Thesis: The last 45 years of American Led Warfare, have been a unfolding story about information, control, and democracy. Using Walter Cronkite claiming Veitnam was over, who controls the information about a war, controls the war. From that point, we have My Lai, then CNN, and the first gulf war. Each of those were controlled by large corperate enterprises working in tandem with the military industrial complex. With Baudillard's essay on the gulf war, Sontags realtionship with the Baltic and Fuykuama's(sp) end of history, the idea of top down media representation ends, and a sort of post-history emerges. This post-history was founded on blogs, email, digital still cameras, DVR, and cheap memory. The control of information has become impossible, and how it leaks, why it leaks, who has leaked it, and other similar questions provide a kind of shadow discourse, esepcially when it leaks into the mainstream, or when images intended to be private souivneers become public.

More Geffen/Pollock

we were at:
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1196 A Rare male torso, by Malloli
1197 G Michelet's somber portrait of Paul Serisouer
1198 A Redon flower painting
1199 A Great Signac pastel of dark black birches
1200 Maltets Plate of Fruit from Normandy, though it seems like a poor mans Cezanne
1201 An almsot clasutophic Maltet scene of baclony, and Normandy sea
1202 Luty's verdant landscape
1203 Andres Derain's ink wash school girl portrait
1204 A Legre Portrait of several nudes, intertwined
1205 A severe drawing of a very macluine woman, by Ramara DE LEmpicka
1206 One of Balthus's filthy little nymphettes
1207-1209 Two Grosz drawings
1210 A Ben Nicholson drawing, in a pale green wash
1211 A fantastic, Barabra Hepwroth, scuplturei n Black Basalt
1212 Bernard Buffets tender little sailboats
1213 a red chalk drawing, by LaTrec, that looks like a syphlitic prostitute dying
1234 A Klee Biomorphic abstraction
1235 A Kadnsiky Watercolour
1236 An important, early Merz work, by Schwitters
1237 A Matisse line drawing
1238 A Hans Bellmer drawing, of mechnicahl nudes
1239 A very cute page of Fujioto Cats
1240 A Roult Crucifixon
1241 A Degas Bronze, this time of a horse
1242 A Delany wool tapestry
1243 A Archipenko, nude torso
1244 One of the more phallic Arp marbles
1245 A Buffett Butterfly (buffet is becoming Chagall, sentimental, well painted, and consistently priced)
1246 A De Chircho of two horses ramming into each other, like goats
1247 A DE Gabo Construcvist sculpture, in white and clear plastic
1248 a bonnard nude, that looks healthy, and sort of fat
1249 A giant Lipshitz bronze, of a naked chick, feeding two gazelles,

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Two Videos of the LAPD kicking the shit out of a) a hispanic suspect b) a mentally ill suspect. cellphone cameras make assholes like this at least a little bit accountable.


xian remix of ads for the aussie wireless company, now becoming privitazed

the best thing about raymond buhr's pop baroque work, is how viscously satrical they can be.

hygine film from the mid 50s that establishes the whole fags will steal yr children meme

everyone is getting the nra special edition mugs for xmas

daves long box determiens which perverts match which political suit.


Gajin Fujita, Burn, 2006
acrylic, 24 & 12K gold leaf, spray paint & Mean Streak on wood panel
48 x 96 in. (121.9 x 243.8 cm)

i think i like this, for its messiness, and its east/west mix, its kitsch, and its utter, obviousness...he has another one called lust, with a pillowbook drawing of two lesbians, and the lust in some kind of cholo neon mess of a font, that is so obvious in its referents, that its visual power seems to be entirely because of its lack of subtlety. also, two kinds of gold leaf! it might also be just too absurd to mention, too emssy, and not clear enough in its intentions, too saleable to hipsters whio cant tell if they like shiny shit geniunely, like that joke from the simpsons, "are you being ironic" "i cant even tell anymore" and gajin cant be a real first name...

the democrats have the house and the senate, so i thot i would post the dark man rapes the white woman ad the rnc was publishing just before the election, to remind us of how lurid the last few months were:


i am posting this article, b/c Kandida Crazy Horse emailed it to me out of the blue, and well Ms Crazy Horse is a hero of mine, so i was tickled pink...(i mean the article is a fascinating deconstruction of race, and social position, in relation to soul music in the southern states, esp wrt nashville, and a fascianting profile of george shoul, but yeah...kandida crazy horse emailed me!

turkey keeps pushing legaslation outlawing the kurdish language, and proscueting those who use it.


you could have bought this for me, fuckers, only 900 dollars!

gayle haggard writes to new life church
tedd haggard writes to new life church.
the lacunae in gayles letter is fascinating.
and someone made tedd haggard's myspace profile privatesadly

Katharine Jefferts Schori was elected to the primacy of the Espicolpain church. Progressive, wise, and willing to engage with the issues directly, she will be a boon to the left wing of the Anglican corpus.

Christopher Williams photos mostly, i want to crib his webdesign

china doubles aid to africa, reminding me of the usa/ussr fights in the mid 60s and early 70s, about sateillate states, on teh contient.

a fascianting anthropological study of young gang members in miami, and a complete mythology they have devopled.

Bechtel pulls out of Iraq

Cladio Hummes the cardinal of Sao Paulo is the "new prefect of the Congregation for Clergy."...the important bit is burried way in the middle of the story:
Cardinal Hummes, who speaks five languages, is known as a champion of human dignity, not only supporting and initiating concrete projects to help the poor, but also defending the traditional family, fighting abortion and citing the need for solid ethical norms in response to advances in biomedical technology
so yeah, hes stacking the deck

fiction

eight
paul hornschimers let us make this/perfectly clear, a sort of cleaning out while we wait for him to make new work, this anthology is a strange seires of expirments, in how to twist anrrative and visual forms into the usual comic structures. beautiful, and distrubing, with an amazing colour sense.

seven
pete hautmans young adult novel invisible, about mental illness, model trains, killing your best friend, and boys schools. genuinely disturbing, taut, and moving towards an end that is both shocking and ambigious.

