so! ive moved back to nashville! my dear friends ben and elle are letting me live up in their attic, a 2nd floor club house like i like. and im the perfect tennant for it cause i think im the only one who fits in it, i can stand on my tiptoes and my head touches the ceiling. a tree tops dollhouse for dixie!
and and and, before i got here, my second hand futon bed served as a crash pad for beat happening’s calvin johnson. NBD. but it prompted me to make this…
excuse the rough photo booth quality but i just wanted to shoot a quick progress shot. pretty silly but ive never cross stitched before and i just wanted to get on and try it. i want to add some music notes but i cant decide if i want to embroider them on or what… ……………………………….
so much has already happened! elle was asked to be in stone jack jones’ new music video for the song “the state im in“. lots of tromping in the woods, swinging on branches and dreamy filtered sunlight…check out more pics here. the new video is by zack spiger, heres one of his past projects with jack…
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last weekend i went to amateur wrestling at the stadium inn boasting the world’s scariest bathroom. i tried to take pics but even my camera’s “sports” setting couldnt keep them from being blurry. so heres a whole album of blurry photos! it was some real world entertainment to be sure, heres some fight footage and a look at the audience…
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and then it was elle’s birthday and we made bday cupcake cones! and then i made a quiche! and a seven layer super bowl dip with cheese crisp fleur de lis!!! yaaaysaints.
a lotta things!
good times in nashville, but it keeps snowing and turning immediately to mush, gross out.
Dion Mcgregor was a song writer in the 60’s and also a somniloquist//sleeptalker.
this recording is from 1999’s “Dion McGregor Dreams Again“, a more risque compilation of his recorded dreams. the original was released in 1964 and a transcript of the same name with illustrations by Edward Gorey was released the same year. i want it, but so far i cannot find a copy WITH a dust jacket for under $100.
man i kinda wish this happened to me. ever since i was little i wished i could record my dreams, inside my head i mean…but to narrate them out loud would be just as good i suppose…not so good for anyone else in the room (in the bed). especially if it was ABOUT them, or about something they wouldnt like…certainly to be a somniloquist is nothing to wish for.
lets go into the memory shop
if we go into the memory shop i cant leave with you
youll have to leave by yourself
cause ive got to stay there
thats my place…
its probably embarrassing too… ……………………………………………….
so there are doctors out there studying emotion and motivation and have decided that in this day and age, the basic emotions we feel every day no longer revolve around fight or flight, that many of them have to do with interpersonal skills and trust issues. in this article they discuss 5 such emotions… elevation, interest, gratitude, pride and confusion.
its an interesting article and you should read it! but i was struck by something in the “elevation” section…
elevation is an uplifting emotion that one could feel when listening to an inspiring speech or if one watches a particularly uplifting episode of Oprah. when one feels elevated, it appears that oxytocin is released in the brain, which generates “warm, calm feelings…it makes [people] want to touch, hug and be more open and trusting with each other”. in the article, Dr. Haidt writes that “if we can harness elevation to build trust, it could have particular relevance in the modern world for strengthening or repairing personal relationships. [He] envisages a time, for example, when marital therapists might try to induce it so as to enhance the effectiveness of couples’ counseling sessions.” hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
theyre talking about ecstasy! ecstasy releases oxytocin in the brain and i believe it was used in marriage counseling before it was made illegal. i dunno, i just find it interesting that they completely glaze over that bit of history.
“[The feeling of] Elevation is also relatively rare. People typically experience it less than once a week, although there are wide individual differences. Where it does score, though, is in being highly significant. “If you ask people to remember their most cherished experiences of their whole life, elevatory moments are likely to feature in their top five“
TAKE ECSTASY EV’RY DAY:::TAKE ECSTASY EV’RY DAY:::TAKE ECSTASY EV’RY DAY:::
i’ve been seduced by tumblr…here is my tumblr…
i mean you get points for how prolific you are! a friend equated it to World of Warcraft, but i dont think id get nerd-rage over my tumblarity.
i dunno, its just EASY and quick and perfect for my A.D.D. lifestyle. but then its hard to say what i actually want to stop and have an opinion about; what actually deserves a blog posting, and what is just a passing notion fit for tumblr? …………………….
but then thats an awful lot of thought devoted to my techno life…
from Bruce Mau’s “Incomplete Manifesto for Change“:
#29. Think with your mind.
Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.
i gotta work on that one… .…………………………
so anyway…here are some things that i noticed on the internet that i thought deserved more attention than a one note on tumblr…
lets start with tits!
so in 2007, designer Louboutin and film maker David Lynch collaborated on “Fetish” an exhibition of five limited edition pairs of shoes with companion portraits by Lynch. Louboutin created “extreme fetish” shoes that he wanted to have come across as cult objects… krazy::sexy::kool….David Lynch is so lusty, all his women are tortured…those Betty Boop ballet heels up there are insane, heres a closer look…you can look at more pics here… ……………………..…………………..………………………..
“Roselina Hung specializes in oil painted portraits, and her practice focuses on the concepts of nostalgia and memory, often in relation to popular culture. Her artwork references both art history and contemporary art, and she uses familiar imagery to engage viewers with their own personal experiences and memories, evoking a common nostalgia. With a specific interest in common histories, her current work examines a false sense of nostalgia, when one feels nostalgic for ideals of past decades that were never experienced first hand but only through their depiction in the mass media.”
“Wish You Were Here! (Family 2)” 2008
i am especially partial to the idea of her “Art History” series, where she paints stills from historical dramas/romances…dramances?…
i am reminded of Clueless…
Heather: It’s just like Hamlet said, “To thine own self be true.”
Cher: Hamlet didn’t say that.
Heather: I think I remember Hamlet accurately. Cher: Well, I remember Mel Gibson accurately, and he didn’t say that. That Polonius guy did.
“Paris aims his bow to kill Achilles” 2004
“Romeo and Juliet – Act 1 Scene 5 (‘Romeo and Juliet’s first meeting’)” 2004
when i was in college, we went on a field trip to dc to visit museums…at the National Gallery of Art, we saw this massive dada retrospective. and one of the highlights was seeing a performance of George Antheil’s “Ballet Mechanique”.
says wiki,
“The original orchestration called for 16 player pianos (or pianolas) in four parts, 2 regular pianos, 3 xylophones, at least 7 electric bells, 3 propellers, a siren, 4 bass drums, and 1 tam-tam. As it turned out, there was no way to keep so many pianolas synchronized, so early performances combined the four parts into a single set of pianola rolls and augmented the two human-played pianos with 6 or more additional instruments.”
edited versions of the piece were performed over the years, using previously recorded instruments or a slower tempo, but in 2005, science finally caught up to Antheil’s original vision and the piece was able to be programmed and played by a robotic-ensemble.
and that is what i saw at the National Gallery of Art and that is the video up there. it really doesnt do it justice, the piece is mostly percussive and then it echoed around in that giant lobby, soooo LOUD. note the war-time air-raid sirens, and the fans as plane props.
the piece was made to accompany a film by Fernand Léger and Man Ray which is here…its dadaist…. ……………………………
anyway, i was reminded of that after stumbling across this Steve Reich piece and subsequently downloading his piece “Music for 18 Musicians”…
“Music for 18 Musicians was written for a cello, violin, two clarinets (both players double on bass clarinet), four pianos, three marimbas, two xylophones, a metallophone, and four women’s voices…although the piece is named Music for 18 Musicians, it is not necessarily advisable to perform the piece with that few players due to the extensive doubling it requires.”
i highly recommend that you just go and find this for yourself. the piece gets really manic and shimmery…Reich was experimenting with psychoacoustics which basically means that “this shit is trippy“.
