"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhre that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new filmes, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speaks directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery-celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take thing from - it’s where you take them to’"

—Jim Jamursch

http://www.gladstonehotel.com/piecework_call.html

White Masculinity in the Recent South Trent Watts ed. Louisanna UP

"Few would claim to be working class, although all would claim to be working men..."
83

...members of Clear Run, like those of other white Southern men, view the pursuit of white tail deer as a natural, even nessc. reason for white Southern men and boys , increasingly suburban, or urban with predomintely indoor lifestyles and careers, to enjoy the outdoors...
89

From A Real Place, Attitudes and Enviroment in a Southern Deer Camp. Adam Watts.

Enclyopedia of Southern Culture Charles REagon Wilson, Chapel Hill.

Roy Blount Jr,
Fryle Guillard
Xgau
Jackson Browne, Redneck Friend.

Haunted Bodies: GEnder and Southern TExts, Anne Goodwyn Jones

True WEst: Authencity and the American West. Handley and Lewish ?U Nebraska.

Authenticity implies realibility, genuineness, and validity... (261)
Scott Slavic Authenticity, Occupancy and Creed in the Works of Rick Bass.

Dorthoy Allison Skin, Firebrand Books, 1994

Traditional femminist theory has had a limited understanding of class differencesa and how sexuality and self are shaped by both desire and denial... 15

I understand we were the bad poor: men who drank and couldnt keep a job, women invaribly pregrant before marriage, who quickly became worn, fat, and old from working too many hours...
18

I SHOULD OWN THE FOLLOWING HATS:

A) COSSACK HAT
B) STRAW COWBOY HAT
C) FEZ (TRADITIONAL)
D) FEZ (SHRINER)
E) MOUNTIE PILLBOX (
F) PANAMA
G) BASEBALL HAT (JAPANESE TEAM)
H) MITRE (ANGLICAN)
I) BARETTIA (CATHOLIC)
J) TOQUE (BEPOMPOMED)

K) THE SWEDISH HAT PARTY OF THE 18TH CENTURY

L) BUSBY
M) CAUBEEN (WITH BLACK SILK RIBBON)
N) A WHITE FELT STETSON
0) PHYGIAN CAP (BECAUSE I AM A LIBERTINE)
P) TURBAN (TURQOISE, LIKE LIZ)

I'm putting on my favorite cowboy boots
Like a crazy bull rider coming out of the chute
Ready for some dancin', maybe too much beer
Like bare-back rubbin' going on in here

Hey little cowgirl leave the Stetson on
Let's cowboy up and down all night long

She said her name was Levitra Marcantonio
I'm a bare back rider, Okie, don't you know
These frozen margaritas are going to my head
I could not believe it when Levitra said

Hey mister cowboy come on and take me home
Gonna cowboy up and down, honey, all night long

All night long you're coming on strong
All night long come and do me wrong

Hey little cowgirl leave just your Stetson on
Gonna cowboy up and down, honey, all night long

Hey little cowgirl leave just your Stetson on
Gonna cowboy up and down till Levitra's gone

Vince Gill, Cowboy Up (note the use of the term bareback)

Prozac is a mystifed self rather than a mystical self. The drug offers a small island in the abyss; a bit of land in teh deep chasm into which ones soul is disappearing. Slowly this bit of land grows until the abyss is covered over---covered over or filled in? what happens to the abyss? Is it simply hidden behind a facade? Can this land bult with drugs be real? If so, what is the nature of its reality" Alice Bullard (147)

Another aspect of the disgusting that Miller contempaltes has to do with the partibility of the human body. The body can be pulled apart. Drawn and quatered. Loosened by decay. Few things are digusting in ones mouth than a human hair, because it signifes this bodily disintergration. Miller cites a study in which toddlers were observed placing all manner of unilely objects in their mouths; they were happy to eat poo and paint and other odds and ends, but showed aversion to a stringle strand of hair. On this point, Miller challenges FReud about his analysis of "castration fear" It isn't just the penis men fear losing, Miller argues, but also their fingers and toes. A classic anxiety dream features tehe crumbling of one's teeth. We fear falling apart (105)

()about William Miller's Anataomy of Disgust)

Adults with panic disorder and agoraphobia are governed mostly by the apprehension of the panic attack itself, that they will panic without warning, and won't be able to cope. They cannot predict it; that is what haunts them and keeps them out of resturats and subways. "Fear came upon me" Henry James Sr wrote in a letter to his son William, and "the thing had not lasted ten seconds before I felt myself a wreck, that is, reduced from a state of firm vigorous, joyful, manhood to one of almost help,less infancy. So Sudden and extreme is this expereince that it is like being punched in the face...223

All qotes from A Breif History of Anxiety (Yours and Mine) by PAtricia PEarson.

Mills and Boons team up with the Rugby Union (Anglo version of Nascar themed Harlequins. order them by the bundle here

562 baptized in a tailgate themed party, at the parking lot of an Anderson, TX megachurch.

very small array does net based conceptual art

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Vintage interview with Jim Jones son, recently unearthed. (like all great american journalism, it begins with guns and money, and then gets strange)

the birth and death of a realtionship, told via embrodied text messages by ginger anyhow.