Contiuing to see what you can buy, if you had the 140m Geffen sold the pollock for

1190 Garcia's gorgeous, black and grey, mayan abstraction
1191 A Bonnard drawing of a woman in a lavendar shirt, for the delicate interplay of colour, shade and light.
1192 Vuillard's painting of a woman licking an envelope, it looks like one of those japanese Cassats
1193 a fantastic, stark landscape by Hoder
1194 A Degas bronze, of a danxer
1195 one of the most complete, black and white studies, of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, a painting he spent more than a decade on.


note: there, in this auction, is a 40m Gaugin, and an 80m Klimt--i dont get the klimt love, and though its a nice Gaugin, all of his tahiti paintings seem fairly similar, and the ones without the tits seem to be worth less, be less interestnig, then the oens with...all of the sexual and ethnograpic politics aside, Gaugin is one of the best painters of tits ever. i also know that i am choosing studies, prints, drawings, manquettes, etc and that minor work pumps up the total of works bought--i am less and less tempted to buy what is considered major or cannonical work, or at least the major/cannonical work i am tempted by, is still on the edge of instutional affordiblity. i am going to do this once again, at the end of november, and see if i can curtail it to a tenth.

new record, 3,264,000 (estimate:600 000)

52 256 010 left

Contiuing to see what you can buy, if you had the 140m Geffen sold the pollock for

1190 Garcia's gorgeous, black and grey, mayan abstraction
1191 A Bonnard drawing of a woman in a lavendar shirt, for the delicate interplay of colour, shade and light.
1192 Vuillard's painting of a woman licking an envelope, it looks like one of those japanese Cassats
1193 a fantastic, stark landscape by Hoder
1194 A Degas bronze, of a danxer
1195 one of the most complete, black and white studies, of Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, a painting he spent more than a decade on.


note: there, in this auction, is a 40m Gaugin, and an 80m Klimt--i dont get the klimt love, and though its a nice Gaugin, all of his tahiti paintings seem fairly similar, and the ones without the tits seem to be worth less, be less interestnig, then the oens with...all of the sexual and ethnograpic politics aside, Gaugin is one of the best painters of tits ever. i also know that i am choosing studies, prints, drawings, manquettes, etc and that minor work pumps up the total of works bought--i am less and less tempted to buy what is considered major or cannonical work, or at least the major/cannonical work i am tempted by, is still on the edge of instutional affordiblity. i am going to do this once again, at the end of november, and see if i can curtail it to a tenth.

new record, 3,264,000 (estimate:600 000)

SFBC's Most Significant SF & Fantasy Books of the Last 50 Years, 1953-2002
(D and Lisa did this, so I am too, what i read in bold, comments in brackets)

1 The Lord of the Rings, J.R.R. Tolkien
i got thru the first one, and half way thru the second)
2 The Foundation Trilogy, Isaac Asimov
3 Dune, Frank Herbert
4 Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein
i have read this twice, and keep hitting the brick wall of fascism, plus its butch beyond measure, i fail to see what pat/ray see in this
5 A Wizard of Earthsea, Ursula K. Le Guin
6 Neuromancer, William Gibson
one of the best written, most vital books, ive read in recent memory, read it in sf class, with ray, adn aside from the radically new ways of handling information, bodies, machines, etc, the new metaphors keep popping up, last night, i was waiting, about midnight, on a train platform with john, and the tungsten lights of street lamps, the sodium lights of stadiums, and the immenient snow, turned the sky into the perfect television blankness...
7 Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
8 Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Philip K. Dick
9 The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
i liked her tawdry dyke pulp better
10 Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
11 The Book of the New Sun, Gene Wolfe
12 A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
overwrought, eurocentric, phallocentric, and deeply believing in sciprogress, even after nuclear apoclypse, ponderous to the ultimate boredom
13 The Caves of Steel, Isaac Asimov
14 Children of the Atom, Wilmar Shiras
15 Cities in Flight, James Blish
16 The Colour of Magic, Terry Pratchett
17 Dangerous Visions, edited by Harlan Ellison
if the world was just, it would be considered as seminal in 20th century lit, as the evergreen review was to the beats, or the egotist was for the lost generation, a strange and wonderous piece of editorial genius.
18 Deathbird Stories, Harlan Ellison
19 The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester
20 Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany
a book about power, language, pyschogeographical landscape, queer sex, and ennui, more of a kind of focculadian rakes progress, and difficult to read, but gorgeous. i think i would have included aye and gommorah instead. actually, the thing is, i found dhalgren an incredibly hard book to read, and it dragged, and so i wonder if me completeting it, etc was an effect of its novelty and as a reward for my endurance
21 Dragonflight, Anne McCaffrey
22 Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
god i hate this book
23 The First Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, Stephen R. Donaldson
24 The Forever War, Joe Haldeman
25 Gateway, Frederik Pohl
26 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling
the power of rowling, is her skill as a synthiser
27 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
not as funny as people told me it was
28 I Am Legend, Richard Matheson
29 Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
30 The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. Le Guin
31 Little, Big, John Crowley
32 Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
33 The Man in the High Castle, Philip K. Dick
two dicks and neither one the right one, i didnt like this text,
34 Mission of Gravity, Hal Clement
35 More Than Human, Theodore Sturgeon
36 The Rediscovery of Man, Cordwainer Smith
37 On the Beach, Nevil Shute
i read it for school
38 Rendezvous with Rama, Arthur C. Clarke
39 Ringworld, Larry Niven
40 Rogue Moon, Algis Budrys
41 The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
i liked this better then almost anything he wrote
42 Slaughterhouse-5, Kurt Vonnegut
43 Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
44 Stand on Zanzibar, John Brunner
45 The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
olav told me to read this
46 Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein
i liked the movie better
47 Stormbringer, Michael Moorcock
48 The Sword of Shannara, Terry Brooks
one of the mistakes when i was trying to be a boy
49 Timescape, Gregory Benford
50 To Your Scattered Bodies Go, Philip Jose Farmer
my favourite book on the list

here is the link to the nudist rag

ryan mcginley has a new book out, mostly its sort of boring, sunshine hipster orgies and naked hiking, weimar meets nudist kitsch in williamsberg, naming it sun and health, reminsencent of one of the more famous nudist magazines (its a good thing that he didnt call it health and efficency, the least erotic name for something mostly used as a wank mag, perhaps ever)

however the casual nature of this shot, the smoke and the cock and the stream of piss, and the blur/sharpness, and the red sweater, and the sort of casual intimacy that is impossible to fake, it is masterful in its composition and tender in a way most transgressive nudes arent...

