Variation on the Word SLEEP by Margaret Atwood
With notes in ITALIC
I am particularly fond of beginnings as you now know...
afternoon coffees the smell of cigarettes and no place to be, and
subway rides with book and pencil to jot things down
I would like to watch you sleeping,
which may not happen.
I would like to watch you,
sleeping. I would like to sleep
with you, to enter
your sleep as its smooth dark wave
slides over my head
of this beginning in particular which reminds me
of summer nights when it's so very hot and I can't sleep
for sleeping and I lie awake thinking...waiting to fall
and walk with you through that lucent
because of the word lucent, enough said
wavering forest of bluegreen leaves
only an artist would write/think... bluegreen
with its watery sun and three moons
such nonsense but it's nice
towards the cave where you must descend,
descend descend descend...coolness hits my face
towards your worst fear
falling as so often happens in life and in dreams...
I have so few fears these days
I would like to give you the silver
branch, the small white flower, the one
I'll take summer instead
word that will protect you
from the grief at the center
of your dream, from the grief
I have Saint Michael around my neck
at the center. I would like to follow
you up the long stairway
that hangs down so nicely on my chest
again and become
the boat that would row you back
I touch
carefully, a flame
in two cupped hands
holding
to where your body lies
and lovely black and white photographs,
one f-stop Duane Michals with writing
Le Cirque D'Hiver 1962
The Unfortunate Man
Leaves of Grass cover or
What funny Things Billy Dreams
beside me, and you enter
it as easily as beathing in
I would like to be the air
so soft like an April afternoon rain in the city
that inhabits you for a moment
only. I would like to be that unnoticed
& that necessary.
9:31 PM :
Thursday, March 15, 2001
New PlayList* fortified with Heavy Rotations, Assorted Favorites, Rare Groove, and Garage.
12:30 PM :
Wednesday, March 14, 2001
I am very fond of the film My Beautiful Laundrette, a romance set in 80s 'Thatcherite' Britain.
3:46 PM :
La Musica Tremenda : Turntable Tastemaker :
Azzido da Bass - Dooms Night (Stanton Warriors Mix) /edel
Silicon Boogie - Six Times a Week (da Specimen Mix) / bossley
M&S - SalSoul Nugget (if ya wanna) / ffrr
Daft Punk - Aerodynamic / sony
Hal0 Varga - Future! / hooj
9:16 AM :
John Klima's art/graphical interface makes real the virtual. Compelling complex and disturbing tech art via active viewer participation/navigation. Scrambled world views and fluctuating ephemera, moral dilemmas in the digital. Extended desktop installations at Postmasters.
9:15 AM :
Tuesday, March 13, 2001
Time to pause, this week, time for myself, at last. No required reading or books or research for me...coming down a few notches to enjoy things at last..(breathe)...aahhh!
6:08 PM :
Spring fashion preview in Milan 2001. (Channeling Polly Mellon) Think pink, drop the tech look, think health, workout now, drop the darks, think color, think wild patterns, think heavy duty Italian sleeze factor, pimps and porn stars, exotic hippies and bad boy teddies. Like the Armani, could do with a little Dolce and Gabbana, love the MOSCHINO, hate the Gaultier...too fussy. You be the judge.
5:24 PM :
Font whores attack now. Planet (of the Apes), Roller Boogie and Mullet, always a favorite, always fantastic always Fontalicious.
5:00 PM :
Art Poo at the Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design (which is suspiciously off-line) over a Dick Detzner painting titled The Last Pancake Breakfast. Replacing the figures in the da Vinci ' Last Supper' with Mrs. Butterworth as Jesus, the Apostles: Captain Crunch, Sugar Bear and Snap, Crackle and Pop. Frankly I don't find it so very offensive as these figures are probably a whole lot more recognizable than say Simon/Peter, John or Paul. All sorts of questions are raised, what do we worship, what is an icon etc etc. Very fond of his 'corporate sacrilege' series, and I enjoy his interpretation/ode to early Renaissance painting.
4:59 PM :
Monday, March 12, 2001
Ahhh! A long arduous day capped off with a regenerative lift at the gym. After so much dissertation and argument over paintings, restoration, influence and style it was good to let it all go and push some weight around, I needed to sweat, get a lil primal with it. I am now kicking back enjoying a tall Choco-Soy with chipped ice, listening to the Shirley Bassey's Diamonds Are Forever Remix Project. All the Bassey faves with super-deluxe mixes by Kenny Dope, Groove Armada, Moloko, Nightmares on Wax and more. Seriously loving the Superfunk treatment of Moonraker. It's all Shirl sum goodness (Goldfinger) and then some.
7:30 PM :
There is bad art that is sometimes good, then there is just bad art that's just plain bad. Then there is a museum for really really REALLY bad art. (Which puts really big serious art into perspective)
7:30 PM :
I received an advanced copy (which I have since learned isn't so advanced), of the We Owe You Nothing : Punk Planet - The Collected Interviews. While it's all about punk (what was what is, queercore blah blah blah) and a pretty solid book at that, interviews sans Jello Biafra, Ian MacKaye of Fugazi (Bhlakka), Kath Hanna (Bikini Kill), Frank Kozik (artist) - I keep coming back to the question of: Can artists maintain their distinct creative vision without being crushed by the demands of the marketplace? Wait, let me rephrase that, do you have to sell out to make it? and while there isn't a resounding answer, the book is a thoughtful and compelling collection of essays.
7:28 PM :
Sunday, March 11, 2001
Tenebroso and transformations, this city, an analog quirk. Coffee, study, coffee, study, coffee, study - a quick run with the pooch for inspiration, round the park once or twice to find spider bike riders and skate boarders in cargo pants, baggy shirts, bleached Eraserhead hair doos, they want to pet the dog, I want to pet their hair - we joke back and forth. Back to cram in a little more study and off for an update and 'look see' at the Frank Gehry building that is winding its way skyward. We all settle on Gaudi(esque) with doses of raw amorphousness. VW car rides, Belle and Sebastian's Dog On Wheels, a soundtrack for spring thaw. More coffee, more study...
8:32 PM :
To celebrate 25 years of Rough Trade shop in London, Mute Records is releasing VARIOUS-ROUGH TRADE SHOPS: 25 YEARS 4XCD BOX SET a fantastic collection of 56 tracks spanning 25 years of music Yeh! Highlights include: Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo, Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag, The Normal - T.V.O.D., The Smiths - Hand In Glove, Joy Division - Transmission, Television Personalities - Part Time Punks, Cocteau Twins - Sugar Hiccup, The Sugarcubes - Birthday, Peaches - Fuck The Pain Away, and more. Rough Trade filled w/books, fanzines, tons o' stuff, cheap old t-shirts, punk garbage etc. More from the land of CD shopping and aural masturbation comes the new Serge Gainsborough Electronicagainsboug - Today's disco celebs remixing the GOD of 1960's French Pop. The Orb, Chateau Flight, Faze Action, DJ Cam, Bob Sinclar and more.
8:44 AM :
