I spent much of yesterday at The Artist is Absent, an event organized by a group of young artists, that brought together a wide range of people around the work of Marina Abramović. People were performing a number of her pieces from the 70′s in an atmosphere that was strikingly different from the official MoMA… Continue Reading
Monthly Archives: May 2010
It’s all fun ’til the mop breaks…
It’s been a big week for going out with friends, and reconnecting with the past. On Tuesday I saw Chris play, and while there ran into Sarah Schulman, Joe, who produced my project at BAM a dozen years ago, and CW, one of the members of my high school art nerd pack. Wednesday and Thursday… Continue Reading
Everyone’s gone to the movies…
…and I’m mopping the floor. Many of my friends are hitting the road this weekend, mostly to Chicago for the perfect storm of IML/Shibaricon/Bear whatsis (and it really says something about my current life that I can’t rememeber the name of the bear event out of that triad). I’m here forging ahead with the endless… Continue Reading
More art I like…
Here’s my pal Chris Cochrane playing a bunch of songs at Dixon Place last night. He did great. I love where his guitar playing is going. The audience included a hodge-podge of people that I’ve known for decades. I remarked that it was the sort of scene that would get scoffed at in a movie,… Continue Reading
The Shocking Truth…
After all of the discussion around yesterday’s post, I realize that should come clean about some things. Those somethings are my personal aesthetic predilections, which I think often lead me to be impatient with some of the complaints that I see people lodge against cultural products. It may be better for everyone if I just… Continue Reading
A time for venting…
The quickest route to fury or despair is to look at what people post in forums on line. I’m a fool to do it. But I have been sucked into the reading a lot of the reactions to last night’s Lost finale, which, I will admit was the background noise to my ongoing paper shuffling… Continue Reading
One block away…
I’ve been passing these on the way to work for the last week or so; they’re a block away from my house in someone’s front yard. The school year is wrapping up, and as it does, I’m frightened to realize how much planning I need to start doing for the coming one. Running a program… Continue Reading
It’s been a while…
Tags: pipes, self daily, Smoking… Continue Reading
Less crowded around here…
I’ve come up with a weird mental trick around all this cleaning stuff – I’ve decided that four large garbage bags are equivalent in mass to one person, so every time I clear four bags I figure it’s one less person in my apartment. Four bags down on the stoop for the garbage man today:… Continue Reading
Tell me what you think and win a Nayland Blake…
Must be sleeping in weird positions, because for the past two days I’ve woken with tension and stiffness in my neck and shoulder. Either that or I’m getting older. Oh yeah, I’m getting older. I’m sitting at my clear for the fist time in ages kitchen table, smelling the tulips Lolita brought me and trying… Continue Reading