After the Bonham and first Sotheby Modernist Sales:

1146 Paul Cezannes watercolour of Roses
1147 A Degas Bather in Pastel
1148 A Georges Seurat, pointilsit drawing, in graphite, of a paris harbourfront, which has a luminousity and intensity missing from his more famous photos.
1149-1151 Two Schiele drawings, of spindled, starving nudes, including one with a black and yellow ink wash
1152 A gorgeous, Vuillard stilllives, of yellow irises, on a dark green table
1153-1157 Two Piassaro drawings, pencil on manilla paper, slight, and well constructed sketchs of 19th century paris suburbs
1158 A Bernard landscape in various greytone chalks and pastels, that resmbles a Chinese landscapes
1159 Red Roofed Peasent Houses, by Callan
1160 The cutest cat ever drawn, by Fujioto
1161 An eerie drawing of a Vineese wood
1162 A Machig paitning of Officespace, all warm browns and beiges, with some beautiful repeating squares
1163 A v. cute Dan Lutz painting of a sandpiper
1164 A abstraction, in dayglo reds and yellow, by Armitage
1165-1167 Two William Theophilus Stevensen nudes
1168 A somber Helen Leavin abstraction
1169 Warhols homoerotic/Eucharistic Good Body print, criminally underpriced
1170 Two Oppenhiem studies
1171-1176 FivE DZama drawings, mostly monsters, including one of a Yeti
1177-1178 Two Zukowsky paintings, including one called Lincoln and Lobster
1179 one of the famous flooded hallway photos
1180 A sieres of Millich arclyic sculptures
1180-1182 Two nudes by Susan Clover
1183 This amazing, pohoto realist drawing of a swan
1184-1189 Five portraits by Riveria

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tony andel died yesterday

fiction nine

The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana-Eco

filled with great writing, semantic insights, moving and tender delicaices, and neogtions b/w the living and the dead, about a man who loses only the memory of his own life, but not of what he is read, so he goes, and finds the books, the magazines left over from his grandparents, mostly about what happened to nothern italy, its realtionship to america, and europe, its history of fascism, and more domestic landscapes. the best thnig about it though, is that its illustrated, extesnively.

the art is made by a dude named blakeshear, and it really reminds me of freiberg

more examples

image used to sell jesus in tedd haggards church

david geffen sold no 5, a 1948 drip painting, for 140m, which broke the record. so, we are going thru and seeing what else he could have bought. (its a nice pollock, an early example, and excellent colour, richer and earthier, with more autumul tones then later ones) (usual distinctions apply, private sale, but public auctions, et al) (i have 70 749 008 left, but the american contemparary auctions are next week)