i like watching this rehearsal video too, it gives you a good idea of what happens later on…
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aaaaaaaaaand we come full circle….Antheil begat Reich begat Dan Deacon….go Dan go…
someone used the term “naked girl tigers” to be redirected to this here blog site of mine…its cause of one of these girlies…
i searched that term too and besides a lot of tiger woods and PETA campaign stuff, i found kate moss up there aaaand…simon bisley… ……………………………….………………………………
and then i found this image from pitchfork, from the band salem linked to an article about their video for “skullcrush“
so last year, Dune became one of my favorite comfort movies. im not sure how a film necessarily gets “comfort” status, i guess from watching it a million times, you know it, its easy to watch…and Dunes got camp and mystery and action and cute dudes and its not too slow or steamy, just good. a favorite. apparantly the director David Lynch is completely embarassed of it though. shrug.
anyway, in these cold and (for me) confusing past months, i found myself craving this film, and remembering that i wrote a blog post on 3/17/08 for ten tigers upon first discovering this movie. there were ten tigers quickly became a primarily art/baltimore blog, and anyway i dont think anyone read this post of mine, so i’m reposting it! ha!
and may i just say, i dont think anybody can pull off “buff-twink” better than Kyle Maclachlan. ………………………. Fave film of moment: DUNE
First off, just finished watching this for the second time and am definitely in love with David Lynch’s golden boy, Kyle Maclachlan. siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh
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But it’s like he and Bruce Campell went to the same Sore Thumb School of Over-Acting. The Harryhausen-esque/early 80’s bluescreen FX don’t help either (see below). But certainly all that can be excused as charming camp. …………………
And then!, the Baron Harkonnen is a completely creepy, incestuous, letch of a villain. He cultivates diseases on his face and carries out ludicrous tortures: “We’ve brought you a little cat, Thufir. You must care for it if you wish to live. A poison has been introduced into you, Thufir Hawat. By milking this smooth little cat body each day you receive your antidote.” chillinggg……. See also: awesome trippy dream sequences, crazy mutant monster people, and a totally believable yet fantastic future-setting…think Fifth Element meets Blade Runner.
Which! totally makes sense anyway because Ridley Scott was slated to direct but dropped out to do Blade Runner instead (also interesting because Sean Young plays Kyle Maclachlan’s alien love interest). …………………………
And now that I mention Sean Young…the fact that MALE sci-fi geek is this film’s demographic is absolutely palpable. Sure, yes, all of the women characters are either Sean Young, a tough and capable yet beautiful and vulnerable warrior, or else belong to the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood, which is a group of perfect beings who can mind read and use “the voice” to control people…which is cool…but basically they are witches and have been waiting for Paul (Kyle Machlachlan) to come, have prophetic dreams, become the messiah of the universe and go where “women are afraid to go…where [they] cannot see”….see the movie, you’ll get it….
Anyway, Paul’s mother, Lady Jessica, is a Bene Gesserit and is the only other female character one can identify with…but she’s certainly no Ripley. Lets just say that Glenn Close turned down the role because she didn’t want to play “the girl who is always running and falling down behind the men”. …………………
Double anyway, totally love it, will watch it a third time and probably read the book [havent read the book]…also, how bad-ass is this treatment proposed by Alejandro Jodorowsky!…
“Jodorowsky had originally planned on filming Dune in the early-’70s, and had enlisted the help of Jean Giraud and H.R. Giger to create the movie’s visual style. Salvador Dali was enlisted to play the part of the Emperor, and Jodorowsky also intended to cast his own son as Paul, David Carradine as Duke Leto, Orson Welles as the Baron, and Gloria Swanson as the Benne Geserit Reverend Mother. The soundtrack was to be done by Pink Floyd. According to Jodorowsky, “The project was sabotaged in Hollywood. It was French and not American. The message was ‘not Hollywood enough’.” – IMDB
so, i never knew it was so easy to make a gif…you can do it in photoshop <—-seeeeeeeee?
i was looking at 50 interesting wiki articles and read about raymond robinson (the green man). he was a real guy turned urban legend in Pennsylvania…and when i read it, i couldnt help thinking he looked like goofy…goofy + no eyes.
