thousands of mp3s of birdsongs

please buy me this prada watch, its all chunky and cubey and has slightly off colours.

farnsworth gingerbread house.

radioshack calendar from 1965.

bolts that light up when they are over tightened.

a charming interview with arthur russells partner--it makes russell sound quiet, easy going, and foundationally kind. i am glad that his music and his life are getting this kind of attention. (i also think that measures of queer domesticity, of the quiet every day banalities of our lives, mark a shift of what queer lives encompass.

As I cooked dinner most nights we would usually coordinate eating with watching the “Muppet Show” at 7:30. We both liked the silliness of the various characters and how they would tease and interact with the guest hosts. About an hour later we would have a nightly ritual of determining if we should go get some ice cream, who should go get it and what kind. Being somewhat ‘health conscious’, but still wanting a treat we would finally agree on Hagen Dasz honey vanilla, Arthur usually being the one to go up and down the six flights of stairs to get it! Since I had the “9 to 5” job I would soon be off to sleep while he put on his headphones and played the Casio keyboard, quietly recording into the night in the next room. I still have one of those keyboards, the Casio MT30, which he worked with many, many years ago. He often placed a battery on a key to create a sustained drone along with his playing and singing. Besides his interest in various drum machines, and keyboards Casio’s, DX7’s, etc., Arthur went through innumerable boxes of cassette tapes, each new version of the ‘Walkman’ and batteries, batteries and more batteries!

I have fond memories of Arthur preparing for various performances with his and Steven Hall’s group, the Sailboats or with Ernie Brooks and The Necessaries. As usual there might have been some frustrations for him if a particular music executive didn’t show up or a complaint about the sound system but I also remember the tenderness of our personal time together. I remember one particular late night walking home from a gig with him along a very quiet, desolate lower Broadway, just above Houston Street. It was perhaps 1:00 AM and there were no cars or businesses to be seen. We might have easily walked a few blocks right in the middle of the road. That gradually changed to the busy area it is now. I was so happy just ambling on home with him carrying his cello.

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f-18 Crash in a suburban neighbourhood in San Deigo yesterday.

the conservative anglicans mark the first formal moves towards schism.this ny times story has a telling qoute:

“We’re going through Reformation times, and in Reformation times things aren’t neat and clean,” Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, a conservative who led his diocese out of the Episcopal Church in October, said in an interview. “In Reformation times, new structures are emerging.”

I wonder, sometimes, if Schism is inmevitable, if seeking ways to split that are loving and honest and accurate to the beliefs of both tradition and current practice, of leaving when things are utterly untennable, is the proper way to do t hings, and i also wonder about what the anglicans can learn from the lutherans---and also, if protestants believe that the church is constantly renewing, are not all times reformation times?

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Mickey Mantle, Flordia, mid 50s

140 turkish writers and academics have formally apologized for the areminan genocide.

Ron Blagojevich Govenor of Illinois, is not only a corrupt motherfucker, he is not paticuallry creative or talented in his bribe seeking and bribe taking.

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New Antacrtic robot meant for gathering information about climate change.


Small interview with the v. earnest Robert Adams, that sort of answers the is he being (ironic/critical/enmeshed/loving) towards his (new) topographies.

a storm troopers day on the beach

thank you for choosing the hyatt regency purgatory.

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Edward Muybridge, Animal Locomotion 156, 187?

fantastic easy to use videos and recipes for indian cookery.

this might be my single of the year. kate miller heidke creates a perfect brit dance track (think totally addicted to bass or chewing gum or sugababes) and then sings a song about how she cannot dance. (really funny lyrics too)

steidl catalog entry on STernfield's Oxbow Archives, which I saw at Luhring Augstine when i was in NYC. The entry is a nice essay making connections b/w the landscape as STernfield sees it, and as Church painted it a couple of hundred years earlier, a historical overlay missing in the LA materials.

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ARthur Fosik, Lion,2006 Painted Wood (shown at Scope, Art Basel, Miami)

Alison Malones daughters of job seires are a little too obvious, they document a masonic group of adolsecent girls, and have all of the pseduo mysticism, blankness masking anthropological gawkiness, mocking of small towns, and teenage girl gangliness that sells very well.

i do like how lurid and ugly gregory jacobsen's paintings are. (though they obv. have a profound fear of the vagina, and a hatred of women that verges on the pathological.)

Montanna legalizes doctor assisted sucide.

obama plans huge amounts of capital for infastructure programs.

the cia is hiring

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Two On Set shots from the Creature of the Black Lagoon, from the google life archives.

an entire blog worth of owl tattoos.

Macy Thanksgiving day baloons from 1927

naked girls in halloween masks.

i want this house even if ray thinks it looks like a hotel (he is wrong)

The Northwestern team is currently in the process of securing funding to determine what ingredient in bourbon enables one to finally wrestle one's stepfather to the ground. via the onion.


Shape Note conference from 1996, Singing the Mercy Seat (look at the links on the side for more footage)

benny hinn reaches new levels of simony.

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Annie LEbowitz shot of Michelle Obama in next months vogue

fantastic photos of the Faile studio in NEw York, including footage of their recent scuptural work.

gerald edwards photos of suburban churches are really boring in a most excellent way (what i want to do with the j/w seires)

kinky kong

koatar ide's shell house, just outside of osaka, has a perfect, skewed modernism, like the best of tezuka.


I kind of like Julia Roberts now that she is going all meta and plus this is Clive Owen making fun of his own personae, and it is directed by Tony Gilroy, and i fucking loved Michael Clayton. But it's going to be awful isn't it.

two inch cermaic tiles printed with your image.

esquires

70 Best Sentences, including: Twenty-four years later, on Wednesday, August 28, at nine-thirty o'clock, in full view of ten million people, the little door in William F. Buckley Jr.'s forehead suddenly opened and out sprang that wild cuckoo which I had always known was there but had wanted so much for others, preferably millions of others, to get a good look at. --Gore Vidal, "A Distasteful Encounter with William F. Buckley Jr.," 1969

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Jen comes to meet Nan and Tom and John and she's determined to keep it cool with Tom, to show Nan that she honors her position as Tom's primary. --John H. Richardson, "Scenes from a (Group) Marriage," 1999

Johns Hopkins reviewed 21 Studies and 150k people, and determined that Abortion and Depression are not related.

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Glen Ligon, Gold, date unknown.

Songs, Drones, and Refrains of Death
Texts by Federico García Lorca
1968
Baritone, electric guitar, electric double bass, amplified piano/amplified harpsichord, and two percussionists George Crumb

south african youth are smoking and sniffing anti retrovirals to get high.

1976 scans of Avedon's The Family, portraits of promient Nixonians.

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