From Boing Boing, re Katrina, Email from EMT

The poorest 20% (you can argue with the number -- 10%? 18%? no one knows) of the city was left behind to drown. This was the plan. Forget the sanctimonious bullshit about the bullheaded people who wouldn't leave. The evacuation plan was strictly laissez-faire. It depended on privately owned vehicles, and on having ready cash to fund an evacuation. The planners knew full well that the poor, who in new orleans are overwhelmingly black, wouldn't be able to get out. The resources -- meaning, the political will -- weren't there to get them out.

White per capita income in Orleans parish, 2000 census: $31,971. Black per capita: $11,332. Median *household* income in B.W. Cooper (Calliope) Housing Projects, 2000: $13,263.
The email attributed to a rescue worker reads:
There are dead animals floating in the water, pets left behind. Surely people thought they would be back to collect the pets. Not so. The rescuers smell like gas when they come back in; there's gas in all of the water that consumes the area. Fires are burning all over the place. Our teams are tired and they are thirsty and they are hungry. And they have a place to sleep and water to drink and food to eat. I can only imagine how the people without these "luxuries" are feeling right now.

Each night will be a race against time. When night falls, people can't get picked up from roofs, the rescuers can't chop into people's roofs to check the attics for anyone alive or for anyone dead (sadly, there are dead). At night we can't see power lines we can't see obstacles, we can't see any of the things that will bring down a helicopter or pose a danger to boats rescuers.

One of the teams came in today after having been out for hours at a time. One particular rescuer went straight to a corner and collapsed into tears. I went directly to him and just held his hand. What else could I do? I said nothing. He said it all. They lowered him 26 times and he pulled 26 people to safety. He wants to be back out there but there are mandatory rest periods. His tears are tears of frustration.

Entire teams are working on nothing but evacuating the hospitals. All four of the major hospitals are beginning to flood. Critical patients have to get out or surely they will be lost. Generators cannot run forever; that's just the way it is. There are limited facilities to take those that are rescued and those that need to be evacuated. Anything that leaves by air leaves by helicopter. There are no runways for planes that aren't under water. Only one drivable way in and out.

Water everywhere and more keeps coming. Until they can do something about the three levees that are broken, more water will come and more water will kill. The water poses major health threats. Anyone with even a small open cut is prone to infection. Anyone who touches this water and touches his eyes, nose or mouth without find a way to "clean" himself first will be sick with stomach problems before long. It's bad and it's getting worse. It's not going to be anything better than devastating for days or weeks at best.

I wish I could tell you that I'll check in again soon. I can't. I don't know when my next message will get out. We'll be leaving where we are within just an hour or so.

i could think of katrina, and the hell of 25k people in the superdome w/n adequte seweage, and the 100 people dead so far. or i could think of iraq and more journalists dying in a few years then the few decades of vietnam or i could think of the (maybe) overthrow in mynamar or that canadian law doesnt recoginse extracircualr same gender activity as adultery, or i could think about scalia going batshit over morality, but you know what i just finished my first draft of beauty queens, and its a fucking mess, but its done, so

TINYHOUSESMORETINYHOUSES

norwegian, modualr, similar to shingoura bens radical work with shipping containers.

Picture 3 in the Uta Barth link below, the insane almost radioactive green one, is an out of focus picture ofa vemeer reproduction (lacemakers), which makes it interesting, because it makes us look at it again--ubquity recreated is one of my favoutite themes--and also because everyone who has ever written about that peice talks of the light, but v. few mention the intensity and almost isolating frankness of the bluetones, esp. in how it secualrises the virigin mother, and perhaps makes a statement about domesticity (vemeer) by making the picture about colours in a similar tone, and making it domestic, barth draws a line from the virigin mother to the lace maker to the photog herself, who works domestically.

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[Sim] said that he'd once done an interview with a major news outlet, on the condition that they publish his address, with the notation that anyone interested in reading a full copy of "Tangent," his 20-page essay debunking the "feminist/homosexualist axis," could write to him, and he'd send them a full copy. He said he got exactly one query, and it was from a teenage girl, writing on Spice Girls stationary.

via the onion's trish robinsion

Link Time

28 Uta Barth Photos
The out of focus, concentration on form, light and colour are beautiful, and make the viewer abstract daily sight, reformalizes banal ordinary texts, esp. with her placing blank paper/other forms (ie prints, paintings, etc) near or in substution for the photographic prints themselves, makes us wonder what the difference b/w object making are. i love these. (MocoLoco)

Silver Ring Thing has been denied public money because they were too faith based. This is interesting, because of the much more explict religous work that has been given money w/o controversy...subtext for this that i havent figured out. (Majikste)

real time atom bomb watercolours
Watercolour was often used, from Cook onwards, to document new scientific excercises, so this ties into that, and it oddly/disconcertingly connects to the paradise/polynesian noble savage readings that were common thruout the 19th century as well (ie Stevenson and Gaugain, obviously.) (boing boing)


Anti Sheenan Photos
lots of red baiting, calls to god, ad homeniem attacks, the discourse that runs thru these are really interesting. (mefi)
and from the left just for balance

Radical Sepratists in India are making porn films to further the revoultion

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/houses.htm

tiny houses
well designed, v. small, and hand crafted houses, with amazing use of space, for between 15-40k, and they ship too!

im a little excited about getting a handcrafted, constructed home for less then 60k

1) femminism, the difference b/w urban and rural; the dismissial of womens voices in main stream femminism, etc; womens work and farm work, etc
2) accomplishment and presentation--what it means to balance b/w two tradtional gender presentations, being a woman and being a farmer, being butch and being femme; and grafting that to the idea of modern business professional
3) how close these people are to the land, and the larger concerns about communities of growers and producers, the rural community extending to all sorts of these kinds of events, how they connect to the state fairs for example
4) the history of this, esp, how most of them are post WWII, and how it becomes an almost thanksgiving prayer amongst plenty, and lots of beauty contests became really impt post wwii, so the tension b.w pageant and not being a pageant is there from the beginning
5) the politics of the domesitc.