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so ive been working at the bizarre holiday market on the top floor of chop suey bookss…lookit all the local crafts we have!
anywayyy, i was browsing around chop suey and found these diabolik comics. diabolik as in DANGER: DIABOLIK, the 1968 film about a sexy thief who lives in a ritzy hideout/bachelor pad who steals incredible riches from the Italian government. so so good.
oooo! news to me: mst3000 did danger diabolik for their final episode!…ill watch it and update you!
here is the theme song…sooo smooth…
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but so the comic books…were in italian, so i didnt buy them. but i photographically documented them…check out the back covers with lady pics…
mm, i might need to buy them. theyre so pretty…here are some other scenes, i think this first one is my favorite…
when i was little, i watched True Stories in heavy rotation with Pinocchio and Yellow Submarine…its where Radiohead got their name, its where i learned to look and love…david byrne, i love you.
these are all the best parts…but you should go watch it for yourself. note: these are not the best parts, but theyre what im liking right this moment
lately ive been having dreams about house parties, birthdays and mansions, breaking into people’s empty apartments and dancing in our socks…
also been biting my lip in the same place over and over again…maybe my teeth are moving around? not paying attention while im eating?? ………………………
anyway…forever favorites JEFF were here in richmond this past weekend on tour with Shonen Knife! hurrah!
they played my new favorite richmond venue the Plaza Bowl, duck pins! ten dollar pitchers! lazer lights! fried snacks!
its a good time.
here is the boys’ss tour blog .….………………..
through various means of facebook perusing/stalking/snooping, i discovered an illustration by an artist new to me…Justin Wallis.
the above image is currently my desktop background, and Justin is currently my imaginary boyfriend.
did you guys notice the ganguro up in the top left corner?
anyway, Justin, or MILKBBI is a cutie who makes marker illustrations with sticker embellishments. he often works with multiples and always with good fashion sense. ……………………… more art stuff: just saw Kimsooja on art 21, and i keep thinking about her piece “Respirar – Una Mujer Espejo / To Breathe – A Mirror Woman”…Kimsooja worked within the Palacio de Cristal of Madrid to create a space of sanctuary. the artist laid mirror on the floor and translucent diffraction film on the windows and a recording of her own breathing played throughout the building.
here is her artists statement …
and here is an animation of the space with sound…
pretty awe-some. i need diffraction film for my windows…
incidentally, meditative is one of my favorite words to say, when you say it me-DIT-ta-tive
just me and my lamp, havin breakfast…
i found this article on SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder…
now i know this term gets bandied about rather freely and that there are some people that get a legitimate clinical taste of it, but certainly everyone feels a little SAD and hates waking up in the dark morning…
the author of this article reports on scientists that believe that the symptoms of SAD, like fatigue, difficulty getting up in the morning, difficulty concentrating, a reduced sex drive and an increased need for sleep may all be programmed biological responses…
Our earliest ancestors made it through dark winter days by imitating the animals who hibernated during the cold, food deprived months of winter. It made sense, during prehistoric winters, for humans to spend more time sleeping and avoiding activities that would burn up precious calories. Carbs provide a good source of energy to combat the cold and are easy to digest. These were the most sensible foods to crave.
Besides taking many calories, in pre-birth control days, sex invariably lead to babies being born. Those who experienced a lower sex drive in winter produced more offspring who were born in the spring and summer months. These babies had a greater chance to survive.
its interesting!! we’re all animals…
other scientists talk about the involvement of Melatonin which is part of the process that sets our biological clock…morning sun signals your brain to wake up and get going but if theres no sun in the morning, you dont release it!…or whatever.
so thats why theres a big push for sunlamptherapy…
she certainly looks sunny…
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so heres some ska revival Madness to help you pickitup pickitup pickitup pickitup…haaaaa awful
i think Madness lives in the same neighborhood as The Young Ones… love you Rik Mayall…
