I pitched Oh My God You Fucked Kenny to here it most likely has spelling mistakes, is not in the right format and i am not an academic, but shot in the dark.

New World Record For Prints, 463, 000, Warhol's Myth series (portfolio of 10):

What you could have bought

1. Albers Homage to the Sqaure (Portfolio of 10)
2. Bacon lithograph of a bullfighte
3. Victor Clemjin's Woodcuts (one of a spider web
4. and one of the night sky)
5. A Brightly coloured, pixelated woodcut of a child, by Close
6. A close monochromoatic relief print, also by Close
7. Debuffets, late, elegant and reductive fugitive presence screenpritns (Portfolio of 6)
8. Duchamp's Large Glass, one of the most impt works in 20th Century Art History
9. A Frankenthaler minimal work, pinks and yellows
10. Johns High School Days, the lead relief with teh mirror in the toe of a shoe
    
11. A really slick, logans run looking, Judd Multiple
    
12. An Ellworth Kelly minimal plant form litho
    
13. Lichenstein's funny post minimal pritns of veneitan blinds
    
14. another from that series
15. A Lichentsein sunrise from 1965
    
16. Motherwell's gestural Africa Series (Portfolio of 10)
17. Nauman's ugly, violent, and v. political Help Me Hurt Me, litho from the late 60s
    
18. A small Soft Drum set by oldenberg
    
19. A late pollock screenprint, one of the mythological, animaitsitic ones, v. close to his drawings
    
20. Bridgey Rileys's v. soft blue grey undualting, almost oceanic screen print, coloured greys, from the transition peroid wehre she is learning to use colours, from 1972
21. Two Word prints (drops and vanish) by Ruscha ca 1972
22. see above
    
23. Wayne Theibaud's glopursly creamy print of cakes
    
24. A suprisingly ungestural, grey offset pritn by Twombly
    
25. A silver Warhol Jackie
    
26. A Die cut, cardboard Wessleman nude
    
27. Hockneys Litho Ceclia Elegant, from 1971
    
28. Kelly's Cylcamen, form Plant Lithographs, 1961

Cheapest: Kelly at 5k, Most expensive, Bacon at 37, 600 left

five thots on blackout

1. her vocals are protean, deepening, turning into a flotilla of electronics, thining and thickening, they are occasionally contained by the production, often overwhelmed by the production --but the listener is always aware of the production. this album ends the transition from oops i did it again, with he perfect american bardot breathiness to the harsh, angular and almost atonal toxic.
   
2. this is the first album where she is not credited as a song writer, only as a producer, and much of the album is about the creation and destruction of images--combined with dated ellen van unworth photographs, it suggests the common wisdom, that she is not listening to anyone who can help her, is wrong. the opposite is true here--even with out writing any of the songs at all, she has too many people to listen to. the more people surrounding her, the less control she has. which means the album is an anthology of late post millennial trends in popular music, an inadvertent, already dated time capsule.
   
3. she mentions her self twice or three times a song in the third person, and the first words are this is britney bitch (the only swear in the britney corpus, the only swear in the harry potter novels---btw). all of this third personing does not provide much needed critical distance, it makes her sound dissociative.
   
4. its also an album of paranoia--but the weird thing, is that everyone is looking at her, attacking her, so the paranoia is the wrong word, its more of an accurate example of her life, her chaos, her mental health, etc, but most importantly, her pleasure. addictive personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder, its the first album made crazy not by coke or booze but an over dose of fame.
   
5. but the going out is documented, the songs careen wildly, crash into each other, change tempo, vocals, and instrumentation, producers and what is produced. harmonies are dropped, added, mixed in and mixed out, it becomes polyphonic and then singularlly driving in a matter of seconds. it is almost a folk work--like what harold finster would do if he had a capacity for clubbing and a taste for bisexual tail. (which is my round about way of saying, it is intended as an album, a statement, a document that is 60 minutes long, ambitious for someone who's genius came previously in 3 minute bites)
   

i think its a brilliant album, unhinged, strange, pleasure seeking, and throughly crazy--i also don't think its traditionally good.

the rodeo is awesome.

emory douglass, a poster artist for the black panthers, from the late 60s until the early 80s, has a commmon, south american inspired radical style, and a rhetoric that now seems quaint. he has a new show at musuem of contemparary art in LA, as a designer--one of the things that moca has done v. well in the last few years is the historicise the contributions their city has made not only to political but cutlural discourse. this is part of that project.