1-6 Richard Mirsch photos, from his Hawaii series, lush and decadent works of foliage.
7-19 The whole of Joel Meyerwitz’s Bay Porch series of photographs
20. A Neil Leifer Surf Photo, later impression
21-23 Two Brett Watson nature abstractions, that looks like slicker, less complicated Twomblies.
24. Lee Tanner’s portrait of Miles Davis
25. Lee Friedlander’s portrait of Marian Williams
26. An almost mystic, sepia toned work, by Bernice Abbot, of an elderly Hopper in his Studio.
27. A Starn Twins, blurry conceptual work, from the mid 80s.
28, Two studio portraits, from Newman, one of Lichtenstein and one of Johns.
29. A Curtis landscape of California Canyons, reminds me of Monument Valley.
30. Westons’s silver gelatin print of a Mexican girl
31-32. Kurt Markus’s photos of cleaned up ranchers, from the 1980s.
33. Tina Mondotti’s already fading documentary photo of a Riveria mural.
34. Bernice Abbots, one of her store front photos.
35. Two later imprintings of Walker Evans Farm photos
36-39 Three Lewis Hine, Child Labour Studies, from the early 1900s.
40-43 Three pornographic self portraits, from Mapplethorpe, including one of him trussed like a thanksgiving turkey.
44. One of Larry Clarke’s pretty boys.
45. Edward Steichan Landscape.
46. A great Steigleitz of trains.
47. Pierre Dubiells picture of a clipper, and moorings, because it kind of reminds me of Ruscha.
48. A beautiful, albumen print of an Egyptian temple, by Frith, for how early it is.
49. Esiendtadt’s snapshot of ballerinas, in mid rehersal.
50. Thurston Hopkin photo of driver and poodle.
51, A lovely study of light and water’s effects on buildings in Corsica, by Keresetz.
52-54 Two August Sander works.
55. A Bert Stern Marylin work, for its almost greasy, mid 50s, kodachrome colour.
56. A Man Ray photo of his muse Kiki Du Musspant.
57. the only ugly photo of Ava Gardner ever taken, by Helmut Newton, in the early 80s.
58. An inscrubalte, but seemingly filthy, work by Debbie Caffey
59.-63 Four Minor White studies, including one of a paper lattern, with a hard monderinsit sheen.
64 A Grant Mumford LA Cityscape.
65. A Siskind Wall texture piece.
66. A Eisenstadt LA Cityscape, which makes it look like nyc.
67-70 Three from the Notations in Passing Sieres, by Nathan Lyons.
71. A Later Imprinting of John Gutman’s reportage of the first la theater.
72-75 Jim Stows photo collage of Shea Stadium, and two others.
76. An oddly moving, Nicholas Nixon photo of the Christian Science mother church.
77-79 Two Iconic Muhammed Ali photo images, by Leifer.
80. Esienstadt’s portrait of graduating west point.
81. Germaine Krull’s photo of an automotive assembly line.
82. A Machine Gody photo of train mechanics, by Hine.
83. A later imprint, RoberT Capra photo of Trotsky.
84-87 Three Salgado photos of Kuwait.
88 A later imprinting of Newman’s photo of Stravinsky engulfed by his piano.
89. another Stravinsky, this time conducting, by Kappa.
90. Kenna’s portrait of Trees, somewheei n the south.
91. Friedlander’s Minot North Dakota.
92. George Kinot’s Oak Tree
93-96 Three from Eliot Porters Intimate Landscape Seires.
97. Weston, White Radish, cause it looks like its glowing from radition,
98-101 Three of the earthy, loving, photos of solid anglo vegetables, by Charles Jones.
102 A Timothy Sullivan civil war era albumen print of appalicha.
103. Lincoln’s funeral train, by Klees/
104. Danny Lyon’s mid 60s snapshot, of tiles, and a girl, somewhere in southern California.
105. Edgerton’s pole vaulter.
106. Muyerbridge’s runner.
107-109 Two Olivia Smalls works, including the taxonomic Moonsnails.
110.-112 Two very early photographic studies of the moon, by James Naysmyth.
113-121 Eight works by Dorthoy Emercik Le, portraits of women writers, and one called the sewing circle, feminist, and well constructed, with great colour sense.
122. Ellen Daylon water colour of River Rock
123-126 Three Hogarth Prints.
127. Parinellsi’s engraving of the Collisuem.
128. Millet engraving of card players.
129. Hans Bellmer Etching.
130. Kathee Kollwitz, mother in mourning, etching.
131-133 Two Max Ernst Lithographs.
134-136 Two Leger drawings.
137.-139 Two very strange Picasso graphic works, anti fascist, about franco, sort of a reduction of Geurnica.
140. A Dudvitch Lithograph (WWII era propghanda poster.)
141-146 Five Eugene Meatyard photos.
147. Warhol’s Pink Cow Lithograph.
148 Christo plans and drawings for a wrapped MoMA
149-152 Various Houksai Prints, including the iconic great wave
152-154 Two Kuounsi theater prints.
155-170 15 (!) Hirosige prints, mostly landscapes, some incredibly lovely seascapes, with that amazing blue colour he does so well, and one interior, with a pink like the insie of a conch.
170-175 Five dumier Bronzes.
17-177 two Malloi nudes, graphite on paper.
178. A Signac sketch of a fishing boat.
179 A lebasque painting of a melon.
180. a gorgeous Lauge painting of trees in spring, the colour is all greens and blues, too rich for its own good
181-183 Two Maximillon Luce landscapes.
184. A Sonia Deluny gemoteric abstraction
185-193 Eight small moore bronzes, sometimes manquettes for larger projects, sometimes singular wor, including his sheep, his raymond duchamp villion resembling bronze head, and others.
196. Andre Derain, Estrucun like clay mask.
197 Gurgallo’s terra cotta female nude.
198. Klee drawing, graphite on newsprint.
199. Kitschy late Picabo, mixed media, drawing.
200-202 Two Magrite Studies.
202-206 Four moore water colours, including a great study of gnarled tree branches.
207. Lynn Chadwick Manquttee, less anthropomorphic then usual.
208-211 Three thick, slab like bronze constructions by Bernard Butler.
212-214 Two delicate, abtracted nudes, by Reg Butler
215-218, three, murky, sentimental, riverscapes, in watercolour, by Boggs.
219 An Andre Durrian naïve drawing of a schoolgirl
220. Balthus nude, graphite on paper.
221-234 12 works illustrating Sherzade, by SEgonzac
235 Jaqeus Martin Ferrie ultra close up of yellow roses.
236. Ink wash drawing of a horses head by Marni.
237, One of Manzu’s pigeons.
238. A 1970 Picasso tapestry, cause of a variety of issues relating to mass reproduction and taste.
239. an oddly autocratic nude by Friesz
240-242 Two Buffet paintitings, one still life and one portrait.
243 This awful David Burlick painting of a white horse, because it amuses me.
244 One of those Christpher Wool, non text drswings, of over all patterns repeating, this time four black and white works, that look like scouring pads.
245 A Raymond Pettibone woodcut.
246. A largely green abstraction by Ballatine, lthat ooks like green baize.
247. Delia Browne’s Study for the Argument 2.
248. a Tom Sachs Hello Kitty piece, this time hello kittys head on a spike.
249. Sue On Wongs Tropical Pool.
250 Iona Raezel Brown’s blackface portraits of Ungaro portraits.
251 Elizabeth Peytons pencil drawing of Fred Hughes
252 Karne Killimnicks pencil drawing of Ilona Stadler
253 Tiger Bursting by Uklanski, for its colour and its power
254 A Matthew Barney sculpture of a pelvic bone, because whereelse can you get a work whos compoenets are self lubricating frame, petrolume jelly, and mahoghny.
255. Kara Walker laser cut steel sillehoute, paitned black.
256-259 three Sachs readymades, including one called shot through highway sign (you can figure out what it is from the title.
260 Ugo Unidone’s remix of Newman
261-263 the Chapman brothers, lithographs giant colouring book, and one of the large dildo faces.
264-266 Two Schematics by Walter Kentridge.
267 A Gillian Wearing photowork, one of her conversation pieces.
268-270 Two Damien Hirst paintings, including a spin work.
271-274 Three Richard Prince works, including the Upstate Seires.
275 Esslers photo of an Italian gorge.
276 Sruths photo of a german river.