Americans never spoke Standard English. Americans have never spoken English. George Washington and them beat the people who spoke English and drove them out of here. Most of the white people in America are Cockneys, Irish, Scottish, they never spoke English either. There are more English speakers in Nigeria than in the United States. There are more English speakers in India than in England.

Amiri Bakara, qouted by Silliman on his blog

About Eyes Wide Shut and other things

MartinHSkidmore (4:14:30 AM): I think Kubrick knows deadpan and knows satire, but I didn't spot a lot of either in EWS
AnthonySEaston (4:15:23 AM): how can the papal masked orgy be anything but
MartinHSkidmore (4:16:03 AM): I don't recall that bit clearly, but ridiculous isn't necessarily the same as funny
AnthonySEaston (4:18:25 AM): it actually wasnt erotic at all, either
MartinHSkidmore (4:18:52 AM): yeah, I agree with that
AnthonySEaston (4:20:42 AM): its anti eroticism may have been part of the camp readng though
MartinHSkidmore (4:21:21 AM): or it may be part of a director who can't do human feeling, sexual or otherwise
AnthonySEaston (4:21:42 AM): he did human feeling well in barry lyndon
MartinHSkidmore (4:22:22 AM): I don't think I ever saw that, but it seemed a failing of his generally
AnthonySEaston (4:23:14 AM): i think that a cold analytical eye to human failings, and a fear of humanity isnt t he same as someone who cant do human feelings though?
MartinHSkidmore (4:24:01 AM): no it isn't, but I don't think he had those things
AnthonySEaston (4:24:59 AM): maybe hes an aspie
AnthonySEaston (4:25:07 AM): i connect to him as an aspie, in alot of ways
MartinHSkidmore (4:25:19 AM): that's an interesting point
MartinHSkidmore (4:25:26 AM): I have no idea about SK
MartinHSkidmore (4:25:41 AM): but I guess it gives you another way of relating to some films
AnthonySEaston (4:26:44 AM): to some art
AnthonySEaston (4:26:59 AM): to warhol, to kubrick, to baker in some ways
MartinHSkidmore (4:27:14 AM): Baker?
AnthonySEaston (4:28:24 AM): nicholson
MartinHSkidmore (4:28:53 AM): ah, good call
AnthonySEaston (4:29:12 AM): im not saying they do have aspergers, you know what i mean
MartinHSkidmore (4:29:18 AM): yeah, I know
MartinHSkidmore (4:29:27 AM): and it makes sense
MartinHSkidmore (4:29:45 AM): there's an interesting article in this, except I don't know who would be buying it
AnthonySEaston (4:31:09 AM): no one ever buys for much anyways
AnthonySEaston (4:31:24 AM): do you mind if i blog some of this?
MartinHSkidmore (4:31:38 AM): why would I mind?
MartinHSkidmore (4:31:42 AM): of course not
MartinHSkidmore (4:31:49 AM): it's interesting

got there, got 20 minutes to look over material, tried to find a thread, walked in, 3 people, 40 years older then me, the worker talked, i talked, questions asked, questions answered, left the room, more questions, wait 2-4 weeks, see the large egg, take pictures, stop for burger, mashed, vanilla shake, etc at roadside diner, see two herons, two mallards, and a bison on the trip, talk to raymonds mom thruout

THIS!

BrokeBack Mountain Trailer

i know that the story is about how to negiote the wide space of the prarie and the narrow space of domestic spheres, and the explicit affection between the two principles is what makes it so raw and so impt; i think that the trailer makes the sex b/w men awkard and the domesticity joyous, i think (i worry) that it connects the idea of gay shame, and that it will not be the queer story of the prolux (queer defined in all the usual ways)

the story is really fantastic, because it works against the idea of gayness, the idea that tenderness and devoition can occur in ways that are negoited b/w people and not identity, and i worry the film wont do that

good cast, good writers, good director with good gay themes, i hope

everything is stalled and i hate waiting.
too much of a hassle and too much of a burden to other people.
thinking of quitting everything

its that i need people more then they need me, and well being a drain, and not being able to make my way thru is botherting me more then i can stand, regardless of how other people are handling this.

red head by teller for ray

(i have seen this photo a million times, but look at the far corner, the bright edge there in blue and yellow is a sex position by positions that is found in pattasons work, interesting--what was hinted at is now fully shown?)


jurgen teller is a little more complex then i gave him credit for, i think though his formalism is v. much a way to process away from the usual politics and poetics of portrature (god im sorry for that alliteration) ie his 1996 (check date) book go-sees, or qoutidan poloaroids of models showing up to agencies for their chance to make it big, it has the amuater porn/high art conceptual sheen of lots of pomo hiart photos, lost in pattasons work.

william it was really nothing

http://christianpatterson.com/blog/2004_09_01_archive.html

On Sept 6 (rest of the blog is worth checking out) is a photo of william eggleston eating bbq near memphis with jurgen teller. think of them, think of the photos they take--the portratis that are so casual and intimate they depend on the polite fiction that the voyuer is not there, this young upstart intern takes a photo of them together, and they ignore him--continuing that polite fiction of course. (the exception is the famous eggleston of the woman lin the blue dress, sitting on the yellow curb with the newspaper, seductive that one is)

other things
maybe im a snob, but i cannot imagine that eaggleston eats where he shots (or lives where he shits), the colour, the ephermality seems almost too much for eggleston, too perfect an allusion---hunting in the blog archives, we see an invite for pattasons big brooklyn show, pinking up the red room that made william famous.