I have always thot that Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe was one of the only shows about working class values and culture on American Television, and though it was subtle about how it worked thru those issues, with good humour and a delicacy, it was a strangely political text--Rowe talking to Flora TV, confirms it (watch this)

40 years after greenbergs death, and the triumph of pop, there has been a number of attempts to re/deconstruct the narratives of modernism, this year it is the sardines and oranges show at the hammer, and a show of colourfield/shaped painting/decorative artist from the 60s called the Park Place crowd, at Blanton in Austin. link to the orange and sardine show here, with a mind blowing early hesse.

vatican gets a berth at the binellae.


Felled from Alex Itin on Vimeo.
Nice Little Film by Alex Itin, with some droney feldman music.

24 photos of irish drystone walls.

From Untitled Album

Clive Owen in Italy.

salman rushdie tears bombay millionare a new asshole.

a dozen photos by heidi silmane of ysl's estate, formal and cold, and v. v. beautiful, in lovely b&w, the one of the glasses on carpet, moved me strangely and mournfully.

Jan Kaplinky visionary, futurist, and freak, making some of the most ball grabbingly weird buildings in the 20th Century, a sort of postmodern gaudi died last week.

I remember being in London, about 7 years ago, after a few hours in the british musuem, and in the book stores around there, and walking to the oxford circus, with its commerical noise, and having his storefront there, with its fracturing and its rigid patterning, provide a concise amagulation of both instincts. Plus his Selfridges for Brimingham is all spacey, plus its covered with giant sequins!


the first robotic gamelean.

The absence of utopian drive is perhaps almost as serious as an overdose of it.

~ Rem Koolhaas

jerry saltz decimates marlene dumas in a facebook update, causing the art world to caniption it out.

From Untitled Album

German Inventor makes Bloodbag for children.

the cheif of rabbi has an unsettling mystic moment.

mre VV media sleaze.

Tolkien: The Lord of The Mines - Or A Comparative Study Between Mining During the Third Age of Middle-Earth by Dwarves and Mining During Our Age by Men (or Big-People) actual paper in a Mining Engineer Journal.

From Untitled Album

Cy Twombly, Drawing, 1965 (Graphite and Coloured Pencil)

hand crafted leather masks, beautiful detail, by Tom Banwell.

sister corita kent book i never heard of.

Balderassi Prime FAcie, funny and v. LA. (i keep trying to write about Balderassi, and i mean it plays the same game as Ruscha does, in that it does v. formal, v. high wire/lingustic work, but also makes these sexy/campy/funny pop peices, so it's a joke, and it is a deep lingustic joke, and it is an immediate joke, but it is also a joke w/o the freudian anxiety of people like well, Warhol or Prince. I think that the difference b/w LA pop and NY pop ius that LA pop is unafraid of the sunshine, there is nothing ceberal about it--& the assumption is that if one is not ceberal one is not thinking--Balderassi says lots of really interesting things about the way bodies or minds or desire or informaiton or media work/travel--what words mean, what formalism does in art, but also, sometimes its animal house jokes in latin. smart w/o being cebereal, formal w/o being cold, internal w/o being insidery, decadent w/o decay (like the legendary flash fronzen corpse of disney)

There is a reason Chuck Eddy wrote about this in his metal book:


marian cottillod does that old fashion trick of trying to look decadent in dead european hotels, almost succedes.

From Untitled Album

Platon won a national magazine award with this pic

Hokey meets authentic, kitsch meets cool, and frequently it's hard to sort out guitly pleasures from geninune masterpeices.

from vinyl hayride, Ray Kingshore, Chronhicle, 2005

There can be no esoteric truth of sex to be discovered by dilligent research, only prescepitives or contending truths whos cultivation is essentially political rather then scientfic.
Jeffery Weeks
Sexuality and It's Discontents, 251

Donna Harroway

Andrew Levinson, who lost the working class, the nation, May 11, 2001,

Butler, Bodies That Matter

BW Connell, Masculinties, Cambridge, Date Unknoiwn.
White Weedings, Romancing Hetroswzaility in Pop Culture C Ingrham, Routledge.
Michael S Roth: The Ironists Cage: Memory, Trauma and the Construction of History, NY, 1995

I am arguing for fluidity b/w these phenonomen rather then for rigid distinctions. For example, when personal memories are organized into narratives that constrast the "there and then" with the "here and now" they can be seen as informal histories, with their own modes of evidence and analysis....

note 21, from You Must Remmber this:Autobiography as Social Writing, Jacqueline B Hall (confirm name)

Gender and Southern Body Politic, Univesity of Mississippi

Sims, Power and Femminity in the New South, ?

ten things to do this week:

1. fax resume to pd with cover letter that states what i am looking for, and what my expereince is, mention alan.
2. call pd 48 hours after that call b/w 8:30 and 4:30 to come in for an interveiw
3. Diverse City will call back about disability or glbtq issues
4. Call MacFab at 416 922 6000 (lola) looking for exact job depiciton.
5. complete resume and submit for coop job
6. call xtra monday about gallery options
7. check what needs to be done for feb.
8. call AGO tomorrow morning about voluenteering 416 925 6665
9. FAB for bath monkey job
10. Like Louise Package
11. Marcus for female abstractionist under 40 show (blue sky/balloon)
12. confirm GLGA gig
13. see houses on monday and tuesday
14. graham on wednesday
15. send resume to Kiosk
16. compile retail/design resume.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

the mini pepsi can represents a blue slime

the mini pepsi can represents a blue slime
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True West : authenticity and the American West / edited by William R. Handley and Nathaniel Lewis. ImprintLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2004.