277 Richter’s Mao.
277-279 Two Condo Portarits.
280 A Mcaollum piece, jars, brightly coloured.
281 Artschawgers Piano.
282. SAvid Sultan’s cigarette, because it reminds me of the Tony Smith sculpture, and because it’s materiality.
283-286 Three Judd Woodblock prints.
287 Three Louise Bourgeois Drawings
288 Naumans Prep Sketch for Eating Buggers
289-294 Four Ruscha Vacant Lots
295 An Andy portrait, from the mid 80s
296 A Wessleman smoking manquette.
297 Pen Xiang Lee’s Long Live Coca Cola
298 a slightly creepy Shen Lin nude, in a buttercup yellow background
299 Roni Horns cryptic Piece 2
300 A Felix Gonzalez Torrez photo of clouds rolling through the yellow sky.
301-304 three Nan Goldin photos, including a plain one of two pigeons, that seems so unlike her,
305 A Nikki Lee from the skateboarders project
306 A great, two boys in bed, morning light photo, by McGinley.
307 A Collier Schorr photo of west point.
308 Cindy Sherman as Lucy
309 An almost claustrophobic photo of an indoor swimming pool, by Wolfgang Tillmans
310-312 Two Martin Elder works, one of a white horse
313 Tim Gardner Watercolour
314 A Maureen Gallace study of a red barn, all foggy, and almost imprecitable.
315 Cady Noland Silkscreen
316 Rene Dijkstra’s photo of two twins on a beach in Ghana
317 A Luk Tuymuns Gouche
318 Thomas Struth, making Vegas look like Matisse
319 One of Vic Muniz’s Pictures in Chochlate
320 A Richard Prince Cowboy
321 Dijkstra, diptych of bullfighters
322 A Orzaca work made from chalkboards
323 two Chicho Ahisma prints, futuristic and ancient, and very very pop, I love how he does trees.
324 Another Sachs Hellow Kitty Piece
325 Inka Essenhigh, enamel on vanvas, because it has much dead speace, and acentral composition, and is still incredibly disturbing
326 one of Richard Princes Magazine Pieces
327 Louise Lawler, a flavin, in a white kitchen, slatboard, somewhere near longisland, almost camaflouged,.
329-331 Three prints from Cremaster III
332 Hirschon’s Thank You
333-335 Two tapestries, from Arte Povera Master Boetti, his text grids.
336 A Barry McGee drawing in collabration
337 A Gezken collage,
338 Paul Pfiffer’s cereluan cibrochrome, four horsemen of the apocolpyse
339 Two more Essler Lanscape photos
340 Little Snitches Like You End Up in Dumpsters Around Town, by Ruscha, with the text bliertted by black marker, on purpose.
341 A Richard PRicne protest painting, from 1990, whose text struggles to surface, and in that way reminds me of the Hoarfrost sieres.
342-34 Cooked Pig and Raw Pig, from Gober, photo works, that look like northern still lives,
334-336 Two Mike Kelly drawings
337 Kim’s all over surface painting, like lapridary samples
338 This fantastic Karen Killinmick paitning, almost looks like an abstraction, but puloling back, is a pink and blue hall/bedroom thing.
339 one of Jack Perison’s hand drawn text pieces
340 A large Gursky work
341 Yet another Essler landscape, this time a large (20 foot) panaorma of a medieval itaialian village, with warm browns and burnt seinnas, almost like everything was varved from caramel
343 Christo’s plans for The Gates, including fabric swatch
344 Candida Hofer’s photo of a ST Petersberg Café, of its black gate at least.
345 Ertug’s photo of a roman aqudecut, in Turkey, cause its so touristy
346-348 Two Rouvner works, because they look like Aubmens from the 1830s, as opposed to digitial work just a few years old.
349 Peter Cains ultra slick car paintings
350 A large, detailed Conduit paitning, by Halley
351-353 Two chaotic Baselitz drawings
354 A Terry Winter Grid
355 A cartoonish, excessive, Kenny Scharff piece, with out anyof his annoying characthers
356 A Gunther Fog colourfield work, on lead (cause its lead)
357 A Fischl painting of a cat.
358-60 Two Salles, both with 50s imagery, very butch, kind of hott
361 A Butterfield horse, in clay
362 WArhols eggs, perhaps one of the most formal, least idelogical works
363-365 Two more Christo Working drawings, incluing one for the fence projects from Marin County
366 Ruscha. Black and dark grey, portrait of a Joshua tree
367-369 Two john chamberlin plastic sculptures, ephermal, and all crinkled up
370 A Richard Tuttle drawing of a screw
371 Edda honoffs black and gray serial painting
372 One of Luc Saymas sandpaper paintings
373-378 Five Judd drawings, of boxes, most likely production notes, but much cleaner, and more elegant.
379 Scala’s piled steel sculpture
380-383 Three mythical works by Nikki St Phalel, they look acid drenched
384 A small, square Noland, with great colour, and a suprising lack of linearity
385 A judd drawing of an i-beam
386 Tom WEsslmena, smoking manqutte, on a black wall, almost bichromatic
387 a Karel Appel, bright, and less manic, print.
388 A Mel Ramos, Animal nude
389 A Calder circus drawing
390 A Dekooning Ink Wash, line drawing of two cows
391 and one of a nude
392-294 Two drawings by Calder, with sharpies, great detailing
395 A supringly ungestural, bright red, Motherwell
396 WEssleman nude, from the late 80s
397 a fantastic, loose sketch, by Guston, on Nesprint
398 this oldenberg, where a bunch of cardboard models of typewriters, are gridded, as an attempt to figure out placement
399 alex katz, tulips
400 Nadal’s painting of Picasso’s studio
401 a portrait by Gauginal, of a woman, floating throu space, almost, in a seafoam cloak
402 A drawing by Bonnard, of apples, mostly pencil, but with slight touches of white pastel.
403-407 Four Pisarro drawings
408 A small Rodin bronze
409 An Arp biomorphic work on paper, gold leaf
410 this tiny, brown ink on brown paper, drawing by Edward Osen, of a cowering nude.
411-413 Two Kirchner nudes
414 viscous anti clerical cartoon, by Grosz
415 A Doris day gone Aryan, facial study by Kisling
416-419 Three moore bronzes, including one of a goat head
420 A white on white abstraction, by Arp
421 Another Friez Nude
422-424 Two Villion drawings of paris, that sort of look like L:owrys drawings of Manchester
425 Gruizlet painting of the mediterrian
426 A Van Dooegan landscape
427 a Korwscho study
428-432 Four fantastic, brightly coloured, almost decorative, modernist Indian drawings by Roy
433 Jacob Epsteins Portrait of Nehru
434 A really disturbing and menacning portarait of a man with a beard and arather large sword by Francis Souza
435 Krishna Khanna’s Christ
436 Souza’s Crowned Chrsit
437-439 Two Housain almost abstractions, including one of a white horse
440 Two tantric pantings, infused with western mysticism, by Santoosh
441-443 Two abstractiosn by Sawminathan, that remind me of Harris work in the Bahamas, all these rich yellows, rteds and golds
444 Two Khanna works, one of the English channel, earthy!
445 Ganesh Pyrne’s the Prince, grotesque, and self aware.
446 Jorgen Chowdry’s Seated Man
447 a tense, and well constructed charcoal drawing of a bull by Theyb Matha
448 Metha’s drawing, of closely spaces concentric circles, so tight it hums
449 Two Padhesme portraits of Ghandi
450-457 Seven small gouaches, by Roy, all animals, including cows, deer, elephants and cats
458, an almost moghul, but simpler, painting of a princess by pyne
459-463 Four Souza portraits and landscapes
463-465 Two Gaintonde abstractions, almost mirror images
466-469 three illustratons of Hindu Mysticism by Chandra
470 Mydres figure with bulls head, in spice tones, and transparent, a luminous peice
471-476 Five Black Dot paintings by Raza
477 Byrin Dies painting of a candle, emitting light
478 Chowdruys, crowded,vopltuous, four women
479-481 Two pencil works by Pyne, of sketeal, viscious monkeys
482 A green and Brown, almost rothkoesque, colourfield work, by Swanimathan
483 Padryas work around the themes of Durgan
484 Dodiya’s regal watercolour of a vulture
485 Gupta’s conceptually holy Gruber/Ganesha, bronzed cowshit