Pattason is really interesting because he is so much a son to eggleston--in the sense that he interned with him, that photography is much more of a craft (or was much more of a craft), then other art forms, the workshop, with the assitants working for free, until they devolp a practice of their own is still in play (and is in play for some painters--koons and murakami are the most immediate to mind). Eggleston and his followers have an isolation, darkness, almost meloncholy that Patterson doesnt have.

ive been reading the second volume of wyhoming stories by annie prolux (worth it/77) and her sense of place is so imbuded, that the people are real, even if the stories arent, and looking at pattasons photos of Casper, and thinking, they are like the photos everyone takes of things on the prarie, they are PRESENT, they are filed with the brightness of the land, the glaring and opressive weaher that cannot be escaped from.

the other great thing, that is different from eggleston--is that thru blogging, and thru his connections to vice magazine, etc--he is v, much on the vangarde of an updating of the eggleston, (if we include shore as a son, then thsi is 3rd generation (are shore and eggleston the same generation?, what about tilliman who is v. much later--maybe it goes E/S/T/McGinley or does it go ES/TM?), where the presence i was taking about has a very explicit versmilitude, they see the eggleston and the shore as stage(s/d)

so we have people looking at the camera, then away from the camera, then back at the camera, the looking is what matters, the lack of self awareness--the struggle of sorting what it is, domeunctation, art, craft. all of those, none of those?

PINK

pink!

Rogers v. Koons, 960 F. 2d301, 310 (CA2 1992)

when i first saw the mark chamberlein image above (and others), i thought it wasnt v. erotic (the winner for that would b the two joel schumacher movies from the mid 90s--which didnt even attempt to be closeted ie ) and i thot they were rather cliched (i have seen porn images from batman up to the early 50s, and wartham talked about them in the early 50s saying:

Sometimes they are shown on a couch, Bruce reclining and Dick sitting next to him, jacket off, collar open, and his hand on his friend's arm. Like girls in other stories, Robin is sometimes held captive by the villains ... Robin is a handsome aphetic boy, usually showing his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident. Other times Batman ends up in bed injured, and young Robin is by his side. At home they lead an idyllic life. They are Bruce Wayne and "Dick" Grayson. Bruce is described as a "socialite" and the official relationship is that Dick is Bruce's ward. They live in sumptuous quarters, with beautiful flowers in large vases, and they own a butler, Alfred. Batman is sometimes shown in a dressing gown.

and it might be parody, but its too serious, and too well done--its not nearly as funny as the indie boys in rented costumes found in richardson photos (speaking of richardson--why did he make it first?) (the interesting thing is that according to boing boing they were inspired by richardson) (the notice of media is interesting)

(the richardson)

then this is a copy of a copy, and it may be parodic, but it is also erotic, and its use of drawing means that the drawings are much closer to dc material, but then the orginal slash drawings beginning at the history of batman basically/

if it was about being famous then it would be richardson--and dc is just a cease adn desist, but tis weird that these silly images clichesds, sort of dull would get the first.

(they were on artnet for a while, but artnet is basically just a gallery directory, sponsred by directors who view it as a decent resource, they are caught b/w indie cred and time warners coffers

the man ray here, no. 48--the end of the xian era, stupid dadaists think they kill god via simple word games.
frantisek driktol, no 46, 1913, it was first printed, it would be really powerful to sort out christa (or primary female views of god in xian history, its not all daly and 2nd wave femminism)

look at all of them though

http://www.brucesilverstein.com/JC.htm
Jesus in 20th Century Photography.

i think what the images show, is that the history of christianity in the 20th century is a history of democratazation--it might be the curator, but looking over and over these images--black, queer, female are all placed as christ herself, and f holland day, who made himself christ out of humility, flows into serrano, who made the body central.

the phyiscal christ, and the metaphyiscal christ, both combine into a complicated histography.

jude laws penis is well formed, elegant, uncut, constructed rather largish to the size of his body, and as pretty as anything else on his body...(ie the aquline nose, the pointed chin, the sparrows chest, the almost perfect ass, he even has nice calves)

everyone says its small--but it seems comfortably large to me, and though it most likely is a violation of his privacy, hes a celeb, and anyways we have seen endless varations on the nip slip, one cock in every thousand is only fair.

read air guitar again (the closest book that i have come to explaing why i love and what i love--the taste is similar (wrestling, hank williams, foccualt, drawing over painting, las vegas, commonness, camp,liberace) but more then that, the belief in democratic processes, the belief that art is lots of thats fucking cool, thats pretty, hmm well i think thats interesting, more then this approaches that dialectic. i read it every 6 mos or so, though. (need to get his other book 5 dragons dammit)

moved kevin peirce (married to keira), and there were some intersting things that happened--mostly due to cars. i miss moving, i miss lots and lots about lds culture, the moving being only a small part of it, i miss the bake sales, adn the hay rides and the home teaching, and i miss young mens, and i guess i miss the masculine appeal of straight boys together. richard peirce, who lost a son and a wife in the last couple of years before i stopped being in contact (the last time i saw him was his wifes funeral) and now he is married to a new wife, and he talks about having two harlies and one wife and how that is a perfect life (i love richard, i love his honesty, his intergirty, his rawness--and hes a soilder and a cop, i dont think we ever talked about politics, i suspect that we both know each other would disagree---but its i mpt to me for richard to be happy.) hes a good story teller too.