American silence / Zeese Papanikolas. ImprintLincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2007.

Western places, American myths : how we think about the West / Gary J. Hausladen, editor. ImprintReno : University of Nevada Press, c2003

To Whichever Officious Cunts are in Charge of This:

I am requesting help at the board of inquiry. You are seeking a lease, for me to put my investment account solely under personal control, and for documents from those accounts. I can address the problems with each of these concerns.

The first situation is the lease. As I explained to the caseworker on December, 27, 2008, I was living in an informal arrangement paying rent month by month. Now that I have the housing allowance from Ontario Works, and since I have been told that no lease, no cheque, I have been looking for places since the beginning of January. I have called 25 places that I could afford in those two weeks. 12 were still for rent, and were not limited by gender. Of those 12, only 4 were suitable, in the sense that they were clean, vermin free, had fully functioning kitchens and bathrooms, and were not unreasonably far from my support network. Of those 4, one has subsequently been taken, I am waiting for one to get back to me, and 2 will not give me a lease. For those who are living below the poverty line, housing is often informal, often month to month or other forms of sublets. No one has explained to me how exactly to get a lease from someone who is unwilling or unable to give me one. Even without this knowledge I am making my best effort to move by March 1^st, at the latest.

The full bank records were sent to the address I am currently living about 9 days ago. I have been waiting to bundle the lease information with the bank information. If Ontario Works would prefer those records immediately, I can fax them, drop them off, or mail them.Or make sure a carrier pigeon flies them straight up yr overly tight asshole.

The last item is the most difficult, and I fear that my refusal will mean that my benefits will be cut off because everyone seems to really enjoy kafkaesque labyrinths, that said I will speak bluntly. I have an intense history of mental illness and cognitive dysfunction, that includes difficulty with processing formal discourses, and causes panic attacks and lack of communication with major institutions. As well, there has been clinical diagnosis for poor impulse control, difficulty planning, and basic arithmetic. The Most Holy Bryan Raymond Nielson has acted as my liaison for banks, government agencies, doctors, spitting llamas, and overly amorous wombats for half a decade. There is no fucking way that you are dragging him away from this, he won't allow it, and he has learnt all of his negoting skills from his mother, who could get the pope himself to rescined humane vitae.

Which brings me to some questions I have. I need to apply for ODSP, and was hoping to do so in February, Does Ontario Works cutting off my basic and shelter benefits affect this? In addition, I am in the middle of a job program, have a number of doctors appointments, am searching for housing, and searching for work. I have signed up for the food bank, and have called last on the place I am staying, but I still need a transit pass, and am unsure how to make that happen? Also, can you get a real job, and not live like a pimp on human suffering.

Cuddles

Anthony Easton

(most of the letter was not sent)

“By doing something incomprehensible, you place yourself outside their magic, and then they lose control.”

Andrea Juno (interviewing Boyd Rice), Re/Search #11: Pranks

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These photographs of signs are like communicating with Toronto. Literally, they talk about the patterns of commerce, transportation, population, and politics, the neighborhoods that rise and fall, the immigrant communities that grow and move. Moving from City Center to the suburbs, I take photos of text that I find intriguing.Sometimes the font is interesting because of its decay, or its homemade crude charm, and sometimes it is interesting for its commercial power, and the design element is an important aspect of this project. I think that signage is the place where those two meet.
I think that the mark of a living city is one that pays attention to language. Toronto allows words to organically flowing through its citizens reflecting the diversity of languages, of messages, of desires, and of foundational texts.

In this spirit, I want people to be given permission to take the prints. Taking them off the wall, and bringing them to their neighborhoods, as emissaries of other cultures, and other places.
Installation Notes:I want to wallpaper the room with 4x7 drug store prints of signs, overwhelming the space with visual noise, and allowing viewers to create their own narratives.





























Production Budget:

500 Artist Fee
370 Prints (1000 prints at 37 cents a print)
30 Installation Materials (Bluetak)Total: 900.

Re: Beyoncé's "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)": Last Friday at about 2 a.m., just before last call, I was in a room full of the whole gay rainbow—bears and butches, drag queens and skinny club kids—and we all danced, and not only did we dance, but we knew every move, just like all of those dozens of fan videos on YouTube knew all the moves. Plus my sister and my mother love it, and for the first time in a while, this might be a genuinely universal single. Which is kind of worrisome, because no matter how fun it is to dance to (and it is incredibly, brilliantly entertaining to dance to), it seems to be so retrograde—sort of like Obama winning and Prop. 8 passing on the same night.

Anthony Easton
Ontario, Canada

Village Voice Comment (one)

From Reading Country Music Duke UP 1998

Blue Moon of Kentucky, Rising Over the Mystery Train, David Shapiro.

"Tree Lined avenues and well kept lawns present a facade that despire the occasional buisness sign, seems altogether domestic, while behind the doors deals are hammered out, demo tapes are circulated, and an endless seires of three hour sessions continues to build up the country music repetoire. Music Row's reasemblence to a stage set should not lead one to assume that country music is made by sleight of hand, but rather that a complex and ingenious mythology underlies the industries public testimony to the simplicty, authencity and reality of the music it markets"(23)

Live on stage, Charlie Rich burnt the envolpe that told him that John Denver won the 1975 CMA artist of the year.

