actually make sure that you can pull if off to the end of history, or you get free healthcare but no medicine.
The Authoritarian Personality
Adorno--I actually dont like this, and think he tends to be wrong, and there were better writers at the same time, saying the same thing, with out the heavy and kind of silly marxism--and i think his refusal to find subversion in domineint (sp) texts dishearting--i do think that conseratives find it scary because it either a) tells their secrets b) hits too close to hoome.
More Dangerous--Hannah Arendt could actually write what most people could read, has an astute pyschologicla profile, and is v. good at the implications of all sorts of statecraft--but is not really a culture worker. Try her Banality o f Evil anyways.
On Liberty
I am assuming they have a problem with utlitarationism, which seems to be a fairly conserative philisophy--only consider the impt stuff, make sure the most happiness can happen to the most people for the most effiecent resources, a calvinist taste for thrift...
if you want a real radical--read about the Diggers, or the LEvellers, or even Bentham--Miller was too comfortable to do anything really dangerous.
Beyond Freedom and Dignity
i am suprised to find skinner on this list--his tendency towards social control seems to be the exact thing that these folks would be into--creepy little motherfucker who refused to tell the difference b/w a rat and a man-the most dangerous book on this list.
Reflections on Violence
The Promise of American Life
havent actually read either of these
Origin of the Species
the death of god, though he was a theist. the rise of mans animal nature, though he was a pafcfist.. a carefully considered theory, placed gently, and with much doubt--the ideas that were mentioned here are really not that dangerous--unless you think young earth creationism is legitmate. (gould wrote that darwin made everyone equal, everyone had the possiblity of coming form the same source, and sectraian violence would be absurd otherwise.
Madness and Civilization
for being the most dominant thinking in the last half of the 20th century, you would figure uncle michel would be closer, and this one--against the authortian state, towards personal autonomy, viewing civilazation at the end of the 20th century, may seem nihillist--but it is a deeply hopeful work, trying to perserve something, a decade after the second world war ended everything.
More Dangerous--these folks tend to hate posties--because it tells us that langauge and ideas are not innately connected, and that we have to work for things to have meaning--but this book doesnt really say that--birth of the clinic, history of sexuality, discipline and punish all say it better--as do derrida, lyotard and buidlallard (who makes fun of america besides)--i am suprised more didnt make it onto the list and this work wasnt higher
Soviet Communism: A New Civilization
exceptionally stupid book from the mid 50s, that presents the ussr as a utopia, the progressive left believed it--which might have something to say about the eligous nature of utopias or the drunk donkey approach of the left. actaully would put it on my list.
Coming of Age in Samoa
continued the idea of the noble savage, continued the idea of a perfect idyliic wilderness, continued the idea of conalism as intergration, silly enough to not know when she is being laughed at, badly written, badly constructed, gave birth to a million hoaxes, forgets the history of western interferencei n samoa since cook, hated book in certain athropolgoical circles--dangerous for all of the reasons above. why is it on this list.
Unsafe at Any Speed
back when nader wasnt crazy, the car blew people up when bumped in minor fender benders--encorouged companies to be responsible for their prducts, hated among the right for inciting a flury of law suits--most convenient some not.
more dangerous: the telephone book (the ad on he back page since my child hood has been for an ambulance chaser)
Second Sex
we will know if the work is as dangerous as we think it is when it is translated into an edition that vaguely resmebles her orginal work--ghost wrote large chunks of sarte, who like most stalinists was deeply boring, and horribly self important.
Prison Notebooks
have not actually read it.
Silent Spring
the only reason why we do not have three dicks and no robins is that this work was written, creating the epa, and encourgaging some vague work on not fuckign up the world as quickly as we had.
more dangerous--jane jacobs, i am convinced the recent destruction of brooklyn for a football stadium is delayed revenge for not getting an expressway.
Wretched of the Earth
havent read it.
Introduction to Psychoanalysis
even this freudian doesnt have the energy to defend freud--but try william reich or jaque lacan.
The Greening of America
havent read it
The Limits to Growth
havent read it.
Descent of Man
the more dangerous, and more explicit of the two darwin books on the list--reading edward o wilson puts the dread
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