other things that happened on the move--keira is preganant again-21 and a kid/miscarriage and a other on the way, and a started home, and kevin is working ot be a mechanic, and its a country song of course--or a bobby anne mason story, but country songs and bobby mason songs end, and this one grinds one, they are waiting on tests to tell if the kid in kerias uterus has downs, and it looks pretty likely--and keira is peters brother, and peter was my friend who killed himself just pst mission (weird thing--richard introduced me primarly as peters friend, which reminded me of how much closer him post mortem, terry was his pall bearer, and one of the guiding moments in my life was his mother telling me how much he respected me, how much he liked me..)

things twist together in a small town, due to common tragedy and fewer people, i think--wards and parishes and everyone knows everyone from childhood, and if yr in, yr in and if yr not..you leave. go to the big city. tim mcgraws new single is drugs or jesus, about the methods of escaping in a small town--and being mormon, i guess is chosing jesus. kevin seems blindsided he seems happy, but not sure how he got there, i should have a beer w. him next week.

in a burgandy grand maquis, on the road back to the fort, on those big norad roads--seeing grain and industry talk got back to steve majek--my old young mens leader, and he was a solid fucking guy (solid in charachter, solid in physcality, solid...) and i was in the car with kevin and the two elders, boys boys (what is the difference b/w masculine, butch and macho) and they mentioned that steve was cocky, its a word i dont think i have ever used, and its in a cant i dont understand--when a man is described as cocky, what is being said to him (the conversations i have had with steve that i remember, were the conveserations ive always had with men in the church--quiet, or boisterous--quiet alone, in minivans being taken home or in the corners of the suburban churches--in whispers though i never know why i whisper.)

other things going on
read the hollebcuq essay on hp lovecraft and it was 30 pages of him (good), two lovecraft stories (easily availble), intro by king (good but not great) and biblio/translators notes.

the essay was really useful--because it talked at length about how the mysterious monsters, the unameable horrors, were about his mad racism and fear of the other. the sections where he talked about this, and qouted the letters, it really seemed like he was talking about himself--the fear of blacks and jews in lovecraft as an overwhelming force that destroys good order, is v. similar to MH's view of islam and france. (and his obsession w. hygeine, and his role as exile, maybe)

it also reminded me how much was contained in the scientfic processes--how much Lovecraft tried to maintain the order, avoiding fear (dread) by dissecting it in the way of journals and biogolist--in addition to many other things, there is something perverse in HPL's politics of language (there is an essay to be written about how HPL combines in the same story two v. opposite kinds of langauge--the epic and queer language of myth and the precise and ordinary langauge of science)

i bought the book at auderys, which i ahve been buying from pretty steady for a few years, and which i shoplifted from when i was 18--the owner cornered me, and threatened me in a really passive agressive way, saying that i was no longer welcome, but then i pointed out that it was a youthful indiscreation, and that i had dropped easily , when i was in town 20 or 30 a week there since then, if i wasnt closer to greenwoods (it depended on the state of the universe...) it was strange, to be called accountable for fuck ups people did so young.

have an interview for appeals wrt aish in 2 weeks, but its in vegreville, 30 or so kms away, and no one really drives (maybe kim?) turned down for embolybilites--after hours of meetings and intro sessions--why can they not asses our needs first, one on one, and then do the whole tour rigamole, war against the poor and disabled, over and over again it seems.

why am i caring less and less about the soverginty issues of the new gg, it seems like a loyalty oath more and more--and the academic/poetic way they formulated it, connecting a community b/w the french speaking northen hemisphere nations, and how they dealt w. anglo issues seems more and more a connection to two solitudes-- (esp. AC francophone quebecois has more in common with martinque and haiti then they do with Sask (or even the trad. francophone regions of alberta or manitoba) (but northen cree have more in common with labroador)

koizumi just apologized for the increased japanese miltarisim (whats up w. that)

Tilda as Nico
Camp Casey gets nasty

this one link, is a stupid school in kansas--but for so few books that are written by men about being abused by men, the cult of masculine silence is so strong, esp. among working class, and to have someone as strong a witness as Wolff--they banned this boys life, and beside the obv. skill of the writing, etc...some boys gonna still have the shit kicked out of him by his dad, and hes not going to read this, and hes gonna be broken further for it.

lets send a thousand copies

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/review.php?ID=3284
me

four books

finally the first volume of the elvis bio--which really really really needs more anaylis
the cute manifesto, and outlines (solid, clever and camp reclamation of lost queer desire
nick tosches country--which i keep forgetting how much of a guiding force it has been to, and how deep it is --and how funny, dirty, sexay and political. hsi work on country and sex, country and race, is difficult but i think transformative, beginning to take it seriously.
(76)

sorry for all the lists--there may be something here though

http://www.bergpublishers.com/us/fashion/fashion_style.htm

fashion journal, for the third point of the show

there are 10 things about the costuming.