486 Qureshis, bright pink and red flower panel,
487 a double dot seires
488 Huang Yan’s Chinese Landscape tattoos
489 Qin Lo’s Tatoo piece
490 Zhu Myin’s bright blue coupler print of the south china sea
491 Hong Tau Ping Pong Mao, combining table tennios, with mao emblazoned paddles and balls!!
492-435, three abstractions, and humanist portraits, carved in dark, slick wood, by Wang Kaping
436 Di Yigns paintings on western tartans
437-440 Wang Ganggauyi’s paintings of maoist propghanda over western capital packaging
441 Kim Yin Kung’s circle, painted in black mirroring, and dvided in five sections
442 Bubble Pink by Kim Lee, cause its Pink!
443-447 Welcome to the Worlds greatest brand seires.
448 Chuyns great painting of a cute little monster
449 a cute little painting of someone resting in a swimming pool
450 He Syn’s wall relief of a girl and a toy
451 Ju Duythuans wal reifelf of a sea lion resting a beach ball on his nose
452 Marylin and Mao by Shi Xuyin
453 Tianammen square, lit in a sulphurus yellow, with thousands of people crowding it, by Zhoayang
454 Zhao Baos lacverating parody of Disney
455 Qi Zhilongs hideous Barbie, from his consumer series
456 Yang Shiobins remake of hockney
457 Zhang Huans Bell, it’s a life sized human casting, in bright bronze, used as a clapper on a bell
458-461 Three landscapes of water, one green, two blue, by Fijan
462 Wang Jians emborided plastic rain coat
463 Wang calligraphic drawing, a ethnic reclaiming of Pollock
464-466 Two Matsurma nudes
467-470 three Konsumas, including one infinity net, and a pumpkin
471 Sugimito sea portrait
472 Morimura as Marylin
473 Kawashima’s Sebastion
474-479 5 Nagawaswa’s zen reconstruicitons of consumer objets, including male and female eggs
480 Xu Bing, woodblock print and scroll
481 Hong Li’s tondo landscape
482 Ha Shin, four Deasons:Spring
483-485 Eleven etchings by Hans Bahum, nues, memnotm ori, and religious scense, including the grim plaufe work, four skills, one child.
486-494 Eight Blake Engravings, including his illustrations of Dante
495 Daumiers legastive cartoon
496-527 36 Duher prints, including most of the famous ones, including Meloncholia, nemesis, the Rhino, and several apocalyptic works.
527-529 Two volumes, containing the entire Les Curpichao seires by Goya
530-620 Goya’s Disater of Wars seires.
622 A Rhine landscape by Lautensack
623-627 The Four Seasons, by Hondius
628 LEystreck’s Cruxicion, etching
629 Women With Flwoers B. engraving by someone called the Master of Playing Cards
630-633 Three increddbly detailed, landscape andbibilca secenes by Lsreal Van Hochaim, including one of Judith
634-652 18 etchings by Rembrandt , including some latter impressions, religious scenes, and nudes, including a crufixion and a descent, the descent being one of my favourties.
652-656 Four Seasons, by Saetfvlen
657-671 four scenes from the passion by Sachungruer
672-684 11 weimar era scenes from Max Beckamn
649 An Otto Dix street scene from Berlin
650 a pretty little Brque aquatint, of blue flowers
651-701 The War Portfolio by Dix, fifty etchings, of all sorts of death and destruction,e dning with the worm eaten skull
702-711 9 photolithographs by Grosz
711-716 5 nudes by Matisse, both early and late, all etchings
716-718 Two studies by Munch
719 A Raymond Pettibon drawing of a train
720-725 Five Olfur Ellisan photos of Iceland
726 Mortocycle Mama photo by Prince
727 Nan Goldin nude female meerging out of an LA pool
728-730 Mikhail two photos of Ukranian salt lakes
731 Christopher Orr drawing of a dog surfing (cute!)
732-739 seven Sugimoto prints
740 Peter Halley, Silver conduit
741-743 Two Richard Prince Joke Drawings
744 ON Kawara postcard
745 Keith Harring Barking Dog Manquette
746 Muniz drop, from the choclate seires
747 Three Allan Mocculum frame pieces
748 Tom Otterness , Battle Scene
749 a classic, naim jun paik, tv and video piece, with plaster and woodsculptual elements
750-752 Two rymanesque oil on aluminums by Tom Martin
753-756 Two Roni Horn drawings
757 A delicate, almost painterly, Uta Barth
758-764 7 musuem photos by Candida Hoefer
765 Penck drawing
766 A large scale, mixed media installation, by Jim Dine, called some greeks and some romans, which consist of almost somber, but not quite, neo classical drawings of classical sculptures
767 Dorzio’s painting of simple bands of bright colours crisscrossing
768-772 Four incredibly loud and garish mid 70s bronzes by Pomodaro, including one called Disco
773 A Nevelson wood relief
774 more Christo (spec sheets and drawings for the Biscayne island poject, Miami_
775 Space Totem, by queer mystic david wojacqiniz
776 One of Lynda Bengalis’ beeswax sculptures
777 Jack Youngerman abstraction
778 Paul Wonners deeply moving watercolour of a young boy, eyes facving down
779 a really nice, bright yellow gottlieb
780 scrawl, in India ink, by De Kooening
781 a yellow, orange, and green, patterned and abstracted tree, by Calder
782 Pencil Drawing by Warhol
783 Lichenstiens remix of Monets Waterlillies
783-785 Two late Appels, watercolour and gouache on paper
786-787 Six and Nine sided figures, LEwitt
788 Hans Mehring, graphic, upthrusting, geometric abstraction
789 one of those Tom Downing canvases that looks like snooker
790 A sunrisey, yellow and pink Olitiski
791 PEre Fines homage to Mondrian
791-793 Two Goring studies for his photrealistic diner seires
794-798 Four Cornell collages, including one midnight blue one
799 Mel Ramos oil, of two Saragso cacti, in the middle of desert
800 Alex Katz Birchbark canoe, being piloted by AVa
801 Phillip Pearlstien nude, with two Misnterel puppets
802 Gary Web’s large mirrored room
803 Eva Rotschild Twig piece, in Bronze
804 A large Whiteread bronze box painted white
805 A large Damine hirst Dot Painting, horizantal
806 Lucien Freuds incredible dense, amost indesebnible etching of his garden
807 Rosemarie Trockel’s print on aliuminum
808 Women Consulting a Catalog, by Jeff Wall
809 Janet Cardiff and George Beure, one of her walks
810 The Andre text piece Lindbergh
811 Paul McCarthy installation
812 Reboirkiens Green, which consists mostly of a lartge sea foam panel
813 Emil Avora;s overwrought and almost all consuming garden picture
814 Neo Rauch, Congestion, the clour of flesh w/o blood
815 Gursky’s painting of a prison, almost a paropticon
816 Thomas STruth truly banal, but giant scaled, Chartes cathedral work
817 Drawn Apart, a bronze intended for the corner, by Gormley
818 one of Grayson Perys Pots
819 A giant pink hand, reaching towardsteh top of the canvases frame, by Hume
820 Jeff Koons silver statue of Bob Hope
821 Jospeh Kosuth text piece, for the font
822 Warhols remix of the Scream, made more pastely
823 A four tube, horizontal flavin, with richer colours then usual
824 One of judds Stainless steel wall boxes
825 A grey and white twombly that looks like lino in ain industrial plant
826 one of Nolands Chevron’s
827 Warhol’s painting of Vesvius
828-830 Two of Warhol’s Guns/
831 One of those messed up combo joke.cartoon paintings by prince
832 a Cicely Brown goopy pink orgy
833 Frank Auberbach portrait
834 Tim and Sue Webster from fuck to trash, sheerly for the title
835 William Sachal’s Resot paintings
836 Tom Friedmans, tiny self portrait, no bigger then his thumbnail
837 Rosemary Trockels homage to Bridge O Riley
838 Christpher Wool RIOT, unstenciled
839 Gilbert and Geroges Dirt Seed Pod, karge scale photo work
840 Tim and Sue Websters Dollar Sign (it’s a sign, in the shape of dollar, its vulgar in all the bst ways)
841 Uznois raised dance floor
842 Prince willam and Harry by Peyton
843 The Nazis, a controversial peiceo f conceptual art, an image bank of every nazi he could find after WWII in popula media, by UZnoi, the guy who did the floor