Gyllenhall, Testino, 2007, from his new book. (the image is sleazy enough, and does remind one sort of 70s porn, but it isnt raunchy, not enough hair, or enough fat, and the look on the face is a little too actory, nto nearly enough of the little boy lost he is going for. Testino's attempts at raunch never really go far enough) though the cropping of the photo and the closed eyes sorto f whisper blow me.


mid 70s, anon found porn.
kaelfa senah review in the nytimes of blackout hints at what most critics have sort of been saying about it--that it is good, but that her unique (both authorial and musical) voice is so hidden that the album becomes an act of taste making, selecting producers and curating sounds then creation (not that any of those acts are not creative in/to and unto themselves--but the thing that was so vital about britney, is her autonomy, which maybe she has lost--though talking to david allen a couple of days ago, he pointed out the most interesting thing about the whole thing was that she was expected to make a spirtual and personal come back album to deal with all of the trauma that she has experienced with fame, and she made what is basically an iconic or semi iconic disco work) (ie its the avant garde bitch) (and for further proof, a brilliant cabaret reworking of oops i did it again by max rabbe, cabaret like hollander, weimar era.


Jessica Craig Martin, Salmon (Hamptons), 1996 perhaps the most vanitas and the least ironic of Craig Martin's ingratingly oblique portraits of the idol rich.

counterinsurgency reading list with the comments and the ensuing discusion, it looks pretty comprehsive.

the left is all over this but i think tht kirkpatrick under estimates the power of the religious right, and their connection to capital, and the compromises they used to fund power. (esp the connections to Rev. Moon, who he doesnt mention) (it also refuses to engage in the focculdian idea about internalised power being hidden does not mean it has lost control)



From Dorian's blog.

a prison librarian scans prisoners writing on books.

postman's park has a collection of hand painted murals commerated common deaths, made before 1904.

all of meserschimdt's heads, and some discussion of how he used a (cryptic) numerlogical system to create and order them.

human ecology photos from cornell.



pickle juice sport drink


1:28 trailer for Louis Malle's first film, with a radiant Jeanne Moreu, and a Miles Davis score.


New York Daily News photo of the 1957(?) MOMA fire.

26 designer packing tapes, including python skin and lace (when i finally write my queer sex opera, its going to be called python and lace)

ron paul supporters banned from popular republican forum.

peter agmatels photso of graffiti by americans in iraq, words written on walls, handles the homophobia, terror, panic, randomness, scatalogy, hope, love, prayerful faith and mourning of soliders basic lives, incredibly moving work.

9 photos by bill travis, male nudes.

the best thing about george pettys pin up drawings for rigid tools, from 1950, aside from the tittering double entendre, is how much more attention he placed on mechincals rather then flesh.


Still from Robinson Crusoe from Mars,


gillepsie kidd and cola scottish architechts, classic modernists, the churches and schools, esp are lovely. their catholic seminary near glasgow, based on Corbu's v. late religous work, difficult and intense, is on the world monument funds list of buildings at risk, allowed to decay because fashion has changed. (not only architechtual fashion, but theological fashion, ironically the building might have been a victim of V2

300k people trapped by floods in the tabasco region of mexico

some dinasours apparently burrowed like badgers.

kate beaton is a canadian indie cartoonist who's autobio work is really funny and really canadian.

kurtzman does comic bios on brando and cagney, in esquire, ca 1958, gorgeous gorgeous work.


John Ball, bookplate after Morris, 1860s (i love the diggeresque proto-anarchsit, arcadian history in this, and find myself sort of moved by the religious call for liberty)

the center of fine print research from the university of central england, commissoned prominent artists to design bookmarks in limited editions, which they gave out for free.

murakamis curated shows of post wart japanese male adoloscent culture suggested that the outukua was unique to their culture, these photos of an american's star wars collection indiates otherwise (crazy ocd alert)

the mcgraw hill human sexuality image bank



Sondheim teaches send in the clowns and not getting married, on english television, ca 1985. He is so charming, and it indicates how he views the work.

airbrushed nhl hockey masks.