1) the connection between hunting and soldiers, (and by extenstion the connections b/w a soilders dress uniform and his killing uniform.
2) the connection between function and form
3) the practical idea that different kinds of hunting require different kind of camo
4) the culture of masculinity that surrounds the buying and selling of these objects
5) the pyschological readings of hunters orange
6) a history (american?) of costuming and hunting
7) the seperation b/w clothes done by show hunters and meat hunters.
8) how hunting clothes have not been repositioned by communites who make fun/camp up other masculine signifers (AA and yuppie wear/fags and everything)
9) the asethetic/politcal implications of something called a killing uniform.
10) maybe a class anaylisis of ll bean/sears/other mail order

im whistling in the dark, inital work and all that--but this could be 25 pages, im just not that rigous when it comes to academic writing.

sorry, some dual versions there.

top five reasons
1) the formal, ritualised posing--how there are spec. rules that come with the different animals--indicating status.
2) the costuming, emerging from a contradictory fuctionalism (ie the other hunters cant shoot us so we should wear clothing thats really bright, the animals cant find us we must wear camafaluge.) it reminds me of the tension of the dress/battle uniform of soilders.
3) how in hunting pictures (not sport--hunting!) from the neolitihic onward, have shockingly similar poses, etc.
4) what it means to pose wtih dead animals. in the sense that those who hunt for food do not photograph like those who hunt for trophy--but i bet money that everything but the boar and the wolf of these photos, is v. much used for meat.
5) there is a homosocial nostaliga of a world w/o women, in these magazines--which might explain why it is so liked by the conserative power of our country.

from birdwatch.com via boing boing



and this too
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyID=2005-08-12T132553Z_01_EIC248266_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-ENVIRONMENT-BEAR-DC.XML

http://playlist.yahoo.com/makeplaylist.dll?id=1374070&sdm=web&qtw=640&qth=400
jarhead trailer--really really good...jesus walks as soundtrack, gyllenhall was a good choice for this, more of a feeling rather then narrative.

jarhead the book, i need to read again, it convinced me towards pacisfism and ray towards war--which says something.

this is going to be a long one.
pink helmets in front of you....

new template--got sick of the green writing, i lost the links, so i will have to add that--archives on the bottom, which makes it cleaner.

anne truitt sentienal 1978

7 foot column, white on beige, with a band of blue and red on the bottom 6 inches.

blue and red being the tradtional colours for people who did sentinals, and truitt being really litearal in the connection b/w title and colour in the rest of her work...(ie cataylid is green, ocean wall is blue, picket is white, etc) so why the signifying colours so basically non essential? (i dont think i like truitt, brilliant writer, but i dont think i like her art, but then anything with dimensions so fucking large is (i mean its meant to tower over you, its size to almnost intimidate you...)

agnes martin rose 1964
acrylic, pencil, ink, canvas

its a busy one for her, which means the grid is really close and their are more colour then there usually are (four), and it hums--her work always hums, and its of course lovely, and spirtual, and the catalog entry on this work talks about her mediative holiness, and her work from the mid 60s, should be her best work (i make a point for mid90s, and the stuff done near her death--and i dont like her painted work as much as her prints and drawings--and she pretty much autmatically kicks me up to god)

the best thing about this one though, is that it reminds me so much of those super microscope close ups of clorphyll (sp) (i wonder if i am becoming bored of agnes or her critical reception) (i love her, and ive been in reveries before,,,)

met up with d, in from toronto--gave me new bag, comics, catalogs, air guitar, october, etc etc...we walked around, looked at galleries, bought comics...fun!

comics i bought
ed the happy clown--strange, surreal, freudian, obsessed with shit, and ritual humilation, i think that its some of the best work of brown, and i wish that it was more famous then the self serious HISTORICAL nonesense of louis reil, which i thot was basically a hagrogriphy done by someone who didnt understand god.

a (first name) ngui about a man giving birth to a pig, strange and transgressive, like robert munch gone all grim--good paper, well constructed, too expenisve.

Don James mosquito--BUY THIS NOW, NOT YESTERDAY, NOW. small, intense, abstract, non narrative, beautiful, well drawn, horribly noble, good if not great use of white space, beautiful, transcedently beautiful.

the cute manifesto--its werid that considering that this one was supposed to be about how drawing doesnt matter, jimmy k does his most formally innovative, emotially resonant, skilled, well crafted, drawing for drawings sake, sublime, anti cute work--and how the writing used to be so good, the best thing about the books, and now the writing is medicore, at best.

superfuckers--throw away jokes, kind of naughty, juvilenelle, but i lose myself in him drawing trees. (which was the best thing about cute--that and pansies, dandelions)

got a book out of the library about contempary art at moma, and there is some neat stuff there, including this:

not exactly this one, but one like this one, for droog, who does brilliant work anyways

so they are like this, but with a more circualr shape.

and a slew of brilliant louise borgeious drawings--which reminds me, do you know what they have done with hr giant sculptour of a spider mother, mamon:

made it a cafe canopy

saw dukes--well written, well acted, placed some obstructions, explained things that needed to be explained, good fun, some chaos--not brilliant but good fun, which most of the critics dint seem to understand.

talked to ray for about an hour which is something that i have not done in a long time,

been taking ltos of polorids lately--of:
garden house
tulip stalk and rock
pine cones and branches
condos
peeling paint
flowers
pick ups
chimeys
windows
firestone tire company sings
the brant hotel sign (red, w. a lark)
golf carts
wal mart carts (q: why are you taking a foto of that. a:b/c its beautiful)
telephone lines
road
Royal Canadian Legion, and flag
Hobo grafitti
garage
air stream
airplane weather vane
turqoise fringed umbrella
jonquils
more trees
etc

should i send todd 4k words on Brad Pasley.
go over to d's blog and look at the cloud pictures

(saw today, a purple and blue intense cloud portrait, they had this amazing colour, dusky indigoy blue, 4ft sq. and then the other a violety purple, 3x4--and they all had stirations, to indicate movement, so they were sort of comicy, but the colour was really amazing, unreproducable. the artist and the currators called them zen but the intensity of the colours, and the sheen (walnut oil varnish, a 500 yr old trick (cf stilllives from the low countries, ca 1490s) really thot of american sources--for example, warhol shadows, some of rauschenberg later collages, the ruscha's elephant/bison printpaintigns from the mid 80s, but all of thsese and none of these--almost unique)

also saw ashley, we will have lunch tomorrow i think, i miss him, lost this number and bought a bat puppet.

speaking of colour--tis harvest, and the colours are fucking popping--the canola, the skies, the wheat, the light on white, red or silver barns, flax in the fields, grass, whispering aspens, etc etc

from pink is the new blog, outtakes from the infamous W magazine shot.