844 Kliminks masterpiece of femme camp: Barbe Dmitrievna Margassov, Madame Rimsky-Korsakov, 1864, in the limelight, Cynthia a snowflake in the nutcracker
845 Whitereads Manquette for her Traflager Sqaure Plinth
846 A large scale Olifii painting
847 Mike Kellys superhero drawing
848 A dirty nosed doll painting by McCarthy
849 Jack Perisosn found text work, this one called walking in the rain
850 almost Islamic, paterend abstraction, by Christopehr Wool
851 A real live working elevator by Cattelon
852 A Richard Long Wall granite walking work
853 gurskys diptych of Athens at night,t hat makes it look like Los Angeles
854 Freiburgers video piece Cutting Piece
855 Wim DeVoyes portable altar St Stephanus II
866 Cattelans work that features his hands above ground, praying, and everythin else buried
867 Sugimito as queen elizabeth the 2nd
868 Sarah Lucas school room as prison cell
869 Tim and Sue Websters I LOVE YOU sign
870 Two more Grayson Perry Pots
871 Thomas Eitner,s painting Nacht, which looks like a cheesy horror film, complete with dread and eroticism
872 Borhmeans painting of a bonnet
873 Thomas Demands photo of blinds and a window, rigous in its minimalism
874 Rachel Whitereads Day bed, in sickly phglem coloirued foam rubber
875 Sugimoto Sea Photo
876 Cattelon’s 23 taxideremd pigeons
877 Sean Scully, black and white work
878 another Wang Guayng western capital seires
879 another Peyton watercolour of a pretty boy
880 Glenn Browns Velaquesz Pastiche, disco
881 A Prince Cowboy (marlborow, with the purple shirt
882 a tim eittel painting, with a women in a bright red toque
883-885 Two hyper realist haverkost works
886 Santa Octopussy, by McCarthy, Just for the Title
887 Jason Rhodes, baroque nonsense, including wagon wheel, and neon
888 A Nitsch splatter painting (but not one of the blood ones)
889 Claus Oldenbergs oversized alimunium sculpture of a cigarette butt
890 Robert Indiana’s Four
891 Mel Ramos Peek A boo Nude
892 Tom Wesslemans Great American Nude 88
893 A five scored Fontana, in bright red
894 A Monzani Achrome
895 A Yves Klien Monochrome in IKB
896 Ceasers Compression of Copper Wire
897 David Mach’s Match Head, made out of Matches
898 A Rotalli ripped apart film poster
899-901 Two De chircho drawings of men in three piece suits
902, a nice, slightly busy Morandi.
903 A Monzani Cardinal, with Gold patina
904 a better Morandi, on round canvas
905 A football shapped pierced, silver sculpture by Fontanna
906 A Chaotic, red black and white painting by Morani, that looks like two pigeons fighting to death
907 Another Mazoni Achrome, this time it looks like Gnoochi in a square Pan
908 One slash, small white, Fantonna canvas
909 Boetti map piece, ink not fabric
910 Raymond Pettibons drawing of a Girl ina blue dress
911 Morrison landscape
912 Dexter Dalwoods paitning of the Queens bedroom
913 Mariko Mori’s school girl work
914-918 Two architechtual, and two sea paintings by Sugimoto
919 Axel huttes photo f a train tressle
920 Hoefers photo of the UN Library in Geneva
921 The Great Bear, the London subway map redo by Patterson
922 A regal African diptych by Olffiri
923-925 Two Hirst butterfly canvases
926 Emin text piece
927 Hamish Fulton road photos
928 Whitereads cast of a torso
929 A large Andre floor piece
930 Paintstick on paper, shiny like an oilstick, drawing by Serra
930-932 Two Albers Homages, one yellow, one grey
933 Small Caro table piece
934 opressive, charchoal drawing, by Auberbah, biblically evil
935 Hodgkin, symblock nude
936 RB KITaj, non symbolic nude
937 Asger John canvas, almost futrist in how it deals with motion
938 Jean Dubuffet textured work on paper
939 Chillida Terra Cotta puzzle sculpture
940-942 Two portraits of Edwardian men in blackface, by aaroya, one made to look futrist, contempary
943 Tapies collage, with Ochre
944 Ruth Bernard, Nudei n the Box, later impression
945-961 Six Ansel Adams photos, mostly alpine landscapes
962 Elliot Porter, Fall Leaves
963 Charles Jones, Peas
964-968 Four vintage Atget prints
969-975 Bernice Abbot Portfolio of New york City Pritns, later impression
976 Frank Zimmerman’s font shot from times square
977-980 Three Walker Evans photos
981 Gahals monumental shot of the hoover damn
982-984 Two Pirkle Jones bay area, labour snapshots
985-987 Two Minor White Images
988 Aaron Siskind, shot of a boy going off the high diving board, and floating, seeming in mid air
989 August Sander shot of may day princess
990-1000 Ten photos, portfolio, of surreal photos on religious themse, by Koppitz
1001-1005 Foru Kerestz photos of architechtual details
1005-1009 Four shots by Henri Cartier Bresson, including the canonical school boy one
1010 Brassai shot of Paris Street
1011-1013 Two Weston Shots, including the almost lunar shot of the mexiacan beach with the white shell
1014-1094 80 photos from the Gary Winnogrand seires women are beautiful
1095-1101 6 other misc. Winnogrands, mostly LA and NY urban shots, including the Brooklyn Zoo monkey shot
1102 very early platinum print, Weston
1103 Male nude Outerbridge
1104 The Dora Marr photo f the ship sailing on womens wair
1105-1013 various Penn photos, including deep sea divers, etc
1014-1026 12 Callahan works, mostly landscapes, including shots of beaches and water in Chicago and Aix-Au-Provence
1027-1031 Four Robert Frank photos, including perhaps my favourite image of cowboys anywhere, Detroit Rodeo
1032-1035 three Arbus photos, including one stripper
1036-1051 15 Lewis Baltz’s work, from the Nevada Seires
1052-1056 Four Mapplethorpe flowers
1057 Penn shot with Watermelon
1058 Adam Fuss photo of something black snaking thru red water
1059 late printing of Eaggleston photo of a pretty girl who looks like mick jagger
1060-1062 Two Charles Jones Vegetable photos
1063 Thomas Pollard Photo of a Ladder
1064 Irving Penns found surrealism, of an opticians window
1065-1067 Two Helmut Newton X Ray work
1068 A Vintage print of Davina and the Elephants
1069 The wonderfully reubewnesque woman, at the beach in long island, smiling in an almost football stance, by Lisette Model
1070-1073 Three more Arbus’
1074-1076 Two Eagglestons, including he oen with the red brick wall and the avacod caddiliac
1077 Mapplethorpes memnto mori for wahol
1078 A latter edition of one of Naim Jan Packs Raidograph icons
1080-1083 Two photos by Douglas Gordon, from the Hollywood blind seires
1084 Cecily Brown Pencil Drawings
1085 Karen Kliminick drawing of a rose
1086 David Korty Watercolour
1087 a supercute balck vw under snow, a print by Bujkonwaski
1088 A large, mulitp facted Judd Shlef
1089 Warhol Hammer and Sickle
1090-1092 Two Shadow Paintings
1093 Hoarfrost, by Rasuchenberg
1094 Lichenstien remix of Matisse, with great brush work
1095 Jenkins landscape
1096 Green and Red, irregular pattern, by Lewitt
1097 Arman, hundreds of dollar bills in acrylic
1098-1101 Three Hans Hartung slashies
1112—one of those Ruichter Abstractiosn that looks like it was made with a squeegee, the colorus in the range of double bubble and parma ham
1113 Two Brass Balls by Fontanna
1114 Palamdora’s silver and platinum sculpture that looks like a carburetor
1115 Antonio Tapies bichrome, sand and oil on canvas
1116-1121 Five Etchings from Lucian Freud, including a great one by Thistles
1122 A fantastic, red, ochre and black sean scully stripe painting
1123 Tracey Emin Text Piece
1124 A Michael Craig Martin painting of a toaster
1125-1128 Three Essler prints, including one of a bridge
1129-1131 Two murimora Self portraits
1132 Prince’s cigarette photographs
1133 Lawler ‘s oldenberg photo
1134 one of Serrano’s klansmen
1135 another Lawler,
1136 Koons multiple
1137 Bellows print, boxing, on newsprint
1138 Winslow Homer’s serigraph of fox in the snow
1139 Reginald Marsh, Tatoo Shave Haircut
1140-1145 Tomayo, Five Prints