"It may well be that the struggle to supress country music, 'this deep sense of fear and resignation' by which it was constrained, provoked the eruption of country's deviant offspring rockabilly, and caused so many to rail against it as a threat to their liveliehoods, if not their souls. Rockabilly, in the words of Malone' gave vent to impulses that had long been impeded, if often dormant, in southern culture, a hell-for-leather headonism, a swaggering masculinity, or in the case of the women, an uncharestic aggresiveness and strangely a visceral emotinoalism among both men and women that seemed as reflective of the church as the beer joints' ibid, 30, qouting Bill Malone's Country Music USA, Austin, 1985

WJ Cash, Mind of the South
Griel Marcus, Mystery Train, 1975
Twangin'/Feedlot (Zines)

Is Country Music too big for Radio, Musician, March 1994, pg. 28
Mary Ann Done

Mary Bufwack and Robert K Qutermass, Finder her Voice: The Saga of Women in Country Music, New York, 1993

Ms, Jan 1987, 95

Curtis Wilson KEpping Faith (same book as above)

Instead of theological reflections, Moodys sermons were anecdotal, usually pathetic stories invoking premature death, longing for mother and a gentle jesus, whose message of redemption was open to all. Judgement was largely gone and mercy was everything...sentimenallity, the appeal to the heart, even in contracdiction to the dictates of the head, now has been raised to an ultimate princpal, qouting Peter W Williams, 127

& sentimentality was the province of women
ibid.

Garth Brooks projected himself as a dedicated family man who deeply identifed with white, middle class social concerns...
ibid, 141

Ravel, Cooper. No Fences, Journal of Country Music, 55-57
Sexing the Grooce, Popular Music and Gender, ed Sheila Whitely, Routledge, 1997
MAry A Bufwak, et al Finding her Voice, The Illustrated History of Women in Country Music, Henry Hold and Co, 1997

From Country Music Goes to War, edited by Charles H Waffe and JAmes E Shonsen.
U of Kentucky PRess.

Altentative to Whate: O Brother, Sept 11th and the politics of Country, Aaron Fox.

...and as ever, the working class hero who emerged from the rubble became the subject of feverish consruction and hegemonic apporption. and as ever, which was in turn a metonym for "American" identity in ways that abused and misrepresented quite complex fields of social conflict in the service of particular class ideologies and political ambitions, 173.

Pierre Bordeneu, Distinciton: A Social Crtique on the Judgement of Taste. Harvard UP.

Bill Malone. Dont Get Above Your Raising: country Music and the working Class.

Five Questions to Answer for hte PCA/AA Conference.

Heidi Newfield
How has the history of the extended family and the culture of the rural south changed with the rise of sub/exurban devolpments vis a vis the age of marriage and pregnancy?

Eric Church
What are the formal interrealtions between the music and the lyrics and how do these intertextrual connections attach to moral histories surrounding both country and rock, and all of their antecedents.

Carrie Underwood
How can the tropes of melodrama and gendered narrative analysis be used to explicate the current demographics of militiar involvement including texts related to the american south/working class ideas of honour, history and death (esp martyrdom and widowhood)

Tim McGraw
Under which circumstances are abortions aquired and how does the rhetoric of choice attract discourses of public and private personal narriatves?

Bristol Palin
How has the narratives of her pregnacy been constructed as a fiction and how does that construction relate to the previous texts, including lenses of gender, sexuality, race, and geography.

i know obama will disappoint me, i know that he is not progessive, i know that he will not be as friendly to queer folks, to the poor, to artists, and to the working classes as i would like , i know that he will not be as forward about peace as he should be, i understand that he will be unable to live up to the weight of history, and i am profoundly nervous about the messianic energy that envelopes him, i know that it means something that he is internationalist, that he is young, that he knows the digital divide, and that he causes discomfort and xenophobia among the far right wing, and that he might signal the death of the american theocracy that has strangled the enpire for the last decade.

and pete seeger singing the fourth verse of this land is my land, still sends shivers up and down my spine.

two things for the resume

Profile: Anthony Easton is an innovative, solution based worker, who has been commended for his innovative problem solving strategies, his commitment to consensus based models, and his ability to problem solve and trouble shoot.

Objective: I am looking for a series of short term contracts or part time work, that allows me to utilize my various administrative and organizational talents and experience in a progressive work environment, in order to maintain a steadier work-life balance.


installation notes:

Because the project is partially about the proliferation of digital media, and the semiotics of a new image bank culture, the traditional Harbourfront collection of large prints in small series would be inappropriate for this concept. I am hoping to hang between 65 and 80 images in vernacualr frames, using a geometrically/mathemetically derived studio hanging system.

All of those are awful.

Theodore Allen, The Invention of the White Race, Verso

Jessie Daniels, White Lies: Race, Class Gender and SExuality in White Supremiscist Discourse,
Routledge

Analee Newitz, Matt Wray White Trash: Race and Class in America

Dorthoy Allison, Skin

Hudson and Inechihen, Taking it Lying Down:SExuality and Teenage Motherhood, 1991

Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty
James Broughton
Joan Jacobs Bromberg, the Body Project, An Intimate History of Amnerican Girls
Elizabeth Elliot Passion and Purity
Freud the Taboo of Virginity
Janice Irvine Talk about SEx
Judith Irvine: Sexualities: Identites, behaviours and society.


"the making and unmaking of whiteness"
sex informaiton and education council of the united states.