Dear Anthony:  Thank you so much for this application. You are obviously a highly qualified candidate, and someone who it would be great to have involved in Rhizome. Unfortunately, we have filled the position at this point.  Please be in touch with me if you might be interested in writing for Rhizome in the future. All the best, Lauren

highly!

Is football playing: Along the river shore,;
With lads to chase the leather,: Now I stand up no more?

thats the hausman qoute--and there has to be a football image lost somewhere in someone archives--thats the thing with ephemeral/underground nature of material.

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so i went to the library today, to get what ever was being shipped to me via ILL (small town libraries, ive read thru what i could in about 2 mos.)

and to greet me was out/lines:gay graphics before stonewall. which is basically porn--an impt, amazing, well constructed, beautiful book that compiles erotic emphermea that would have been lost otherwise--but sucking and fucking, ones, twos, threes, orgies, bdsm, rape fantasies, etc etc-from france, britian, canada, the us, germany, finland.

this is a small town--the woman who usally deals with these is amazing, incredibly cool.
1) she was asked by tim who requested it, in a way that made me sound like some kind of fag perve, and susan responded, that easton boy--which was such an arch way that it blew apart everything
2) there is a fellow librarian who is basically homophobic, and susan was tempted to allow her to process the book, which she should have done
3) she bitched about the mothers who would have had a coniption fit, and she used the word politically correct in a really withering, babbit harper valley pta kind of way.

the porn is fantastic, and as porn usually does, it indicates all sorts of politics--the standard id stuff, which i could talk about, but the best ones are by an anon. english artist. of sex in pubs, back rooms, confessionals, etc--really common places, which is neat anyways. But the absoulte best thing about them, is that all of them have these huge goofy grins, like they are having fun--you never see smiles in porn anymore--that and they all look like you or rugby players. there is something so ordinary and wonderful about the documentary aspect of it they also seem really timeless, like they could be done by anytime from chaucer onwards

i also finished my box of froot loops today. and was really looking forward to the prize, until i realised it was a pedometer--now im a 24 yr old man who should know better, but for a 6 yr old you can imagine a shittier prize. does everything have to be healthy and perscriptive.

some days i love america

so i had dinner with an lds friend, a new buddy, and i was trying to explain a few things,
a) that jesus was not a christian
b) that paul invented the category set "jesus"
c) that objective truth didnt matter
d) the idea of cauldron creation
e) the idea that it didnt matter about the book of mormon as actual history
f) the idea that asking questions about it didnt mean i was trying to debunk
g) the idea that fact and truth are different creatures

Things I have Been Thinking of Lately

1 Alex Katz is shit for people
2 Alex Katz not doing people is one of the most moving things ive encountered
3 Alex Katz doing trees is pure formal heaven,

1a

1b

(this might not be moving, i cannot explain it, but that spring kelly green of new grass is so fucking pretty, and i have seen it so few places, irl--it was one of those things i imagined as unreproducable)

(exreme close up of lake water)
1c
(im looking for my favourite katz,called Birches painted in 2002...but its good)

Links:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/05/AR2005080501483.html

Salaman Rushdie calls for a consistent islamic reform. the writing is clean, clear, non polemical, and makes claims towards the autonomy of poetry. worth reading.

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB68LI31CE.html
the world presbrytian council is refusing to support a huge number of war mongers---they have a rather large purse, so this is big.

http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/08/wooster-exclusive-banksys-travel.html
culture jammer banksy puts graffiti on the berlin wall, good and clever images that wont really change a thing.
(nethenhayu resigned from the kessent (sp) today because of the withdrawl from gaza--the wall, and then this, one step forward and two steps back...i wonder what bush and the americans think of this, knowing that the position there is that the plo and company are terrorists/comparing w. the negoations that resulted in the withdrawl.

in defense of the moral ambiguity and musical innovation of the country charts

As Good As I Once Was, Toby Keith
rockabilly, southern rock, a bit of western swing, mainstream country. any song that advocates threesomes cannot really be considered upholding family values. toby keith workign the libertine angle.

Something More, Sugarland
girl pop, bluegrass, MOR

Mississippi Girl, Faith Hill
i have written about a ppgh on this on the country thread

Fast Cars And Freedom, Rascal Flatts
i have to think about this more, but i think the same arguements about the Flatts are covered by Gentry, they are almost gentry light.

Play Something Country, Brooks & Dunn
indicates the critically aware, self referential music that i dont think is conserative

Alcohol, Brad Paisley
the most tradtional,

Don't Worry 'Bout A Thing, SheDaisy

Do You Want Fries With That, Tim McGraw
tim is interesting, because i think that he has found his voice in a certain genre, but his politics are liberal, and he is aware of how he is using country. he is not politically conserative at all (this, drugs or jesus, red rag top)

A Real Fine Place To Start, Sara Evans
this actually rocks kind of, and has changed in her use of intstrumentation and voice, from something like suds in the bucket...and its call towards change, its call away from complaecney is something i find common in country--and a mark against the same old life of consterativism

Making Memories Of Us, Keith Urban
he is on ez rock more then he is on the country radio here, which makes him a mongrel, even if he is a bit white bred--he is also an aussie, which might mean something against the ubquity of nashville.

Help Somebody, Van Zant
Somebody's Hero, Jamie O'Neal
these two i am downloading as we speak

Something To Be Proud Of, Montgomery Gentry
the gentry has been talked about as genre shattering over and over again, by dozens of people, google them.