New York's new standarized news kiosk, its way to sweden ont he way to la.

droll used one of my photos.


via Woot!Shirts

Excerpt from Dryer's 1932 Vampyr.

24 images of toyko at night, which resemble stage sets, and who's erotica is oddly cute.



This robot, is caligraphing the entire of luther's bible. reminds me of the clarke story, 1000 names of god.

gallery of book label's

1138 images of edwardian men.

gilbert bouchard on the ford show. mary christa o keefe on the ford show (the gilbert is medicore, but the o keefe is the best (and frankly most generous) of the reviews this show has gotten)

new york times on the new islamic collections


Sandy Bumenthal, has succesfully lobbied the library of congress to include strap on sex as a search term.

and on that:

Paul McCarthy, Butt Plug Santa, Holland, 2004.

violet blue ranks the top ten lesbian vampire films.

nate ritters twitter of the California wide fires, is a brilliant use of that technology.

the Xenith X1 football helmet is designed to help prevent concussions.

blackwater is going to be involved in border control and fire fighting in southern California.

the library of congress now collects video games.

the us government apparently has failed to pay gi bill support for the minnesota national gaurd.

the australians are joining in to the whole gay neo-con scandals

collection of teen tragedy songs from the 50s and 60s.

fantastic feature on the irish writer Edna O'Brien.

Highway and Tree

Highway and Tree
Originally uploaded by PinkMoose

Some more pavillions from Montreal, 1967:

10 years of labour government in the uk, and there is even less social mobility.

the jungles of yucatan in mexico, is the after effect of aztec gardens, according to the archelogist/bontanist christine hastorf

small video of a basquit show at the french embassy in new york, with an interview w. the collector--basquit works really well in highly refined architechtual spaces. (i would argue b/c his artifice is placed in stark relief with things we find more suitably or properly artificial)

on the racial politics of font choices, an extended, copiously illustrated essay.

european brochures for citroen, from the 60s. The german one for the CV 2 looks like Blair Kelly's ford.

bad day for fires good day for surf. (archtypal la headline)

more basil wolverton weridness.

interview with xkcd creator alan munroe.

151 SF cover illustrations by Ron Turner, a british pulp master.

though the ammagaltion of kitsch, the seperation of colour, the juxtoposition of slick plastic and decaying "organic" materials that categorize wendy walgates work can be found thruout the 80s, but her use of vertical space is kind of unique. wonderful work regardless.

HE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.

big article on robert irwin;s new work--its big (huge!) and really kind of iconic.

simon scherer's pencil drawings of murder victims on Law and Order, have an eroticism that would make artuad proud.


Zachary Gilford, why won't you love me?

four cd set of early canadian garage rock--like a Toronto nuggets. Volume 3 has some work with Mynah Byrd, the band that had both Rick James and Neil Young.

four photos of a moose fucking a bison statue.


blackwater dropped out of its consumer group, which is called international peace operations.

everything that bart prince ever designed reminds me of when the future was supposed to be about jetpacks, meals in pill form, encounter groups, and nubile hotties in skin tight silver jumpsuits. most of the work was done in the 80s and 90s, when he was in his early 30s, so he is fully (and maybe ironically) aware of the sources he is both qouting and deconstructing--the work is incredibly complex in how it signifies not only leisure, but the history of our expectations of lesiure, and how it also qoutes the geographic history of place, and of architechture itself--some of his curves seem to be a specific refutation of both gehry and hadid. gorgeous work.


Gradow Residence, Interior, Aspen, 1989-1993

and for comparison--

Unknown Architect, Kaldiscope Pavillion, Montreal, 1967


two cassette demos from liz phair before exile in guyville--as you would expect from digital copies of 20 yr old analog tapes, the sound quality is awful.

confessions of a christian cuddler

bruno 9il is a brazillian illustator who's pictures of baboons are like nothing i have ever seen before.

the continuing mainstreaming of of video games continues apace.

good news for hiv


god this is elegant:

look at 1:15-1:17 and 2:45-2:50 esp.

IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER:

Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.

These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for their recovery. But they also know that there is hope for mankind in their sacrifice.

These two men are laying down their lives in mankind's most noble goal: the search for truth and understanding.

They will be mourned by their families and friends; they will be mourned by the nation; they will be mourned by the people of the world; they will be mourned by a Mother Earth that dared send two of her sons into the unknown.

In their exploration, they stirred the people of the world to feel as one; in their sacrifice, they bind more tightly the brotherhood of man.

In ancient days, men looked at the stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men of flesh and blood.

Others will follow, and surely find their way home. Man's search will not be denied. But these men were the first, and they will remain the foremost in our hearts.

For every human being who looks up at the moon in the nights to come will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind.

PRIOR TO THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT:

The President should telephone each of the widows-to-be.

AFTER THE PRESIDENT'S STATEMENT, AT THE POINT WHEN NASA ENDS COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE MEN:

A clergyman should adopt the same procedure as a burial at sea, commending their souls to "the deepest of the deep," concluding with the Lords Prayer.

William Safire, for Nixon, Apollo 11, 1969.

Alberta Tourist Brochure, 1972

To Do/Photos:

EG Chricton
1) Fees (American)
2) Contract Signed
3) Insurance
4) Install

RM Vaughn
1) Venue
2) Frame
3) Fees
4) Install

Elaine W.
1) Venue
2) Printing
3) Fees
4) Install

Andrew
1) Get Back to/Confirm/Find Another Venue
2) Printing
3) Fees
4) Install

Gilles
1) Printing
2) Address
3) Fees (Euro)
4) Install

Jackson
1) Fees
2) Install

Elaine Venue:
ArchLight (contacted)
Carrot Cafe (contacted)

RM Vaughn
mudHoney (contacted)
library/postoffice/popluxe/brent/concordia/u of a/broadvalley/strathconabooks/listen/alhambra (possible)

Andrew
ArtWorks (contacted)
henry/gravity pope/chemistry clothing/blackbyrd/megatunes/cherry/bang on (possible)

Cruising was the first film the gay community censored, and one of the last movies about sexual practices that were lost to AIDS, and the instability of sexual practice and personae that marked the 70s, and the power of conversion, and the aesthetics--the dark rooms, the tableaux settings, the creak of the leather and the omnipresent fluorescent/neon lighting. The censorious effect of cruising lead to a mainstreaming of queer voices, and accuracy was sacrificed to a kind of platonic ideal of gay male culture. Treating Cruising as presciently about AIDS and the fear of the gay male body, I want to write about how mainstream, popularized films ignored, castrated, reworked or censored that kind of sexual culture, and were rewarded as “progressive” or liberal as Cruising was ignored of vilified.

I imagine the piece to be divided into five parts, not including an introduction and a conclusion. Part one would be a discussion of leather culture in New York in the 70s, its popularity, and the creation of a highly codified, highly ritualized, subculture who’s highly visual signifiers created a simulacra of masculine portrayals. Part two would be how Friedkin, a straight male filmmaker from Los Angeles insinuated himself into that world, and how his portrayal of it worked as a documentary work as much as a work of fiction. Part two would be a discussion of Pacino’s method acting in the film, how he used his body to work towards and against assimilation, how his sexuality becomes an act of great ambiguity, purely from his own corporeal choices. Part four would be a discussion of how the film became loathed among certain queers, and how this loathing was a explicit and political move towards mainstreaming. Also, how this mainstreaming or lack of, was the flashpoint that lead to fights in gay culture about AIDS, bath houses, marriage, and media depictions. I want to talk especially in this section about Victor Russo’s dismissal of the film The Celluloid Closet and Russo’s later biography. Lastly, I want to talk about how leather in 1980 was taboo, but it itself became mainstreamed as an aesthetic fashion, and so the images of sexuality depicted in cruising become less then shocking. Here I want to talk about Mapplethorpe and the culture wars, Foucault’s tours through the bathhouses in the late 80s and Zizek’s essay on fisting. In conclusion, I want to discuss what was lost when both Cruising and cruising (the text and the act) became taboo.

