i don't think i liked snowpeircer, and i don't know why. i love chris evans--and his melancholy here was strong, the aesthetics were powerful, tilda was brilliant, as was john hurt, the work seemed both new and peiced together from various parts. i can handle allegory, it might have been the nihilism, i think it was one of the more hopeless movies i have seen, (any solution posited will result in more catastrophe, any dissent has been constructed to further the status qua, the revolutionary and the reactionary depend on each other (one seeding the other), stability and hierarchy win over chaos, and eventually, the polar bear will eat the last survivors) but dystopian works are not expected to be pleasant, or to end well--recent dystopias have failed to note how their work is co-opted into an agenda of self-perpetuating crisis/crony/corporatism capitalism (cf Divergent, I am No, 4, Hunger Games). It's hopelessness seemed well earned. There were things I could nitpick (the writing, the writing was terrible) but I felt dissatisfied and uneasy at the end of it, and I didn't know why.

Pop Matters Best of the 2000s List: 

1. Britney Spears Blackout 
2. kd lang Hymns of the 49th Parallel
3.  Tanya Tagaq,  ᐊᐅᒃ
4. PJ Harvey “Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea”
5. Dolly Pardon Little Sparrow. 
6. Miranda Lambert Kerosene
7. Bjork Vesperine 
8. MIA Arular 
9. Americas Sweetheart Courtney Love 
10. Cesaria Evora Nha Sentimento

what's the word for bittersweet erotic frisson of accidentally stumbling upon an image you jerked off at 14--especially when at 14 you had to glean thru scarcity and now you live in the promised world of excess

Reference/Begging Notes for Invocaiton of my Demon Brother peice:

PAwnbroker

Blake

Chein Andulou

Trauma to the Eye Motif

Isaac

Mason

Phallic

Sailor

Steward

Barely Legal

Semenial Magic Crowley

Lefthand path

hanged man

tarot

Vietnam

Helicopter

Spero

Skull Pipe

siamese batting

the sweep of musicians

weird home movie aesthetic

Truman Capote Thru the Flowers

Garden

Back to the Garden

light show

acid test

pessimistiv

flames

capes

ritual garments

moonchild

solit of personhood

tattoo

conjoined

mirroed bodies

skryers glass

glitter

cockettes

radical fairies

hermes

stone cock

false eyes

eyes as mouths

ring of similar faces

cornia

sundog

tarot

death

hanged man

devil as camp hollywood

lined in red satin

godwin

nazi

burning

more flames

into spikes

tom of finland

hells angels

thomson

horus

abstracting, splitting, repeating

kadeliscope

hippie jesus

satyr

manic

more nazis

heartfield

broken cross

out of the copter

not alot of cock

owl

tattoos ad eyes

kaballa

orgy as masturbation

third eye sequin

lace

warhol exploding plastic

velvets

tophat

more simaese

cat

ironic procession

jagger

kapelscope

fade out

live performance

lattice work

jagger in white holding snake

hippie

pentagram

zap yr pregrant thats witchcraft

Clerical and Episcoplal Vestments, Diary of Bishop Fields, June 22 1844

2 Satin Gowns
1 Silk Gown
1 cassock
2 Scarves
2 Sashes
6 cochets (?)
6 pairs of sleeves
2 pr silk wristbands
3 silk aprons
1 Oxford Cap
4 par bands
1 case for bands
1 purple bag
3 sermon cases.

(oxford cap vould be 16 or 1 6x?)

60 pages, GRP outline:


Intro:

• Bio of Wood 
• Anglo-Catholicism
• uni 
• and romanism 
• Family History
• rc cousins 
• money 
• reverseals 
• Englishness
• pyschogeography 
• floating bubble 
• NB/Montreal
• Schoolmaster 
• Sister Sarah 
• eccesial 
• Death
• funeral  
• Methodology: 
• If not X then Y but not X nor Y Then What 
• a) Pedestry 
• school teaching 
• anglocatholicism history and connecitons to the uranians 
• the urianis connection b/w peadstry and schooling 
• the uranians connection b/w pedestry and misogyny 
• no evidence that he was even sexual 
• swimming anecdote 
• Sister Sarah 
• Romanism 
• Aesthetics 
• Eucharistic Theology 
• Tractarian alelgience 
• I am not a Romanist 
• willingness to compromise (incense anecdote)
• what does Anglican Ritualism look like? 
• Canadian 
• New Brunswick then Montreal 
• emergence of an Anglophone discourse 
• Colonial suggests they thot of themselves as English 
• English in Exile 
• what is English then (McClintock) 
• Masculinities 
• hyomosocial 
• school 
• Father French
• but presence of Sarah and the three communicats at his funeral 
•  homosexual 
• French 
• material culture reads as queer. (bosivert) 
• gossip post-Wood 
• homosexual as a category failed to exist  Aesthetics 
• funeral discussion 
• Robinsons work 
• Supplice
• Supplice wars 
• the 1904 photo 
• Wood willingness to just be present
• Aesthetics 
• Funeral Gear 
• Body Positioned in Church 
• Supplice Case Study (robinson) 
• Educaiton 
• St John School Material 
• Choir School and its future absence 
• Death after a year 
• Case study of photo of the corridor 
• Fosdick anecdote
• Aesthetics as a kind of Material Culture 
• Eucharist 
• horse trading at the end of the life of these spaces.
• Money, Realestate adn the Golden Sqaure Mile 
• Celibacy 
• as a kind of queerness 
• as a kind of romanism 
• as a kind of ritual practice 
• Sarah and Marriage
• Fiefdom 
• as a setting part 
• as a kind of ritual act
• Cocnlusion 
• Wood as symoblic figure, as a cipher mroe than as biography 
• absence/presence./negation 
• boredom as a strategy.