Redneck Yacht Club, Craig Morgan
this is the one t hat comes closest to his arguement, and one could make the same arguements that one does about brooks and dunn, but i think its too lazy even to make those. (its damn good fun though)

Arlington, Trace Adkins
actually mentioning the dead in iraq, as real people, is not something that the conserative elite in this country do (yeah its jingoistic, but it complicates the war--it isnt chely wright, remember the bush whitehouse refuses to allow people to photograph coffins)

Georgia Rain, Trisha Yearwood
this one is almost the exact same song as the new faith hill, but like faith hill's the audience is well aware of the explicit making of biography into art, i think yearwood's is the better sung and better written, but i find it less direct.

Keg In The Closet, Kenny Chesney
fantastic song, and about the sunbelt, about nostalgic, of course--but nostalgic in the way that is expected. its weird to call a song about fratboys progressive--but they put away childish things, they put away the college stuff, and go forward. it is much closer to the populist folk of jcm then it is anything like hank either.

Stay With Me (Brass Bed), Josh Gracin
(i havent listened to this one yet)

Hicktown, Jason Aldean
its a monster rock track

http://mcgtruckin.blogspot.com/2005/06/how-to-fuck-donkey-by-daddy-2005.html

step by step instructions--but unlike most fiction and most how-tos on the web, its brilliantly written, poetic, and emotionally open--the preversity becomes genuinely transgressive, and sublimated to high qauality writing.

Hey Anthony:

This review clocks in at about 350 words.  Please make it a bit longer if
you can.

Thanks.
Todd.

so i wrote this 4000 words or so on Brad Paisley's new album and neo tradtionalism, sexually, religouslly and politically, and went back to eddys email saying he might take a short side bar on how Paisley hates women--so i sat down and slowly ruthlessly cut 3600 words.

how short is short--is 420 short ?

nitsuh on an old ilx thread called bakers checkpoint his attempt at legacy--and not immediatelyt political, and its a weird thing to say about a book that was sold on being about two men in a hotel room, one of them trying to convince the other not to shoot bush.

its a hard book, and one that marks a bitter and explicit turn against the american culture of violence on both the left and right--it is shockingly pro life, in the most literal sense of the word, against murder, against abortion. it tells us we lost wwii, that our work in hiroshima and dresden was the death of civilization, but so was abortion. its not cloying, its strangely not polemical, its human--with the details of a dropped life.

i think that it was misunderstood, too firey when it was released, but baker is a (i was going to write brilliant, but hes not--hes earthy, mundane, broken, and quiet--his obv. talents are the exact opposite of brilliant: i think that he might be the best writer working today, but that might be because he has published so small and so little, nothing over 200 or so pages) (this might also be why he is less respected then he should be)

ive also read a volume of shaker hymns, which have much in common (work, zion, mother god, simplicity, alt. family structures, new jersulem, craft) with much of the other burnt over regions, and i wonder about smiths (talent/skill) as a bricolouer, and wonder if it has been written about.

and an ed ruscha, which i am going to qoute text prints from the mid 70s for a while.
romance with liquids
made with onion juice on onion paper, and it has that white on white translucent glow
various miracles
(with a milton averyesque god descending from heaven to accompony it (also catholic comics, the rays behind moroni, the halo shines from Griffith King of Kings, etc)
sloberin' drunk at the palamino
(black field white text)
three darvons and two valiums
(valley of the dolls/san fernado valley (mottled pale pale pink and white text)
i was gasping for contact
(sickly greygreen, orange hole in the center) letters on the diagonal
I Plead Insanity BEcause I'M Just Crazy About That Little Girl
(dark to light red, top to bottom, v. v. subtle newmanesque transition) (its obv. a qoute from somewhere (rockabilly/country im thinking--elvis?!?!)
sea of desire
the letters are all over the place, tipping drunkenly left or right, and look like they were cut from tinfoil. feild right to left, mango to black)
find contact lenses at the bottom of a swimming pool
i love this one, its an update almost of i once was blind but now i see, and the feild is this grainy, sunny, aqua and white, like being in a pool and seeing light almost--and its almost an impossible task anyways) (and rauschenberg collected it to!)
He Walks into a meeting hall full of workers and yells out, "O.K, What Is it You Guys Want, Pontiac Catalinas?"
marrianne moore, the poet, was asked once to write 1000 names for ford cars, the edsel i think among others--but pontiac catalina is pretty poetic--the spit of the p, the harsh t, no space left, then the k, like two kicks, a nother two hard consanats, and the feather bed of lina...is it any wonder that silliman loves ruscha?

he enjoys the co. of women (love the co. there)
they called her styerene (the colour of a tequila sunrise, title of book)
honey, i twisted through more damn traffic today
dirty baby (more tin cut outs)
i dont want/ no retro/ spective
n'dinette sets
1/2 starved/1/2 crocked/1/2 insane
a squid eating dough in a polyetheylene bag is fast and bublous...got me? (brilliant sentence)
industrial village (new font, the i in industry is covered, and the whole thing floats over a thick black sludge)
hollywood is a verb (perfect red rothko)
areosal particles suspended in haze
is it overcast, radiation fog or scud

and dozens more...

on jenny holzers lustbord. (writing on skin, steel clipped to bone bracelets, etc)

blood bone and the usualy poetic cryptic statements, thinkign mostly about the 3 main colours of ballpoint ink, and the soft yeilding sensousness of it pressing on skin.