Christies, Photo Auction, American CAsh

1. At Least Two Avedon bought in, other work sold for low end of estimate (market correction downwards?)
2. Adams Sierra club pritned photos Yosemite vs Watkins (a century earlier, albumen vs silver nitrate, Albumen outsells by 5 figures)
3. A century of female nudes: brandt, manray, mapplethorpe, newton, others
4. iconic winnogrand, (7 wks), 15k (other iconic work, WeeGee opera, went over; Lange went in the middle, reprints from 73 of Walker Evans photos from Now I Praise Famous Men went market, Arbus grenade, printed a decade after it was shot 229, Eggelston Memphis Secertary for 109K, Manray of Kiki and African Mask, 241k, Karsh and Churchill 10k, Penn Frozen Food, 109)
   
5. Frank, Cafteria, bought in
6. Dan Graham bought in (one of those accidents of commerce, the Dan Graham, a Shore featuring cares, and an evans featuring a bus, the graham is the only one that wen unsold)
   
7. I really hate Watkins
8. that 78 seires from Penn, wehre he took ethnic people in exotic costume, and shot them in a new york studio, three or four images from that series, for low 6 figures. (the sepia tone, the costume, etc its colonial, isnt it,updates of Curtis and all those victorians?) (three new guinea works from the same seires went unsold though)
   
9. Atget sold really well, but you can still get some of his best images for a tenth of medicore Penn shots
10. Wojanowicz. the buffalo shot--more conceptual then photo, but i always get a catch in my throat looking at them. (46,4)
    
11. I know that no one has any moeny, but the dundas collection was bought for the canadian government for more then 11m, but something like Mayfair, Winnipeg, from Shore, went unsold for 5k, that piece should be in Canada
12. I have o idea why one would by a singular Becher
    
13. Three Lux for much less then they were going for in the last auction
    
14. most of the mapplethorpes are teh flowers, the 6 or so male ndues were sold for 5/6k if sold at all
    
15. some old queen sold his collection: erotic male work by mapplethorpe, weber, plat-lynnes, ritts, horst, no big break thrus, 4-5 figures
    
16. only one goldin, two serrano

rare interview wiht Louise Bougeious.


Owen Williams new campaign for New York Tourism


Bulgarian Womens Choir Sings Oh Susannah

the valley wonders how to deal with porn when so much of it is done for free and given away on the interweb--on conde nast's buisness magazine.

roberta smith on The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, now at th met. (they hung John Singleton Copley's Watson and the Shark beside it, which might be best curtaorial strategy ive heard in years---the violent and the placid, sharks conquering humans and humans conquering sharks)


Here is the Copley:


Speaking of Smith,this is one of the better encapsulations of the Christoph Buchel/Mass:Mocca situation.

Halo and Jesus together again for the first time.

wsj provides a comprhensive infographic about the subprime morgatge disaster state by state.

chigo is a japanese childrens emporuiium, with the most elegant and lovely clothing and toys. make me want to be 5 again.



Two videos of Stringbean, both on the opry from the mid 60s, watching him with porter wagoner is cognitivly dissonant.

30 hours of podcasts from the delta blues musuems, called the uncensored history of blues. Each is thematic, with anecdotes, cultural history, examples of the music, and texts written out afterwards. A fantastic resource.


Miyake, Breast Plate, Moulded Plastic, 1993

york u censors a window display after a parent complains.

braille tattoos

Tammy Baldwin put gender back into the equation with the EDNA.

two priests were sent to jail for 5 months for trying to give a letter to Fort Hucheha in Arizonia, decrying torture.


Teh chair is prefect, the colour is wonderful, but the photo is ideal.

carrie walkers drawings of animal heads are not only techinaclly accomplished, but are placed on the page with sophistication.


Second Trailer for I'm Not There. (this will either be the best or the worst movie of the year)

according to Rowling Dumbledore is gay.

Clintons prowess for fund raising in unusual communities. the recent immigrant populations from mainland china, is the most recent one.


Van Der Beek and Timberlake tailgate at a Packers party.