Dane Carr A question of Class: The Redneck Stereotype in Southern Fiction.

Robert GG Henley

Aaron Fox, Real Country Music and Language in Working Class Culture, Appalachian Journal 25 (3) 1:6

ibid, southern cultures 1 (2): 144-66

All that Glitters, Country Music in America
The Minnesota Review 47 (Spring 1997) (61-77)

Lauren Carpenter: Gender and the MEaning and Expereince of Virginity Loss in the United STates (Gender and Society 16:3)

The ambigiouty of Having SEx Journal of Sex Research 38.2

Randall Kennedy, Nigger

qoutes:

From The Possum, The Hag and the Rhinestone Cowboy: Hard Country Music and the Burlesque of Abjection, Barbara Ching, from Whiteness A Critical Reader, NYU Press, 1992.

Along with creating a sorrowful rustic persona, these singers use the typically burlesuqe techinqies of imitation, allusion, and collusion to call attention to the fact that they are falling short of any number of cultural imperatives (118)

...the blues of white-trash tragedy--broken h omes, decript houses, blackout drinking, dead end jobs, and life sentences...
120

From Sexaulity in Adolsences Susan Moore and Doreen Rosenthal, Routledge, 1993

"Teenage Motherhood reamins overwhelmingly a working class affair" (qouting Hudson and Inechion), 147

From Virgins A culture History, Anke Berno, Granta Books.

Shame and the threat of ostracisim, which are shown here to run like contagion through the community in relentless, ever widening circles, are summoned to police the young womens sexual behaviour, her body and desire are not hers to do what she pleases, for her body posses a significant worth that goes beyond the merley personal. (139) discusing the 16th Century text Instruction of a Christian Woman, by Juan Vies

In the 19th Century, this anxiety also extended to working class women, esp those who worked in the factories...145

This call for a return to an idealised childhood purity, made by an adult woman in the name of feamle enmpowerment seems to be oddly troubling, 195 (re: Wendy Shalit)

The idea...(that) what it means to be an invidiudal has become inextricablly linked from sexual identity (169)

dinner:

lisa, peter, leo, d, ray, pat, colleen, jackyn, shelley, laura, chris, chris, nadia, lon (sp), graham!, erik, alan,

side car, nicoise salad with ahi tuna, steak frites, and cheese plate, flowering tea, strawbery caracha, badass mojito, and picaso sour.

love

Ten Artists I Love That Clement Greenberg Loved:

1. Helen Frankenthaler
2. Anne Truitt
   
3. Kenneth Noland
4. De Kooning
   
5. Lee Krasner
6. Clifford Still
7. Morris Louis
   
8. Ray Mead
   
9. Hepworth
   
10. Jack Bush
    

Ten Artists I Love that Clement Greenberg Hated:

1. Agnes Martin
2. Donald Judd
3. Andy Warhol
4. Jasper Johns
   
5. Rauschenberg
6. Cy Twombly
7. Stephen Shore
   
8. Lewis Baltz
9. Faith Rhingold
   
10. David Wojoncawoiz
    

Carrie Underwood's "Just a Dream" was domestic melodrama at its redneck best, a Douglas Sirk mini-epic, with that heartbreaking voice that moves somewhere between singing and talking, that skates on the edge of total collapse. The one line takeaway "a pregnant war widow at 18," says more about the murderous and particularity inept American foreign policy than all of Nashville in the last eight years, and I am glad that someone as mainstream as Underwood is finally speaking angrily about such senseless loss. —Anthony Easton

one comment, nashville scene, not bad.

100 skills i have

1. synthesing information from disparate sources
   
2. internalizing contradatictions
   
3. constructing narratives from a wide variety of sources
   
4. maintaining diversity
   
5. finding historical precedents
   
6. shocking out of complacency
   
7. finding patterns in other peoples works, patterns they have not seen
   
8. finding the linguistic and substructural underpinnings of quotidian existence.
   
9. pattern recognition
10. visual skills
    
11. pointing out injustice and hypocrisy
    
12. self direction
    
13. working long and hard
14. general, misasmic passion
    
15. using large words in their proper context
    
16. colour matching
    
17. close reading using a variety of formal systems
    
18. deconstructing
    
19. using the LoC system
    
20. using the dewey decimal system
    
21. knowing how to retrieve information from non-standard sources
    
22. a variety of archival sources including universities, newspaper morgues, family history centres, and others
    
23. doing a personal interview
    
24. knowing how to find info in perodicals on paper, and on line, including the deep web, such as jstor or project muse.
    
25. conducting formal personal interviews
    
26. knowing who the proper resource person is in any situation
    
27. knowing how to go up the ladder
28. knowing how to use LaTex, the academic system
29. knowing how to use a semi colon
30. not taking no for an answer
    
31. knowing how to construct a phone tree
32. knowing how to do emts, online transactions, credit cards over the phone, and the like
    
33. knowing how to change the film in a canon a-70
    
34. knowing how to change the polaroid in a X70, 600, joycamera, and others.
    
35. knowing how to make a cyanotype
36. a basic knowledge of archival needs for paintings, works on paper, and photography
    
37. knowing how to castrate a bull
38. knowing how to birth a calf
39. knowing how to judge a bull ride
    
40. knowing most of the judging criteria for major rodeo events
41. knowing how to place contempary country music into it's proper historical context
42. knowing the uses and abuses of copyright, and the varities of creative commons liscenses.
    
