Archive for May, 2007
rip charles nelson reilly. he was my first gay on tv. witty, wise, a snappy dresser, and a tad bitter – just like any good queen. andy and i went to see his one man show in san fransassy in 2001 and were well and goodly entertained.
we’ll miss you, charles.
xm
hmmmmmmmm.
so, ladies, i just had this craaaazy dream that featured das and ninah. do you remember ‘woodstockhausen‘? that fest up in the santa cruz woods where folks played musics? in my dream, d & n had organized a sorta “ubfest” that was waaay up in the woods – in the dark – and along these windy paths between the trees. people had set up stations, and you could walk along and hear the various noises emitting from electronic trees, chirping insects, and other various and sundry (circuit bent) creations. it was marvelous and spooky. sorta like a noisy burning man in the woods.
one guy had a tank – a whole tank – that he rolled towards me to show me. he popped open a little box on the side and inside was a tiny (noisemaking) tank. the guy was bummed because it wasn’t working properly. there was a woman there who wanted to be completely hidden, because although she wanted to show her piece, it was so personal that she wanted it to be anonymous. another woman had an incredible light sculpture/mobile.
at one point in the dream there was a performance art piece that involved a troupe what was wearing white jumpsuits, tossing 100’s of hard-boiled eggs back and forth. one woman looked *exactly* like carol burnett. the evening ended up with carol (and troupe) doing a 70’s style singing finale.
when morning came (in the dream), flower and i emerged from the area to find that we were surrounded by homes – it kinda looked like suburbia. a few homes had been painted over with wacky colors, and the inhabitants were busy painting them beige again.
xm
This is amazing, and I wanted to share: it’s Jack Kerouac’s list of the attitudes necessary to writing. A writing teacher of mine gave this to me in college, and it’s a good time for this list to be revealed to me again. This, I imagine, would work well for anyone’s creative project. I’m reminded of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies deck (a set of cards I use almost daily) as well.
In other news: Roma is slowly starting to do better. I spent a few days at the hospital last week, will again this week. I woke up today feeling like i was sitting at a table with Roma and we were/are eating, laughing, and enjoying ourselves.
It’s gonna happen.
xm
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1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You’re a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
a (self) portrait for midlife crisis book
Published May 25, 2007 art , illustration , vain 3 CommentsTags: illustration
here’s a monoprint i finished today – it’s for a book about (gay men and?) midlife crisis. i’m lovin’ on these monoprints… this is after a self-portrait by max beckmann.
xm
allow myself to introduce… myself.
i did a portrait of rama and rama favored me with a portrait of.. me as part of this great blog he’s been working on called the portrait party. basically, you choose a friend, you both draw one another, and you send the results to rama. BING! so cool. here’s the color version of the portrait i did of rama. i think it’s a keeper.
i guess they’ve started putting mini-versions of those obnoxious video-billboards over subway stops. this fellow has a most beautiful solution…
(via studio espinosa)
xm
see this list of quotes from mister falwell.
some of these quotes made me slap my forehead in disbelief.
what an evil, evil man.
xm