cheapest 240 dollar lithgraph, msot expensive 2.9m for warhol's visevious

got into banff, worried about money, and how rachel is going to handle money, and issues with pauls scheduling, but got into banff.

went over to ashleys on thursday, and his dad was there, problematic to begin with, and then it got worse, had to drag tony out of ashleys place, lest ashley get evicted, sent him down at they, mental illness, and substance abuse problems remain, incredibly stressful.

saw john, his mom has cancer and is in surgery next week, his pastor may or may not leave for wisconsin on sunday, his friend is in the middle of a kidney transplant, and school is difficult. figuring out how to deal with this, john being stoic and all, i just told him i was there, call any time day or night, and i would be home, and he called me a nice guy--i dont know how i am going to handle this kind of besmirching of my charchater. (on a more amusing side note, we went to a toy liquidators before we went to lunch, and i had a 50 dollar bill on me, the elderly lady made a prosiution joke)

mostly john and i talked about g-d, which for many of my xian friends is a lot like talking about football or politics, the equivalent of small talk.

had a beer with aaron, and he was in a strange mood--we talked about the liberal effects of the academy, the role of femminism on scholarship, how ignorant he felt, ethics, the onslaught of orthodoxy, etc etc, in addition to jazz, and the like. drinks with aaron are fascianting, because he keeps pumping me for information, like i have the key to the universe or something...we also talked about sex, and the radical potential of masturbation--every discussion w catholics about ethics comes down to how often you talk about touching your penis...he also said at the end of the (fairly free ranging, wide loop around) conversation that it made him sad (worried?) every time i talked about not being catholic because he thot i was what the church needed and that i was an "exemplory" catholic, which is batshit--i mean thomas is needed, and thomas is a saint, but one doesnt build the church around thomas (though he did build it on peter, and peter denied christ thrice) (though thomas never denied christ, he just questioned)

Nick Lachey
Pieces of Me

Overwrought, melodramatic, emotionally raw in a way that seems performative, the work has a hard pop sheen covering a tender, heart broken middle.

The thing about it, is that he doesnt speak anything specific, any details are underspoken, and universal emotion rises to the surface. It feels odd for a 30 year old man to be singing withe the same style and skill as fourteen year olds, where sexual desire is an abstraction. After bedding one of the world's most famous virgins, one would expect this to be more about that unpeeling.

It's almost a peice of kitsch, a reality show knockoff, and while his ex has turned to gleaming pop machines, he attempts something like real emotion, and it kind of works...scratch that, it really works.

The best thing about it though, is how unhinged he becomes. All of the songs start with a pretty acoustic introduction, and basic, well contained, pretty singing, and then a mess of electronic, studio gloss wells up, he sings over it, and its like watching a surging wave go over a tidal wall.

As for the scandal (because people are listening to this as the Blood on the Tracks of Euro-American meta-pop (if they are listening to it all). He talks a good obsessive game and there are telling details of how the famewhoring of Simpson made it difficult to be her husband, the message you get from Newlywed's, namely that she was very good at being the hollywood spoiled bitch, and he was very good at being the solid midwestern voice of reason, is present here, epseically on the truly angry I Do IT For You, with the lines: I want you to burn/I want you to steal/I want you to bleed and see how it feels/I want you to beg, etc.

Actually, I Do it for You, is the best track on the album. it takes grunges soft/loud/soft musical cues, and the viscous, pure bleeding of nu:punk, and masculinizes it. It sort of sounds like Courtney, and it defiantly sounds like Ashlee at her most raw, and its strange, after 10 years of being used to this kind of work being sung by women for women, having a man singing it for men, seems radical. Of the boy versions, it whines less, is obviously about one lover, so is less misogynstic, and is powerfully emotive in a power ballad kind of way.

I wonder why this didn't do better, why it sold so little?

Sidenote: The pictures on the cd booklet, wandering in the desery, in a pick up truck, playing a broken piano despondently, are really hot.

Sidenote II: his thank yous are hiliarous, including God, his family, Four Cincinatti sports teams, and 5 products, including miller beer, fiji water, red bull energy drinks, two clothing companies, and two sneaker companies. Plus something called Underarmour.