43. an intimate knowledge of most of the liturgical systems of western christianity
44. knowing how to use drop io
    
45. knowing how to use word press, and blogger, and other blogging software
    
46. encouraging and fostering mentored relationships
    
47. point and shoot photos
    
48. list making
49. a general instinctual understanding of taxonomic systems
    
50. how to create a media contact list, and go thru it in a systematic way
    
51. meet deadlines
    
52. write basic grants
    
53. write artist statements
    
54. write essays for the web
55. write first person essays for newspapers
    
56. write academic papers for publication
    
57. write long form magazine peices
58. format a paper with biblography in APA, Chicago, and MLA styles
    
59. crop and correct colour in digital photos using digikam and iphoto
    
60. flickr (i am flickr master)
    
61. use google mail, google documents, google calendar, picasa, google book search, and google video, in all of their forms, and find information on the web quickly and thoroughly
    
62. identify mid century modernist buildings, fashion, furniture, and design
63. speak in public
    
64. internalize art history
65. trouble shoot a problem
    
66. i am good at finding everything that is wrong, worst case scenrioing something, knowing what the fatal flaw is in people and orginazations plans are
    
67. analyse thick theoritcal texts
    
68. network, at least when it comes to the art and the writing.
    
69. curate (ie finding work, following up on where work went, developing a variety of frameworks to see the work)
    
70. ace a media interview, performing
    
71. answering phones, using multi phone systems
    
72. professional protocal on phones
    
73. gaining access using non traditional credentials
    
74. conducting meetings using robert's rules of order
    
75. conducting meetings using non eurocentric/phallocentric consensus modelling
    
76. finding a wide and diverse collection of people to sit on boards
    
77. making sure that everyone is heard on boards
    
78. playing devil's advocate, making sure that everyone's voice is absorbed
79. big sky/big picture thinking
80. telling interesting anecdotes, and using those anecdotes to illustrate larger points
    
81. presentations
    
82. pretending to be interested in other people's children
    
83. Interac
84. Credit Cards (non phone/non internet)
85. Push A Mop/Broom
86. WHIMIS
87. Prompt
88. Can naviagate a transit system (have done so for New York, London, Toronto, San Fransisco, Calgary, Edmonton, and Vancouver)
89. Readily find my way around immediately in strange cities and towns
    
90. know which kinds of stem ware goes with which beverages
    
91. know which kinds of flatware goes with which dishes
    
92. know how to mix the basic cocktails
    
93. know which wines go with which meals
    
94. can stock and track inventory
    
95. loss prevention training
    
96. innovate a broad variety of funding sources
    
97. can craft and analyse misison statements
    
98. can craft and alayse bylaws, making sure they correspond to official government guidlines
    
99. can write formal correspondance, both personally and professionally
    
100. large and effective vocab
101. fellatio
     

job club realization one:

all of the networking, the negotating, the asking, the not taking no skills i have at the arts, and i am good at the arts, do not transfer into money making enterprises, and i do not know how to make that happen, not only do i not know how to make that happen, i am convinced that the people who run this program do not know how to make this happen.

realization two:

my terror at these kind of beurocratic instituations suggests a general hostility towards people, and my discomfort at the process overlaps with a hostility with people, in social events, my usual gossippy, amusingly bitchy, geniunely warm tendencies fall apart in these kind of places, i think mostly because there is the assumption that one will immediately befriend everyone the first day---or perhaps it is the usual tension that i have in the liminal space between friend and contact.


realization three

i should not think of these things as a waste of time, but i do, because they intercede what i consider my real work (ie instead of this program, i would rather be researching the new orleans paper, sending emails about the nafl project, writing the letter of commendaiton to the haida manga artist, working through the housing list, and working on inital contact with the harbourfront show--but all of those are long shot gambles, that in my expereince cost alot more then they actually pay--and i still need to pay rent, etc) (but i also need a job that lets me for example, go to new orleans for 4 days in april, or poughkepise for a week in july)

realization four.
i would feel more comfortable with contract work.

From Untitled Album

Actual Graphic from Focus on the Family

maegan hill has four collections of photos on her site, mounds, mounds ii, rocks, and hedges. they are all excellent.

russia ends jury trials against enemies of the state, which is defined so loosely, that it could be anyone who democratically protests against putin and company.

while i like the EU i have no idea how it will maintain its structural integrity, this weeks example being Klaus, the czech PM who is now the rotating leader, and who is a fairly far right and is an avowed Euro Skeptic, though one wonders how much damage he can do in 6 months.

venture brothers do hard candy xmas, which is genius.

160 titles of b movies from the 40s to 80s.

sam sparro black and gold, anglo langorous disco, beautiful work.

From Untitled Album

i have no idea the context of this photo.

solar powered monkey


Guy Forsyth sings If I had Possesion over Judgement DAy, as part of a pretty awesome Asylum STreet Spankers concert

lynn yeager the village voice fashion columinist who wrote adroitly about the intersections of personae, class, money, the city, and clothes, never ignoring the political, has been fired by the VV

enema bags remade as art history classics. and a high fashion calendar from a german plumbing manufactuer.