the sentences are moving haunting koanic --and like the rest of holzers work deeply public and deeply personal (more personal then public--more intimate then billboards, as close to flesh as the t shirts)

it reminds me of a couple of personal anecdotes

i used to ahve a fetish about lovers writing on me--long complicated sentences, grocery lsits, poems, obsecenities, ink, crayon, paint, etc. i wrote a poem about it and it was rejected as bad teenage nonesense, adn it was my first rejection and i dropped the fetish (this was a time when i had people who i could actually call lovers, i havent had one of those in years)

also it reminds me of the things i write on my hands, call numbers for library books, addresses, phone numbers--immediate things to retrive before the next washing, that arent really worth the scurrying arround for a notebook.

the peice also reminded me of how close tru crime and porn where(article in this weeks ew--about how the bush crackdown on sexuality has resulted in a blossoming of hard core rape and sexual sadism as entertainment on television...chilling qoute from the article:"since the american broadcasting system has more restrictions against sexuality , you can get away with amplyfying sexuality, it resuklts in this weird sadistic element. putting women in these sexual situtations is a back door way of getting more flesh in" (cf sin city and their portyral of whores)

holzer did this peice in the mid90s:here are two qoutes from it

"I want to fukc her where she has too much hair"(blue ink on the palm of a man with hair creeping towards the text)
"Her gore is in a ball of cleaning rags. i carry out the dumping left from my mother. ive turned to hide her jewellery. (women long arm, red ink)

Poetry is no use whatever. The whole notion of usefulness is irrelevant to what are called the fine arts, as it is to many other things, perhaps to most of the things that really matter. We who call ourselves "The West," now that we've stopped calling ourselves Christians, are so imbued with the zeal for usefulness that was left us by Jeremy Benthem that we find it difficult to escape from utilitarianism into a real world.
Basil Bunting

Qouted Here:
http://www.poems.com/keilaugu.htm

link time.

two new york times articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/magazine/31PHENOM.html?ei=5088&en=746818a89acdb723&ex=1280462400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122868896-CZNKdFYhhGj6NAo1NwG4tA
one about friedlander at the (whitney?)
two things you need to know about this one
1) 500 images in the show/842 images in the catalog--is his inability to edit a photo similar to his inability to edit a show, is this huge size a sort of overwhelming cataloging bullying?
2)'I only wanted Uncle Vern standing by his new car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry, and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on a fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography (friedlander himself)
that visual noise is most likely his power, and i need to spend more t ime w. him.

this one on the new lds cinema--not napeloan dynamite (which im ignoring, though i should see b/c of the usual reasons) or lebute, but mormon film for mormons that is making real money and is spilling into the protestant underground.
in a theory course last year i made the arguement that the last subversive culture left in america is a xian one, this furthers that belief.
i havent seen any of the films made by the directors mentioned, but i have seen the one from 1917 and its hott. ray and i should sit down and watch this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/magazine/31PHENOM.html?ei=5088&en=746818a89acdb723&ex=1280462400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122868896-CZNKdFYhhGj6NAo1NwG4tA

http://www.jeremyokaidavis.com/index.php?cat=1&set=7&item=82
this guy has taken the exact same fotos as me, with the same medium!

three submissions in the last ten days
abstract to an sfu conference on critical heterosexuality
10 photos, artist statement and bio to see saw magazine
3 poem/sermons to a journal about cross genre adn discipline out of stanford.

30 pages behind on the book!

link time.

two new york times articles
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/magazine/31PHENOM.html?ei=5088&en=746818a89acdb723&ex=1280462400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122868896-CZNKdFYhhGj6NAo1NwG4tA
one about friedlander at the (whitney?)
two things you need to know about this one
1) 500 images in the show/842 images in the catalog--is his inability to edit a photo similar to his inability to edit a show, is this huge size a sort of overwhelming cataloging bullying?
2)'I only wanted Uncle Vern standing by his new car (a Hudson) on a clear day. I got him and the car. I also got a bit of Aunt Mary's laundry, and Beau Jack, the dog, peeing on a fence, and a row of potted tuberous begonias on the porch and 78 trees and a million pebbles in the driveway and more. It's a generous medium, photography (friedlander himself)
that visual noise is most likely his power, and i need to spend more t ime w. him.

this one on the new lds cinema--not napeloan dynamite (which im ignoring, though i should see b/c of the usual reasons) or lebute, but mormon film for mormons that is making real money and is spilling into the protestant underground.
in a theory course last year i made the arguement that the last subversive culture left in america is a xian one, this furthers that belief.
i havent seen any of the films made by the directors mentioned, but i have seen the one from 1917 and its hott. ray and i should sit down and watch this.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/magazine/31PHENOM.html?ei=5088&en=746818a89acdb723&ex=1280462400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1122868896-CZNKdFYhhGj6NAo1NwG4tA

http://www.jeremyokaidavis.com/index.php?cat=1&set=7&item=82
this guy has taken the exact same fotos as me, with the same medium!

three submissions in the last ten days
abstract to an sfu conference on critical heterosexuality
10 photos, artist statement and bio to see saw magazine
3 poem/sermons to a journal about cross genre adn discipline out of stanford.

30 pages behind on the book!

rob pruitt--he did carpet that had the panda motiff as well.



big part of the essay, want to include the picture for future reference (tim gardner)

its walton ford

one of d's favourites--not mentioned in the essay, but have been thinking about it for a long time.



usually hate longo, but the sea and graphite changes my mind



he does drawing centered perfomances, john meese.


i like the strange decadent minialism of late lewitt, the kind that looks like carnival flags and crazy quilts. esp. effective in this german musuem

fred sandback, four strings and the world changes (how do you buy these--have they been at auction of late?)



ruth root, a poppier, less ceberal sean scully.


gallery in new york does these plates, like franklin mint for the hipster set.

baltz again