Here is the Exposure Schedule

LOUD 'N' QUEER CABARET
Nov. 23, 24 / 7:30 p.m. / 18+
TransAlta Arts Barns
Tickets: $25, Tix on the Square

QUEER TERRITORIES (VISUAL ARTS)
Nov. 10 – Dec. 1
Latitude 53
Free

FATALE: A DANGEROUS NIGHT OF FEMME PERFORMANCE
Nov. 25 / Doors 7 p.m. / Show 7:30 p.m.
Latitude 53
Free

BIRCH HEART PRESENTS: WET SECRETS, SPREEPARK, KNOTS
Nov. 26 / Doors 7 p.m. / Show 8:00 p.m.
McDougall United Church
Tickets: $11, Pride Centre, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Megatunes; $More at the door

GET BENT: QUEER YOUTH ART (VISUAL ARTS)
Nov. 26 – Dec. 1
Reception Dec. 1 at 2:30 p.m.
Art Gallery of Alberta
Free

DESERT HEARTS (FILM) / WARS WE DRESS UP FOR (SHORT FILMS)
Nov. 27 / 7 p.m. / 9 p.m.
Metro Cinema
Tickets: $10 / $8 (students with ID/seniors) at the door

QUEER STORY SLAM
Nov. 28 / 7 p.m.
Blue Chair Café
Entry fee: $5 for storytellers, $pass-the-hat for audience

ANN CVETKOVICH: DEPRESSION: A PUBLIC FEELINGS PROJECT
Nov. 29 / 1 p.m.
UofA Humanities Centre, L-3
Free

533 STATEMENTS / BUBBLE (FILMS)
Nov. 29 / 7 p.m. / 9 p.m.
Metro Cinema
Tickets: $10 / $8 (students with ID/seniors) at the door

TOAST AT THE ROOST (ARTIST/AUDIENCE MIXER)
Nov. 29 / 18+
The Roost

ALBERTA BEEF OVEREXPOSED (DRAG KING CABARET)
Nov. 30 / Doors 4 p.m. / Show 10 p.m. / 18+
Prism Bar & Grill
No cover

MAKING QUEER ART WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Dec. 1 / Noon – 4 p.m.
Art Gallery of Alberta
Free

ROUGE: MASQUEERADE
Dec. 1 / Doors 8 p.m. / 18+
Masonic Hall
Tickets: $25, Tix on the Square, Pride Centre, Blackbyrd Myoozik

THE WORKS PRESENTS: TELLING TAILS AND OTHER STORIES BY DAVID FOLK
Nov. 5 - Dec. 1
The Works Gallery
Free

PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITS
Nov. 17 - Dec. 1
Various locations TBA
Free

OTHER HAPPENINGS AROUND TOWN
Trans Day of Remembrance
Nov. 20

Miriam Smith: Thinking about National Human Rights: Queer Movements in Canada and the U.S.
Nov. 23 / 2 p.m.
UofA, Business Building 2-5

Brian Webb Dance Company Presents: Kidd Pivot - Lost Action
Nov. 23, 24 / 8 p.m.
John L. Haar Theatre

AIDS Awareness Week / World AIDS Day
Nov. 26 – Dec. 1
HIVedmonton.com for events

Elizabeth Saewyc: Paradoxical Pregnancies (Inside/OUT)
Nov. 27 / 5:00 p.m.
UofA Education North Building Room 7-152

BitchSlap!
Nov. 28 – Dec. 9
Theatre Network’s Roxy Theatre

A Grindhouse is not a home: An evening of trashy local homemade films
Nov. 28 / 7 p.m. / Free
Edmonton Public Library

Ivan E. Coyote: Chest Air (Inside/OUT Keynote Lecture)
Nov. 30 / 3:30 p.m.
UofA Education North Building Room 7-152

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all of that said, his 2006 album, had one of the more jaw dropping racist moments:

...Fiddle and a steel guitar in some little redneck bar
Parkin' lot full of four wheel drives
You won't hear no hip hop jive
Cowgirls lookin' for cowboys
Two-step to that ol' white noise

I'm talkin' 'bout white noise comin' from the white boys
I can't keep my cowboy boots from stompin'
To that white noise comin' from the white boys
Take me where those honky's are a-tonkin'...