From Untitled Album

New Washroom by Shingoro Ben, outside Kyoto

i really like chris bucks witty and sort of strange celeb photos

a bookshelf blog.

i have a much less of a problem with the states getting a trillion bucks from the federal government then i do AIG or GM.

the gaurdian goes to west virginia and interviews lynndie england, who comes across as both pyschopathic white trash and genuinely too stupid to have any idea what is going on, the story is a perfect encapsulation of Arendt's ideas of the banality of evil.

From Untitled Album

Which is the signifer, and which is the signifed?

70 Polaroids by Warhol, via Paul KAsmin--how do they keep them so crisp, and jesus do i love the colours of late 70s polaroids---interesting too, the intersection between his photos for photo sake, and his photos as studies for prints and paintings, plus his obsession with new techonlogies.

hunter thompson motivational posters.

greg owen was shot while handcuffed, and prone, by BART cops in Oakland. Here is local news reports using cell phones cameras.

6 photos of old pittsburgh photos, my favourite being the jefferson court.


6 minutes from Los Anglese Plays ITself, about modernism, LA, and how its iconic new buildings seem to be used by villians (does anyone have a torrent of this?)

the worlds sexiest supermarket

Palin manipulated her wife's husband

Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert John Divos, 1993-2001, charming and sweet LA photo conceptualism.

a visual history of moore's law

photos of the abandoned set of the wire

From Untitled Album

Aussie Cowboy, in the new issue of Tetu, the french fashion journal.

bob barr makes the liberterian arguement against DOMA

25 films on the 2008 national film perservation board list, including the killers, terminator, and 1950s home videos of disneyland.

Betty Parsons who died last week, spent four decades supporting new music, this list of who her grants helped is amazing, including but limited to Adams operas Nixon in China and the DEath of Kinghoefer, Harrison Bristwistle's piano concerto Antiphonies, an annual grant from 1965 until death to pay for John Cage's living expenses, annual grants from Merce Cunningham from 1988 to the present, grants for living to Harry PArth from 1964-1974, Annual grants to Steve Reich from 1980 onward plus money to help him record and compose Tehilim, Music for 18 Musicians and others, Morton Feldman's peice in memory of John CAge, Help to record early Glass recordings in the 70s,and major work by Terry Riley, Virgil Thomson, Le Monte Yonge, and dozens of others.

birthday gift idea another (rodeo and freud, hott)

From Untitled Album

Tom Gaugh is a genius.

48 beer matts

beautiful, incredibly comprhensive blog about monsters.

living up with star wars a collection of photos of children from the late 70s and early 80s interacting with star wars, say really interesting things about folk translations of massively popular high media texts.

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i'm a fag, and i'm crazy, and im not paticuallry good at hiding either.

me to a job consuller when asked what my cheif problems finding or keeping employment

monday, 4, 1004 robards
friday, 6?, north york harvest

good news

new orleans is paid for.

bad news
i have to move

I continue my obsession with BRomance.

watching the documentary Weather Underground, i keep being surprised that the Underground continued to have this middle class belief that the police would obey the rule of law, even when they were violently opposing it.

that and they got 20k to break leary out of prision. (plus their comminques are hysterical, in the most literal sense)

. i went in to this program at 9, which means i got up at 7:30, after having nightmares, and waking up and being unable to sleep for a couple of hours in the middle of the night, and i missed the first street car, so i was 15 minutes late, and i got to the place late, which made me panic, and then i realised i was scheduled for thursday instead, which means i have four days where i am doing nothing, but they let me fill out the paper work--and its filled with the same questions i have no idea how to answer--like tell me about yourself, or what do we need to know to help you, or what do you want to do with your life, or all of that shit, and i mean, i have no idea, how they can help

i am wearing socks and uncomfortable shoes, and i am horribly nervous

From the “Quickies” section of the “Joy of Sex.” “If you are a child of the seventies and were raised on ‘The Joy of Sex,’ you are not likely to have forgotten the illustrations,” Levy writes. Comfort and his mistress, Jane Henderson, submitted dozens of Polaroids along with the manuscript. “The artists Charles Raymond and Christopher Foss were charged with transforming those photographs into pencil drawings, although the couple they depicted looked nothing like Comfort and Henderson.”

From this weeks nyer

a) i would kill to see those polaroids.
b) i liked the mangey, hippie look of the 70s illustrations

listen to this and then go find the lacey dalton version.

1) What was the last movie you saw theatrically? On DVD or Blu-ray?
Milk, My Architecht: A Son'S Journey

2) Holiday movies— Do you like them naughty or nice?
I am fond of the horror movies, silent night, deadly knight or black xmas...is that naughty?

3) Ida Lupino or Mercedes McCambridge?
Mercedes McCambridge, for her black clad villian in Ray's Johnny Guitar, plus the voice of Satan.

4) Favorite actor/character from Twin Peaks
Lara Flynn Boyle, who did a string of sexually complicated heroines in the 90s and then sadly lost it, and this was an almost perfect noir performance.

5) It’s been said that, rather than remaking beloved, respected films, Hollywood should concentrate more on righting the wrongs of the past and tinker more with films that didn’t work so well the first time. Pretending for a moment that movies are made in an economic vacuum, name a good candidate for a remake based on this criterion.

I keep wondering if films like Ishtar or Death to Smoochy, which were marketed in a way that undersold their considerable charms, and were odd enough that they needed to be explained, would do well not nessc. with remakes, but reissues, sort of like Criterion but on the big screen. I also wonder what would happen if you gave someone like Harmony Kormine or some of the mumble core fellows 20 millon dollars and told them to remake Waterworld or Superman:Returns, or even Titanic?

6) Favorite Spike Lee joint.

As a politican: Bamboozled (because loose limbed, burlesque that is so soaked with bile is a hard balance, and it was so meta it hurt). As a film maker, the remarkably tight, beautifully acted Inside Man, with Jodie Foster playing someone new, strong, and dislikeable.

7) Lawrence Tierney or Scott Brady?
The Scott Brady who was in an episode of the littlest hobo? Then yes!

8) Are most movies too long?
Most movies spend too long explaining, and too little time working out emotions, and realtionships--as a general rule, they are badly paced (Role Models is a good example of in/out with lots of good actors scene, so is Sarah Marshall)

9) Favorite performance by an actor portraying a real-life politician.
Helen McCroy, who made the easily parodied, easily mocked Cherie Blair, into a modern, open, moral counterpoint to the cold and formal Frears.

10) Create the main event card for the ultimate giant movie monster smackdown.
Godzilla vs the Cloverfield Monster but in North Dakota.

11) Jean Peters or Sheree North?
Sheree North. (for the episode while she was the hooker with Archie Bunker and for the weird, little seen, Schumacher riff on Altman Amatuer Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill)

12) Why would you ever want or need to see a movie more than once?
If I was wrong, if people I trust tell me I am wrong, If what I feel is overwhelming what I think, if my dick or my heart gets in the way, if i am hungry or distracted while watching it, if i leave the film ambigiously

13) Favorite road movie.
true romance/crossroads

14) Favorite Budd Boetticher picture.
i haven't seen enough.

15) Who is the one person, living or dead, famous or unknown, who most informed or encouraged your appreciation of movies?
my mother, who made me talk about things when i left the cinema, my friend pat, who kept arguing about the movies with me, the art critic david hickey, who taught me to trust my love of pop trash and to treat pop trash as significant, as worthy of writing about, the english critic Mark Sinker who told me that academic criticisms were worthy of being in the same places as quatidian experiences, and David Thomson, because his reference books are so opinatned.

16) Favorite opening credit sequence. (Please include YouTube link if possible.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXrEptVgUnc&eurl=http://movieblog.ugo.com/index.php/movieblog/more/best_credits_sequences_the_taking_of_pehlam_one_two_three/ (font shot!)



17) Kenneth Tobey or John Agar?
John Agar, for working from the 40s, to 2002.

18) Jean-Luc Godard once suggested that the more popular the movie, the less likely it was that it was a good movie. Is he right or just cranky? Cite the best evidence one way or the other.

I am not sure that Goddard was in the buisness of making movies, as much as he was in the business of making essays...and i always distrust people who refuse to have catholic (small c) tastes---why can we not enjoy both alphaville and logan's run? (same themes, same aesthetics)

19) Favorite Jonathan Demme movie.
silence of the lambs

20) Tatum O’Neal or Linda Blair?
Tatum O'Neal--because of her unhinged, incenstous, drunken falling apart, in the last few years of rescue me, something that Blair never seemed to be able to do (as teenagers, O'Neal struck me as more of control of her talent)

21) Favorite use of irony in a movie. (This could be an idea, moment, scene, or an entire film.)
How unresolved Zodiac was, how the whole movie was about finding a killer, about obsessional knowing for two decades and three charchaters, and how that knowing was impossible.

22) Favorite Claude Chabrol film.
i don;t have one

23) The best movie of the year to which very little attention seems to have been paid.
Role Models

24) Dennis Christopher or Robby Benson?
Robby Benson for his voice work as the Beast.

25) Favorite movie about journalism.
Zodiac

26) What’s the DVD commentary you’d most like to hear? Who would be on the audio track?
Deep Throat Catherinne McKinnon, Andrew Sarris, Susie Bright, Larry Clarke, Phyllis Schafler, Al Goldstein, and Caitlin Flannagan.

27) Favorite movie directed by Clint Eastwood.
NA

28) Paul Dooley or Kurtwood Smith?
Kurtwood Smith

29) Your clairvoyant moment: Make a prediction about the Oscar season.
It will bore me.

30) Your hope for the movies in 2009.
Actually Gays and Lesbians fucking on Screen.

31) What’s your top 10 of 2008? (If you have a blog and have your list posted, please feel free to leave a link to the post.)
1) Role Models
It was charming, and low key, and shaggy, and v. funny, and tender.
2) Wall E
the aestheics, the arguements against copyright, and finally feeling something for robots
3) Cloverfield
how do we make movies with DV? How do we create a movie about terror in new york, after real terror exists? How do 20 year olds process and disemaite information?
4) The Strangers
formally brilliant.
5) Death Race
joan allen, saying cocksucker.
6) Burn After Reading
a perfect little coen bros. confection.
7) Speed Racer
one of the ways to solve the uncanny valley, is to make things hyperreal, made me think the most about how movies are made in this post green screen era.
8) W
profoundly flawed, with wildly inapproite shifts of tone, but for james cromwell as papa and brolin's pitch perfect performance.
9) Paranoid PArk
Van Sant should only be allowed 1 million dollars to make a movie, any more then that, and he fails.
10) My Winnipeg
guy maddin pyschogeographically deconstructs what it means to be canadian.

BONUS QUESTION (to be answered after December 25):

32) What was your favorite movie-related Christmas gift that you received this year?
I received no movie releated gifts

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