Josh Turner Firecracker
Its not as a good as Yr Man, or to put it more bluntly, Yr Man turns me on, and Firecracker doesn’t.

Maybe its because Yr Man works better formally, the tone of the music literally matches the tone of the music---when he sings put some music soft and low—the music is soft and slow, its seductive in a soulful kind of swagger, but one so smooth that the first impression is one of fidelity, of married couples making love, when it is a song of explicit eroticism with out being ribald, each proposal comes with its own safety catch —“where alone now, you don’t know how long ive wanted to, lock the door and turn the lights down low”, or “lets go over what I had in mind” or “I’ve been thinking of this all day long/never felt a feeling quite this strong” or “aint no body loves me the way I love you” The conversational negotiation of what is desired and what will occur, of the desires of a lover and the commitment of a spouse.

The privacy, the intimacy, the tenderness of the delivery, all suggest that a song made for radio is almost too intimate to be played there. I think it is a song that seduces the audience, a text that manages in a singular fashion to be a song to marry too and a song to fuck too.

This dual working thru of a singular purpose is absent on Firecracker, though its as well written, and it’s extended metaphors work well with in the blues/rockabilly tradition of dirty double entendres, I just don’t believe him---I might believe him if someone else sang it (well its almost too tame now, it might be believable if someone ca 1950 sang it—it would have been perfect for Carl Perkins or Wanda Jackson or Little Richard or Jerry Lee, people who might have done some damage with their voices) Also, Turner is too tame, he of the slow voice, the croon, the basso profundo, who has a certain moral core, cannot bring the fire necessary, yr man requires a smoulder, this requires a flame.

It starts with a yea—it goes fast but not fast enough that the lack of control that the song requires, it doesn’t have the dominance or the fight for dominance that lines like “son of a gun she’s fun to handle, she packs a punch like a roman candle or we might not oughta to roll in the hay because we might burn down the barn one of these days. Plus, by calling her both a firecracker and the light of his life, means he lacks commitment to the impermanence and the sheer destruction of the women in question. (Also if she’s so hot, isn’t burning the barn down a good thing, and isn’t going out in smoke what fire crackers do?) The sheer anxiety of losing control makes a song safe, and a song about arson, and coded references to female orgasm should be anything but safe.

50 years ago, this year Wanda Jackson sang “I’m a fujiyama mama/about to lose my top” and you believed her—that when she finally got what she wanted, cataclysmic destruction would occur. Turner should keep with the ambiguous odes to marital hotel room sex or take lessons from Jackson.

i keep hoping that white chalk will break open for me, but it hasnt yet.

Sothebys, Photos, New York (American)

1. Really conserative, marketable work, Weston Nudes, early Frank roadtrips, Imogen Cunnigham flowers, all selling for mid 5 to low 6 figures
   
2. Breakfast Room by Evans, for 192, might be the best deal. (though Wessel's portfolio of Suburban Real Estate, 25k for 20, would also count--the only conceptual work in the auction)
   
3. One work broke 1m, Nautulius, gelatin silver print, original printing, not a great photo but iconic (another nautlius, 6 years later, for 250)
   
4. One of the better Avedons, from the Western seires , went unsold
5. The one Mapplethorpe, literally classical, unerotic
6. Sternfeild also went unsold (the pumpkin one)

Nancy Richardson, Sothebys

1. A shitload of Siskind, all for decent or good prices, might make him the American Atget Afterall (10 or 15, b/w 40-70k)
2. Well curated, some nice work from Chicago or from Harry Callahan match wel with urban new york work, the black and white fucntion as a unifier w/o being samey
3. Adam Fuss, from 1997, looks remarkably liek the expirmental abstractions that were made in the 40s and 50s
4. The two Weston's she owned both featured dead bodies
   
5. Two warhol's look out of place with this collection, which explains why they went for so little, a fright wig study for 20k, a polarid of a hadn for 8.
   
6. Best buy, three james welling prints for 3750

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKdcJfIM-tE